Cybersecurity Job Trends in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 33 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,325 1,022 996
As % of all permanent jobs in London 9.52% 6.60% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.86% 6.98% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 582 555 847
10th Percentile £29,775 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £61,250 £56,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £73,379 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -2.16% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £61,850
% change year-on-year -23.08% +5.09% -4.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,196 14,640 16,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.67% 94.56% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,788 8,072 13,608
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the London region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London +43 168 £50,000 -31.03% 24
Central London -3 164 £70,000 +7.69% 83
West London +26 156 £47,000 -43.03% 34
East London +19 97 £105,000 +82.61% 35
North London +19 24 £41,000 -36.92% 5
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.53%) CMS
4 4 (0.30%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.075%) Apache
7 1 (0.075%) nginx
Applications
1 59 (4.45%) Maya
2 24 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
6 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.075%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 20 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (1.21%) SAP IBP
4 10 (0.75%) SAP CO
4 10 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 10 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
4 10 (0.75%) SAP FSCM
5 9 (0.68%) SAP FS
5 9 (0.68%) SAP IS-U
6 6 (0.45%) Exchequer
7 4 (0.30%) Endur
8 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.23%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.23%) Yoast SEO
9 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.075%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.075%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.075%) Pegasus Opera
10 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 415 (31.32%) Cloud Computing
2 293 (22.11%) Azure
3 192 (14.49%) AWS
4 98 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (4.30%) Entra ID
6 52 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 48 (3.62%) GCP
8 32 (2.42%) GitHub
9 30 (2.26%) SaaS
10 29 (2.19%) PaaS
11 24 (1.81%) Nutanix
12 20 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.36%) IaaS
14 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (1.13%) Serverless
15 14 (1.06%) Boomi
15 14 (1.06%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 13 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (0.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 406 (30.64%) Internet
2 95 (7.17%) Firewall
3 41 (3.09%) VPN
4 38 (2.87%) WAN
5 32 (2.42%) Network Security
6 24 (1.81%) LAN
7 21 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.43%) DNS
9 18 (1.36%) DHCP
9 18 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
10 16 (1.21%) VoIP
11 15 (1.13%) SD-WAN
12 14 (1.06%) CHAP
13 10 (0.75%) VLAN
13 10 (0.75%) Wireshark
14 9 (0.68%) Broadband
15 8 (0.60%) Wireless
16 7 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
17 6 (0.45%) Modbus
17 6 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.32%) Power BI
2 40 (3.02%) Tableau
3 32 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.36%) Big Data
5 18 (1.36%) SAP BW
6 14 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.91%) Metadata
8 11 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.30%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.23%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.15%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.15%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.15%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 34 (2.57%) Git
2 14 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.60%) GitLab
4 6 (0.45%) JIRA
5 4 (0.30%) MLflow
6 1 (0.075%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.075%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.075%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.075%) JMeter
6 1 (0.075%) Locust
General
1 716 (54.04%) Social Skills
2 508 (38.34%) Banking
3 440 (33.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 331 (24.98%) Finance
5 201 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (9.43%) Law
7 92 (6.94%) Legal
8 82 (6.19%) Games
9 63 (4.75%) Marketing
10 62 (4.68%) Retail
11 46 (3.47%) Multimedia
11 46 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (3.47%) Public Sector
12 38 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.42%) Financial Institution
14 31 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (2.19%) Dutch Language
15 29 (2.19%) French Language
16 28 (2.11%) Manufacturing
16 28 (2.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 326 (24.60%) Lecturer
2 155 (11.70%) Senior
3 97 (7.32%) Analyst
3 97 (7.32%) Architect
4 92 (6.94%) Lead
5 76 (5.74%) Consultant
6 60 (4.53%) Security Analyst
7 57 (4.30%) Security Engineer
8 54 (4.08%) IT Manager
9 46 (3.47%) Trainee
10 39 (2.94%) IT Architect
10 39 (2.94%) Senior Consultant
11 34 (2.57%) Security Architect
12 33 (2.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 33 (2.49%) Developer
13 32 (2.42%) Senior Architect
14 31 (2.34%) Security Manager
15 29 (2.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 29 (2.19%) IT Support
16 28 (2.11%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.25%) CSS
2 39 (2.94%) HTML
3 19 (1.43%) React
4 18 (1.36%) REST
5 11 (0.83%) AngularJS
5 11 (0.83%) YAML
6 10 (0.75%) OAuth
6 10 (0.75%) Pandas
6 10 (0.75%) PyTorch
6 10 (0.75%) TensorFlow
7 9 (0.68%) LDAP
7 9 (0.68%) Middleware
7 9 (0.68%) PySpark
7 9 (0.68%) SAML
8 8 (0.60%) GraphQL
8 8 (0.60%) OpenID
8 8 (0.60%) SOAP
8 8 (0.60%) Vue
9 7 (0.53%) RESTful
9 7 (0.53%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 394 (29.74%) IoT
2 111 (8.38%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 69 (5.21%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.15%) Cyber Threat
6 39 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 35 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.49%) Blockchain
9 31 (2.34%) Data Centre
10 26 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
13 20 (1.51%) CCTV
13 20 (1.51%) Cyberattack
14 17 (1.28%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
16 13 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.47%) Windows
2 64 (4.83%) Linux
3 31 (2.34%) Mac OS
4 29 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.43%) Android
6 17 (1.28%) Unix
7 14 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.06%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.45%) VMS
9 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.075%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Solaris
12 1 (0.075%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (37.74%) AI
2 417 (31.47%) Machine Learning
3 392 (29.58%) Web Development
4 389 (29.36%) User Experience
5 217 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
6 215 (16.23%) Risk Management
7 182 (13.74%) Incident Response
8 156 (11.77%) Mentoring
9 153 (11.55%) Information Security
10 138 (10.42%) Analytics
11 136 (10.26%) Agile
12 125 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (8.98%) Roadmaps
14 111 (8.38%) Project Management
15 103 (7.77%) Business Strategy
16 98 (7.40%) SIEM
17 91 (6.87%) Computer Science
18 90 (6.79%) Vulnerability Management
19 87 (6.57%) IT Strategy
20 85 (6.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.91%) Python
2 81 (6.11%) PowerShell
3 55 (4.15%) JavaScript
4 53 (4.00%) SQL
5 28 (2.11%) R
6 18 (1.36%) Bash
7 13 (0.98%) C++
8 11 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.68%) Java
10 6 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.30%) C#
11 4 (0.30%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.30%) Perl
12 3 (0.23%) C
12 3 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.15%) Bicep
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.075%) Rust
14 1 (0.075%) Scala
14 1 (0.075%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 620 (46.79%) Degree
2 417 (31.47%) Master's Degree
3 379 (28.60%) PhD
4 374 (28.23%) Postgraduate
5 191 (14.42%) CISSP
6 131 (9.89%) CISM
7 93 (7.02%) CISA
8 60 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 49 (3.70%) Azure Certification
10 45 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (3.32%) CRISC
12 41 (3.09%) AWS Certification
13 39 (2.94%) CEH
14 33 (2.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 31 (2.34%) PMI Certification
15 31 (2.34%) Security Cleared
16 28 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
17 24 (1.81%) PMP
18 22 (1.66%) SC Cleared
19 20 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (14.57%) NIST
2 189 (14.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 123 (9.28%) GDPR
4 64 (4.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 54 (4.08%) GRC
6 36 (2.72%) PCI DSS
7 35 (2.64%) COBIT
8 34 (2.57%) QA
9 33 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 31 (2.34%) NCSC
11 16 (1.21%) SOC 2
12 15 (1.13%) NIST 800
13 14 (1.06%) Data Quality
14 13 (0.98%) SLA
15 12 (0.91%) ISO 22301
15 12 (0.91%) ITGC
16 11 (0.83%) Accessibility
17 9 (0.68%) IFRS
17 9 (0.68%) IFRS 17
17 9 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 60 (4.53%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.51%) Docker
4 13 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.45%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.30%) vSphere
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.075%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.89%) Terraform
3 20 (1.51%) Ansible
4 18 (1.36%) Kubernetes
5 15 (1.13%) SCCM
6 13 (0.98%) CASB
7 11 (0.83%) RSA Archer
8 10 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.53%) QRadar
11 6 (0.45%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.45%) Nessus
11 6 (0.45%) PaperCut
11 6 (0.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.30%) Nagios
13 3 (0.23%) Autotask
13 3 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 3 (0.23%) Grafana
13 3 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 252 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.92%) Oracle
2 52 (3.92%) SAP
3 40 (3.02%) VMware
4 34 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
5 33 (2.49%) Palo Alto
6 27 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 27 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.36%) Dell
9 17 (1.28%) Adobe
9 17 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.21%) Google
11 14 (1.06%) Apple
11 14 (1.06%) Cisco
11 14 (1.06%) Commvault
11 14 (1.06%) Splunk
12 12 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 12 (0.91%) Duck Creek
12 12 (0.91%) Guidewire