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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 40 39
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,479 820 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.13% 6.79% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 7.22% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 481 641
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%

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 19,631 11,363 17,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.43% 94.14% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,307 7,203 11,157
10th Percentile £40,800 £38,825 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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
Central London +27 182 £72,500 -3.33% 106
West London 0 83 £55,703 -38.11% 71
South London +5 32 £50,000 +8.70% 14
East London +1 23 £87,500 -2.78% 25
North London +5 10 £60,000 +9.09% 8
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 41 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.47%) Confluence
4 6 (0.41%) SAS
5 5 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.068%) CMS
8 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) Eikon
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.068%) Maximo
3 1 (0.068%) RMDS
3 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 291 (19.68%) Azure
2 186 (12.58%) AWS
3 147 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
4 128 (8.65%) Entra ID
5 97 (6.56%) SaaS
6 66 (4.46%) GCP
7 36 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 25 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (1.69%) Mimecast
10 18 (1.22%) Power Platform
11 14 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (0.81%) GitHub
14 11 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (0.68%) Serverless
15 10 (0.68%) WeChat
16 9 (0.61%) OneDrive
16 9 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (9.74%) Firewall
2 92 (6.22%) Network Security
3 53 (3.58%) VPN
4 38 (2.57%) DNS
5 36 (2.43%) WAN
6 35 (2.37%) Internet
7 32 (2.16%) LAN
8 29 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 22 (1.49%) VLAN
9 22 (1.49%) Wireless
10 21 (1.42%) DHCP
11 19 (1.28%) Kerberos
12 16 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
13 13 (0.88%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.81%) Broadband
15 10 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (0.68%) Wireshark
16 9 (0.61%) OSPF
17 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.88%) Power BI
3 11 (0.74%) Big Data
4 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.41%) Tableau
6 5 (0.34%) Metadata
7 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.14%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.068%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.068%) GIS
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.068%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (1.15%) Git
1 17 (1.15%) JIRA
2 14 (0.95%) Burp Suite
2 14 (0.95%) GitLab
3 13 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.68%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.14%) git-flow
6 2 (0.14%) Snyk
6 2 (0.14%) Xcode
6 2 (0.14%) XCTest
6 2 (0.14%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.068%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.068%) JMeter
7 1 (0.068%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.068%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.068%) Vite
7 1 (0.068%) webpack
7 1 (0.068%) Yeoman
General
1 466 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 260 (17.58%) Finance
3 180 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (6.49%) Banking
6 85 (5.75%) Law
7 77 (5.21%) Legal
8 70 (4.73%) Retail
9 58 (3.92%) Public Sector
10 51 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (3.45%) Marketing
11 40 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 37 (2.50%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.96%) Local Government
14 28 (1.89%) Aviation
15 25 (1.69%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.95%) Back Office
17 14 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 158 (10.68%) Consultant
1 158 (10.68%) Senior
2 149 (10.07%) Lead
3 141 (9.53%) Analyst
4 135 (9.13%) Architect
5 115 (7.78%) Security Analyst
6 98 (6.63%) Security Engineer
7 87 (5.88%) Security Manager
8 85 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 82 (5.54%) Security Architect
10 66 (4.46%) Security Consultant
11 49 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 47 (3.18%) IT Manager
13 44 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 42 (2.84%) Account Manager
15 41 (2.77%) Security Specialist
16 39 (2.64%) Business Manager
17 35 (2.37%) Software Engineer
18 34 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
19 33 (2.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.16%) OpenID
1 32 (2.16%) SAML
1 32 (2.16%) Terraform
2 28 (1.89%) OAuth
3 26 (1.76%) REST
4 23 (1.56%) LDAP
5 15 (1.01%) SailPoint
6 13 (0.88%) RESTful
7 12 (0.81%) .NET
7 12 (0.81%) FastAPI
8 11 (0.74%) Kafka
9 9 (0.61%) React
10 7 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (0.47%) SOAP
10 7 (0.47%) Web Services
11 6 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (0.34%) HTML
12 5 (0.34%) Node.js
13 4 (0.27%) TensorFlow
13 4 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.60%) Security Posture
2 111 (7.51%) Management Information System
3 80 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
4 68 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.92%) Operational Technology
6 54 (3.65%) Cloud Native
7 47 (3.18%) Cyber Defence
8 40 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
11 24 (1.62%) Cyberattack
12 18 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.15%) Product Ownership
14 16 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.01%) Blog
16 14 (0.95%) PKI
17 13 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (0.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 113 (7.64%) Windows
2 70 (4.73%) Linux
3 55 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.81%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.68%) Android
8 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.41%) CentOS
11 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.27%) Unix
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.068%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (18.86%) Information Security
2 248 (16.77%) Incident Response
3 239 (16.16%) Risk Management
4 203 (13.73%) Cloud Security
5 199 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 198 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
7 175 (11.83%) Vulnerability Management
8 174 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 170 (11.49%) Security Operations
10 165 (11.16%) Mentoring
11 159 (10.75%) SIEM
12 158 (10.68%) AI
13 145 (9.80%) Roadmaps
14 139 (9.40%) Agile
15 126 (8.52%) Decision-Making
16 124 (8.38%) Identity Access Management
17 115 (7.78%) Penetration Testing
18 113 (7.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 112 (7.57%) Data Protection
20 111 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 134 (9.06%) Python
2 96 (6.49%) PowerShell
3 26 (1.76%) SQL
4 24 (1.62%) Java
5 22 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 22 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 15 (1.01%) Bash
7 13 (0.88%) Go
8 9 (0.61%) C#
9 7 (0.47%) C++
10 5 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.27%) Rust
12 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.14%) R
13 2 (0.14%) Scala
13 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.14%) Swift
13 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.14%) VBA
13 2 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 262 (17.71%) CISSP
2 218 (14.74%) Degree
3 159 (10.75%) Security Cleared
4 157 (10.62%) CISM
5 97 (6.56%) SC Cleared
6 69 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
7 65 (4.39%) Master's Degree
8 62 (4.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 60 (4.06%) CISA
10 54 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 54 (3.65%) CRISC
11 51 (3.45%) Azure Certification
12 45 (3.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 43 (2.91%) CEH
14 40 (2.70%) CCSP
15 39 (2.64%) GIAC
16 33 (2.23%) DV Cleared
17 32 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
18 27 (1.83%) OSCP
19 26 (1.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (18.12%) NIST
2 262 (17.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 164 (11.09%) GDPR
4 100 (6.76%) GRC
5 96 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 72 (4.87%) PCI DSS
7 50 (3.38%) QA
8 44 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 37 (2.50%) SOC 2
10 34 (2.30%) NCSC
11 29 (1.96%) NIST 800
12 25 (1.69%) COBIT
13 21 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (1.35%) Accessibility
15 14 (0.95%) SLA
16 13 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 11 (0.74%) PMO
18 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
18 9 (0.61%) ISO 22301
19 8 (0.54%) SOC 1
System Software
1 113 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.15%) Docker
5 14 (0.95%) IAG
6 11 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.41%) vSphere
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
3 34 (2.30%) Kubernetes
4 17 (1.15%) Ansible
5 14 (0.95%) Nessus
6 10 (0.68%) Nmap
7 7 (0.47%) SCCM
8 6 (0.41%) CASB
9 5 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.34%) VxRail
10 4 (0.27%) Argo
10 4 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.27%) Grafana
10 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.20%) QRadar
11 3 (0.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 311 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.99%) Cisco
3 53 (3.58%) VMware
4 52 (3.52%) Palo Alto
5 46 (3.11%) Splunk
6 44 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
7 34 (2.30%) Google
7 34 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.16%) CyberArk
9 26 (1.76%) Tenable
10 25 (1.69%) Rapid7
11 23 (1.56%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.42%) ServiceNow
13 20 (1.35%) ForeScout
13 20 (1.35%) Meraki
14 18 (1.22%) Qualys
15 16 (1.08%) Okta
15 16 (1.08%) Zscaler
16 14 (0.95%) SAP
16 14 (0.95%) Sophos