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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 42 33
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,612 835 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.33% 6.47% 6.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 6.73% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 785 515 1,093
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,900 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £73,379 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +1.21% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £119,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 16,126 12,405 21,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.34% 96.08% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,558 7,549 16,067
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,050
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +32 264 £70,000 +7.69% 113
West London +26 189 £40,000 -41.02% 32
South London +47 174 £50,000 -0.99% 7
East London +27 107 £87,500 +35.66% 28
North London +14 44 £60,000 -7.69% 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 22 (1.36%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.37%) CMS
4 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.19%) Confluence
5 2 (0.12%) Apache
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.12%) SAS
6 1 (0.062%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.87%) Maya
2 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Yoast SEO
5 1 (0.062%) Endur
5 1 (0.062%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.062%) Maximo
5 1 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.062%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.062%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.062%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.062%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (24.50%) Cloud Computing
2 346 (21.46%) Azure
3 205 (12.72%) AWS
4 110 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 85 (5.27%) Entra ID
6 61 (3.78%) SaaS
7 55 (3.41%) GCP
8 30 (1.86%) GitHub
8 30 (1.86%) Nutanix
9 24 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (1.30%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (1.18%) Power Platform
13 15 (0.93%) Mimecast
14 10 (0.62%) PaaS
15 8 (0.50%) Serverless
16 6 (0.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 6 (0.37%) OneDrive
16 6 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 400 (24.81%) Internet
2 109 (6.76%) Firewall
3 68 (4.22%) Network Security
4 33 (2.05%) VPN
5 25 (1.55%) WAN
6 24 (1.49%) CHAP
7 21 (1.30%) Broadband
7 21 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
8 19 (1.18%) DNS
9 16 (0.99%) Wireless
10 15 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.87%) LAN
12 13 (0.81%) TCP/IP
13 12 (0.74%) DHCP
13 12 (0.74%) VLAN
14 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.50%) Kerberos
16 7 (0.43%) Unified Communications
17 6 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
17 6 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.12%) Big Data
1 18 (1.12%) Power BI
2 16 (0.99%) Tableau
3 13 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.31%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.25%) Metadata
6 4 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.25%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.19%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.12%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.12%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.12%) Impala
8 2 (0.12%) MySQL
8 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (1.86%) Git
2 19 (1.18%) GitLab
3 8 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.31%) JIRA
5 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.25%) MLflow
6 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.12%) JMeter
6 2 (0.12%) Locust
General
1 749 (46.46%) Social Skills
2 502 (31.14%) Banking
3 482 (29.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 295 (18.30%) Finance
5 159 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
6 106 (6.58%) Legal
7 94 (5.83%) Retail
8 70 (4.34%) Law
9 47 (2.92%) Multimedia
10 45 (2.79%) Public Sector
11 43 (2.67%) Marketing
12 35 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.17%) Local Government
13 33 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 31 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.61%) Aviation
16 25 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.49%) Games
17 24 (1.49%) Telecoms
18 20 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 317 (19.67%) Lecturer
2 152 (9.43%) Senior
3 117 (7.26%) Analyst
4 109 (6.76%) Consultant
5 107 (6.64%) Architect
6 99 (6.14%) Lead
7 91 (5.65%) Security Analyst
8 85 (5.27%) Security Engineer
9 65 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 62 (3.85%) Security Manager
11 57 (3.54%) Account Manager
11 57 (3.54%) Security Architect
12 54 (3.35%) Trainee
13 47 (2.92%) IT Manager
14 45 (2.79%) Developer
15 39 (2.42%) Security Consultant
16 37 (2.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 37 (2.30%) Security Specialist
16 37 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
17 30 (1.86%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.30%) REST
2 36 (2.23%) CSS
3 33 (2.05%) HTML
4 32 (1.99%) OAuth
5 31 (1.92%) SAML
6 30 (1.86%) OpenID
7 27 (1.67%) LDAP
8 23 (1.43%) SOAP
9 18 (1.12%) GraphQL
9 18 (1.12%) React
10 14 (0.87%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.62%) FastAPI
11 10 (0.62%) RESTful
12 6 (0.37%) LangChain
12 6 (0.37%) Node.js
12 6 (0.37%) PySpark
12 6 (0.37%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.37%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.31%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.31%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 389 (24.13%) IoT
2 130 (8.06%) Security Posture
3 80 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 55 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
5 45 (2.79%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 41 (2.54%) Cyberattack
8 39 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
10 29 (1.80%) Blockchain
10 29 (1.80%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
13 17 (1.05%) Onboarding
14 16 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (0.93%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.87%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.81%) Product Ownership
18 12 (0.74%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.51%) Windows
2 69 (4.28%) Linux
3 44 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.87%) Android
6 10 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.43%) Unix
8 7 (0.43%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.25%) CentOS
11 1 (0.062%) Solaris
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (28.91%) AI
2 401 (24.88%) Machine Learning
3 392 (24.32%) User Experience
4 385 (23.88%) Web Development
5 224 (13.90%) Information Security
6 211 (13.09%) Mentoring
7 207 (12.84%) Risk Management
8 205 (12.72%) Incident Response
9 170 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
10 158 (9.80%) Cloud Security
11 147 (9.12%) Agile
12 138 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (7.51%) Roadmaps
14 113 (7.01%) Vulnerability Management
15 98 (6.08%) Project Management
15 98 (6.08%) SIEM
16 94 (5.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 93 (5.77%) Security Operations
18 90 (5.58%) Data Protection
19 86 (5.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.55%) Python
2 125 (7.75%) PowerShell
3 51 (3.16%) SQL
4 48 (2.98%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.86%) Bash
6 26 (1.61%) C++
7 21 (1.30%) Java
8 20 (1.24%) R
9 18 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.81%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.56%) Go
12 5 (0.31%) C
13 4 (0.25%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.19%) C#
14 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.12%) Bicep
15 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.12%) Perl
16 1 (0.062%) Rust
Qualifications
1 557 (34.55%) Degree
2 414 (25.68%) Master's Degree
3 370 (22.95%) Postgraduate
4 368 (22.83%) PhD
5 239 (14.83%) CISSP
6 149 (9.24%) CISM
7 83 (5.15%) CISA
8 73 (4.53%) Azure Certification
9 68 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 67 (4.16%) CEH
11 63 (3.91%) Security Cleared
12 54 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (2.85%) CRISC
14 44 (2.73%) CompTIA CySA+
15 42 (2.61%) SC Cleared
16 41 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
17 40 (2.48%) SANS
18 38 (2.36%) AWS Certification
19 37 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
19 37 (2.30%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (16.38%) NIST
2 216 (13.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 133 (8.25%) GDPR
4 72 (4.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 67 (4.16%) GRC
6 63 (3.91%) QA
7 57 (3.54%) PCI DSS
8 49 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 37 (2.30%) NCSC
10 35 (2.17%) COBIT
11 34 (2.11%) NIST 800
12 18 (1.12%) Accessibility
13 15 (0.93%) ISO 22301
14 14 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.87%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.50%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 19770
17 7 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 89 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.43%) Docker
4 12 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.62%) IAG
6 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.37%) vSphere
8 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.19%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (2.54%) Terraform
2 34 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.12%) Ansible
6 13 (0.81%) SCCM
7 10 (0.62%) CASB
8 8 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 7 (0.43%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.43%) VxRail
10 4 (0.25%) Argo
10 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.25%) Grafana
11 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.12%) QRadar
12 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 268 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 45 (2.79%) VMware
3 40 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
4 34 (2.11%) ForeScout
5 33 (2.05%) Palo Alto
6 28 (1.74%) Splunk
7 27 (1.67%) CyberArk
8 26 (1.61%) Google
9 25 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.49%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.43%) Dell
12 22 (1.36%) Cisco
13 17 (1.05%) Commvault
13 17 (1.05%) Oracle
14 16 (0.99%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.62%) Okta
15 10 (0.62%) SAP
16 9 (0.56%) Sophos
16 9 (0.56%) Zscaler
17 8 (0.50%) iManage