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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 41 33
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,441 784 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.08% 6.33% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 6.58% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 859 489 1,075
10th Percentile £38,400 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £60,000 £54,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £59,490 £59,700 £59,526
% change year-on-year -0.35% +0.29% -8.42%

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 16,616 11,906 21,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.62% 96.09% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,153 7,245 15,948
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +25 247 £70,000 +7.69% 108
West London +21 118 £38,000 -43.97% 32
South London +48 85 £50,000 -27.27% 10
East London +20 61 £87,500 - 18
North London +13 28 £60,000 -7.69% 11
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 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.28%) CMS
4 3 (0.21%) Apache
4 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.069%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.97%) Maya
3 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.21%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.069%) Endur
5 1 (0.069%) Maximo
5 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.069%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 321 (22.28%) Azure
2 184 (12.77%) AWS
3 138 (9.58%) Cloud Computing
4 111 (7.70%) Microsoft 365
5 91 (6.32%) Entra ID
6 65 (4.51%) SaaS
7 51 (3.54%) GCP
8 25 (1.73%) Nutanix
9 24 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (1.67%) GitHub
9 24 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (1.46%) Power Platform
12 19 (1.32%) Google Workspace
13 16 (1.11%) Mimecast
14 9 (0.62%) Serverless
15 7 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 6 (0.42%) Datadog
16 6 (0.42%) OCI
17 5 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 145 (10.06%) Internet
2 104 (7.22%) Firewall
3 77 (5.34%) Network Security
4 28 (1.94%) Broadband
5 27 (1.87%) VPN
6 22 (1.53%) CHAP
6 22 (1.53%) WAN
7 17 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
8 16 (1.11%) DNS
9 14 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.97%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.97%) Wireless
10 12 (0.83%) LAN
11 10 (0.69%) Kerberos
11 10 (0.69%) VLAN
12 9 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (0.62%) DHCP
12 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.56%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.46%) Power BI
2 18 (1.25%) Tableau
3 15 (1.04%) Big Data
4 11 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.21%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.14%) Impala
8 2 (0.14%) Metadata
8 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.14%) MySQL
8 2 (0.14%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.069%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.069%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (1.53%) GitLab
2 21 (1.46%) Git
3 7 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.28%) MLflow
5 3 (0.21%) JIRA
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.069%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.069%) JMeter
7 1 (0.069%) Locust
General
1 500 (34.70%) Social Skills
2 270 (18.74%) Finance
3 251 (17.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 225 (15.61%) Banking
5 184 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (6.38%) Retail
7 77 (5.34%) Legal
8 66 (4.58%) Law
9 42 (2.91%) Public Sector
10 41 (2.85%) Local Government
11 39 (2.71%) Marketing
12 36 (2.50%) Aviation
13 35 (2.43%) Multimedia
14 33 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.94%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.67%) Games
17 24 (1.67%) Telecoms
18 22 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 162 (11.24%) Senior
2 126 (8.74%) Analyst
3 116 (8.05%) Architect
4 112 (7.77%) Consultant
5 107 (7.43%) Lecturer
6 102 (7.08%) Security Analyst
7 97 (6.73%) Security Engineer
8 95 (6.59%) Lead
9 83 (5.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 73 (5.07%) Security Manager
11 67 (4.65%) Security Architect
12 58 (4.02%) Account Manager
13 49 (3.40%) Developer
14 45 (3.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 45 (3.12%) Trainee
15 44 (3.05%) IT Manager
16 42 (2.91%) Security Consultant
17 37 (2.57%) Senior Consultant
18 32 (2.22%) Security Specialist
19 31 (2.15%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.64%) REST
2 32 (2.22%) OAuth
2 32 (2.22%) OpenID
2 32 (2.22%) SAML
3 28 (1.94%) LDAP
4 27 (1.87%) CSS
5 24 (1.67%) HTML
6 23 (1.60%) SOAP
7 17 (1.18%) GraphQL
7 17 (1.18%) React
8 15 (1.04%) SailPoint
9 13 (0.90%) FastAPI
10 12 (0.83%) RESTful
11 7 (0.49%) Kafka
12 6 (0.42%) Node.js
12 6 (0.42%) PySpark
12 6 (0.42%) Web Services
13 5 (0.35%) .NET
13 5 (0.35%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.44%) Security Posture
2 133 (9.23%) IoT
3 87 (6.04%) Management Information System
4 78 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
5 61 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
6 49 (3.40%) Cloud Native
7 44 (3.05%) Cyberattack
8 39 (2.71%) Security Operations Centre
9 38 (2.64%) Operational Technology
10 36 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (2.15%) Data Centre
12 26 (1.80%) Blockchain
12 26 (1.80%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.18%) Blog
16 17 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
17 14 (0.97%) Mobile App
18 12 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 104 (7.22%) Windows
2 68 (4.72%) Linux
3 46 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 15 (1.04%) Android
6 12 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.42%) CentOS
8 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.28%) Unix
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (16.93%) Information Security
2 231 (16.03%) Incident Response
3 223 (15.48%) AI
4 215 (14.92%) Risk Management
5 211 (14.64%) Mentoring
6 170 (11.80%) Cloud Security
7 165 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (11.24%) Machine Learning
9 149 (10.34%) Agile
10 137 (9.51%) User Experience
11 129 (8.95%) Vulnerability Management
11 129 (8.95%) Web Development
12 127 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (8.47%) Roadmaps
14 113 (7.84%) Project Management
15 108 (7.49%) Security Operations
16 104 (7.22%) SIEM
16 104 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 95 (6.59%) Threat Intelligence
18 90 (6.25%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 163 (11.31%) Python
2 126 (8.74%) PowerShell
3 51 (3.54%) SQL
4 40 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 30 (2.08%) Bash
6 26 (1.80%) C++
7 21 (1.46%) Java
8 17 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.11%) R
10 11 (0.76%) Go
11 10 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.28%) C
12 4 (0.28%) C#
13 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.14%) Bicep
14 2 (0.14%) Perl
14 2 (0.14%) Rust
14 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 319 (22.14%) Degree
2 238 (16.52%) CISSP
3 168 (11.66%) Master's Degree
4 149 (10.34%) CISM
5 121 (8.40%) PhD
5 121 (8.40%) Postgraduate
6 87 (6.04%) Security Cleared
7 84 (5.83%) CISA
8 67 (4.65%) Azure Certification
9 64 (4.44%) CEH
10 63 (4.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 60 (4.16%) SC Cleared
12 48 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (3.19%) CRISC
14 45 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
15 44 (3.05%) CompTIA CySA+
16 41 (2.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 41 (2.85%) GIAC
17 39 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
17 39 (2.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (18.88%) NIST
2 230 (15.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 128 (8.88%) GDPR
4 72 (5.00%) GRC
5 70 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 69 (4.79%) QA
7 60 (4.16%) PCI DSS
8 45 (3.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (2.64%) NCSC
10 36 (2.50%) NIST 800
11 35 (2.43%) COBIT
12 17 (1.18%) Accessibility
13 16 (1.11%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.90%) ISO 22301
14 13 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 90 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.39%) Docker
4 15 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.76%) IAG
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.35%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.069%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (2.91%) Terraform
2 35 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.76%) Ansible
5 11 (0.76%) SCCM
6 9 (0.62%) CASB
6 9 (0.62%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 7 (0.49%) RSA Archer
7 7 (0.49%) VxRail
8 5 (0.35%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.28%) Argo
9 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.21%) Grafana
11 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.14%) QRadar
12 1 (0.069%) DatAdvantage
Vendors
1 265 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.12%) VMware
3 40 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
4 36 (2.50%) ForeScout
5 31 (2.15%) Palo Alto
6 30 (2.08%) Splunk
7 28 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 27 (1.87%) CyberArk
9 24 (1.67%) Cisco
9 24 (1.67%) Google
10 23 (1.60%) Dell
11 21 (1.46%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.97%) Commvault
13 13 (0.90%) Oracle
13 13 (0.90%) SAP
14 11 (0.76%) Okta
15 9 (0.62%) Rapid7
15 9 (0.62%) Sophos
15 9 (0.62%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.56%) Computacenter