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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 41 49
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,133 1,035 941
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.57% 6.12% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.50% 6.62% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 537 560 801
10th Percentile £30,750 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £63,100 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.76% +0.96% -3.85%

All Process and 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 11,932 15,634 17,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.27% 92.49% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7,643 9,118 14,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 +2 140 £73,000 +12.31% 74
West London +30 119 £47,000 -43.03% 42
South London +38 117 £50,000 -31.03% 42
East London +11 69 £105,000 +82.61% 35
North London +10 18 £32,500 -50.00% 13
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 27 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.79%) CMS
4 5 (0.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.088%) Traefik
Applications
1 62 (5.47%) Maya
2 25 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
6 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.088%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.088%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.68%) SAP IBP
3 18 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (1.15%) SAP CO
4 13 (1.15%) SAP FI
4 13 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
4 13 (1.15%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (0.97%) SAP IS-U
6 9 (0.79%) SAP FS
7 6 (0.53%) Exchequer
8 4 (0.35%) Endur
9 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.26%) SAP CX
9 3 (0.26%) Yoast SEO
10 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.18%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.088%) Fidessa
11 1 (0.088%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 297 (26.21%) Cloud Computing
2 251 (22.15%) Azure
3 169 (14.92%) AWS
4 98 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (4.50%) GCP
6 50 (4.41%) Power Platform
7 41 (3.62%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.18%) SaaS
9 34 (3.00%) PaaS
10 23 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.03%) GitHub
10 23 (2.03%) IaaS
11 19 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (1.68%) Serverless
12 14 (1.24%) Boomi
12 14 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 12 (1.06%) Nutanix
13 12 (1.06%) OCI
14 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 280 (24.71%) Internet
2 95 (8.38%) Firewall
3 43 (3.80%) VPN
4 35 (3.09%) WAN
5 33 (2.91%) Network Security
6 26 (2.29%) LAN
7 25 (2.21%) Intrusion Detection
8 23 (2.03%) TCP/IP
9 22 (1.94%) DHCP
9 22 (1.94%) DNS
10 17 (1.50%) VoIP
11 15 (1.32%) VLAN
12 11 (0.97%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.88%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.62%) Wireless
15 6 (0.53%) CHAP
15 6 (0.53%) Modbus
16 5 (0.44%) IP Telephony
17 4 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.71%) Power BI
2 34 (3.00%) Tableau
3 30 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.85%) SAP BW
6 14 (1.24%) Big Data
6 14 (1.24%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.97%) Metadata
9 9 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.35%) MySQL
12 4 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.26%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.26%) MS Access
13 3 (0.26%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (2.47%) Git
2 13 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.71%) JIRA
4 6 (0.53%) GitLab
5 2 (0.18%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.088%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.088%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.088%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.088%) git-flow
6 1 (0.088%) JMeter
6 1 (0.088%) Locust
6 1 (0.088%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.088%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.088%) Spinnaker
General
1 608 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 390 (34.42%) Banking
3 370 (32.66%) Finance
4 316 (27.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 209 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (11.83%) Law
7 88 (7.77%) Legal
8 85 (7.50%) Games
9 74 (6.53%) Marketing
10 51 (4.50%) Retail
11 46 (4.06%) Public Sector
12 43 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (3.35%) Telecoms
14 35 (3.09%) Manufacturing
14 35 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (2.65%) Dutch Language
16 30 (2.65%) French Language
16 30 (2.65%) Multimedia
17 26 (2.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (19.95%) Lecturer
2 134 (11.83%) Senior
3 104 (9.18%) Analyst
4 96 (8.47%) Lead
5 88 (7.77%) Architect
6 63 (5.56%) Consultant
7 62 (5.47%) IT Manager
8 58 (5.12%) Security Analyst
9 51 (4.50%) Security Engineer
10 41 (3.62%) IT Architect
11 37 (3.27%) IT Support
12 34 (3.00%) Senior Consultant
13 32 (2.82%) Senior Architect
14 30 (2.65%) Trainee
15 26 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 26 (2.29%) Developer
16 25 (2.21%) Security Specialist
17 23 (2.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 23 (2.03%) Lead Architect
18 22 (1.94%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.65%) CSS
1 30 (2.65%) HTML
2 22 (1.94%) React
3 18 (1.59%) REST
4 15 (1.32%) YAML
5 12 (1.06%) AngularJS
6 11 (0.97%) RESTful
7 10 (0.88%) Middleware
7 10 (0.88%) Vue
8 7 (0.62%) .NET
8 7 (0.62%) Pandas
8 7 (0.62%) PyTorch
8 7 (0.62%) TensorFlow
9 6 (0.53%) jQuery
10 5 (0.44%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.35%) Kafka
11 4 (0.35%) OAuth
11 4 (0.35%) PySpark
11 4 (0.35%) XML
11 4 (0.35%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 274 (24.18%) IoT
2 111 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
3 71 (6.27%) Management Information System
4 63 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 50 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
6 36 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 32 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.65%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.29%) Data Centre
11 24 (2.12%) Blockchain
12 21 (1.85%) CCTV
13 20 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.59%) Cyberattack
14 18 (1.59%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.59%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
16 14 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
16 14 (1.24%) Taxonomies
17 13 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.47%) Windows
2 60 (5.30%) Linux
3 28 (2.47%) Mac OS
4 26 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.77%) Android
6 16 (1.41%) Unix
6 16 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.53%) VMS
10 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.088%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.088%) Solaris
13 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (33.72%) AI
2 304 (26.83%) Machine Learning
3 278 (24.54%) User Experience
4 273 (24.10%) Web Development
5 234 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
6 222 (19.59%) Risk Management
7 167 (14.74%) Incident Response
8 148 (13.06%) Information Security
9 140 (12.36%) Agile
9 140 (12.36%) Analytics
10 132 (11.65%) Mentoring
11 128 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (10.68%) Project Management
12 121 (10.68%) Roadmaps
13 106 (9.36%) Business Strategy
14 97 (8.56%) SIEM
15 94 (8.30%) Computer Science
16 93 (8.21%) IT Strategy
17 92 (8.12%) DevOps
18 83 (7.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (9.09%) Python
2 67 (5.91%) PowerShell
3 43 (3.80%) JavaScript
3 43 (3.80%) SQL
4 17 (1.50%) R
5 14 (1.24%) Bash
5 14 (1.24%) Java
6 8 (0.71%) C#
7 7 (0.62%) C++
8 5 (0.44%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.26%) Perl
10 3 (0.26%) Scala
11 2 (0.18%) Bicep
11 2 (0.18%) C
11 2 (0.18%) Go
11 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.18%) VBScript
12 1 (0.088%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 515 (45.45%) Degree
2 304 (26.83%) Master's Degree
3 262 (23.12%) PhD
4 257 (22.68%) Postgraduate
5 178 (15.71%) CISSP
6 120 (10.59%) CISM
7 82 (7.24%) CISA
8 54 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (4.41%) CRISC
10 44 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (3.62%) Azure Certification
11 41 (3.62%) PMI Certification
12 34 (3.00%) CEH
13 33 (2.91%) AWS Certification
13 33 (2.91%) PMP
14 23 (2.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 23 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
15 21 (1.85%) Security Cleared
16 16 (1.41%) SC Cleared
17 14 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (16.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (15.62%) NIST
3 122 (10.77%) GDPR
4 68 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 57 (5.03%) GRC
6 38 (3.35%) QA
7 34 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 28 (2.47%) COBIT
8 28 (2.47%) PCI DSS
9 26 (2.29%) SOC 2
10 22 (1.94%) NCSC
10 22 (1.94%) NIST 800
11 15 (1.32%) Data Quality
12 14 (1.24%) SLA
13 12 (1.06%) Accessibility
13 12 (1.06%) ITGC
13 12 (1.06%) SOC 1
14 10 (0.88%) PMO
15 9 (0.79%) IFRS
15 9 (0.79%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 49 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.59%) Docker
4 13 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.088%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (2.38%) Terraform
3 22 (1.94%) Ansible
4 17 (1.50%) Kubernetes
4 17 (1.50%) RSA Archer
5 9 (0.79%) SCCM
5 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.71%) Nessus
6 8 (0.71%) QRadar
7 7 (0.62%) CASB
8 6 (0.53%) Autotask
8 6 (0.53%) PaperCut
8 6 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.44%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.35%) Grafana
10 4 (0.35%) Nagios
11 3 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.26%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 250 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.56%) SAP
3 54 (4.77%) Oracle
4 37 (3.27%) VMware
5 35 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 31 (2.74%) Palo Alto
7 29 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
8 25 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.12%) Fortinet
10 19 (1.68%) Adobe
11 18 (1.59%) Splunk
12 17 (1.50%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.24%) Dell
14 13 (1.15%) Cisco
15 12 (1.06%) Duck Creek
15 12 (1.06%) Guidewire
16 10 (0.88%) Qualys
16 10 (0.88%) Xero
17 9 (0.79%) Ariba
17 9 (0.79%) Google