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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 42 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,397 773 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.10% 6.31% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 6.68% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 928 461 718
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,303
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,750 £107,500
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 18,808 11,569 18,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.14% 94.41% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12,790 7,340 12,569
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

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 July 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 July 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 +36 191 £70,000 -6.67% 86
West London +5 87 £50,703 -46.63% 46
South London +14 30 £50,000 -31.03% 18
East London -1 26 £87,500 -2.78% 25
North London +10 17 £60,000 +9.09% 10
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 33 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.43%) Confluence
3 6 (0.43%) SAS
4 5 (0.36%) Apache
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.14%) CMS
5 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.072%) IIS
6 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.072%) Maya
5 1 (0.072%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.072%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.072%) Eikon
3 1 (0.072%) Maximo
3 1 (0.072%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 294 (21.05%) Azure
2 172 (12.31%) AWS
3 122 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 86 (6.16%) SaaS
6 65 (4.65%) GCP
7 29 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (1.43%) Mimecast
11 19 (1.36%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (0.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 11 (0.79%) Google Workspace
14 10 (0.72%) Nutanix
14 10 (0.72%) Serverless
15 9 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (0.64%) GitHub
15 9 (0.64%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 127 (9.09%) Firewall
2 94 (6.73%) Network Security
3 43 (3.08%) VPN
4 31 (2.22%) Internet
5 24 (1.72%) DNS
6 23 (1.65%) WAN
7 20 (1.43%) Kerberos
7 20 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.36%) LAN
9 18 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
10 17 (1.22%) VLAN
11 16 (1.15%) Broadband
11 16 (1.15%) Wireless
12 15 (1.07%) DHCP
13 12 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.64%) CHAP
15 9 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.57%) Wireshark
17 7 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.07%) Power BI
2 9 (0.64%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.57%) Tableau
4 7 (0.50%) Big Data
4 7 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.29%) Metadata
6 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.14%) MySQL
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.072%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.072%) Flink
8 1 (0.072%) GIS
8 1 (0.072%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.072%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (1.36%) GitLab
2 17 (1.22%) JIRA
3 9 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.57%) Burp Suite
4 8 (0.57%) Git
5 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.29%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.072%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.072%) Locust
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.072%) Snyk
7 1 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 410 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 244 (17.47%) Finance
3 167 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (6.66%) Banking
6 76 (5.44%) Legal
7 73 (5.23%) Retail
8 69 (4.94%) Law
9 57 (4.08%) Public Sector
10 45 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (3.15%) Marketing
12 41 (2.93%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (2.22%) Local Government
15 28 (2.00%) Aviation
16 21 (1.50%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.07%) Advertising
18 14 (1.00%) Back Office
18 14 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 155 (11.10%) Senior
2 151 (10.81%) Consultant
3 140 (10.02%) Analyst
4 123 (8.80%) Lead
5 120 (8.59%) Security Analyst
6 115 (8.23%) Architect
7 94 (6.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 91 (6.51%) Security Engineer
9 70 (5.01%) Security Manager
10 69 (4.94%) Security Consultant
11 63 (4.51%) Security Architect
12 45 (3.22%) Security Specialist
13 44 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 41 (2.93%) Account Manager
15 40 (2.86%) IT Manager
16 36 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 35 (2.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 34 (2.43%) Developer
19 32 (2.29%) Business Manager
20 31 (2.22%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.79%) OpenID
1 39 (2.79%) SAML
2 35 (2.51%) OAuth
3 30 (2.15%) REST
4 28 (2.00%) LDAP
5 18 (1.29%) SailPoint
6 13 (0.93%) FastAPI
6 13 (0.93%) SOAP
7 12 (0.86%) RESTful
8 10 (0.72%) Kafka
9 9 (0.64%) .NET
10 7 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (0.50%) GraphQL
10 7 (0.50%) React
10 7 (0.50%) Web Services
11 6 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (0.36%) HTML
12 5 (0.36%) web3js
13 4 (0.29%) CSS
13 4 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (10.09%) Security Posture
2 103 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 77 (5.51%) Cyber Threat
4 56 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.94%) Cloud Native
6 51 (3.65%) Cyber Defence
7 50 (3.58%) Operational Technology
8 35 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.43%) Cyberattack
9 34 (2.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 27 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.72%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.15%) Blog
12 16 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.00%) Product Ownership
15 13 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
16 12 (0.86%) Driving Licence
17 11 (0.79%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 102 (7.30%) Windows
2 64 (4.58%) Linux
3 49 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.22%) Mac OS
4 17 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.64%) Android
6 8 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.43%) CentOS
9 3 (0.21%) Unix
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (18.83%) Information Security
2 238 (17.04%) Incident Response
3 227 (16.25%) Risk Management
4 196 (14.03%) Cloud Security
5 175 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 173 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
7 170 (12.17%) Mentoring
8 154 (11.02%) Vulnerability Management
9 150 (10.74%) Security Operations
10 147 (10.52%) SIEM
11 140 (10.02%) Agile
12 130 (9.31%) Roadmaps
13 128 (9.16%) AI
13 128 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 124 (8.88%) Decision-Making
15 118 (8.45%) Identity Access Management
16 105 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 102 (7.30%) Computer Science
18 100 (7.16%) Disaster Recovery
19 95 (6.80%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 135 (9.66%) Python
2 103 (7.37%) PowerShell
3 31 (2.22%) SQL
4 21 (1.50%) Java
5 19 (1.36%) Bash
5 19 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (0.79%) C++
7 11 (0.79%) Go
8 7 (0.50%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.43%) C#
10 4 (0.29%) Rust
11 3 (0.21%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.14%) Bicep
12 2 (0.14%) R
12 2 (0.14%) Scala
12 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.072%) Ada
13 1 (0.072%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.072%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 254 (18.18%) CISSP
2 195 (13.96%) Degree
3 156 (11.17%) CISM
4 142 (10.16%) Security Cleared
5 87 (6.23%) SC Cleared
6 68 (4.87%) CompTIA Security+
7 67 (4.80%) CISA
8 63 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
9 55 (3.94%) Azure Certification
9 55 (3.94%) Master's Degree
10 53 (3.79%) CRISC
11 51 (3.65%) CEH
12 49 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
13 45 (3.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 45 (3.22%) GIAC
14 39 (2.79%) CCSP
15 35 (2.51%) DV Cleared
16 32 (2.29%) CompTIA CySA+
17 30 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (1.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (19.47%) NIST
2 244 (17.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 150 (10.74%) GDPR
4 85 (6.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 81 (5.80%) GRC
6 67 (4.80%) PCI DSS
7 60 (4.29%) QA
8 45 (3.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (2.51%) SOC 2
10 31 (2.22%) NCSC
10 31 (2.22%) NIST 800
11 26 (1.86%) COBIT
12 20 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 18 (1.29%) Accessibility
14 13 (0.93%) SLA
15 12 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 11 (0.79%) ISO 22301
17 9 (0.64%) HIPAA
18 8 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.57%) SOC 1
System Software
1 98 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.15%) Docker
5 14 (1.00%) IAG
6 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.072%) Firmware
9 1 (0.072%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 38 (2.72%) Terraform
2 33 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 17 (1.22%) Ansible
6 6 (0.43%) VxRail
7 5 (0.36%) Grafana
7 5 (0.36%) Nessus
7 5 (0.36%) SCCM
8 4 (0.29%) Argo
8 4 (0.29%) CASB
8 4 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.29%) Nmap
8 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.21%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.21%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 291 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.29%) VMware
3 45 (3.22%) Splunk
4 43 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
5 42 (3.01%) Palo Alto
6 38 (2.72%) Cisco
7 35 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.29%) CyberArk
9 31 (2.22%) Google
10 30 (2.15%) ForeScout
11 23 (1.65%) Fortinet
12 19 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.29%) Rapid7
13 18 (1.29%) Tenable
14 17 (1.22%) Dell
14 17 (1.22%) Qualys
15 16 (1.15%) Okta
16 15 (1.07%) Sophos
16 15 (1.07%) Zscaler
17 14 (1.00%) CheckPoint