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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +17
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,489 807 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.16% 6.84% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 7.28% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,032 469 617
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,750 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £95,313 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £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 19,609 11,091 17,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.08% 94.05% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,331 7,011 10,877
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,063 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +26 178 £72,500 -3.33% 139
West London 0 80 £60,000 -33.33% 70
South London +8 32 £50,000 +8.70% 18
East London -2 23 £87,500 -2.78% 17
North London +2 6 £60,000 +14.29% 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 43 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.47%) Confluence
4 6 (0.40%) SAS
5 5 (0.34%) Apache
6 4 (0.27%) IIS
7 3 (0.20%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.067%) CMS
9 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.13%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.13%) Eikon
2 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.067%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.067%) Maximo
3 1 (0.067%) RMDS
3 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 293 (19.68%) Azure
2 190 (12.76%) AWS
3 149 (10.01%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (9.00%) Entra ID
5 99 (6.65%) SaaS
6 69 (4.63%) GCP
7 36 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 32 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 27 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (1.54%) Mimecast
11 18 (1.21%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.87%) GitHub
13 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (0.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (0.67%) PaaS
15 10 (0.67%) Serverless
15 10 (0.67%) WeChat
16 9 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 144 (9.67%) Firewall
2 91 (6.11%) Network Security
3 54 (3.63%) VPN
4 39 (2.62%) DNS
5 37 (2.48%) Internet
6 36 (2.42%) WAN
7 32 (2.15%) LAN
8 30 (2.01%) TCP/IP
9 24 (1.61%) Wireless
10 21 (1.41%) DHCP
10 21 (1.41%) VLAN
11 18 (1.21%) Kerberos
12 17 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.81%) Broadband
15 11 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
15 11 (0.74%) Wireshark
16 10 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (0.67%) OSPF
17 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.01%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.87%) Power BI
3 11 (0.74%) Big Data
4 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.40%) Tableau
6 5 (0.34%) Metadata
7 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.13%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.13%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.067%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.067%) GIS
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.067%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (1.21%) Git
2 17 (1.14%) JIRA
3 16 (1.07%) Burp Suite
4 14 (0.94%) GitLab
4 14 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.74%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.13%) git-flow
7 2 (0.13%) Snyk
7 2 (0.13%) Xcode
7 2 (0.13%) XCTest
7 2 (0.13%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.13%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.067%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.067%) JMeter
8 1 (0.067%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.067%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.067%) Vite
8 1 (0.067%) webpack
General
1 464 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 257 (17.26%) Finance
3 181 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (10.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (6.38%) Banking
6 84 (5.64%) Law
7 74 (4.97%) Legal
8 72 (4.84%) Retail
9 57 (3.83%) Public Sector
10 52 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (3.43%) Marketing
12 41 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 30 (2.01%) Local Government
15 27 (1.81%) Aviation
16 26 (1.75%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.94%) Back Office
18 14 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
19 11 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 169 (11.35%) Senior
2 163 (10.95%) Consultant
3 147 (9.87%) Lead
4 141 (9.47%) Analyst
5 133 (8.93%) Architect
6 115 (7.72%) Security Analyst
7 101 (6.78%) Security Engineer
8 91 (6.11%) Security Manager
9 85 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 82 (5.51%) Security Architect
11 67 (4.50%) Security Consultant
12 53 (3.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 48 (3.22%) IT Manager
14 47 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 40 (2.69%) Account Manager
15 40 (2.69%) Business Manager
15 40 (2.69%) Security Specialist
16 39 (2.62%) Software Engineer
17 36 (2.42%) IAM Consultant
17 36 (2.42%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.15%) Terraform
2 31 (2.08%) OpenID
2 31 (2.08%) SAML
3 27 (1.81%) OAuth
4 25 (1.68%) REST
5 22 (1.48%) LDAP
6 15 (1.01%) SailPoint
7 13 (0.87%) .NET
7 13 (0.87%) RESTful
8 11 (0.74%) FastAPI
8 11 (0.74%) Kafka
9 9 (0.60%) React
10 7 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (0.40%) Node.js
11 6 (0.40%) SOAP
11 6 (0.40%) Web Services
12 5 (0.34%) .NET Core
13 4 (0.27%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.27%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.60%) Security Posture
2 111 (7.45%) Management Information System
3 83 (5.57%) Cyber Threat
4 69 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.10%) Operational Technology
6 55 (3.69%) Cloud Native
7 46 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
8 40 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 39 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
11 22 (1.48%) Cyberattack
12 18 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.14%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.01%) Blog
15 14 (0.94%) PKI
16 13 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (0.87%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 114 (7.66%) Windows
2 73 (4.90%) Linux
3 51 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.87%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.67%) Android
8 9 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.40%) CentOS
11 5 (0.34%) Unix
12 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (18.67%) Information Security
2 252 (16.92%) Incident Response
3 238 (15.98%) Risk Management
4 204 (13.70%) Cloud Security
4 204 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
5 199 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 182 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 178 (11.95%) Security Operations
8 177 (11.89%) Vulnerability Management
9 168 (11.28%) AI
10 165 (11.08%) Mentoring
11 163 (10.95%) SIEM
12 148 (9.94%) Roadmaps
13 139 (9.34%) Agile
14 128 (8.60%) Decision-Making
15 127 (8.53%) Identity Access Management
16 118 (7.92%) Penetration Testing
17 113 (7.59%) Data Protection
18 110 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 108 (7.25%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 134 (9.00%) Python
2 92 (6.18%) PowerShell
3 24 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
3 24 (1.61%) SQL
4 23 (1.54%) Java
5 22 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.01%) Bash
7 14 (0.94%) Go
8 10 (0.67%) C#
9 8 (0.54%) C++
10 5 (0.34%) Rust
10 5 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.20%) VBA
11 3 (0.20%) VBScript
12 2 (0.13%) R
12 2 (0.13%) Scala
12 2 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.13%) Swift
12 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 262 (17.60%) CISSP
2 215 (14.44%) Degree
3 167 (11.22%) Security Cleared
4 157 (10.54%) CISM
5 103 (6.92%) SC Cleared
6 71 (4.77%) Cisco Certification
7 66 (4.43%) Master's Degree
8 60 (4.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 59 (3.96%) CISA
10 53 (3.56%) CRISC
11 52 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 50 (3.36%) Azure Certification
13 45 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 42 (2.82%) CEH
15 40 (2.69%) CCSP
16 38 (2.55%) GIAC
17 34 (2.28%) DV Cleared
18 33 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
19 28 (1.88%) OSCP
20 26 (1.75%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (17.93%) NIST
2 265 (17.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 166 (11.15%) GDPR
4 103 (6.92%) GRC
5 95 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 76 (5.10%) PCI DSS
7 50 (3.36%) QA
8 44 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (2.42%) SOC 2
10 35 (2.35%) NCSC
11 29 (1.95%) NIST 800
12 24 (1.61%) COBIT
13 21 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (1.34%) Accessibility
15 15 (1.01%) SLA
16 14 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 12 (0.81%) PMO
18 8 (0.54%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.54%) SOC 1
19 7 (0.47%) HIPAA
System Software
1 110 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.14%) Docker
3 17 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.87%) IAG
5 12 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.40%) vSphere
7 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
3 35 (2.35%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.21%) Ansible
5 15 (1.01%) Nessus
6 11 (0.74%) Nmap
7 7 (0.47%) CASB
7 7 (0.47%) SCCM
8 5 (0.34%) QRadar
8 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.34%) VxRail
9 4 (0.27%) Argo
9 4 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.27%) Grafana
9 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 314 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.03%) Cisco
3 53 (3.56%) Palo Alto
4 51 (3.43%) VMware
5 47 (3.16%) Splunk
6 44 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
7 37 (2.48%) Google
8 34 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 31 (2.08%) CyberArk
10 27 (1.81%) Tenable
11 25 (1.68%) Rapid7
12 21 (1.41%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.41%) Meraki
13 20 (1.34%) ServiceNow
14 19 (1.28%) Qualys
15 18 (1.21%) ForeScout
16 17 (1.14%) Zscaler
17 16 (1.07%) Okta
18 14 (0.94%) SAP
19 13 (0.87%) Sophos