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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,448 786 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.12% 6.44% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 6.82% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 966 464 669
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £108,000
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 19,423 11,519 17,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.07% 94.33% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,125 7,273 11,907
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.67% -0.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +32 189 £71,100 -5.20% 129
West London +4 90 £50,000 -47.37% 50
South London +17 36 £50,000 - 19
East London 0 25 £87,500 -2.78% 29
North London +9 16 £60,000 +9.09% 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 36 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.48%) Confluence
4 6 (0.41%) SAS
5 5 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.21%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.069%) IIS
8 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.069%) Maya
5 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
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 (0.069%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.069%) Eikon
3 1 (0.069%) Maximo
3 1 (0.069%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 297 (20.51%) Azure
2 185 (12.78%) AWS
3 129 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (7.73%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.28%) SaaS
6 67 (4.63%) GCP
7 31 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (1.86%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (1.52%) Mimecast
11 18 (1.24%) Power Platform
12 12 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (0.76%) GitHub
13 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (0.76%) Nutanix
14 10 (0.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 10 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (0.69%) Serverless
14 10 (0.69%) WeChat
15 9 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 131 (9.05%) Firewall
2 98 (6.77%) Network Security
3 43 (2.97%) VPN
4 31 (2.14%) Internet
5 28 (1.93%) DNS
6 27 (1.86%) WAN
7 23 (1.59%) LAN
8 22 (1.52%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.45%) Kerberos
10 18 (1.24%) VLAN
11 17 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
12 15 (1.04%) DHCP
13 14 (0.97%) Wireless
14 13 (0.90%) Broadband
15 12 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
16 11 (0.76%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.55%) CHAP
17 8 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.55%) Wireshark
18 7 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (0.97%) Power BI
2 11 (0.76%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.69%) Big Data
4 8 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.48%) Tableau
6 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.35%) Metadata
8 4 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.21%) MySQL
10 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.069%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.069%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.069%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.069%) Flink
11 1 (0.069%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (1.17%) GitLab
1 17 (1.17%) JIRA
2 11 (0.76%) Git
2 11 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.62%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.35%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.14%) JMeter
6 2 (0.14%) Snyk
7 1 (0.069%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.069%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.069%) git-flow
7 1 (0.069%) Locust
7 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.069%) Vite
7 1 (0.069%) webpack
7 1 (0.069%) Xcode
7 1 (0.069%) XCTest
7 1 (0.069%) XCUITest
General
1 435 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 254 (17.54%) Finance
3 180 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (6.35%) Banking
6 78 (5.39%) Law
6 78 (5.39%) Legal
7 73 (5.04%) Retail
8 65 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 48 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (3.31%) Marketing
10 43 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 36 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.28%) Local Government
13 28 (1.93%) Aviation
14 25 (1.73%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.04%) Advertising
17 14 (0.97%) Back Office
17 14 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 154 (10.64%) Consultant
1 154 (10.64%) Senior
2 139 (9.60%) Lead
3 136 (9.39%) Analyst
4 128 (8.84%) Architect
5 117 (8.08%) Security Analyst
6 91 (6.28%) Security Engineer
7 90 (6.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 75 (5.18%) Security Manager
9 73 (5.04%) Security Architect
10 67 (4.63%) Security Consultant
11 44 (3.04%) Account Manager
11 44 (3.04%) Security Specialist
12 43 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 42 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 42 (2.90%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.49%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 34 (2.35%) Business Manager
16 31 (2.14%) Senior Consultant
16 31 (2.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.49%) OpenID
1 36 (2.49%) SAML
2 32 (2.21%) OAuth
3 26 (1.80%) REST
4 25 (1.73%) LDAP
5 17 (1.17%) SailPoint
6 13 (0.90%) RESTful
7 12 (0.83%) FastAPI
8 10 (0.69%) .NET
8 10 (0.69%) Kafka
9 9 (0.62%) SOAP
10 8 (0.55%) Web Services
11 7 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (0.48%) React
12 6 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.41%) HTML
13 5 (0.35%) CSS
13 5 (0.35%) Node.js
13 5 (0.35%) web3js
14 4 (0.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 146 (10.08%) Security Posture
2 110 (7.60%) Management Information System
3 77 (5.32%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 50 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
6 50 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 36 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 30 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
9 29 (2.00%) Cyberattack
10 28 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.17%) Blog
12 17 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.10%) AI Agents
13 16 (1.10%) Product Ownership
14 13 (0.90%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
15 11 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.11%) Windows
2 64 (4.42%) Linux
3 51 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.69%) Android
7 9 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.41%) CentOS
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.14%) Unix
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (19.06%) Information Security
2 241 (16.64%) Incident Response
3 238 (16.44%) Risk Management
4 205 (14.16%) Cloud Security
5 187 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 185 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (11.33%) Mentoring
8 163 (11.26%) Vulnerability Management
9 154 (10.64%) Security Operations
10 148 (10.22%) SIEM
11 145 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 144 (9.94%) Agile
13 139 (9.60%) Roadmaps
14 134 (9.25%) AI
15 133 (9.19%) Decision-Making
16 120 (8.29%) Identity Access Management
17 110 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 105 (7.25%) Computer Science
19 102 (7.04%) Data Protection
20 101 (6.98%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 135 (9.32%) Python
2 100 (6.91%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.86%) SQL
4 25 (1.73%) Java
5 21 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 16 (1.10%) Bash
8 11 (0.76%) Go
9 10 (0.69%) C++
10 7 (0.48%) C#
11 4 (0.28%) Rust
12 3 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.21%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.14%) Bicep
13 2 (0.14%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.14%) R
13 2 (0.14%) Scala
13 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.069%) Swift
14 1 (0.069%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 260 (17.96%) CISSP
2 207 (14.30%) Degree
3 161 (11.12%) CISM
4 153 (10.57%) Security Cleared
5 95 (6.56%) SC Cleared
6 67 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
7 66 (4.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 64 (4.42%) CISA
9 60 (4.14%) Master's Degree
10 56 (3.87%) CRISC
11 54 (3.73%) Azure Certification
12 50 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
13 49 (3.38%) CEH
14 48 (3.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 43 (2.97%) GIAC
16 42 (2.90%) CCSP
17 35 (2.42%) DV Cleared
18 31 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
19 27 (1.86%) CompTIA CySA+
20 23 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (18.85%) NIST
2 254 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 154 (10.64%) GDPR
4 90 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 83 (5.73%) GRC
6 68 (4.70%) PCI DSS
7 60 (4.14%) QA
8 46 (3.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (2.42%) SOC 2
10 32 (2.21%) NIST 800
11 28 (1.93%) NCSC
12 27 (1.86%) COBIT
13 21 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (1.38%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.90%) SLA
16 12 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 11 (0.76%) ISO 22301
18 10 (0.69%) PMO
19 9 (0.62%) HIPAA
20 8 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 100 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.24%) Docker
4 17 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.97%) IAG
6 7 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.21%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.069%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (2.49%) Terraform
2 35 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (1.17%) Ansible
5 8 (0.55%) Nessus
6 5 (0.35%) Grafana
6 5 (0.35%) Nmap
6 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (0.35%) SCCM
6 5 (0.35%) VxRail
7 4 (0.28%) Argo
7 4 (0.28%) CASB
7 4 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.21%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 3 (0.21%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 305 (21.06%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.31%) VMware
3 47 (3.25%) Palo Alto
4 44 (3.04%) Cisco
4 44 (3.04%) CrowdStrike
5 43 (2.97%) Splunk
6 36 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.42%) Google
8 33 (2.28%) CyberArk
9 27 (1.86%) ForeScout
10 25 (1.73%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.59%) Rapid7
12 22 (1.52%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.45%) Tenable
14 18 (1.24%) Qualys
15 17 (1.17%) Dell
16 16 (1.10%) Okta
17 14 (0.97%) SAP
18 13 (0.90%) Sophos
19 12 (0.83%) CheckPoint