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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 41 34
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,432 916 1,231
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.95% 6.29% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.40% 6.57% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 640 516 1,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £48,389 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -7.69%

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 13,772 13,949 19,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.04% 95.82% 91.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8,886 7,782 15,602
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,225 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,469 £56,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +10 200 £70,000 +7.69% 61
South London +50 179 £50,000 -23.08% 6
West London +27 167 £47,000 -18.50% 38
East London +22 104 £105,000 +84.21% 27
North London +19 36 £65,000 - 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 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.56%) CMS
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.14%) Confluence
5 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.070%) Apache
6 1 (0.070%) nginx
Applications
1 41 (2.86%) Maya
2 24 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.070%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.49%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.42%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FS
6 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.28%) Endur
6 4 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.28%) SAP FSCM
6 4 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
7 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.21%) Yoast SEO
8 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.070%) Pegasus Opera
9 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 411 (28.70%) Cloud Computing
2 318 (22.21%) Azure
3 204 (14.25%) AWS
4 91 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (4.96%) Entra ID
6 55 (3.84%) GCP
7 33 (2.30%) GitHub
8 31 (2.16%) Power Platform
9 29 (2.03%) Nutanix
10 28 (1.96%) SaaS
11 22 (1.54%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (1.40%) PaaS
14 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (0.98%) IaaS
16 13 (0.91%) OCI
16 13 (0.91%) Serverless
17 11 (0.77%) Mimecast
18 10 (0.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 408 (28.49%) Internet
2 96 (6.70%) Firewall
3 51 (3.56%) Network Security
4 31 (2.16%) WAN
5 29 (2.03%) VPN
6 21 (1.47%) Broadband
6 21 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (1.40%) CHAP
8 19 (1.33%) DNS
9 18 (1.26%) LAN
10 16 (1.12%) DHCP
11 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.98%) Wireless
13 13 (0.91%) TCP/IP
14 11 (0.77%) VLAN
15 10 (0.70%) VoIP
16 7 (0.49%) SAN
16 7 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
17 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
18 4 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.09%) Power BI
2 29 (2.03%) Tableau
3 27 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.26%) Big Data
5 10 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 10 (0.70%) Metadata
5 10 (0.70%) SQL Server
6 9 (0.63%) SAP BW
7 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.35%) Neo4j
10 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.14%) Impala
12 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (2.30%) Git
2 14 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.91%) GitLab
4 4 (0.28%) JIRA
4 4 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.070%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.070%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.070%) JMeter
5 1 (0.070%) Locust
General
1 710 (49.58%) Social Skills
2 506 (35.34%) Banking
3 455 (31.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 331 (23.11%) Finance
5 165 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
6 102 (7.12%) Legal
7 101 (7.05%) Law
8 76 (5.31%) Retail
9 60 (4.19%) Public Sector
10 59 (4.12%) Games
11 52 (3.63%) Multimedia
12 50 (3.49%) Marketing
13 41 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (2.37%) Financial Institution
16 29 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (1.89%) Local Government
18 22 (1.54%) Telecoms
19 20 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
20 16 (1.12%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 325 (22.70%) Lecturer
2 161 (11.24%) Senior
3 98 (6.84%) Architect
4 97 (6.77%) Consultant
5 91 (6.35%) Analyst
6 85 (5.94%) Lead
7 68 (4.75%) Security Analyst
8 66 (4.61%) Security Engineer
9 52 (3.63%) Trainee
10 48 (3.35%) Security Manager
11 47 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 45 (3.14%) IT Manager
13 44 (3.07%) Security Architect
14 42 (2.93%) Account Manager
15 41 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
16 40 (2.79%) Developer
17 36 (2.51%) Security Specialist
18 34 (2.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 34 (2.37%) Security Consultant
19 28 (1.96%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.79%) CSS
2 36 (2.51%) HTML
3 29 (2.03%) REST
4 24 (1.68%) OAuth
5 23 (1.61%) SAML
6 22 (1.54%) OpenID
7 21 (1.47%) LDAP
8 18 (1.26%) GraphQL
8 18 (1.26%) SOAP
9 17 (1.19%) React
10 8 (0.56%) PyTorch
10 8 (0.56%) RESTful
10 8 (0.56%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.56%) TensorFlow
11 7 (0.49%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.42%) LangChain
12 6 (0.42%) Pandas
12 6 (0.42%) PySpark
12 6 (0.42%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.35%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 396 (27.65%) IoT
2 97 (6.77%) Security Posture
3 83 (5.80%) Enterprise Software
4 75 (5.24%) Management Information System
5 61 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (3.28%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (2.44%) Cyberattack
9 34 (2.37%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.30%) Blockchain
11 30 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
12 28 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
13 19 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.19%) Onboarding
16 14 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
16 14 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 93 (6.49%) Windows
2 60 (4.19%) Linux
3 35 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.54%) Android
6 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.77%) Unix
7 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.070%) Solaris
9 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (34.64%) AI
2 415 (28.98%) Machine Learning
3 392 (27.37%) Web Development
4 389 (27.16%) User Experience
5 220 (15.36%) Risk Management
6 188 (13.13%) Incident Response
7 187 (13.06%) Information Security
7 187 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
8 179 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 131 (9.15%) Agile
10 127 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (8.73%) Roadmaps
12 117 (8.17%) Cloud Security
13 106 (7.40%) Analytics
14 99 (6.91%) Project Management
15 92 (6.42%) Vulnerability Management
16 90 (6.28%) SIEM
17 88 (6.15%) Computer Science
18 84 (5.87%) Data Protection
19 80 (5.59%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 140 (9.78%) Python
2 101 (7.05%) PowerShell
3 51 (3.56%) JavaScript
4 50 (3.49%) SQL
5 27 (1.89%) Bash
6 25 (1.75%) R
7 24 (1.68%) C++
8 18 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.05%) Java
10 11 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.56%) Go
12 5 (0.35%) C
13 4 (0.28%) C#
13 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.14%) Perl
16 1 (0.070%) Bicep
16 1 (0.070%) Rust
16 1 (0.070%) Scala
Qualifications
1 572 (39.94%) Degree
2 410 (28.63%) Master's Degree
3 378 (26.40%) PhD
4 374 (26.12%) Postgraduate
5 208 (14.53%) CISSP
6 142 (9.92%) CISM
7 94 (6.56%) CISA
8 61 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (4.05%) Azure Certification
10 52 (3.63%) CEH
11 45 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (3.14%) CRISC
12 43 (3.00%) AWS Certification
12 43 (3.00%) Security Cleared
13 41 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
14 32 (2.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 31 (2.16%) SANS
16 30 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
17 27 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (15.29%) NIST
2 203 (14.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 121 (8.45%) GDPR
4 59 (4.12%) GRC
5 57 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (2.86%) QA
7 40 (2.79%) PCI DSS
8 38 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (2.37%) COBIT
9 34 (2.37%) NCSC
10 26 (1.82%) NIST 800
11 15 (1.05%) ISO 22301
12 12 (0.84%) Data Quality
13 11 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.70%) Accessibility
14 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
15 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.49%) SLA
17 5 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 76 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.47%) Docker
4 12 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.35%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 36 (2.51%) Terraform
2 34 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.47%) Ansible
5 16 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.98%) SCCM
7 12 (0.84%) CASB
8 11 (0.77%) RSA Archer
9 8 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.42%) PaperCut
10 6 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.35%) VxRail
12 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.28%) Nessus
13 3 (0.21%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
14 2 (0.14%) Grafana
14 2 (0.14%) Nagios
15 1 (0.070%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 243 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.00%) VMware
3 39 (2.72%) Oracle
4 34 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
5 30 (2.09%) Dell
5 30 (2.09%) Palo Alto
6 29 (2.03%) SAP
7 26 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 24 (1.68%) Google
8 24 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.26%) Commvault
9 18 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.19%) CyberArk
11 16 (1.12%) Cisco
11 16 (1.12%) ForeScout
12 13 (0.91%) Adobe
12 13 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.84%) Splunk
14 10 (0.70%) Xero
15 9 (0.63%) YouTube