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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 +26
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,568 800 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.69% 6.34% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 6.59% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 855 506 1,076
10th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,406 £60,000 £54,244
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,400 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.20% -0.21% -8.42%

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 16,723 12,131 21,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.07% 96.11% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,130 7,358 15,996
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,800
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +25 250 £70,000 +7.69% 120
West London +25 160 £38,000 -43.97% 26
South London +50 132 £50,000 -23.08% 13
East London +28 88 £87,500 - 23
North London +14 37 £60,000 -7.69% 5
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 21 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.26%) Apache
3 4 (0.26%) CMS
4 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.064%) Confluence
6 1 (0.064%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.89%) Maya
3 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.064%) Endur
5 1 (0.064%) Maximo
5 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.064%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.064%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.064%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 325 (20.73%) Azure
2 274 (17.47%) Cloud Computing
3 183 (11.67%) AWS
4 110 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (5.74%) Entra ID
6 66 (4.21%) SaaS
7 50 (3.19%) GCP
8 26 (1.66%) Nutanix
9 25 (1.59%) GitHub
9 25 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 24 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
12 22 (1.40%) Power Platform
13 20 (1.28%) Google Workspace
14 16 (1.02%) Mimecast
15 9 (0.57%) Serverless
16 6 (0.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 6 (0.38%) OCI
17 5 (0.32%) Datadog
17 5 (0.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 280 (17.86%) Internet
2 106 (6.76%) Firewall
3 75 (4.78%) Network Security
4 29 (1.85%) Broadband
5 28 (1.79%) VPN
6 26 (1.66%) CHAP
7 21 (1.34%) WAN
8 18 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 15 (0.96%) DNS
10 14 (0.89%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.89%) Wireless
11 11 (0.70%) LAN
12 10 (0.64%) VLAN
13 9 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.57%) Kerberos
13 9 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.51%) DHCP
14 8 (0.51%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (1.40%) Power BI
2 18 (1.15%) Tableau
3 17 (1.08%) Big Data
4 11 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.19%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.19%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.13%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.13%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.13%) Impala
9 2 (0.13%) Metadata
9 2 (0.13%) MySQL
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.064%) MS Access
10 1 (0.064%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (1.53%) Git
2 22 (1.40%) GitLab
3 8 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.26%) MLflow
5 3 (0.19%) JIRA
6 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.064%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.064%) JMeter
7 1 (0.064%) Locust
General
1 638 (40.69%) Social Skills
2 380 (24.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 364 (23.21%) Banking
4 277 (17.67%) Finance
5 175 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (5.68%) Retail
7 76 (4.85%) Legal
8 66 (4.21%) Law
9 41 (2.61%) Marketing
9 41 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 40 (2.55%) Local Government
11 38 (2.42%) Multimedia
12 36 (2.30%) Aviation
13 33 (2.10%) Financial Institution
14 32 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.53%) Games
17 22 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 212 (13.52%) Lecturer
2 162 (10.33%) Senior
3 127 (8.10%) Analyst
4 112 (7.14%) Architect
5 111 (7.08%) Consultant
6 105 (6.70%) Security Analyst
7 98 (6.25%) Security Engineer
8 93 (5.93%) Lead
9 83 (5.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 72 (4.59%) Security Manager
11 64 (4.08%) Security Architect
12 58 (3.70%) Account Manager
13 52 (3.32%) Developer
14 48 (3.06%) Trainee
15 46 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 45 (2.87%) IT Manager
17 40 (2.55%) Security Consultant
18 39 (2.49%) Senior Consultant
19 33 (2.10%) Security Specialist
20 32 (2.04%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.42%) REST
2 34 (2.17%) OAuth
3 33 (2.10%) SAML
4 32 (2.04%) OpenID
5 30 (1.91%) CSS
6 28 (1.79%) LDAP
7 27 (1.72%) HTML
8 24 (1.53%) SOAP
9 18 (1.15%) GraphQL
9 18 (1.15%) React
10 15 (0.96%) SailPoint
11 13 (0.83%) FastAPI
12 12 (0.77%) RESTful
13 7 (0.45%) Kafka
14 6 (0.38%) LangChain
14 6 (0.38%) Node.js
14 6 (0.38%) PySpark
14 6 (0.38%) Web Services
15 5 (0.32%) TensorFlow
15 5 (0.32%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 268 (17.09%) IoT
2 136 (8.67%) Security Posture
3 89 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 74 (4.72%) Cyber Threat
5 59 (3.76%) Cyber Defence
6 44 (2.81%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.81%) Cyberattack
7 40 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
8 35 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (2.04%) Operational Technology
10 31 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.79%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.08%) Blog
16 17 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
17 14 (0.89%) Mobile App
18 13 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.57%) Windows
2 72 (4.59%) Linux
3 44 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.89%) Android
6 13 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.38%) CentOS
9 6 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.38%) Unix
10 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (22.51%) AI
2 291 (18.56%) Machine Learning
3 268 (17.09%) User Experience
4 266 (16.96%) Web Development
5 248 (15.82%) Information Security
6 230 (14.67%) Incident Response
7 217 (13.84%) Risk Management
8 210 (13.39%) Mentoring
9 165 (10.52%) Cloud Security
10 162 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
11 150 (9.57%) Agile
12 130 (8.29%) Vulnerability Management
13 127 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (7.72%) Roadmaps
15 115 (7.33%) Project Management
16 107 (6.82%) Security Operations
16 107 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 103 (6.57%) SIEM
18 89 (5.68%) Computer Science
18 89 (5.68%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 166 (10.59%) Python
2 126 (8.04%) PowerShell
3 52 (3.32%) SQL
4 43 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 34 (2.17%) Bash
6 25 (1.59%) C++
7 20 (1.28%) Java
8 18 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.08%) R
10 11 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.57%) Go
12 5 (0.32%) C#
13 4 (0.26%) C
14 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.13%) Bicep
15 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.13%) Perl
16 1 (0.064%) Rust
Qualifications
1 451 (28.76%) Degree
2 302 (19.26%) Master's Degree
3 254 (16.20%) PhD
3 254 (16.20%) Postgraduate
4 242 (15.43%) CISSP
5 152 (9.69%) CISM
6 88 (5.61%) CISA
7 82 (5.23%) Security Cleared
8 69 (4.40%) Azure Certification
9 64 (4.08%) CEH
9 64 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
10 56 (3.57%) SC Cleared
11 48 (3.06%) CRISC
12 46 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (2.87%) CompTIA CySA+
14 43 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
14 43 (2.74%) SANS
15 38 (2.42%) GIAC
16 37 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
17 36 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (17.54%) NIST
2 228 (14.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (8.29%) GDPR
4 74 (4.72%) GRC
5 69 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 68 (4.34%) QA
7 58 (3.70%) PCI DSS
8 45 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (2.42%) COBIT
9 38 (2.42%) NCSC
10 37 (2.36%) NIST 800
11 17 (1.08%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.89%) ISO 22301
12 14 (0.89%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 7 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 89 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.28%) Docker
4 13 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.64%) IAG
6 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.32%) vSphere
8 3 (0.19%) Firmware
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (2.68%) Terraform
2 33 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.89%) Ansible
6 11 (0.70%) SCCM
7 9 (0.57%) CASB
7 9 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.45%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.45%) VxRail
9 5 (0.32%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.26%) Argo
10 4 (0.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.13%) Grafana
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.064%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 261 (16.65%) Microsoft
2 46 (2.93%) VMware
3 40 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
4 36 (2.30%) ForeScout
5 32 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 30 (1.91%) Splunk
7 28 (1.79%) CyberArk
8 27 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.53%) Cisco
9 24 (1.53%) Google
10 23 (1.47%) Dell
11 21 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 15 (0.96%) Commvault
13 12 (0.77%) Oracle
14 11 (0.70%) Okta
14 11 (0.70%) SAP
15 9 (0.57%) Rapid7
15 9 (0.57%) Sophos
15 9 (0.57%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.51%) Red Hat