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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,093 1,029 945
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.53% 5.92% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 6.54% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 503 549 788
10th Percentile £31,250 £48,361 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,250 £117,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 11,836 15,734 18,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.34% 90.50% 93.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7,426 9,286 14,659
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -6 124 £75,000 +14.07% 264
West London +27 116 £47,000 -43.03% 57
South London +34 110 £46,000 -36.55% 24
East London +10 67 £105,000 +84.21% 37
North London +6 18 £32,500 -50.00% 17
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 28 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.73%) CMS
4 6 (0.55%) Apache
4 6 (0.55%) Confluence
5 5 (0.46%) nginx
6 4 (0.37%) Traefik
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (4.57%) Maya
2 25 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.37%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.37%) Sketch
7 3 (0.27%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.091%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.74%) SAP IBP
3 16 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (1.19%) SAP CO
4 13 (1.19%) SAP FI
4 13 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 13 (1.19%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (1.01%) SAP IS-U
6 8 (0.73%) SAP FS
7 6 (0.55%) Exchequer
8 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.27%) Endur
9 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.27%) Yoast SEO
10 2 (0.18%) SAP CX
11 1 (0.091%) Fidessa
11 1 (0.091%) Pegasus Opera
11 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 289 (26.44%) Cloud Computing
2 234 (21.41%) Azure
3 177 (16.19%) AWS
4 89 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (4.85%) GCP
6 48 (4.39%) Power Platform
7 40 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 34 (3.11%) PaaS
9 33 (3.02%) SaaS
10 31 (2.84%) Serverless
11 25 (2.29%) IaaS
12 24 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (2.20%) GitHub
13 16 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.10%) Boomi
15 12 (1.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 11 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 273 (24.98%) Internet
2 92 (8.42%) Firewall
3 45 (4.12%) VPN
4 32 (2.93%) Network Security
4 32 (2.93%) WAN
5 27 (2.47%) Intrusion Detection
6 25 (2.29%) DNS
6 25 (2.29%) LAN
6 25 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 24 (2.20%) DHCP
8 16 (1.46%) VoIP
9 14 (1.28%) VLAN
10 11 (1.01%) Wireshark
11 7 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.55%) Modbus
12 6 (0.55%) SSL
12 6 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.55%) Wireless
13 5 (0.46%) IP Telephony
13 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.66%) Power BI
2 31 (2.84%) Tableau
3 29 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 28 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.83%) SAP BW
6 18 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.01%) Big Data
9 10 (0.91%) Metadata
9 10 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.73%) MySQL
12 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (2.74%) Git
2 14 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.10%) JIRA
4 8 (0.73%) GitLab
5 5 (0.46%) IntelliJ
6 4 (0.37%) git-flow
6 4 (0.37%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.091%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.091%) JMeter
8 1 (0.091%) JUnit
8 1 (0.091%) Locust
8 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
General
1 619 (56.63%) Social Skills
2 389 (35.59%) Banking
3 376 (34.40%) Finance
4 336 (30.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 205 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
6 147 (13.45%) Law
7 84 (7.69%) Marketing
8 80 (7.32%) Legal
9 70 (6.40%) Games
10 50 (4.57%) Retail
11 44 (4.03%) Public Sector
12 43 (3.93%) Telecoms
13 42 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (3.48%) Manufacturing
15 36 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (2.38%) Dutch Language
17 26 (2.38%) French Language
18 25 (2.29%) Financial Institution
19 21 (1.92%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 220 (20.13%) Lecturer
2 130 (11.89%) Senior
3 112 (10.25%) Lead
4 97 (8.87%) Analyst
5 79 (7.23%) Architect
6 62 (5.67%) IT Manager
7 60 (5.49%) Consultant
8 53 (4.85%) Security Analyst
9 51 (4.67%) Security Engineer
10 40 (3.66%) IT Support
11 38 (3.48%) IT Architect
12 33 (3.02%) Senior Consultant
13 29 (2.65%) Senior Architect
14 28 (2.56%) Software Engineer
15 26 (2.38%) Operations Manager
16 25 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 23 (2.10%) Support Analyst
18 22 (2.01%) Developer
18 22 (2.01%) Senior Manager
19 21 (1.92%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.65%) React
2 27 (2.47%) CSS
2 27 (2.47%) REST
3 26 (2.38%) HTML
4 19 (1.74%) RESTful
5 16 (1.46%) Kafka
5 16 (1.46%) Vue
5 16 (1.46%) YAML
6 15 (1.37%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.82%) Middleware
8 8 (0.73%) .NET
9 7 (0.64%) Pandas
9 7 (0.64%) PyTorch
9 7 (0.64%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.55%) jQuery
10 6 (0.55%) OAuth
10 6 (0.55%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.46%) EDI
11 5 (0.46%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 268 (24.52%) IoT
2 97 (8.87%) Enterprise Software
3 91 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 67 (6.13%) Security Posture
5 49 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
6 45 (4.12%) Cloud Native
7 33 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 33 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (2.20%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.83%) CCTV
10 20 (1.83%) Cyberattack
10 20 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 17 (1.56%) Blockchain
13 15 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.37%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.28%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.69%) Windows
2 59 (5.40%) Linux
3 26 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.29%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.65%) Android
6 16 (1.46%) Unix
6 16 (1.46%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.55%) VMS
10 5 (0.46%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.091%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.091%) Solaris
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (34.77%) AI
2 317 (29.00%) Machine Learning
3 281 (25.71%) User Experience
4 268 (24.52%) Web Development
5 241 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
6 209 (19.12%) Risk Management
7 167 (15.28%) Incident Response
8 145 (13.27%) Information Security
9 143 (13.08%) Agile
10 134 (12.26%) Analytics
11 121 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (10.89%) Project Management
13 114 (10.43%) Mentoring
14 107 (9.79%) Roadmaps
15 103 (9.42%) DevOps
16 98 (8.97%) Computer Science
17 92 (8.42%) SIEM
18 91 (8.33%) Business Strategy
19 85 (7.78%) Vulnerability Management
20 83 (7.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 103 (9.42%) Python
2 65 (5.95%) PowerShell
3 46 (4.21%) SQL
4 40 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 32 (2.93%) Java
6 20 (1.83%) Bash
7 15 (1.37%) R
8 10 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.82%) C#
9 9 (0.82%) Scala
10 8 (0.73%) Go
11 5 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.27%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) Perl
13 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.18%) Bicep
13 2 (0.18%) SOQL
13 2 (0.18%) SOSL
13 2 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 514 (47.03%) Degree
2 300 (27.45%) Master's Degree
3 262 (23.97%) PhD
4 257 (23.51%) Postgraduate
5 179 (16.38%) CISSP
6 120 (10.98%) CISM
7 77 (7.04%) CISA
8 60 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (4.48%) CRISC
10 43 (3.93%) PMI Certification
11 35 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (3.20%) PMP
12 30 (2.74%) Azure Certification
13 29 (2.65%) AWS Certification
13 29 (2.65%) CEH
14 23 (2.10%) Security Cleared
15 18 (1.65%) SC Cleared
16 17 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 16 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (17.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 183 (16.74%) NIST
3 122 (11.16%) GDPR
4 74 (6.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (5.12%) GRC
6 42 (3.84%) QA
7 36 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (2.65%) SOC 2
9 28 (2.56%) PCI DSS
10 24 (2.20%) COBIT
10 24 (2.20%) NCSC
11 21 (1.92%) NIST 800
12 15 (1.37%) Accessibility
13 14 (1.28%) Data Quality
13 14 (1.28%) SLA
14 13 (1.19%) SOC 1
15 12 (1.10%) ITGC
16 8 (0.73%) IFRS 17
16 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 8 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.56%) Docker
3 26 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.091%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (3.75%) Terraform
2 37 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (3.20%) Kubernetes
4 23 (2.10%) Ansible
5 18 (1.65%) RSA Archer
6 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.73%) Nessus
7 8 (0.73%) QRadar
7 8 (0.73%) SCCM
8 7 (0.64%) Grafana
8 7 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.55%) Autotask
9 6 (0.55%) PaperCut
9 6 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.46%) CASB
10 5 (0.46%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.46%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 236 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.67%) SAP
3 50 (4.57%) Oracle
4 36 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.20%) VMware
6 31 (2.84%) Palo Alto
7 28 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
8 24 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 24 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.20%) Splunk
9 20 (1.83%) Adobe
10 15 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.19%) Cisco
12 12 (1.10%) Dell
13 10 (0.91%) Duck Creek
13 10 (0.91%) Guidewire
13 10 (0.91%) Qualys
13 10 (0.91%) Sophos
13 10 (0.91%) Xero
14 9 (0.82%) CyberArk