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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 39 34
Rank change year-on-year +22 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,435 921 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs in London 9.00% 6.31% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 6.59% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 644 512 1,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £48,550 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,938 £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 13,729 13,977 19,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.15% 95.81% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,879 7,752 15,593
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,893 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £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 25 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 25 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 +12 198 £70,000 +7.69% 84
South London +49 179 £50,000 -23.08% 5
West London +28 167 £47,000 -18.50% 38
East London +22 102 £105,000 +84.21% 29
North London +19 36 £65,000 - 12
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 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.32%) 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 42 (2.93%) Maya
2 25 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.98%) 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 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.56%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.42%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.35%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FS
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
5 5 (0.35%) SAP IS-U
6 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.28%) Endur
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 (28.64%) Cloud Computing
2 320 (22.30%) Azure
3 205 (14.29%) AWS
4 92 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (5.02%) Entra ID
6 56 (3.90%) GCP
7 33 (2.30%) GitHub
8 32 (2.23%) Power Platform
9 29 (2.02%) Nutanix
10 28 (1.95%) SaaS
11 22 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 22 (1.53%) Google Workspace
12 20 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (1.39%) PaaS
13 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 14 (0.98%) IaaS
15 13 (0.91%) OCI
15 13 (0.91%) Serverless
16 11 (0.77%) Mimecast
17 10 (0.70%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 408 (28.43%) Internet
2 96 (6.69%) Firewall
3 50 (3.48%) Network Security
4 31 (2.16%) VPN
4 31 (2.16%) WAN
5 21 (1.46%) Broadband
5 21 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 19 (1.32%) DNS
7 18 (1.25%) CHAP
7 18 (1.25%) LAN
8 16 (1.11%) DHCP
9 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.98%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.98%) Wireless
11 11 (0.77%) VLAN
12 10 (0.70%) VoIP
13 7 (0.49%) SAN
13 7 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.16%) Power BI
2 30 (2.09%) Tableau
3 27 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.25%) Big Data
5 12 (0.84%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.77%) Metadata
7 10 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.70%) SAP BW
8 9 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.35%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.14%) Impala
13 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
1 713 (49.69%) Social Skills
2 504 (35.12%) Banking
3 456 (31.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 332 (23.14%) Finance
5 169 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
6 102 (7.11%) Law
7 101 (7.04%) Legal
8 76 (5.30%) Retail
9 60 (4.18%) Games
10 57 (3.97%) Public Sector
11 52 (3.62%) Marketing
11 52 (3.62%) Multimedia
12 43 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 30 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.88%) Local Government
17 22 (1.53%) Telecoms
18 20 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (1.11%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 325 (22.65%) Lecturer
2 164 (11.43%) Senior
3 98 (6.83%) Architect
3 98 (6.83%) Consultant
4 93 (6.48%) Analyst
5 84 (5.85%) Lead
6 70 (4.88%) Security Analyst
7 65 (4.53%) Security Engineer
8 52 (3.62%) Trainee
9 48 (3.34%) Security Manager
10 47 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 45 (3.14%) IT Manager
12 44 (3.07%) Security Architect
13 42 (2.93%) Account Manager
13 42 (2.93%) Senior Consultant
14 41 (2.86%) Developer
15 36 (2.51%) Security Specialist
16 34 (2.37%) Security Consultant
17 33 (2.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 29 (2.02%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.86%) CSS
2 37 (2.58%) HTML
3 29 (2.02%) REST
4 24 (1.67%) OAuth
5 23 (1.60%) SAML
6 22 (1.53%) OpenID
7 21 (1.46%) LDAP
8 18 (1.25%) GraphQL
8 18 (1.25%) SOAP
9 17 (1.18%) 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 (27.60%) IoT
2 97 (6.76%) Security Posture
3 84 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
4 73 (5.09%) Management Information System
5 62 (4.32%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (3.28%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.37%) Cyberattack
8 34 (2.37%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.23%) Blockchain
10 29 (2.02%) Cyber Defence
11 27 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
14 14 (0.98%) Mobile App
14 14 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.55%) Windows
2 61 (4.25%) Linux
3 35 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.81%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.53%) Android
6 12 (0.84%) Unix
7 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.070%) Solaris
10 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.070%) VMS
10 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (34.63%) AI
2 415 (28.92%) Machine Learning
3 392 (27.32%) Web Development
4 389 (27.11%) User Experience
5 220 (15.33%) Risk Management
6 190 (13.24%) Incident Response
7 189 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
8 186 (12.96%) Information Security
9 180 (12.54%) Mentoring
10 130 (9.06%) Agile
11 128 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (8.78%) Roadmaps
13 116 (8.08%) Cloud Security
14 109 (7.60%) Analytics
15 100 (6.97%) Project Management
16 92 (6.41%) SIEM
16 92 (6.41%) Vulnerability Management
17 88 (6.13%) Computer Science
18 82 (5.71%) Data Protection
19 81 (5.64%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 139 (9.69%) Python
2 101 (7.04%) PowerShell
3 52 (3.62%) JavaScript
4 50 (3.48%) SQL
5 27 (1.88%) Bash
6 25 (1.74%) R
7 24 (1.67%) C++
8 18 (1.25%) 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
1 576 (40.14%) Degree
2 411 (28.64%) Master's Degree
3 378 (26.34%) PhD
4 374 (26.06%) Postgraduate
5 208 (14.49%) CISSP
6 141 (9.83%) CISM
7 92 (6.41%) CISA
8 63 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (3.97%) Azure Certification
10 50 (3.48%) CEH
11 46 (3.21%) CRISC
12 45 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 43 (3.00%) AWS Certification
13 43 (3.00%) Security Cleared
14 41 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
15 33 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 30 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
17 29 (2.02%) SANS
18 27 (1.88%) CompTIA CySA+
18 27 (1.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (15.33%) NIST
2 205 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 122 (8.50%) GDPR
4 60 (4.18%) GRC
5 58 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 42 (2.93%) QA
7 40 (2.79%) PCI DSS
8 38 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (2.37%) NCSC
10 33 (2.30%) COBIT
11 26 (1.81%) NIST 800
12 15 (1.05%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.91%) Data Quality
14 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.49%) SLA
18 5 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 76 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.46%) 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 35 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.46%) Ansible
5 16 (1.11%) 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%) QRadar
Vendors
1 245 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.07%) VMware
3 41 (2.86%) Oracle
4 33 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
5 30 (2.09%) SAP
6 29 (2.02%) Palo Alto
7 27 (1.88%) Dell
8 26 (1.81%) Fortinet
9 25 (1.74%) Google
10 24 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.25%) Commvault
11 18 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.11%) Cisco
12 16 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 15 (1.05%) ForeScout
14 13 (0.91%) Adobe
14 13 (0.91%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.91%) Splunk
15 10 (0.70%) Xero
16 9 (0.63%) YouTube