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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 44 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,386 783 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.23% 6.24% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 6.58% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 910 475 894
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,590 £41,678
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £94,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -8.34%

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 18,314 11,902 20,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.37% 94.85% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,537 7,392 15,118
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +35 217 £70,000 -6.67% 85
West London +13 84 £69,119 -23.20% 51
South London +30 34 £50,000 -31.03% 16
East London +13 32 £87,500 -2.78% 33
North London +17 21 £60,000 +9.09% 10
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 35 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.36%) Apache
3 5 (0.36%) SAS
4 3 (0.22%) CMS
4 3 (0.22%) Confluence
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.072%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.072%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.072%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.072%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 299 (21.57%) Azure
2 164 (11.83%) AWS
3 128 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (8.08%) Entra ID
5 83 (5.99%) SaaS
6 62 (4.47%) GCP
7 30 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (1.44%) Power Platform
10 18 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (1.30%) Mimecast
11 17 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (1.15%) Google Workspace
13 12 (0.87%) Serverless
14 11 (0.79%) Nutanix
15 10 (0.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (0.65%) GitHub
17 7 (0.51%) WeChat
18 6 (0.43%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 127 (9.16%) Firewall
2 92 (6.64%) Network Security
3 40 (2.89%) VPN
4 28 (2.02%) Internet
5 24 (1.73%) Broadband
5 24 (1.73%) WAN
6 22 (1.59%) DNS
7 20 (1.44%) LAN
8 19 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 19 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.23%) Kerberos
9 17 (1.23%) Wireless
10 15 (1.08%) VLAN
11 13 (0.94%) DHCP
12 12 (0.87%) CHAP
12 12 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.65%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.51%) BGP
14 7 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.23%) Power BI
2 9 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.58%) Tableau
4 6 (0.43%) Big Data
4 6 (0.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.14%) MySQL
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.072%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.072%) Flink
8 1 (0.072%) GIS
8 1 (0.072%) Metadata
8 1 (0.072%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 20 (1.44%) GitLab
2 12 (0.87%) JIRA
3 9 (0.65%) Git
4 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.072%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.072%) Locust
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
General
1 411 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 259 (18.69%) Finance
3 169 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (7.07%) Banking
6 83 (5.99%) Retail
7 76 (5.48%) Legal
8 69 (4.98%) Law
9 47 (3.39%) Public Sector
10 43 (3.10%) Marketing
11 35 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (2.53%) Local Government
11 35 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.31%) Aviation
13 30 (2.16%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.59%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.08%) Advertising
15 15 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.01%) Back Office
17 12 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 159 (11.47%) Senior
2 142 (10.25%) Analyst
3 135 (9.74%) Consultant
4 122 (8.80%) Security Analyst
5 119 (8.59%) Architect
6 117 (8.44%) Lead
7 97 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 95 (6.85%) Security Engineer
9 73 (5.27%) Security Manager
10 66 (4.76%) Security Architect
11 57 (4.11%) Security Consultant
12 45 (3.25%) Security Specialist
13 44 (3.17%) IT Manager
14 43 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 41 (2.96%) Account Manager
16 38 (2.74%) Developer
17 34 (2.45%) Senior Consultant
18 32 (2.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 32 (2.31%) Sales Representative
18 32 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.89%) OpenID
1 40 (2.89%) SAML
2 36 (2.60%) OAuth
2 36 (2.60%) REST
3 30 (2.16%) LDAP
4 18 (1.30%) SOAP
5 17 (1.23%) SailPoint
6 14 (1.01%) FastAPI
7 12 (0.87%) GraphQL
7 12 (0.87%) RESTful
8 10 (0.72%) Kafka
9 9 (0.65%) React
10 8 (0.58%) .NET
11 6 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.43%) HTML
11 6 (0.43%) Web Services
12 5 (0.36%) CSS
12 5 (0.36%) web3js
13 4 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 150 (10.82%) Security Posture
2 94 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 75 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
4 56 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 55 (3.97%) Cyber Defence
6 46 (3.32%) Operational Technology
7 45 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 42 (3.03%) Cyberattack
9 40 (2.89%) Security Operations Centre
10 37 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 22 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.15%) Blog
14 16 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
15 15 (1.08%) AI Agents
16 14 (1.01%) Product Ownership
16 14 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.94%) Blockchain
18 11 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 109 (7.86%) Windows
2 69 (4.98%) Linux
3 49 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.72%) Android
7 9 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.43%) CentOS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.36%) Unix
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (19.62%) Information Security
2 248 (17.89%) Incident Response
3 229 (16.52%) Risk Management
4 196 (14.14%) Cloud Security
5 184 (13.28%) Mentoring
6 176 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 171 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (11.33%) Vulnerability Management
9 150 (10.82%) Security Operations
9 150 (10.82%) SIEM
10 146 (10.53%) Agile
11 130 (9.38%) Roadmaps
12 119 (8.59%) AI
13 117 (8.44%) Identity Access Management
14 115 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 114 (8.23%) Decision-Making
16 101 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 100 (7.22%) Computer Science
18 99 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
18 99 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 146 (10.53%) Python
2 117 (8.44%) PowerShell
3 38 (2.74%) SQL
4 25 (1.80%) Bash
5 24 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.66%) Java
7 18 (1.30%) C++
7 18 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.79%) Go
10 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.36%) C#
12 4 (0.29%) Rust
13 2 (0.14%) Bicep
13 2 (0.14%) C
13 2 (0.14%) R
13 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.072%) PHP
14 1 (0.072%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 253 (18.25%) CISSP
2 194 (14.00%) Degree
3 157 (11.33%) CISM
4 125 (9.02%) Security Cleared
5 78 (5.63%) SC Cleared
6 75 (5.41%) CISA
7 64 (4.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 57 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (4.11%) CRISC
9 54 (3.90%) CEH
10 52 (3.75%) Azure Certification
11 50 (3.61%) GIAC
12 49 (3.54%) Master's Degree
13 48 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 43 (3.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 39 (2.81%) DV Cleared
16 38 (2.74%) CompTIA CySA+
17 36 (2.60%) CCSP
18 34 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
19 32 (2.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (20.63%) NIST
2 253 (18.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 152 (10.97%) GDPR
4 85 (6.13%) GRC
5 82 (5.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 70 (5.05%) QA
7 64 (4.62%) PCI DSS
8 44 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 40 (2.89%) NIST 800
10 31 (2.24%) SOC 2
11 28 (2.02%) COBIT
12 25 (1.80%) NCSC
13 20 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (1.37%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.94%) ISO 22301
15 13 (0.94%) SLA
16 9 (0.65%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 8 (0.58%) SOC 1
18 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
System Software
1 106 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.01%) Docker
4 14 (1.01%) IAG
5 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.14%) Firmware
7 2 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (2.96%) Terraform
2 38 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (1.01%) Ansible
5 10 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 8 (0.58%) SCCM
7 7 (0.51%) RSA Archer
8 6 (0.43%) VxRail
9 5 (0.36%) Grafana
10 4 (0.29%) Argo
10 4 (0.29%) Nessus
10 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.22%) Nmap
11 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 288 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 49 (3.54%) VMware
3 44 (3.17%) Splunk
4 41 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
5 38 (2.74%) Palo Alto
6 35 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 31 (2.24%) Cisco
7 31 (2.24%) ForeScout
8 28 (2.02%) CyberArk
8 28 (2.02%) Google
9 21 (1.52%) Fortinet
10 17 (1.23%) Dell
10 17 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.23%) Tenable
11 16 (1.15%) Qualys
12 14 (1.01%) CheckPoint
12 14 (1.01%) Okta
12 14 (1.01%) Rapid7
13 13 (0.94%) Zscaler
14 12 (0.87%) iManage