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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,392 779 1,140
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.10% 6.33% 5.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 6.70% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 922 470 742
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,700 £41,325
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% -6.64%

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 18,788 11,631 18,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.47% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12,806 7,382 12,961
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 26 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 26 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 +31 195 £70,500 -6.00% 86
West London +6 89 £50,703 -46.63% 50
South London +15 31 £50,000 -31.03% 18
East London -1 27 £87,500 -2.78% 25
North London +14 17 £60,000 +9.09% 8
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 34 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.43%) SAS
4 5 (0.36%) Apache
4 5 (0.36%) Confluence
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.072%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.072%) IIS
6 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.072%) Maya
5 1 (0.072%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.072%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.072%) Eikon
3 1 (0.072%) Maximo
3 1 (0.072%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 300 (21.55%) Azure
2 174 (12.50%) AWS
3 124 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
4 109 (7.83%) Entra ID
5 86 (6.18%) SaaS
6 66 (4.74%) GCP
7 29 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (1.44%) Mimecast
11 19 (1.36%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (0.86%) Google Workspace
14 11 (0.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 11 (0.79%) Nutanix
14 11 (0.79%) Serverless
15 9 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (0.57%) GitHub
16 8 (0.57%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 128 (9.20%) Firewall
2 94 (6.75%) Network Security
3 43 (3.09%) VPN
4 31 (2.23%) Internet
5 24 (1.72%) DNS
6 23 (1.65%) WAN
7 20 (1.44%) Broadband
7 20 (1.44%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.36%) Kerberos
8 19 (1.36%) LAN
9 18 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
10 17 (1.22%) VLAN
10 17 (1.22%) Wireless
11 15 (1.08%) DHCP
12 12 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.72%) CHAP
15 9 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.57%) Wireshark
17 7 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.08%) Power BI
2 9 (0.65%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.65%) Tableau
3 7 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.43%) Big Data
5 4 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.22%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.22%) Metadata
7 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.14%) MySQL
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.072%) Flink
8 1 (0.072%) GIS
8 1 (0.072%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (1.36%) GitLab
2 16 (1.15%) JIRA
3 8 (0.57%) Burp Suite
3 8 (0.57%) Git
3 8 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.29%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.14%) JMeter
6 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.072%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.072%) Locust
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.072%) Snyk
6 1 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 409 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 246 (17.67%) Finance
3 167 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (6.61%) Banking
6 77 (5.53%) Legal
7 72 (5.17%) Retail
8 68 (4.89%) Law
9 54 (3.88%) Public Sector
10 43 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (3.02%) Marketing
12 40 (2.87%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (2.23%) Local Government
15 28 (2.01%) Aviation
16 22 (1.58%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.08%) Advertising
18 14 (1.01%) Back Office
18 14 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 157 (11.28%) Senior
2 151 (10.85%) Consultant
3 140 (10.06%) Analyst
4 123 (8.84%) Lead
5 120 (8.62%) Security Analyst
6 116 (8.33%) Architect
7 94 (6.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 93 (6.68%) Security Engineer
9 70 (5.03%) Security Consultant
10 69 (4.96%) Security Manager
11 65 (4.67%) Security Architect
12 46 (3.30%) Security Specialist
13 45 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 41 (2.95%) Account Manager
15 40 (2.87%) IT Manager
16 35 (2.51%) Developer
17 34 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 34 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 33 (2.37%) Senior Consultant
19 30 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.80%) OpenID
1 39 (2.80%) SAML
2 35 (2.51%) OAuth
3 31 (2.23%) REST
4 28 (2.01%) LDAP
5 18 (1.29%) SailPoint
6 14 (1.01%) FastAPI
6 14 (1.01%) SOAP
7 12 (0.86%) RESTful
8 11 (0.79%) Kafka
9 10 (0.72%) .NET
10 8 (0.57%) GraphQL
10 8 (0.57%) React
11 7 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (0.50%) Web Services
12 6 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (0.36%) HTML
13 5 (0.36%) web3js
14 4 (0.29%) CSS
14 4 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.20%) Security Posture
2 104 (7.47%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.60%) Cyber Threat
4 55 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 54 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
7 50 (3.59%) Operational Technology
8 39 (2.80%) Cyberattack
9 36 (2.59%) Security Operations Centre
10 35 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.51%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.08%) AI Agents
15 15 (1.08%) Blog
16 14 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
16 14 (1.01%) Product Ownership
17 12 (0.86%) Blockchain
17 12 (0.86%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 104 (7.47%) Windows
2 65 (4.67%) Linux
3 49 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 17 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.65%) Android
7 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.43%) CentOS
8 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.22%) Unix
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (18.97%) Information Security
2 243 (17.46%) Incident Response
3 227 (16.31%) Risk Management
4 199 (14.30%) Cloud Security
5 175 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 173 (12.43%) Mentoring
7 170 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (11.21%) Vulnerability Management
9 152 (10.92%) Security Operations
10 149 (10.70%) SIEM
11 138 (9.91%) Agile
12 133 (9.55%) Roadmaps
13 127 (9.12%) AI
14 126 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 121 (8.69%) Decision-Making
16 116 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
17 106 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 100 (7.18%) Computer Science
19 99 (7.11%) Disaster Recovery
20 97 (6.97%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 139 (9.99%) Python
2 106 (7.61%) PowerShell
3 33 (2.37%) SQL
4 21 (1.51%) Bash
4 21 (1.51%) Java
5 19 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (0.86%) C++
8 10 (0.72%) Go
9 8 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.50%) C#
11 4 (0.29%) Rust
11 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.14%) Bicep
12 2 (0.14%) R
12 2 (0.14%) Scala
12 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.072%) C
13 1 (0.072%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.072%) PHP
Qualifications
1 253 (18.18%) CISSP
2 194 (13.94%) Degree
3 154 (11.06%) CISM
4 140 (10.06%) Security Cleared
5 86 (6.18%) SC Cleared
6 68 (4.89%) CISA
7 67 (4.81%) CompTIA Security+
8 61 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
9 54 (3.88%) Azure Certification
10 53 (3.81%) Master's Degree
11 52 (3.74%) CEH
11 52 (3.74%) CRISC
12 48 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 48 (3.45%) GIAC
13 44 (3.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 38 (2.73%) CCSP
15 35 (2.51%) DV Cleared
16 33 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
17 30 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
18 27 (1.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (19.90%) NIST
2 244 (17.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 148 (10.63%) GDPR
4 83 (5.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 81 (5.82%) GRC
6 67 (4.81%) PCI DSS
7 60 (4.31%) QA
8 44 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (2.44%) SOC 2
10 31 (2.23%) NCSC
11 30 (2.16%) NIST 800
12 27 (1.94%) COBIT
13 20 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (1.29%) Accessibility
15 13 (0.93%) SLA
16 12 (0.86%) ISO 22301
16 12 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 9 (0.65%) HIPAA
18 8 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 100 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.15%) Docker
5 14 (1.01%) IAG
6 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.14%) vSphere
10 1 (0.072%) Firmware
10 1 (0.072%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 38 (2.73%) Terraform
2 35 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 15 (1.08%) Ansible
6 6 (0.43%) SCCM
6 6 (0.43%) VxRail
7 5 (0.36%) Grafana
7 5 (0.36%) Nessus
8 4 (0.29%) Argo
8 4 (0.29%) CASB
8 4 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.29%) Nmap
8 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 290 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.45%) VMware
3 45 (3.23%) Splunk
4 44 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
5 42 (3.02%) Palo Alto
6 36 (2.59%) Cisco
7 35 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.30%) CyberArk
9 31 (2.23%) Google
10 30 (2.16%) ForeScout
11 22 (1.58%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.29%) Tenable
13 17 (1.22%) Dell
13 17 (1.22%) Qualys
13 17 (1.22%) Rapid7
14 16 (1.15%) Okta
15 15 (1.08%) Sophos
15 15 (1.08%) Zscaler
16 14 (1.01%) CheckPoint