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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,466 790 1,060
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.16% 6.51% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 6.90% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 982 466 658
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,750 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -3.04% +5.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,375 £110,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 19,490 11,442 17,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.87% 94.29% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,139 7,230 11,761
10th Percentile £40,807 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +29 188 £71,850 -4.20% 103
West London +2 89 £50,000 -47.37% 64
South London +17 37 £50,000 +4.17% 24
East London -3 25 £87,500 -2.78% 28
North London +9 15 £60,000 +9.09% 13
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 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.48%) Confluence
4 6 (0.41%) SAS
5 5 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) CMS
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.068%) Eikon
3 1 (0.068%) Maximo
3 1 (0.068%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 294 (20.05%) Azure
2 192 (13.10%) AWS
3 131 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (7.71%) Entra ID
5 94 (6.41%) SaaS
6 70 (4.77%) GCP
7 34 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (1.57%) Mimecast
10 17 (1.16%) Power Platform
11 12 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (0.82%) GitHub
11 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.75%) Nutanix
13 10 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.68%) Serverless
13 10 (0.68%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 131 (8.94%) Firewall
2 94 (6.41%) Network Security
3 46 (3.14%) VPN
4 32 (2.18%) Internet
4 32 (2.18%) WAN
5 30 (2.05%) DNS
6 28 (1.91%) LAN
7 24 (1.64%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.36%) VLAN
9 19 (1.30%) Kerberos
10 16 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
10 16 (1.09%) Wireless
11 15 (1.02%) DHCP
12 14 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (0.82%) Broadband
13 12 (0.82%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.61%) OSPF
15 8 (0.55%) CHAP
15 8 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (0.89%) Power BI
2 12 (0.82%) SQL Server
3 11 (0.75%) Big Data
4 8 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.41%) Tableau
6 5 (0.34%) Metadata
7 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.14%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.068%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.068%) GIS
10 1 (0.068%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (1.16%) GitLab
1 17 (1.16%) JIRA
2 13 (0.89%) Git
3 11 (0.75%) Burp Suite
3 11 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.48%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.14%) git-flow
6 2 (0.14%) JMeter
6 2 (0.14%) Snyk
6 2 (0.14%) Xcode
6 2 (0.14%) XCTest
6 2 (0.14%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.068%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.068%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.068%) Locust
7 1 (0.068%) Vite
7 1 (0.068%) webpack
7 1 (0.068%) Yeoman
General
1 443 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 259 (17.67%) Finance
3 185 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (6.34%) Banking
6 82 (5.59%) Law
7 77 (5.25%) Legal
8 71 (4.84%) Retail
9 70 (4.77%) Public Sector
10 51 (3.48%) Marketing
11 48 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.86%) Telecoms
13 36 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.18%) Local Government
15 27 (1.84%) Aviation
16 26 (1.77%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.95%) Back Office
18 14 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
19 12 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 154 (10.50%) Senior
2 153 (10.44%) Consultant
3 148 (10.10%) Lead
4 136 (9.28%) Analyst
5 130 (8.87%) Architect
6 114 (7.78%) Security Analyst
7 92 (6.28%) Security Engineer
8 87 (5.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 77 (5.25%) Security Architect
9 77 (5.25%) Security Manager
10 66 (4.50%) Security Consultant
11 46 (3.14%) Account Manager
12 43 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 43 (2.93%) IT Manager
12 43 (2.93%) Security Specialist
13 41 (2.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 36 (2.46%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 35 (2.39%) Business Manager
16 33 (2.25%) Software Engineer
17 32 (2.18%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.25%) OpenID
1 33 (2.25%) SAML
2 29 (1.98%) OAuth
3 25 (1.71%) REST
4 23 (1.57%) LDAP
5 17 (1.16%) SailPoint
6 13 (0.89%) FastAPI
6 13 (0.89%) RESTful
7 11 (0.75%) .NET
7 11 (0.75%) Kafka
8 8 (0.55%) React
8 8 (0.55%) SOAP
8 8 (0.55%) Web Services
9 7 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (0.41%) HTML
11 5 (0.34%) CSS
11 5 (0.34%) Node.js
12 4 (0.27%) TensorFlow
12 4 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.62%) Security Posture
2 112 (7.64%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.32%) Cyber Threat
4 63 (4.30%) Onboarding
5 56 (3.82%) Cloud Native
6 50 (3.41%) Cyber Defence
6 50 (3.41%) Operational Technology
7 37 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.98%) Security Operations Centre
10 27 (1.84%) Cyberattack
10 27 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.16%) Blog
12 17 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 17 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.89%) Driving Licence
13 13 (0.89%) PKI
14 11 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.03%) Windows
2 66 (4.50%) Linux
3 51 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.61%) Android
6 9 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.41%) CentOS
10 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Unix
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (19.17%) Information Security
2 243 (16.58%) Incident Response
3 242 (16.51%) Risk Management
4 206 (14.05%) Cloud Security
5 191 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 191 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (11.32%) Mentoring
6 166 (11.32%) Vulnerability Management
7 157 (10.71%) Security Operations
8 153 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 152 (10.37%) SIEM
10 147 (10.03%) AI
11 145 (9.89%) Agile
12 139 (9.48%) Decision-Making
13 138 (9.41%) Roadmaps
14 119 (8.12%) Identity Access Management
15 114 (7.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 107 (7.30%) Data Protection
16 107 (7.30%) Penetration Testing
17 105 (7.16%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 139 (9.48%) Python
2 98 (6.68%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.84%) SQL
4 25 (1.71%) Java
5 21 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 15 (1.02%) Bash
8 10 (0.68%) Go
9 9 (0.61%) C++
10 8 (0.55%) C#
11 4 (0.27%) Rust
11 4 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.14%) Bicep
13 2 (0.14%) R
13 2 (0.14%) Scala
13 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.14%) Swift
13 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.068%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 260 (17.74%) CISSP
2 211 (14.39%) Degree
3 161 (10.98%) CISM
4 157 (10.71%) Security Cleared
5 96 (6.55%) SC Cleared
6 69 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
7 66 (4.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 63 (4.30%) CISA
9 61 (4.16%) Master's Degree
10 55 (3.75%) CRISC
11 54 (3.68%) Azure Certification
12 49 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 48 (3.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 48 (3.27%) CEH
14 42 (2.86%) CCSP
14 42 (2.86%) GIAC
15 35 (2.39%) DV Cleared
16 31 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (1.71%) CompTIA CySA+
17 25 (1.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (18.76%) NIST
2 255 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 158 (10.78%) GDPR
4 91 (6.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 87 (5.93%) GRC
6 69 (4.71%) PCI DSS
7 57 (3.89%) QA
8 45 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (2.46%) SOC 2
10 29 (1.98%) COBIT
10 29 (1.98%) NCSC
10 29 (1.98%) NIST 800
11 21 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (1.36%) Accessibility
13 13 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 13 (0.89%) SLA
14 11 (0.75%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.68%) PMO
16 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 100 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.23%) Docker
4 16 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.95%) IAG
6 7 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.27%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (2.46%) Terraform
2 35 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (2.11%) Kubernetes
5 17 (1.16%) Ansible
6 11 (0.75%) Nessus
7 7 (0.48%) Nmap
8 5 (0.34%) CASB
8 5 (0.34%) Grafana
8 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.34%) SCCM
8 5 (0.34%) VxRail
9 4 (0.27%) Argo
9 4 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.20%) QRadar
10 3 (0.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 305 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.55%) Cisco
3 51 (3.48%) Palo Alto
4 50 (3.41%) VMware
5 46 (3.14%) CrowdStrike
6 44 (3.00%) Splunk
7 36 (2.46%) Google
7 36 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.25%) CyberArk
9 26 (1.77%) Rapid7
10 25 (1.71%) ForeScout
10 25 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.57%) Tenable
12 22 (1.50%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.23%) Okta
13 18 (1.23%) Qualys
14 17 (1.16%) Dell
15 15 (1.02%) SAP
16 14 (0.95%) Meraki
16 14 (0.95%) Zscaler