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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 41 36
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,498 837 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.64% 6.34% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.15% 6.58% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 687 513 1,073
10th Percentile £30,900 £47,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,379 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +1.21% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £89,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -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 14,758 12,721 20,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.13% 96.30% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9,600 7,541 15,867
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £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 £113,750 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +19 225 £70,000 +7.69% 110
West London +28 180 £47,000 -25.09% 26
South London +49 176 £50,000 -13.42% 6
East London +23 107 £96,250 +49.22% 26
North London +18 43 £60,000 -7.69% 9
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 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.53%) CMS
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.13%) Confluence
5 2 (0.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.067%) Apache
6 1 (0.067%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.067%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.067%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (1.87%) Maya
2 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.27%) Endur
2 4 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.20%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.20%) SAP FS
3 3 (0.20%) Yoast SEO
4 2 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.13%) Exchequer
4 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.067%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.067%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 407 (27.17%) Cloud Computing
2 334 (22.30%) Azure
3 214 (14.29%) AWS
4 91 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (4.87%) Entra ID
6 61 (4.07%) GCP
7 40 (2.67%) SaaS
8 32 (2.14%) GitHub
8 32 (2.14%) Nutanix
9 27 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
10 23 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (1.47%) Google Workspace
11 22 (1.47%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
12 16 (1.07%) PaaS
13 15 (1.00%) Mimecast
14 10 (0.67%) IaaS
14 10 (0.67%) OCI
15 9 (0.60%) Serverless
16 8 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 408 (27.24%) Internet
2 102 (6.81%) Firewall
3 63 (4.21%) Network Security
4 34 (2.27%) VPN
5 26 (1.74%) WAN
6 23 (1.54%) CHAP
6 23 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
7 21 (1.40%) Broadband
8 15 (1.00%) DNS
8 15 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.93%) LAN
9 14 (0.93%) Wireless
10 12 (0.80%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.73%) DHCP
12 8 (0.53%) VLAN
13 6 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (0.40%) SAN
13 6 (0.40%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.40%) VoIP
13 6 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.40%) Power BI
1 21 (1.40%) Tableau
2 20 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (1.20%) Big Data
4 10 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.47%) Metadata
7 5 (0.33%) Neo4j
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.27%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.20%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.13%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.13%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.13%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.13%) Impala
10 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (2.14%) Git
2 16 (1.07%) GitLab
3 11 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.33%) JIRA
5 4 (0.27%) MLflow
6 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.13%) JMeter
6 2 (0.13%) Locust
General
1 720 (48.06%) Social Skills
2 501 (33.44%) Banking
3 471 (31.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 310 (20.69%) Finance
5 152 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
6 107 (7.14%) Legal
7 89 (5.94%) Law
8 82 (5.47%) Retail
9 54 (3.60%) Public Sector
10 50 (3.34%) Multimedia
11 47 (3.14%) Marketing
12 43 (2.87%) Games
13 37 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (2.34%) Financial Institution
14 35 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.94%) Local Government
17 21 (1.40%) Aviation
18 20 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 325 (21.70%) Lecturer
2 154 (10.28%) Senior
3 105 (7.01%) Architect
4 101 (6.74%) Analyst
5 98 (6.54%) Consultant
6 96 (6.41%) Lead
7 76 (5.07%) Security Analyst
8 69 (4.61%) Security Engineer
9 53 (3.54%) Security Manager
10 52 (3.47%) Account Manager
11 51 (3.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 50 (3.34%) Trainee
13 47 (3.14%) Security Architect
14 44 (2.94%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.74%) Developer
16 40 (2.67%) Security Consultant
16 40 (2.67%) Security Specialist
17 37 (2.47%) Senior Consultant
18 35 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
19 31 (2.07%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.54%) CSS
2 35 (2.34%) HTML
3 31 (2.07%) REST
4 25 (1.67%) OAuth
5 24 (1.60%) SAML
6 23 (1.54%) OpenID
7 22 (1.47%) LDAP
8 20 (1.34%) SOAP
9 18 (1.20%) GraphQL
10 16 (1.07%) React
11 14 (0.93%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.53%) RESTful
13 7 (0.47%) FastAPI
14 6 (0.40%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.40%) LangChain
14 6 (0.40%) PySpark
14 6 (0.40%) PyTorch
14 6 (0.40%) TensorFlow
15 5 (0.33%) Pandas
15 5 (0.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 396 (26.44%) IoT
2 117 (7.81%) Security Posture
3 80 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 63 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
5 50 (3.34%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (3.14%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
8 35 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
9 33 (2.20%) Cyberattack
10 32 (2.14%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.07%) Blockchain
12 19 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
14 14 (0.93%) Mobile App
14 14 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
15 13 (0.87%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.88%) Windows
2 69 (4.61%) Linux
3 43 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.07%) Android
6 10 (0.67%) Unix
7 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.067%) Solaris
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (32.58%) AI
2 415 (27.70%) Machine Learning
3 393 (26.23%) User Experience
3 393 (26.23%) Web Development
4 210 (14.02%) Risk Management
5 196 (13.08%) Incident Response
6 195 (13.02%) Information Security
7 184 (12.28%) Mentoring
8 172 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
9 144 (9.61%) Agile
10 141 (9.41%) Cloud Security
11 138 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (8.01%) Roadmaps
13 101 (6.74%) Vulnerability Management
14 100 (6.68%) SIEM
15 95 (6.34%) Project Management
16 88 (5.87%) Analytics
17 87 (5.81%) Data Protection
18 85 (5.67%) Security Operations
19 82 (5.47%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 142 (9.48%) Python
2 111 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 51 (3.40%) SQL
4 47 (3.14%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.80%) Bash
6 24 (1.60%) C++
6 24 (1.60%) R
7 18 (1.20%) Java
7 18 (1.20%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.47%) Go
10 5 (0.33%) C
11 4 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.20%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.13%) C#
13 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.13%) Perl
14 1 (0.067%) Bicep
14 1 (0.067%) Scala
Qualifications
1 562 (37.52%) Degree
2 415 (27.70%) Master's Degree
3 378 (25.23%) PhD
4 376 (25.10%) Postgraduate
5 216 (14.42%) CISSP
6 137 (9.15%) CISM
7 92 (6.14%) CISA
8 65 (4.34%) Azure Certification
9 60 (4.01%) CEH
10 55 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 54 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 47 (3.14%) Security Cleared
13 45 (3.00%) CRISC
14 43 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 41 (2.74%) AWS Certification
16 38 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
17 36 (2.40%) SANS
18 34 (2.27%) CompTIA CySA+
19 32 (2.14%) GIAC
20 31 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (16.36%) NIST
2 211 (14.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 124 (8.28%) GDPR
4 65 (4.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 57 (3.81%) GRC
6 47 (3.14%) PCI DSS
7 46 (3.07%) QA
8 44 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (2.27%) COBIT
10 33 (2.20%) NCSC
11 29 (1.94%) NIST 800
12 17 (1.13%) ISO 22301
13 14 (0.93%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.73%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.60%) Data Quality
16 8 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
17 7 (0.47%) HIPAA
18 6 (0.40%) JSP 440
System Software
1 82 (5.47%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.47%) Docker
4 11 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.53%) IAG
6 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.40%) vSphere
7 3 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.067%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (2.67%) Terraform
2 30 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (1.94%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.27%) Ansible
5 18 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.87%) SCCM
7 12 (0.80%) CASB
8 8 (0.53%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 7 (0.47%) VxRail
10 4 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.20%) Grafana
12 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
13 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 251 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.14%) VMware
3 42 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
4 31 (2.07%) Palo Alto
5 30 (2.00%) Oracle
6 28 (1.87%) Dell
7 27 (1.80%) Fortinet
8 26 (1.74%) Google
9 25 (1.67%) Splunk
10 23 (1.54%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.47%) CyberArk
11 22 (1.47%) ForeScout
12 20 (1.34%) Cisco
12 20 (1.34%) Commvault
12 20 (1.34%) SAP
13 15 (1.00%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.60%) Okta
15 9 (0.60%) Sophos
15 9 (0.60%) Zscaler