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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 40 35
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,584 837 1,397
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.29% 6.49% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.92% 6.75% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 767 520 1,089
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £74,249 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +2.41% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £88,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 15,960 12,404 21,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.56% 96.13% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,420 7,545 16,084
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,397
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,183
Median % change year-on-year - +5.36% -5.09%
75th Percentile £97,813 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +29 262 £70,000 +7.69% 122
West London +28 186 £40,000 -41.02% 63
South London +47 173 £50,000 -0.99% 45
East London +26 106 £87,500 +35.66% 47
North London +15 44 £60,000 -7.69% 19
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 (1.26%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.38%) CMS
4 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.19%) Confluence
5 2 (0.13%) Apache
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.063%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.88%) Maya
2 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 2 (0.13%) Yoast SEO
5 1 (0.063%) Endur
5 1 (0.063%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.063%) Maximo
5 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.063%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.063%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.063%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (24.94%) Cloud Computing
2 344 (21.72%) Azure
3 206 (13.01%) AWS
4 105 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
5 82 (5.18%) Entra ID
6 59 (3.72%) SaaS
7 56 (3.54%) GCP
8 30 (1.89%) GitHub
8 30 (1.89%) Nutanix
9 24 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.33%) Google Workspace
11 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (1.14%) Power Platform
13 15 (0.95%) Mimecast
14 11 (0.69%) PaaS
15 9 (0.57%) Serverless
16 6 (0.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 6 (0.38%) OCI
16 6 (0.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 399 (25.19%) Internet
2 107 (6.76%) Firewall
3 68 (4.29%) Network Security
4 33 (2.08%) VPN
5 24 (1.52%) CHAP
6 23 (1.45%) WAN
7 21 (1.33%) Broadband
7 21 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 18 (1.14%) DNS
9 15 (0.95%) Wireless
10 14 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.82%) LAN
12 12 (0.76%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.69%) DHCP
13 11 (0.69%) VLAN
14 10 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.51%) Kerberos
16 7 (0.44%) Unified Communications
17 6 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
17 6 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.14%) Big Data
2 17 (1.07%) Power BI
3 15 (0.95%) Tableau
4 13 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.32%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.25%) Metadata
7 4 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.25%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.19%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.19%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.13%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.13%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.13%) Impala
9 2 (0.13%) MySQL
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (1.89%) Git
2 19 (1.20%) GitLab
3 8 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.32%) JIRA
5 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.25%) MLflow
6 2 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.13%) JMeter
6 2 (0.13%) Locust
General
1 741 (46.78%) Social Skills
2 500 (31.57%) Banking
3 478 (30.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 286 (18.06%) Finance
5 153 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
6 106 (6.69%) Legal
7 87 (5.49%) Retail
8 69 (4.36%) Law
9 47 (2.97%) Multimedia
10 46 (2.90%) Public Sector
11 42 (2.65%) Marketing
12 37 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (2.08%) Local Government
14 32 (2.02%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.52%) Games
18 23 (1.45%) Aviation
19 22 (1.39%) Telecoms
20 20 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 317 (20.01%) Lecturer
2 150 (9.47%) Senior
3 110 (6.94%) Analyst
4 108 (6.82%) Architect
5 107 (6.76%) Consultant
6 97 (6.12%) Lead
7 85 (5.37%) Security Analyst
8 82 (5.18%) Security Engineer
9 60 (3.79%) Security Manager
10 59 (3.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 57 (3.60%) Account Manager
11 57 (3.60%) Security Architect
12 53 (3.35%) Trainee
13 46 (2.90%) IT Manager
14 44 (2.78%) Developer
15 38 (2.40%) Security Consultant
15 38 (2.40%) Security Specialist
16 35 (2.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 35 (2.21%) Senior Consultant
17 30 (1.89%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.34%) REST
2 36 (2.27%) CSS
3 33 (2.08%) HTML
4 32 (2.02%) OAuth
5 31 (1.96%) SAML
6 30 (1.89%) OpenID
7 27 (1.70%) LDAP
8 23 (1.45%) SOAP
9 18 (1.14%) GraphQL
9 18 (1.14%) React
10 14 (0.88%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.63%) RESTful
12 9 (0.57%) FastAPI
13 6 (0.38%) LangChain
13 6 (0.38%) Node.js
13 6 (0.38%) PySpark
13 6 (0.38%) PyTorch
13 6 (0.38%) TensorFlow
14 5 (0.32%) Kafka
14 5 (0.32%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 389 (24.56%) IoT
2 128 (8.08%) Security Posture
3 80 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 51 (3.22%) Cyber Threat
5 45 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.59%) Cyber Defence
6 41 (2.59%) Cyberattack
7 40 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
9 29 (1.83%) Blockchain
10 28 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 27 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
13 17 (1.07%) Onboarding
14 15 (0.95%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (0.82%) Product Ownership
16 12 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
17 11 (0.69%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.50%) Windows
2 68 (4.29%) Linux
3 42 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.88%) Android
6 10 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Unix
7 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.063%) Solaris
10 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (29.48%) AI
2 402 (25.38%) Machine Learning
3 391 (24.68%) User Experience
4 385 (24.31%) Web Development
5 219 (13.83%) Information Security
6 204 (12.88%) Mentoring
6 204 (12.88%) Risk Management
7 201 (12.69%) Incident Response
8 166 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
9 156 (9.85%) Cloud Security
10 144 (9.09%) Agile
11 137 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (7.58%) Roadmaps
13 110 (6.94%) Vulnerability Management
14 97 (6.12%) SIEM
15 93 (5.87%) Project Management
16 90 (5.68%) Security Operations
17 89 (5.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 87 (5.49%) Data Protection
19 85 (5.37%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.47%) Python
2 125 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 49 (3.09%) SQL
4 48 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.89%) Bash
6 26 (1.64%) C++
7 21 (1.33%) Java
8 20 (1.26%) R
9 18 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.57%) Go
12 5 (0.32%) C
13 4 (0.25%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.19%) C#
14 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.13%) Bicep
15 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.13%) Perl
16 1 (0.063%) Rust
Qualifications
1 553 (34.91%) Degree
2 412 (26.01%) Master's Degree
3 370 (23.36%) Postgraduate
4 368 (23.23%) PhD
5 230 (14.52%) CISSP
6 144 (9.09%) CISM
7 81 (5.11%) CISA
8 73 (4.61%) Azure Certification
9 68 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 65 (4.10%) CEH
11 61 (3.85%) Security Cleared
12 54 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (2.84%) CRISC
14 44 (2.78%) CompTIA CySA+
15 41 (2.59%) SC Cleared
16 40 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
16 40 (2.53%) SANS
17 38 (2.40%) AWS Certification
18 37 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
19 36 (2.27%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (16.35%) NIST
2 211 (13.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 134 (8.46%) GDPR
4 73 (4.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 64 (4.04%) GRC
6 61 (3.85%) QA
7 57 (3.60%) PCI DSS
8 50 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (2.21%) COBIT
10 34 (2.15%) NCSC
11 32 (2.02%) NIST 800
12 15 (0.95%) Accessibility
12 15 (0.95%) ISO 22301
13 14 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.88%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.51%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 7 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.44%) JSP 440
System Software
1 87 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.52%) Docker
4 12 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.63%) IAG
6 7 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.38%) vSphere
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.19%) Firmware
10 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (2.65%) Terraform
2 34 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.14%) Ansible
6 13 (0.82%) SCCM
7 11 (0.69%) CASB
8 8 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 7 (0.44%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.44%) VxRail
10 4 (0.25%) Argo
10 4 (0.25%) Grafana
11 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.19%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.13%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 264 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.71%) VMware
3 40 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
4 34 (2.15%) ForeScout
5 32 (2.02%) Palo Alto
6 28 (1.77%) Splunk
7 26 (1.64%) CyberArk
7 26 (1.64%) Google
8 25 (1.58%) Fortinet
9 23 (1.45%) Dell
9 23 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.33%) Cisco
11 17 (1.07%) Commvault
11 17 (1.07%) Oracle
11 17 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.63%) Okta
12 10 (0.63%) SAP
13 9 (0.57%) Sophos
13 9 (0.57%) Zscaler
14 7 (0.44%) Apple