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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 41 53
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,099 1,021 930
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.51% 5.91% 4.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.24% 6.52% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 509 543 780
10th Percentile £31,250 £48,389 £44,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £56,242
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.24%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,750 £117,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 11,900 15,666 17,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 92.18% 90.70% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 9,181 14,327
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -6 125 £75,000 +15.38% 264
West London +25 116 £47,000 -43.03% 57
South London +35 112 £47,500 -34.48% 25
East London +10 69 £105,000 +84.21% 38
North London +7 18 £32,500 -50.00% 16
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 28 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.73%) CMS
4 6 (0.55%) Apache
4 6 (0.55%) Confluence
5 5 (0.45%) nginx
6 4 (0.36%) Traefik
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (4.55%) Maya
2 26 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.36%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.36%) Sketch
7 3 (0.27%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.091%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.73%) SAP IBP
3 16 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (1.18%) SAP CO
4 13 (1.18%) SAP FI
4 13 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 13 (1.18%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (1.00%) SAP IS-U
6 8 (0.73%) SAP FS
7 6 (0.55%) Exchequer
8 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.27%) Endur
9 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.27%) Yoast SEO
10 2 (0.18%) SAP CX
11 1 (0.091%) Fidessa
11 1 (0.091%) Pegasus Opera
11 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 288 (26.21%) Cloud Computing
2 235 (21.38%) Azure
3 176 (16.01%) AWS
4 89 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (4.82%) GCP
6 48 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 40 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 34 (3.09%) PaaS
9 32 (2.91%) SaaS
10 31 (2.82%) Serverless
11 25 (2.27%) IaaS
12 24 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (2.18%) GitHub
13 16 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.09%) Boomi
15 12 (1.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 11 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 273 (24.84%) Internet
2 92 (8.37%) Firewall
3 45 (4.09%) VPN
4 31 (2.82%) Network Security
4 31 (2.82%) WAN
5 27 (2.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 25 (2.27%) DNS
6 25 (2.27%) LAN
6 25 (2.27%) TCP/IP
7 24 (2.18%) DHCP
8 16 (1.46%) VoIP
9 14 (1.27%) VLAN
10 11 (1.00%) Wireshark
11 6 (0.55%) CHAP
11 6 (0.55%) Modbus
11 6 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.55%) SSL
11 6 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.55%) Wireless
12 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.64%) Power BI
2 32 (2.91%) Tableau
3 29 (2.64%) SQL Server
4 28 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.82%) SAP BW
6 18 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.00%) Big Data
8 11 (1.00%) Metadata
9 10 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.73%) MySQL
11 8 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.36%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (2.73%) Git
2 14 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.09%) JIRA
4 8 (0.73%) GitLab
5 5 (0.45%) IntelliJ
6 4 (0.36%) git-flow
6 4 (0.36%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.091%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.091%) JMeter
8 1 (0.091%) JUnit
8 1 (0.091%) Locust
8 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
General
1 622 (56.60%) Social Skills
2 390 (35.49%) Banking
3 379 (34.49%) Finance
4 335 (30.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 205 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
6 147 (13.38%) Law
7 85 (7.73%) Marketing
8 80 (7.28%) Legal
9 70 (6.37%) Games
10 48 (4.37%) Retail
11 43 (3.91%) Public Sector
11 43 (3.91%) Telecoms
12 42 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (3.46%) Manufacturing
14 36 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (2.46%) Financial Institution
15 27 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (2.37%) Dutch Language
16 26 (2.37%) French Language
17 21 (1.91%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 220 (20.02%) Lecturer
2 129 (11.74%) Senior
3 112 (10.19%) Lead
4 99 (9.01%) Analyst
5 78 (7.10%) Architect
6 62 (5.64%) IT Manager
7 59 (5.37%) Consultant
8 55 (5.00%) Security Analyst
9 51 (4.64%) Security Engineer
10 40 (3.64%) IT Support
11 38 (3.46%) IT Architect
12 32 (2.91%) Senior Consultant
13 29 (2.64%) Senior Architect
14 27 (2.46%) Software Engineer
15 26 (2.37%) Operations Manager
16 25 (2.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 23 (2.09%) Support Analyst
18 22 (2.00%) Developer
18 22 (2.00%) Senior Manager
19 21 (1.91%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.64%) React
2 26 (2.37%) CSS
2 26 (2.37%) HTML
2 26 (2.37%) REST
3 18 (1.64%) RESTful
4 16 (1.46%) Kafka
4 16 (1.46%) Vue
4 16 (1.46%) YAML
5 14 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 9 (0.82%) Middleware
7 7 (0.64%) .NET
7 7 (0.64%) Pandas
7 7 (0.64%) PyTorch
7 7 (0.64%) TensorFlow
8 6 (0.55%) jQuery
8 6 (0.55%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.45%) EDI
9 5 (0.45%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.45%) OAuth
9 5 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 268 (24.39%) IoT
2 97 (8.83%) Enterprise Software
3 93 (8.46%) Management Information System
4 66 (6.01%) Security Posture
5 50 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
6 45 (4.09%) Cloud Native
7 34 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 33 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (2.18%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.82%) CCTV
11 20 (1.82%) Cyberattack
11 20 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.64%) Blockchain
12 18 (1.64%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.36%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.27%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.64%) Windows
2 59 (5.37%) Linux
3 26 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.27%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.64%) Android
6 16 (1.46%) Unix
6 16 (1.46%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.55%) VMS
10 5 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.091%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.091%) Solaris
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (34.49%) AI
2 316 (28.75%) Machine Learning
3 281 (25.57%) User Experience
4 268 (24.39%) Web Development
5 243 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (18.93%) Risk Management
7 169 (15.38%) Incident Response
8 145 (13.19%) Information Security
9 143 (13.01%) Agile
10 136 (12.37%) Analytics
11 122 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (10.83%) Project Management
13 113 (10.28%) Mentoring
14 110 (10.01%) Roadmaps
15 103 (9.37%) DevOps
16 97 (8.83%) Computer Science
17 93 (8.46%) SIEM
18 91 (8.28%) Business Strategy
19 88 (8.01%) Vulnerability Management
20 83 (7.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 104 (9.46%) Python
2 66 (6.01%) PowerShell
3 46 (4.19%) SQL
4 39 (3.55%) JavaScript
5 32 (2.91%) Java
6 20 (1.82%) Bash
7 15 (1.36%) R
8 10 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.82%) Scala
10 8 (0.73%) C#
10 8 (0.73%) Go
11 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.27%) C++
13 3 (0.27%) Perl
14 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.18%) Bicep
14 2 (0.18%) SOQL
14 2 (0.18%) SOSL
14 2 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 510 (46.41%) Degree
2 297 (27.02%) Master's Degree
3 262 (23.84%) PhD
4 257 (23.38%) Postgraduate
5 180 (16.38%) CISSP
6 121 (11.01%) CISM
7 79 (7.19%) CISA
8 59 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (4.46%) CRISC
10 43 (3.91%) PMI Certification
11 35 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (3.18%) PMP
12 31 (2.82%) Azure Certification
13 30 (2.73%) CEH
14 29 (2.64%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.91%) Security Cleared
16 18 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 16 (1.46%) SC Cleared
18 14 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (17.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 183 (16.65%) NIST
3 126 (11.46%) GDPR
4 75 (6.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (5.10%) GRC
6 40 (3.64%) QA
7 37 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (2.64%) PCI DSS
8 29 (2.64%) SOC 2
9 26 (2.37%) COBIT
10 23 (2.09%) NCSC
11 21 (1.91%) NIST 800
12 15 (1.36%) Data Quality
13 14 (1.27%) Accessibility
13 14 (1.27%) SLA
14 13 (1.18%) SOC 1
15 12 (1.09%) ITGC
16 8 (0.73%) IFRS
16 8 (0.73%) IFRS 17
16 8 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.46%) Docker
3 26 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.091%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (3.73%) Terraform
2 37 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (3.09%) Kubernetes
4 23 (2.09%) Ansible
5 18 (1.64%) RSA Archer
6 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.73%) Nessus
7 8 (0.73%) QRadar
7 8 (0.73%) SCCM
8 7 (0.64%) Grafana
8 7 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.55%) Autotask
9 6 (0.55%) PaperCut
9 6 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.45%) CASB
10 5 (0.45%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.36%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 238 (21.66%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.64%) SAP
3 50 (4.55%) Oracle
4 36 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.28%) VMware
5 31 (2.82%) Palo Alto
6 28 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
7 24 (2.18%) Fortinet
7 24 (2.18%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.18%) Splunk
8 20 (1.82%) Adobe
9 15 (1.36%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.18%) Cisco
11 12 (1.09%) Dell
12 10 (0.91%) Duck Creek
12 10 (0.91%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.91%) Qualys
12 10 (0.91%) Sophos
12 10 (0.91%) Xero
13 9 (0.82%) CyberArk