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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 36 42
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,530 823 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.96% 6.98% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 7.41% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 480 561
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,425 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,813 £59,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% +2.07%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,125 £115,000
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 20,705 11,106 17,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.62% 94.14% 89.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,847 7,003 10,165
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -4.03%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +21 157 £72,500 -3.33% 212
West London -3 71 £72,500 +16.75% 64
South London +6 31 £50,000 +6.95% 11
East London -9 17 £110,000 +12.82% 19
North London -1 2 £58,875 +42.73% 5
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 45 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.39%) Confluence
3 6 (0.39%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) SmartSuite
6 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.065%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.065%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.065%) Magento
3 1 (0.065%) Maximo
3 1 (0.065%) RMDS
3 1 (0.065%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 303 (19.80%) Azure
2 183 (11.96%) AWS
3 166 (10.85%) Entra ID
3 166 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (6.47%) SaaS
5 74 (4.84%) GCP
6 48 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (1.90%) Mimecast
7 29 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 28 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (1.31%) GitHub
12 17 (1.11%) Serverless
13 16 (1.05%) PaaS
14 11 (0.72%) Azure API Management
14 11 (0.72%) IaaS
14 11 (0.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.22%) Firewall
2 91 (5.95%) Network Security
3 61 (3.99%) VPN
4 47 (3.07%) DNS
5 38 (2.48%) Internet
6 37 (2.42%) WAN
7 36 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.29%) LAN
9 30 (1.96%) DHCP
10 26 (1.70%) Wireless
11 19 (1.24%) Kerberos
11 19 (1.24%) VLAN
12 16 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (0.92%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.78%) Broadband
15 12 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (0.78%) Wireshark
16 11 (0.72%) OSPF
17 9 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.37%) Power BI
2 16 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.78%) Big Data
4 9 (0.59%) Tableau
5 8 (0.52%) Metadata
6 7 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.26%) MySQL
7 4 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.13%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.13%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.065%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 18 (1.18%) Burp Suite
2 16 (1.05%) Git
2 16 (1.05%) JIRA
3 13 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.85%) Metasploit
4 12 (0.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.13%) git-flow
5 2 (0.13%) Snyk
5 2 (0.13%) Xcode
5 2 (0.13%) XCTest
5 2 (0.13%) XCUITest
5 2 (0.13%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.065%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.065%) JMeter
6 1 (0.065%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.065%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.065%) Vite
General
1 472 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 274 (17.91%) Finance
3 172 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (6.54%) Law
6 99 (6.47%) Banking
7 85 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 83 (5.42%) Legal
9 77 (5.03%) Retail
10 58 (3.79%) Marketing
11 53 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
13 41 (2.68%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.76%) Local Government
15 24 (1.57%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.05%) Aviation
18 14 (0.92%) Back Office
19 12 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
20 9 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 180 (11.76%) Senior
2 175 (11.44%) Consultant
3 144 (9.41%) Architect
4 143 (9.35%) Lead
5 134 (8.76%) Analyst
6 109 (7.12%) Security Engineer
7 107 (6.99%) Security Analyst
8 96 (6.27%) Security Manager
9 94 (6.14%) Security Architect
10 77 (5.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 71 (4.64%) Security Consultant
12 59 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 55 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 48 (3.14%) Security Specialist
15 45 (2.94%) Software Engineer
16 41 (2.68%) Business Manager
17 40 (2.61%) IT Manager
18 39 (2.55%) IAM Consultant
19 36 (2.35%) Senior Consultant
20 34 (2.22%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.61%) Terraform
2 37 (2.42%) OpenID
3 35 (2.29%) SAML
4 34 (2.22%) OAuth
5 32 (2.09%) REST
6 25 (1.63%) LDAP
7 16 (1.05%) SailPoint
8 14 (0.92%) RESTful
9 13 (0.85%) .NET
10 11 (0.72%) FastAPI
10 11 (0.72%) Kafka
11 9 (0.59%) React
12 7 (0.46%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (0.46%) Middleware
12 7 (0.46%) OAuth2
12 7 (0.46%) SOAP
13 6 (0.39%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.39%) Node.js
13 6 (0.39%) Web Services
14 5 (0.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.28%) Security Posture
2 115 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 100 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
4 72 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 67 (4.38%) Operational Technology
6 54 (3.53%) Cloud Native
7 45 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
8 43 (2.81%) Data Centre
9 39 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
12 21 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.24%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.05%) Blog
14 16 (1.05%) Cyberattack
14 16 (1.05%) PKI
14 16 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 15 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (0.98%) Driving Licence
15 15 (0.98%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 121 (7.91%) Windows
2 73 (4.77%) Linux
3 54 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 15 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.72%) Android
8 6 (0.39%) Unix
9 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.26%) CentOS
10 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (18.95%) Information Security
2 251 (16.41%) Incident Response
3 234 (15.29%) Risk Management
4 214 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 211 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 198 (12.94%) Cloud Security
8 194 (12.68%) AI
9 189 (12.35%) Security Operations
10 185 (12.09%) Vulnerability Management
11 155 (10.13%) Roadmaps
12 152 (9.93%) SIEM
13 150 (9.80%) Mentoring
14 140 (9.15%) Decision-Making
15 133 (8.69%) Identity Access Management
16 132 (8.63%) Agile
17 120 (7.84%) Security Architecture
18 116 (7.58%) Data Protection
18 116 (7.58%) Penetration Testing
19 113 (7.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 139 (9.08%) Python
2 93 (6.08%) PowerShell
3 28 (1.83%) Java
4 26 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
4 26 (1.70%) SQL
5 20 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.11%) Bash
6 17 (1.11%) Go
7 12 (0.78%) C#
8 11 (0.72%) C++
9 8 (0.52%) Bicep
10 6 (0.39%) Rust
11 5 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.26%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.20%) Swift
13 3 (0.20%) VBA
13 3 (0.20%) VBScript
14 2 (0.13%) C
14 2 (0.13%) Scala
14 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 256 (16.73%) CISSP
2 220 (14.38%) Degree
3 207 (13.53%) Security Cleared
4 161 (10.52%) CISM
5 138 (9.02%) SC Cleared
6 70 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
7 68 (4.44%) Master's Degree
8 57 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (3.40%) CISA
10 49 (3.20%) CRISC
11 48 (3.14%) CompTIA Security+
12 46 (3.01%) Azure Certification
13 42 (2.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 39 (2.55%) DV Cleared
15 37 (2.42%) CCSP
16 32 (2.09%) CEH
16 32 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
16 32 (2.09%) OSCP
17 29 (1.90%) CREST Certified
17 29 (1.90%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (18.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 246 (16.08%) NIST
3 158 (10.33%) GDPR
4 110 (7.19%) GRC
5 99 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 70 (4.58%) PCI DSS
7 48 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (3.01%) NCSC
9 39 (2.55%) QA
10 34 (2.22%) SOC 2
11 23 (1.50%) NIST 800
12 21 (1.37%) COBIT
13 19 (1.24%) Accessibility
14 15 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.98%) SLA
15 14 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 12 (0.78%) PMO
17 8 (0.52%) ISO 22301
17 8 (0.52%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 118 (7.71%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.11%) Docker
3 17 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 14 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.33%) IAG
5 5 (0.33%) vSphere
6 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
3 38 (2.48%) Kubernetes
4 17 (1.11%) Ansible
5 16 (1.05%) Nessus
6 13 (0.85%) Nmap
7 12 (0.78%) Grafana
8 9 (0.59%) CASB
9 6 (0.39%) SCCM
10 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.33%) QRadar
11 4 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 3 (0.20%) VxRail
13 2 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 337 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.92%) Cisco
3 51 (3.33%) Palo Alto
4 48 (3.14%) VMware
5 42 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
6 41 (2.68%) Google
7 40 (2.61%) Splunk
8 33 (2.16%) CyberArk
9 29 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.70%) Rapid7
10 26 (1.70%) Tenable
11 23 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.44%) Meraki
13 20 (1.31%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.24%) Qualys
15 18 (1.18%) Zscaler
16 17 (1.11%) Okta
16 17 (1.11%) SAP
17 13 (0.85%) Netskope
18 11 (0.72%) Oracle