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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 44 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,374 782 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.24% 6.28% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 6.60% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 908 478 932
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,877 £41,443
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,670 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £94,000 £95,000 £90,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.29% -8.48%

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 18,063 11,849 21,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.07% 95.16% 89.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12,360 7,321 15,647
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,719
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +37 222 £70,000 -6.67% 160
West London +12 85 £54,559 -39.38% 52
South London +29 33 £50,000 -31.03% 16
East London +15 33 £87,500 - 26
North London +19 21 £60,000 - 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 34 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.36%) Apache
4 4 (0.29%) SAS
5 3 (0.22%) CMS
5 3 (0.22%) Confluence
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.073%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.15%) Shopify
3 1 (0.073%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.073%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 303 (22.05%) Azure
2 158 (11.50%) AWS
3 125 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (8.37%) Entra ID
5 83 (6.04%) SaaS
6 63 (4.59%) GCP
7 30 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
8 26 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (1.31%) Google Workspace
12 17 (1.24%) Mimecast
13 15 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (0.95%) Nutanix
15 12 (0.87%) Serverless
16 9 (0.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (0.66%) GitHub
17 6 (0.44%) AWS KMS
17 6 (0.44%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 120 (8.73%) Firewall
2 90 (6.55%) Network Security
3 34 (2.47%) VPN
4 27 (1.97%) Broadband
5 26 (1.89%) Internet
6 21 (1.53%) DNS
7 20 (1.46%) WAN
8 19 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 19 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.31%) LAN
9 18 (1.31%) Wireless
10 17 (1.24%) Kerberos
11 14 (1.02%) CHAP
11 14 (1.02%) VLAN
12 12 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (0.87%) DHCP
13 9 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.44%) BGP
15 6 (0.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.24%) Power BI
2 9 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.58%) Tableau
4 6 (0.44%) Big Data
4 6 (0.44%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.15%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.15%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.15%) MySQL
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.073%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.073%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.073%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.073%) Flink
8 1 (0.073%) Metadata
8 1 (0.073%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (1.53%) GitLab
2 12 (0.87%) JIRA
3 9 (0.66%) Git
4 7 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.44%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.073%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.073%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.073%) Locust
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle APEX
General
1 401 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.70%) Finance
3 169 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (6.91%) Banking
6 84 (6.11%) Retail
7 75 (5.46%) Legal
8 67 (4.88%) Law
9 46 (3.35%) Public Sector
10 43 (3.13%) Marketing
11 39 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.55%) Local Government
13 34 (2.47%) Aviation
14 25 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.75%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.09%) Advertising
17 14 (1.02%) Back Office
18 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
19 11 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 160 (11.64%) Senior
2 143 (10.41%) Analyst
3 133 (9.68%) Consultant
4 122 (8.88%) Security Analyst
5 115 (8.37%) Lead
6 111 (8.08%) Architect
7 99 (7.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 97 (7.06%) Security Engineer
9 75 (5.46%) Security Manager
10 63 (4.59%) Security Architect
11 55 (4.00%) Security Consultant
12 46 (3.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 45 (3.28%) IT Manager
14 43 (3.13%) Security Specialist
15 41 (2.98%) Developer
16 39 (2.84%) Account Manager
17 33 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
18 32 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 32 (2.33%) Sales Representative
18 32 (2.33%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.13%) OpenID
1 43 (3.13%) SAML
2 39 (2.84%) OAuth
2 39 (2.84%) REST
3 33 (2.40%) LDAP
4 21 (1.53%) SOAP
5 16 (1.16%) SailPoint
6 15 (1.09%) GraphQL
7 14 (1.02%) FastAPI
8 12 (0.87%) RESTful
9 10 (0.73%) Kafka
10 9 (0.66%) React
11 8 (0.58%) .NET
12 6 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.44%) HTML
12 6 (0.44%) Web Services
13 5 (0.36%) CSS
13 5 (0.36%) web3js
14 4 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.84%) Security Posture
2 93 (6.77%) Management Information System
3 76 (5.53%) Cyber Threat
4 58 (4.22%) Cyber Defence
5 55 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 45 (3.28%) Cyberattack
6 45 (3.28%) Operational Technology
7 40 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 39 (2.84%) Onboarding
9 38 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 21 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
11 17 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.16%) Blog
13 15 (1.09%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.02%) Blockchain
14 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.95%) Product Ownership
16 12 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 110 (8.01%) Windows
2 71 (5.17%) Linux
3 51 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.53%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.73%) Android
7 9 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.44%) CentOS
9 6 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.36%) Unix
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (19.29%) Information Security
2 251 (18.27%) Incident Response
3 225 (16.38%) Risk Management
4 190 (13.83%) Cloud Security
5 183 (13.32%) Mentoring
6 173 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (11.35%) Vulnerability Management
9 150 (10.92%) Security Operations
10 148 (10.77%) Agile
11 139 (10.12%) SIEM
12 125 (9.10%) Roadmaps
13 115 (8.37%) AI
14 114 (8.30%) Identity Access Management
15 112 (8.15%) Decision-Making
16 110 (8.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 100 (7.28%) Project Management
17 100 (7.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 99 (7.21%) Computer Science
19 98 (7.13%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 146 (10.63%) Python
2 122 (8.88%) PowerShell
3 41 (2.98%) SQL
4 28 (2.04%) Bash
5 24 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.60%) C++
6 22 (1.60%) Java
7 16 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (1.09%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.73%) Go
10 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.36%) C#
12 3 (0.22%) Rust
13 2 (0.15%) Bicep
13 2 (0.15%) C
13 2 (0.15%) R
13 2 (0.15%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.073%) PHP
14 1 (0.073%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 246 (17.90%) CISSP
2 192 (13.97%) Degree
3 152 (11.06%) CISM
4 116 (8.44%) Security Cleared
5 76 (5.53%) SC Cleared
6 74 (5.39%) CISA
7 62 (4.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 55 (4.00%) CRISC
9 54 (3.93%) CEH
9 54 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
10 51 (3.71%) Azure Certification
11 50 (3.64%) GIAC
12 47 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (3.42%) Master's Degree
13 42 (3.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 38 (2.77%) CompTIA CySA+
15 37 (2.69%) DV Cleared
16 35 (2.55%) CCSP
17 34 (2.47%) SANS
18 33 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (20.89%) NIST
2 250 (18.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 151 (10.99%) GDPR
4 80 (5.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 80 (5.82%) GRC
5 70 (5.09%) QA
6 64 (4.66%) PCI DSS
7 44 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 38 (2.77%) NIST 800
9 30 (2.18%) COBIT
10 29 (2.11%) SOC 2
11 28 (2.04%) NCSC
12 19 (1.38%) Accessibility
13 18 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.95%) SLA
15 12 (0.87%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.66%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 8 (0.58%) SOC 1
18 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 111 (8.08%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.24%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.09%) Docker
5 14 (1.02%) IAG
6 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.22%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (3.13%) Terraform
2 38 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (2.26%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.02%) Ansible
6 10 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 9 (0.66%) SCCM
8 7 (0.51%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.51%) VxRail
9 5 (0.36%) Grafana
10 4 (0.29%) Argo
10 4 (0.29%) Nessus
10 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.22%) Nmap
11 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 285 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 49 (3.57%) VMware
3 44 (3.20%) Splunk
4 39 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
5 36 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.55%) Palo Alto
7 31 (2.26%) ForeScout
8 30 (2.18%) Cisco
9 28 (2.04%) Google
10 26 (1.89%) CyberArk
11 19 (1.38%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.31%) Dell
13 17 (1.24%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.24%) Tenable
14 16 (1.16%) Qualys
15 13 (0.95%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.95%) Okta
16 12 (0.87%) iManage
16 12 (0.87%) Rapid7
16 12 (0.87%) Zscaler