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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 41 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,472 792 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.16% 6.49% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 6.88% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 997 467 651
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -4.05% +5.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,250 £112,500
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 19,537 11,508 17,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.73% 94.31% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13,202 7,289 11,614
10th Percentile £40,500 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +32 186 £71,200 -5.07% 106
West London +2 87 £50,000 -47.37% 50
South London +12 34 £50,000 +8.70% 18
East London -2 25 £87,500 -2.78% 32
North London +10 15 £60,000 +9.09% 11
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 38 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.48%) Confluence
4 6 (0.41%) SAS
5 5 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) Eikon
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.068%) Maximo
3 1 (0.068%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 296 (20.11%) Azure
2 191 (12.98%) AWS
3 138 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 95 (6.45%) SaaS
6 69 (4.69%) GCP
7 34 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (1.56%) Mimecast
10 17 (1.15%) Power Platform
11 12 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (0.82%) GitHub
11 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (0.68%) Nutanix
13 10 (0.68%) Serverless
13 10 (0.68%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 136 (9.24%) Firewall
2 96 (6.52%) Network Security
3 48 (3.26%) VPN
4 35 (2.38%) WAN
5 33 (2.24%) DNS
6 32 (2.17%) Internet
7 31 (2.11%) LAN
8 27 (1.83%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.43%) VLAN
10 19 (1.29%) Kerberos
11 18 (1.22%) DHCP
11 18 (1.22%) Wireless
12 16 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (0.82%) Broadband
14 12 (0.82%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.61%) OSPF
15 9 (0.61%) Wireshark
16 8 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
16 8 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.88%) Power BI
3 11 (0.75%) Big Data
4 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.41%) Tableau
6 5 (0.34%) Metadata
7 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.14%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.068%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.068%) Flink
10 1 (0.068%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (1.15%) JIRA
2 16 (1.09%) GitLab
3 15 (1.02%) Git
4 12 (0.82%) Burp Suite
4 12 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.54%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.14%) git-flow
7 2 (0.14%) JMeter
7 2 (0.14%) Snyk
7 2 (0.14%) Xcode
7 2 (0.14%) XCTest
7 2 (0.14%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.068%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.068%) Locust
8 1 (0.068%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.068%) Vite
8 1 (0.068%) webpack
8 1 (0.068%) Yeoman
General
1 453 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 263 (17.87%) Finance
3 185 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (6.32%) Banking
6 82 (5.57%) Law
7 77 (5.23%) Legal
8 72 (4.89%) Retail
9 61 (4.14%) Public Sector
10 51 (3.46%) Marketing
11 48 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (2.79%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.17%) Local Government
15 27 (1.83%) Aviation
16 25 (1.70%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.95%) Back Office
18 14 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
19 12 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 156 (10.60%) Consultant
1 156 (10.60%) Senior
2 151 (10.26%) Lead
3 138 (9.38%) Analyst
4 131 (8.90%) Architect
5 115 (7.81%) Security Analyst
6 94 (6.39%) Security Engineer
7 87 (5.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 78 (5.30%) Security Architect
8 78 (5.30%) Security Manager
9 67 (4.55%) Security Consultant
10 46 (3.13%) Account Manager
11 44 (2.99%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 43 (2.92%) IT Manager
13 42 (2.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 42 (2.85%) Security Specialist
14 37 (2.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 36 (2.45%) Business Manager
16 34 (2.31%) Software Engineer
17 32 (2.17%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.24%) OpenID
1 33 (2.24%) SAML
2 29 (1.97%) OAuth
3 26 (1.77%) REST
4 23 (1.56%) LDAP
5 17 (1.15%) SailPoint
6 13 (0.88%) FastAPI
6 13 (0.88%) RESTful
7 12 (0.82%) .NET
8 11 (0.75%) Kafka
9 8 (0.54%) React
9 8 (0.54%) SOAP
9 8 (0.54%) Web Services
10 7 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (0.41%) HTML
12 5 (0.34%) CSS
12 5 (0.34%) Node.js
13 4 (0.27%) WSDL
13 4 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.71%) Security Posture
2 114 (7.74%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.30%) Cyber Threat
4 65 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 56 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 51 (3.46%) Operational Technology
7 50 (3.40%) Cyber Defence
8 38 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (2.45%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
11 28 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.77%) Cyberattack
13 18 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (1.15%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.15%) Blog
14 17 (1.15%) Product Ownership
14 17 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.88%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.88%) PKI
16 12 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 108 (7.34%) Windows
2 69 (4.69%) Linux
3 52 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.22%) Mac OS
4 18 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.61%) Android
7 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.41%) CentOS
10 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Unix
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (19.23%) Information Security
2 247 (16.78%) Incident Response
3 244 (16.58%) Risk Management
4 207 (14.06%) Cloud Security
5 196 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 194 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (11.62%) Vulnerability Management
8 169 (11.48%) Mentoring
9 161 (10.94%) Security Operations
10 160 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 157 (10.67%) SIEM
12 154 (10.46%) AI
13 144 (9.78%) Agile
14 143 (9.71%) Roadmaps
15 133 (9.04%) Decision-Making
16 120 (8.15%) Identity Access Management
17 115 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 111 (7.54%) Data Protection
19 110 (7.47%) Penetration Testing
20 109 (7.40%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 139 (9.44%) Python
2 99 (6.73%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.83%) SQL
4 25 (1.70%) Java
5 21 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 16 (1.09%) Bash
8 11 (0.75%) Go
9 9 (0.61%) C#
9 9 (0.61%) C++
10 4 (0.27%) Rust
10 4 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.14%) Bicep
12 2 (0.14%) R
12 2 (0.14%) Scala
12 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.14%) Swift
12 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 261 (17.73%) CISSP
2 214 (14.54%) Degree
3 162 (11.01%) CISM
4 158 (10.73%) Security Cleared
5 96 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 70 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
7 66 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 63 (4.28%) CISA
9 62 (4.21%) Master's Degree
10 56 (3.80%) CRISC
11 53 (3.60%) Azure Certification
12 51 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 48 (3.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 46 (3.13%) CEH
15 42 (2.85%) CCSP
15 42 (2.85%) GIAC
16 35 (2.38%) DV Cleared
17 31 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
18 26 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 25 (1.70%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (18.68%) NIST
2 256 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 163 (11.07%) GDPR
4 91 (6.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 88 (5.98%) GRC
6 70 (4.76%) PCI DSS
7 56 (3.80%) QA
8 44 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 37 (2.51%) SOC 2
10 29 (1.97%) NCSC
10 29 (1.97%) NIST 800
11 28 (1.90%) COBIT
12 21 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (1.36%) Accessibility
14 14 (0.95%) SLA
15 13 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 10 (0.68%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.68%) PMO
17 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
18 8 (0.54%) SOC 1
System Software
1 104 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.22%) Docker
4 16 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.95%) IAG
6 8 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.48%) vSphere
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.38%) Terraform
3 32 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (1.15%) Ansible
5 13 (0.88%) Nessus
6 8 (0.54%) Nmap
7 5 (0.34%) CASB
7 5 (0.34%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.34%) SCCM
7 5 (0.34%) VxRail
8 4 (0.27%) Argo
8 4 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.20%) QRadar
9 3 (0.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 310 (21.06%) Microsoft
2 55 (3.74%) Cisco
3 52 (3.53%) VMware
4 50 (3.40%) Palo Alto
5 46 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
5 46 (3.13%) Splunk
6 36 (2.45%) Google
6 36 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.24%) CyberArk
8 26 (1.77%) Fortinet
8 26 (1.77%) Rapid7
9 25 (1.70%) Tenable
10 24 (1.63%) ForeScout
11 22 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.22%) Okta
12 18 (1.22%) Qualys
13 16 (1.09%) Meraki
14 15 (1.02%) SAP
15 14 (0.95%) Zscaler
16 13 (0.88%) Sophos