Cybersecurity Jobs in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 34 58
Rank change year-on-year -6 +24 +47
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 785 1,419 1,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.27% 5.97% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 6.59% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 467 1,048 1,148
10th Percentile £45,600 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,625 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% -

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 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 +3 113 £71,250 +5.95% 74
West London -9 33 £67,820 +23.31% 153
South London -16 26 £72,500 -16.18% 11
East London -9 17 £86,250 +27.78% 8
North London -12 8 £60,000 +33.33%
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.27%) Confluence
4 5 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.51%) nginx
6 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (4.46%) Maya
2 21 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.27%) Chatbot
4 10 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.27%) SAP IBP
3 5 (0.64%) Exchequer
4 4 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.38%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.38%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.13%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 165 (21.02%) Azure
2 143 (18.22%) AWS
3 68 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (7.39%) GCP
5 39 (4.97%) Entra ID
6 35 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
7 32 (4.08%) Serverless
8 28 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.31%) Power Platform
10 22 (2.80%) OneDrive
11 19 (2.42%) SaaS
12 17 (2.17%) IaaS
13 16 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.04%) PaaS
13 16 (2.04%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (1.53%) GitHub
16 11 (1.40%) Boomi
16 11 (1.40%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
17 8 (1.02%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 121 (15.41%) Firewall
2 62 (7.90%) Network Security
3 34 (4.33%) VPN
4 31 (3.95%) DNS
5 30 (3.82%) TCP/IP
6 28 (3.57%) SSL
7 23 (2.93%) Broadband
8 22 (2.80%) SSH
9 20 (2.55%) WAN
10 15 (1.91%) DHCP
10 15 (1.91%) SAN
11 10 (1.27%) LAN
12 9 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (1.02%) HTTP
13 8 (1.02%) VLAN
13 8 (1.02%) Wireshark
14 7 (0.89%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.89%) VoIP
15 6 (0.76%) IPsec
15 6 (0.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.31%) Power BI
2 15 (1.91%) Data Lake
3 11 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.40%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.40%) Tableau
4 10 (1.27%) SAP BW
5 8 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.76%) Metadata
7 5 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.64%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.64%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.51%) MySQL
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (0.38%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (1.91%) JIRA
2 13 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.27%) Git
4 8 (1.02%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (0.76%) IntelliJ
6 4 (0.51%) AppScan
6 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.38%) Babel
7 3 (0.38%) GitLab
7 3 (0.38%) gulp
7 3 (0.38%) webpack
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.13%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.13%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 301 (38.34%) Social Skills
2 252 (32.10%) Finance
3 177 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (17.07%) Law
5 99 (12.61%) Legal
6 89 (11.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 76 (9.68%) Banking
8 56 (7.13%) Marketing
9 49 (6.24%) Games
10 44 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (5.48%) Retail
12 42 (5.35%) Telecoms
13 34 (4.33%) Public Sector
14 27 (3.44%) Manufacturing
15 24 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (2.04%) Electronics
18 15 (1.91%) French Language
19 14 (1.78%) Dutch Language
20 10 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (13.63%) Analyst
2 102 (12.99%) Senior
3 82 (10.45%) Architect
4 81 (10.32%) Security Analyst
5 66 (8.41%) Lead
6 61 (7.77%) IT Manager
7 60 (7.64%) Consultant
8 58 (7.39%) Security Engineer
9 36 (4.59%) Senior Architect
10 33 (4.20%) IT Architect
10 33 (4.20%) Security Consultant
11 32 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (3.82%) IT Support
12 30 (3.82%) Security Manager
12 30 (3.82%) Support Manager
13 29 (3.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 26 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.93%) Software Engineer
15 23 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.80%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.46%) Web Services
2 32 (4.08%) RESTful
3 28 (3.57%) REST
4 24 (3.06%) React
5 22 (2.80%) Middleware
6 18 (2.29%) Kafka
7 14 (1.78%) Node.js
8 12 (1.53%) MERN Stack
9 8 (1.02%) ADO
9 8 (1.02%) SOAP
9 8 (1.02%) WebSockets
10 7 (0.89%) GraphQL
10 7 (0.89%) Leaflet
11 6 (0.76%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.76%) CSS
11 6 (0.76%) OAuth
12 5 (0.64%) .NET
12 5 (0.64%) NestJS
12 5 (0.64%) SLSA
12 5 (0.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 131 (16.69%) Management Information System
2 77 (9.81%) Cyber Threat
3 73 (9.30%) Cyberattack
4 69 (8.79%) Security Posture
5 43 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (5.10%) Onboarding
7 34 (4.33%) PKI
8 24 (3.06%) Cloud Native
8 24 (3.06%) Life Science
9 20 (2.55%) Hedge funds
10 19 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
12 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.53%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.53%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
15 10 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.27%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.17%) Windows
2 43 (5.48%) Linux
3 21 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.64%) Android
5 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Unix
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (23.69%) Risk Management
2 181 (23.06%) Information Security
3 177 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
4 143 (18.22%) Incident Response
5 116 (14.78%) Project Management
6 109 (13.89%) SIEM
7 93 (11.85%) Agile
8 89 (11.34%) Roadmaps
9 82 (10.45%) Analytics
10 80 (10.19%) Vulnerability Management
11 78 (9.94%) DevOps
12 74 (9.43%) Security Operations
13 73 (9.30%) IT Strategy
14 72 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
15 71 (9.04%) Mentoring
16 70 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 67 (8.54%) Data Protection
17 67 (8.54%) Service Management
18 66 (8.41%) Computer Science
19 62 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (14.01%) Python
2 76 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 29 (3.69%) SQL
4 23 (2.93%) TypeScript
5 19 (2.42%) Java
6 18 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.40%) Bash
8 10 (1.27%) Perl
9 8 (1.02%) R
10 5 (0.64%) Go
11 3 (0.38%) C#
11 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.38%) PHP
11 3 (0.38%) Ruby
11 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.38%) VBA
12 2 (0.25%) Bicep
12 2 (0.25%) Groovy
12 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 185 (23.57%) Degree
2 164 (20.89%) CISSP
3 91 (11.59%) CISM
4 42 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (5.35%) GCIH
4 42 (5.35%) PMI Certification
5 38 (4.84%) Security Cleared
6 37 (4.71%) CRISC
6 37 (4.71%) GCIA
7 35 (4.46%) CompTIA Security+
8 34 (4.33%) OSCP
9 33 (4.20%) PMP
10 32 (4.08%) CEH
11 30 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (3.69%) Master's Degree
13 25 (3.18%) SC Cleared
14 16 (2.04%) SANS
15 15 (1.91%) CCSP
16 14 (1.78%) AWS Certification
17 13 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (20.25%) NIST
2 149 (18.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (9.68%) GDPR
4 67 (8.54%) NCSC
5 59 (7.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 35 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 35 (4.46%) PCI DSS
6 35 (4.46%) QA
7 34 (4.33%) GRC
8 23 (2.93%) GxP
9 17 (2.17%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.78%) NIST 800
11 13 (1.66%) SLA
11 13 (1.66%) SOC 2
12 9 (1.15%) COBIT
13 8 (1.02%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.89%) SOC 1
15 6 (0.76%) Data Quality
16 5 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 53 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.55%) Docker
3 18 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.40%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) Postfix
8 1 (0.13%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.20%) Terraform
3 25 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.42%) Ansible
5 18 (2.29%) SCCM
6 9 (1.15%) CSIRT
6 9 (1.15%) RSA Archer
7 8 (1.02%) Puppet
8 7 (0.89%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.64%) Nessus
9 5 (0.64%) PaperCut
9 5 (0.64%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.51%) Argo
10 4 (0.51%) CASB
11 3 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.38%) Grafana
11 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 155 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.35%) SAP
3 29 (3.69%) VMware
4 24 (3.06%) Google
5 22 (2.80%) Thales
6 21 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
7 20 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.04%) Oracle
9 15 (1.91%) Cisco
9 15 (1.91%) Splunk
10 14 (1.78%) Databricks
10 14 (1.78%) Dell
11 13 (1.66%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.53%) Adobe
12 12 (1.53%) Citrix
13 11 (1.40%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.15%) Ping Identity
15 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.89%) Ariba
17 6 (0.76%) Veeam