Information Security Job Trends in London

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 104 93
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 -16
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 638 380 646
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.46% 3.22% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 3.42% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 432 194 390
10th Percentile £47,045 £53,750 £48,625
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,813 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Information Security 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 20,914 11,117 16,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.66% 94.12% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,933 6,996 10,030
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,000 £41,250
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 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Information Security job vacancy trend in London

Information Security
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Information Security

Information Security
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in London over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Security in London

Information Security
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the London region over the 6 months to 1 October 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 +5 69 £85,000 +19.30% 79
West London +15 33 £80,000 +18.52% 19
East London -3 13 £57,500 -36.11% 3
South London +5 5 £80,000 +119.18% 1
North London - 1 £61,250 -
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 (5.33%) SAS
2 17 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.94%) Confluence
4 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.47%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (4.39%) SPSS
2 9 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Workday HCM
2 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.47%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.47%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 127 (19.91%) Azure
2 103 (16.14%) AWS
3 64 (10.03%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (7.05%) GCP
5 44 (6.90%) SaaS
6 31 (4.86%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.08%) Entra ID
8 21 (3.29%) Dropbox
9 18 (2.82%) OpenShift
10 15 (2.35%) PaaS
11 14 (2.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 14 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (1.88%) Serverless
12 12 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.57%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.57%) AWS CloudTrail
14 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.60%) Network Security
2 49 (7.68%) Firewall
3 26 (4.08%) VPN
4 20 (3.13%) OSPF
5 19 (2.98%) BGP
5 19 (2.98%) DNS
6 17 (2.66%) VXLAN
7 16 (2.51%) WAN
8 14 (2.19%) TCP/IP
9 13 (2.04%) VLAN
10 8 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (1.10%) LAN
12 4 (0.63%) CHAP
12 4 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.63%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (0.47%) TACACS
13 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.55%) Big Data
2 28 (4.39%) EDRMS
3 24 (3.76%) Power BI
4 12 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.78%) Metadata
7 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.16%) Db2
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.16%) Power Query
10 1 (0.16%) Redis
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (0.94%) JIRA
1 6 (0.94%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.63%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.63%) Git
2 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.47%) Yeoman
4 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 256 (40.13%) Social Skills
2 217 (34.01%) Finance
3 118 (18.50%) Legal
4 117 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (15.05%) Law
6 83 (13.01%) Banking
6 83 (13.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (9.72%) Retail
8 34 (5.33%) Legal Technology
9 20 (3.13%) Local Government
10 18 (2.82%) Financial Institution
10 18 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.82%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.72%) Back Office
11 11 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.41%) Mandarin Language
12 9 (1.41%) Marketing
12 9 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.10%) French Language
13 7 (1.10%) German Language
Job Titles
1 99 (15.52%) Senior
2 88 (13.79%) Security Manager
3 72 (11.29%) Analyst
4 65 (10.19%) Information Manager
5 62 (9.72%) Information Security Manager
6 55 (8.62%) Lead
7 51 (7.99%) Security Analyst
8 42 (6.58%) Architect
9 39 (6.11%) Security Specialist
10 37 (5.80%) Security Engineer
11 29 (4.55%) IT Manager
12 27 (4.23%) Consultant
13 26 (4.08%) Information Analyst
13 26 (4.08%) Information Security Analyst
13 26 (4.08%) Security Architect
14 25 (3.92%) Head of Security
15 22 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 22 (3.45%) Senior Manager
16 21 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (3.29%) Forensic Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.11%) Terraform
2 7 (1.10%) REST
3 6 (0.94%) OpenID
3 6 (0.94%) SailPoint
3 6 (0.94%) SAML
4 3 (0.47%) .NET
4 3 (0.47%) JSON
5 2 (0.31%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.31%) Kafka
5 2 (0.31%) Middleware
5 2 (0.31%) OAuth
5 2 (0.31%) RESTful
6 1 (0.16%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.16%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (0.16%) LangChain
6 1 (0.16%) React
6 1 (0.16%) Redux
6 1 (0.16%) Spring
6 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (23.98%) Management Information System
2 86 (13.48%) Security Posture
3 44 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 41 (6.43%) Cloud Native
5 30 (4.70%) Cybercrime
6 29 (4.55%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.29%) Operational Technology
8 16 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.35%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (1.57%) Freedom of Information
10 10 (1.57%) Freedom of Information Act
11 9 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
13 7 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.31%) Windows
2 28 (4.39%) Linux
3 17 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.72%) Android
4 11 (1.72%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) Unix
6 4 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (45.92%) Cybersecurity
2 223 (34.95%) Risk Management
3 153 (23.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 146 (22.88%) Incident Response
5 127 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 116 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (17.24%) Cloud Security
8 102 (15.99%) AI
9 91 (14.26%) Roadmaps
9 91 (14.26%) Security Operations
9 91 (14.26%) Vulnerability Management
10 84 (13.17%) Data Protection
11 81 (12.70%) SIEM
12 79 (12.38%) Business Continuity
13 74 (11.60%) Analytics
14 67 (10.50%) Mentoring
15 64 (10.03%) Disaster Recovery
16 60 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
17 58 (9.09%) Decision-Making
18 57 (8.93%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 58 (9.09%) Python
2 26 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 25 (3.92%) Java
4 22 (3.45%) Go
5 19 (2.98%) Bash
5 19 (2.98%) SQL
6 13 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.25%) C#
8 6 (0.94%) C
8 6 (0.94%) C++
9 5 (0.78%) Ruby
10 4 (0.63%) Bicep
11 3 (0.47%) Perl
11 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.31%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.31%) Rust
12 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 196 (30.72%) CISSP
2 146 (22.88%) Degree
3 139 (21.79%) CISM
4 52 (8.15%) CRISC
5 51 (7.99%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (7.37%) Security Cleared
7 43 (6.74%) CISA
8 42 (6.58%) Master's Degree
9 34 (5.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 34 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (4.86%) CCSP
11 30 (4.70%) CompTIA Security+
12 27 (4.23%) OSCP
13 25 (3.92%) SC Cleared
14 22 (3.45%) GIAC
15 20 (3.13%) AWS Certification
15 20 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 19 (2.98%) GCIH
17 18 (2.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 17 (2.66%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (38.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (28.06%) NIST
3 133 (20.85%) GDPR
4 118 (18.50%) GRC
5 68 (10.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 54 (8.46%) PCI DSS
7 34 (5.33%) SOC 2
8 29 (4.55%) COBIT
9 24 (3.76%) NIST 800
10 19 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 19 (2.98%) NCSC
10 19 (2.98%) QA
11 14 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (1.88%) ISO 22301
13 9 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (1.25%) Data Quality
14 8 (1.25%) ISO 9001
15 7 (1.10%) Accessibility
15 7 (1.10%) SOC 1
16 6 (0.94%) COSHH
System Software
1 22 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.78%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.31%) IAG
Systems Management
1 44 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (3.29%) EnCase
3 21 (3.29%) FTK
4 10 (1.57%) FortiGate
5 8 (1.25%) CASB
6 6 (0.94%) Ansible
6 6 (0.94%) Grafana
6 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.63%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.47%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 3 (0.47%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.47%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 2 (0.31%) Argo
9 2 (0.31%) Cilium
9 2 (0.31%) Istio
9 2 (0.31%) linkerd
9 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.02%) Palo Alto
3 23 (3.61%) Google
3 23 (3.61%) Zscaler
4 21 (3.29%) Cellebrite
5 18 (2.82%) Fortinet
6 17 (2.66%) Oracle
7 14 (2.19%) Cisco
7 14 (2.19%) iManage
8 12 (1.88%) Splunk
8 12 (1.88%) VMware
9 10 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (1.41%) Rapid7
10 9 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.41%) Tenable
11 7 (1.10%) LogRhythm
11 7 (1.10%) Nuix
11 7 (1.10%) Okta
11 7 (1.10%) Relativity
12 6 (0.94%) OpenAI