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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 103 99
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 -35
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 600 384 676
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.63% 3.12% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.30% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 404 223 511
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £112,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 18,788 11,631 18,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.47% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12,806 7,382 12,961
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 26 July 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 26 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 0 72 £92,500 +32.14% 40
West London -8 24 £75,000 +17.65% 12
East London +1 20 £87,500 -2.78% 4
South London +4 4 £50,000 - 1
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 27 (4.50%) SAS
2 14 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (3.50%) SPSS
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Relativity
2 3 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 134 (22.33%) Azure
2 93 (15.50%) AWS
3 75 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.00%) SaaS
5 37 (6.17%) GCP
6 20 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 18 (3.00%) OpenShift
8 17 (2.83%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.50%) Dropbox
9 15 (2.50%) GitHub
10 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 12 (2.00%) PaaS
12 12 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.50%) IaaS
15 8 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.33%) Amazon ELB
15 8 (1.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.00%) Network Security
2 50 (8.33%) Firewall
3 19 (3.17%) DNS
4 18 (3.00%) VPN
5 17 (2.83%) BGP
5 17 (2.83%) OSPF
5 17 (2.83%) VXLAN
6 13 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.17%) VLAN
7 12 (2.00%) CHAP
8 11 (1.83%) WAN
9 8 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.67%) LAN
11 4 (0.67%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.50%) Broadband
13 2 (0.33%) SAN
13 2 (0.33%) VSAN
13 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.67%) Big Data
2 21 (3.50%) EDRMS
3 14 (2.33%) Power BI
4 8 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.50%) Tableau
7 2 (0.33%) Db2
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.17%) DataStage
8 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Git
2 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.67%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.67%) JIRA
3 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.33%) Yeoman
General
1 230 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 229 (38.17%) Finance
3 103 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (17.00%) Legal
5 94 (15.67%) Banking
6 83 (13.83%) Law
7 75 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (10.00%) Retail
9 28 (4.67%) Local Government
10 26 (4.33%) Financial Institution
10 26 (4.33%) Legal Technology
11 23 (3.83%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.00%) Back Office
15 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.50%) Marketing
16 7 (1.17%) Cyber-Physical System
16 7 (1.17%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 95 (15.83%) Senior
2 84 (14.00%) Security Manager
3 73 (12.17%) Lead
4 65 (10.83%) Analyst
5 62 (10.33%) Information Manager
6 59 (9.83%) Information Security Manager
7 56 (9.33%) Security Engineer
8 41 (6.83%) Security Analyst
9 33 (5.50%) Security Specialist
10 31 (5.17%) Architect
10 31 (5.17%) Consultant
11 30 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 24 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 24 (4.00%) Senior Manager
13 21 (3.50%) Incident Manager
14 20 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (3.33%) Head of Security
14 20 (3.33%) IT Manager
15 19 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.17%) OpenID
1 7 (1.17%) SailPoint
1 7 (1.17%) SAML
2 4 (0.67%) REST
3 3 (0.50%) .NET
3 3 (0.50%) JSON
3 3 (0.50%) OAuth
4 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.33%) Kafka
4 2 (0.33%) Middleware
4 2 (0.33%) RESTful
5 1 (0.17%) ADO
5 1 (0.17%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.17%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (0.17%) JPA
5 1 (0.17%) LangChain
5 1 (0.17%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.17%) Spring
5 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (24.50%) Management Information System
2 96 (16.00%) Security Posture
3 48 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
4 33 (5.50%) Cloud Native
5 31 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.83%) Cybercrime
7 19 (3.17%) Operational Technology
8 17 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
11 10 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
12 8 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.17%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.50%) Windows
2 28 (4.67%) Linux
3 12 (2.00%) Unix
3 12 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.50%) Android
6 7 (1.17%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
2 218 (36.33%) Risk Management
3 153 (25.50%) Incident Response
4 135 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (17.33%) Cloud Security
6 93 (15.50%) Roadmaps
7 88 (14.67%) SIEM
8 84 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 79 (13.17%) Vulnerability Management
11 74 (12.33%) AI
11 74 (12.33%) Analytics
12 73 (12.17%) Data Protection
13 71 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 69 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 67 (11.17%) Security Operations
16 66 (11.00%) Business Continuity
17 61 (10.17%) Regulatory Compliance
18 59 (9.83%) Computer Science
19 55 (9.17%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.17%) Python
2 33 (5.50%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.50%) Bash
4 14 (2.33%) Java
5 12 (2.00%) SQL
6 11 (1.83%) Go
7 7 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.00%) C#
9 4 (0.67%) C
9 4 (0.67%) C++
9 4 (0.67%) Ruby
9 4 (0.67%) Rust
10 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
10 3 (0.50%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 214 (35.67%) CISSP
2 150 (25.00%) Degree
3 148 (24.67%) CISM
4 63 (10.50%) CRISC
5 59 (9.83%) CISA
6 47 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (7.17%) Master's Degree
8 36 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 35 (5.83%) Security Cleared
10 33 (5.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 32 (5.33%) CCSP
12 30 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (4.17%) SC Cleared
14 24 (4.00%) CEH
15 22 (3.67%) OSCP
16 20 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 19 (3.17%) AWS Certification
17 19 (3.17%) SANS
18 18 (3.00%) GIAC
19 16 (2.67%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (40.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 174 (29.00%) NIST
3 116 (19.33%) GRC
4 114 (19.00%) GDPR
5 56 (9.33%) PCI DSS
6 51 (8.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 35 (5.83%) COBIT
8 32 (5.33%) QA
9 31 (5.17%) SOC 2
10 30 (5.00%) NIST 800
11 17 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 17 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 12 (2.00%) Accessibility
12 12 (2.00%) NCSC
13 11 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (1.17%) JSP 440
15 7 (1.17%) SOC 1
System Software
1 23 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.33%) IAG
4 2 (0.33%) vSphere
5 1 (0.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.83%) Terraform
3 24 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (2.50%) EnCase
4 15 (2.50%) FTK
5 14 (2.33%) Ansible
6 10 (1.67%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.00%) Packer
8 4 (0.67%) Cilium
8 4 (0.67%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.50%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.50%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.33%) CASB
10 2 (0.33%) VxRail
11 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.17%) QRadar
11 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 116 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.83%) Palo Alto
3 25 (4.17%) Google
3 25 (4.17%) iManage
4 18 (3.00%) Fortinet
5 17 (2.83%) VMware
5 17 (2.83%) Zscaler
6 15 (2.50%) Cellebrite
6 15 (2.50%) Cisco
6 15 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.33%) Rapid7
8 13 (2.17%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.50%) Oracle
11 8 (1.33%) Thales
12 7 (1.17%) Tenable
13 6 (1.00%) EMC
13 6 (1.00%) F5
13 6 (1.00%) Nuix
13 6 (1.00%) OpenAI