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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 104 90
Rank change year-on-year +27 -14 -13
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 564 382 776
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.69% 3.18% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.31% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 353 244 633
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £65,186 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,125 £91,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -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 17,135 11,543 21,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.58% 96.00% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,556 6,882 15,889
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
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 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +7 77 £92,500 +60.40% 35
East London +23 37 £90,000 +2.86% 5
West London -20 16 £60,000 -4.37% 5
South London +11 4 £62,300 - 2
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 16 (2.84%) SAS
2 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.48%) SPSS
4 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 114 (20.21%) Azure
2 69 (12.23%) AWS
2 69 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (9.04%) SaaS
4 37 (6.56%) GCP
5 24 (4.26%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (2.66%) PaaS
8 14 (2.48%) GitHub
9 12 (2.13%) IaaS
9 12 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (1.95%) Dropbox
11 10 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.60%) Nutanix
13 8 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.06%) OpenShift
15 5 (0.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 5 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
15 5 (0.89%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 49 (8.69%) Network Security
2 42 (7.45%) Firewall
3 23 (4.08%) CHAP
4 10 (1.77%) DNS
4 10 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.60%) VPN
6 8 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (1.24%) WAAS
8 6 (1.06%) BGP
8 6 (1.06%) OSPF
8 6 (1.06%) VLAN
8 6 (1.06%) VXLAN
8 6 (1.06%) WAN
9 5 (0.89%) SAN
9 5 (0.89%) VSAN
10 4 (0.71%) ATM
10 4 (0.71%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.19%) Big Data
2 14 (2.48%) EDRMS
2 14 (2.48%) Power BI
3 9 (1.60%) Tableau
4 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.53%) DB2
6 3 (0.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.35%) Impala
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.18%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (1.77%) Git
2 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.35%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.18%) JIRA
General
1 247 (43.79%) Finance
2 226 (40.07%) Social Skills
3 115 (20.39%) Banking
4 107 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (16.67%) Legal
6 87 (15.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 76 (13.48%) Retail
8 68 (12.06%) Law
9 50 (8.87%) Financial Institution
10 32 (5.67%) Local Government
11 24 (4.26%) Telecoms
12 20 (3.55%) Marketing
13 14 (2.48%) Back Office
13 14 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.60%) Aviation
16 8 (1.42%) Public Sector
17 7 (1.24%) Automotive
17 7 (1.24%) Cyber-Physical System
18 6 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 82 (14.54%) Senior
2 73 (12.94%) Security Manager
3 67 (11.88%) Lead
4 59 (10.46%) Analyst
5 58 (10.28%) Security Engineer
6 54 (9.57%) Information Manager
7 51 (9.04%) Information Security Manager
8 33 (5.85%) Consultant
8 33 (5.85%) Security Analyst
9 26 (4.61%) Architect
9 26 (4.61%) Auditor
9 26 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (4.43%) Security Auditor
11 24 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (4.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 22 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 21 (3.72%) Security Specialist
14 21 (3.72%) Senior Manager
15 20 (3.55%) Internal Auditor
16 19 (3.37%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.06%) OAuth
1 6 (1.06%) SailPoint
2 5 (0.89%) OpenID
2 5 (0.89%) SAML
3 4 (0.71%) Kafka
3 4 (0.71%) Middleware
4 3 (0.53%) JSON
4 3 (0.53%) RESTful
5 2 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.35%) PySpark
6 1 (0.18%) ADO
6 1 (0.18%) EDI
6 1 (0.18%) gRPC
6 1 (0.18%) NetworkX
6 1 (0.18%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.18%) Pandas
6 1 (0.18%) REST
6 1 (0.18%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (24.29%) Management Information System
2 89 (15.78%) Security Posture
3 45 (7.98%) Cyber Threat
4 28 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 24 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.19%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.66%) Cybercrime
8 15 (2.66%) Hedge funds
9 14 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.30%) CMDB
11 12 (2.13%) Blockchain
12 10 (1.77%) PKI
13 9 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (1.60%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.24%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.24%) Blog
15 7 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 69 (12.23%) Windows
2 27 (4.79%) Linux
3 21 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.37%) Android
5 17 (3.01%) Unix
6 11 (1.95%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.24%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.06%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (42.73%) Cybersecurity
2 205 (36.35%) Risk Management
3 140 (24.82%) Incident Response
4 94 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 87 (15.43%) Mentoring
6 79 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 78 (13.83%) Cloud Security
7 78 (13.83%) Project Management
8 75 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (12.59%) Roadmaps
10 70 (12.41%) Analytics
11 69 (12.23%) Vulnerability Management
12 64 (11.35%) Agile
12 64 (11.35%) Computer Science
13 60 (10.64%) Data Protection
14 59 (10.46%) SIEM
15 55 (9.75%) AI
16 50 (8.87%) Internal Audit
17 48 (8.51%) Risk Assessment
18 46 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 60 (10.64%) Python
2 49 (8.69%) PowerShell
3 18 (3.19%) Bash
3 18 (3.19%) Go
4 17 (3.01%) SQL
5 16 (2.84%) Java
6 6 (1.06%) C++
7 5 (0.89%) C
7 5 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.53%) C#
8 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
8 3 (0.53%) Perl
8 3 (0.53%) Ruby
8 3 (0.53%) Rust
9 2 (0.35%) Bicep
9 2 (0.35%) R
9 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 213 (37.77%) CISSP
2 154 (27.30%) Degree
3 150 (26.60%) CISM
4 81 (14.36%) CISA
5 57 (10.11%) CRISC
6 42 (7.45%) Master's Degree
6 42 (7.45%) SANS
7 36 (6.38%) Security Cleared
8 35 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (5.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 30 (5.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 28 (4.96%) CCSP
13 27 (4.79%) OSCP
13 27 (4.79%) SC Cleared
14 25 (4.43%) FFIEC
15 24 (4.26%) CEH
15 24 (4.26%) CGEIT
16 17 (3.01%) CompTIA CySA+
16 17 (3.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (38.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 166 (29.43%) NIST
3 110 (19.50%) GRC
4 74 (13.12%) GDPR
5 52 (9.22%) PCI DSS
6 40 (7.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 38 (6.74%) COBIT
7 38 (6.74%) QA
8 32 (5.67%) NIST 800
9 22 (3.90%) SOC 2
10 16 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 13 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (1.60%) Accessibility
13 9 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 9 (1.60%) SLA
14 8 (1.42%) NCSC
15 7 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (1.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (1.24%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.89%) vSphere
4 4 (0.71%) Firmware
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.53%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.35%) Docker
6 2 (0.35%) IAG
Systems Management
1 33 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.14%) Terraform
3 20 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 14 (2.48%) SCCM
5 13 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (2.30%) RSA Archer
6 11 (1.95%) EnCase
6 11 (1.95%) FTK
7 10 (1.77%) Ansible
8 6 (1.06%) CASB
8 6 (1.06%) Packer
9 5 (0.89%) VxRail
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
10 4 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.53%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.18%) Nessus
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 111 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.14%) Google
3 24 (4.26%) Palo Alto
4 21 (3.72%) Cisco
5 18 (3.19%) VMware
6 16 (2.84%) iManage
7 14 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.48%) CyberArk
8 13 (2.30%) Rapid7
9 11 (1.95%) Cellebrite
10 9 (1.60%) EMC
11 8 (1.42%) Thales
12 7 (1.24%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.24%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.06%) F5
13 6 (1.06%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.89%) Polycom
14 5 (0.89%) Splunk
14 5 (0.89%) Tandberg