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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 101 93
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 570 392 779
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.63% 3.22% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 3.37% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 363 237 630
10th Percentile £52,100 £46,900 £44,875
25th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £107,500
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 17,683 11,647 21,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.63% 95.68% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12,086 7,044 16,128
10th Percentile £40,867 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £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 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 22 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 22 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 +4 75 £92,500 +60.40% 22
East London +20 33 £90,000 +2.86% 2
West London -15 18 £87,500 +39.45% 2
South London +20 4 £62,300 - 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 17 (2.98%) SAS
2 7 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.46%) SPSS
3 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 120 (21.05%) Azure
2 75 (13.16%) AWS
3 71 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (9.12%) SaaS
5 34 (5.96%) GCP
6 18 (3.16%) Entra ID
7 16 (2.81%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (2.46%) GitHub
9 14 (2.46%) PaaS
10 11 (1.93%) Dropbox
10 11 (1.93%) IaaS
10 11 (1.93%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 7 (1.23%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
14 5 (0.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 58 (10.18%) Network Security
2 47 (8.25%) Firewall
3 19 (3.33%) CHAP
4 16 (2.81%) DNS
5 14 (2.46%) VPN
6 13 (2.28%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.93%) BGP
7 11 (1.93%) OSPF
7 11 (1.93%) VLAN
7 11 (1.93%) VXLAN
8 10 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (1.40%) WAN
10 4 (0.70%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.70%) SAN
10 4 (0.70%) VSAN
11 3 (0.53%) Broadband
11 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.35%) ATM
12 2 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
13 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.98%) Big Data
2 14 (2.46%) EDRMS
3 13 (2.28%) Power BI
4 7 (1.23%) Tableau
5 5 (0.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.53%) Db2
7 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.18%) Impala
9 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) MySQL
9 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.18%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (1.58%) Git
2 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.70%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.35%) JIRA
4 2 (0.35%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
General
1 245 (42.98%) Finance
2 227 (39.82%) Social Skills
3 107 (18.77%) Analytical Skills
3 107 (18.77%) Banking
4 94 (16.49%) Legal
5 77 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (12.63%) Retail
7 70 (12.28%) Law
8 40 (7.02%) Financial Institution
9 32 (5.61%) Local Government
10 23 (4.04%) Telecoms
11 18 (3.16%) Legal Technology
12 17 (2.98%) Marketing
13 16 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.63%) Back Office
15 13 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.58%) Aviation
17 7 (1.23%) Advertising
17 7 (1.23%) Automotive
17 7 (1.23%) Cyber-Physical System
Job Titles
1 90 (15.79%) Senior
2 79 (13.86%) Security Manager
3 61 (10.70%) Analyst
3 61 (10.70%) Lead
4 59 (10.35%) Information Manager
5 56 (9.82%) Information Security Manager
5 56 (9.82%) Security Engineer
6 38 (6.67%) Security Analyst
7 36 (6.32%) Consultant
8 28 (4.91%) Security Specialist
9 27 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (4.56%) Architect
11 24 (4.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 23 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.86%) Auditor
13 22 (3.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 21 (3.68%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 21 (3.68%) Incident Manager
14 21 (3.68%) Security Auditor
15 20 (3.51%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.05%) OpenID
1 6 (1.05%) SailPoint
1 6 (1.05%) SAML
2 4 (0.70%) Middleware
2 4 (0.70%) OAuth
3 3 (0.53%) JSON
4 2 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.35%) Kafka
4 2 (0.35%) RESTful
5 1 (0.18%) ADO
5 1 (0.18%) EDI
5 1 (0.18%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.18%) Java EE
5 1 (0.18%) JPA
5 1 (0.18%) PySpark
5 1 (0.18%) Spring
5 1 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (23.86%) Management Information System
2 98 (17.19%) Security Posture
3 46 (8.07%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.09%) Cloud Native
5 27 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.16%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.63%) Cybercrime
9 14 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.28%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.75%) Blockchain
11 10 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (1.75%) PKI
12 8 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.40%) Freedom of Information
12 8 (1.40%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.23%) Blog
13 7 (1.23%) CMDB
13 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.35%) Windows
2 26 (4.56%) Linux
3 19 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.81%) Unix
5 11 (1.93%) Android
6 9 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.23%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.05%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (44.91%) Cybersecurity
2 216 (37.89%) Risk Management
3 150 (26.32%) Incident Response
4 106 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 89 (15.61%) Cloud Security
6 84 (14.74%) Mentoring
7 79 (13.86%) Vulnerability Management
8 78 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (13.33%) SIEM
10 74 (12.98%) Roadmaps
11 73 (12.81%) Project Management
12 71 (12.46%) Analytics
12 71 (12.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 65 (11.40%) Computer Science
14 64 (11.23%) Data Protection
15 63 (11.05%) Agile
16 62 (10.88%) AI
17 55 (9.65%) Security Operations
18 53 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
19 51 (8.95%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 53 (9.30%) Python
2 40 (7.02%) PowerShell
3 16 (2.81%) Bash
4 15 (2.63%) Java
5 14 (2.46%) Go
5 14 (2.46%) SQL
6 4 (0.70%) C
6 4 (0.70%) C++
6 4 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.70%) Ruby
7 3 (0.53%) C#
7 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
7 3 (0.53%) Perl
7 3 (0.53%) Rust
8 2 (0.35%) Bicep
8 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.18%) Groovy
9 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 215 (37.72%) CISSP
2 153 (26.84%) CISM
3 146 (25.61%) Degree
4 78 (13.68%) CISA
5 62 (10.88%) CRISC
6 39 (6.84%) Master's Degree
7 38 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (6.67%) SANS
8 35 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (5.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 31 (5.44%) Security Cleared
11 30 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (5.09%) CCSP
13 24 (4.21%) CEH
13 24 (4.21%) OSCP
14 23 (4.04%) FFIEC
14 23 (4.04%) SC Cleared
15 20 (3.51%) CGEIT
16 18 (3.16%) ISACA
17 16 (2.81%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (40.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (31.40%) NIST
3 112 (19.65%) GRC
4 91 (15.96%) GDPR
5 52 (9.12%) PCI DSS
6 44 (7.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 39 (6.84%) COBIT
7 39 (6.84%) NIST 800
8 38 (6.67%) QA
9 26 (4.56%) SOC 2
10 16 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 13 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 12 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (1.93%) Accessibility
14 10 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (1.40%) NCSC
16 7 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (1.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (1.23%) JSP 440
16 7 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.70%) vSphere
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.35%) IAG
6 1 (0.18%) Docker
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.26%) Terraform
3 20 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 13 (2.28%) RSA Archer
6 11 (1.93%) EnCase
6 11 (1.93%) FTK
7 10 (1.75%) Ansible
7 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.23%) SCCM
9 6 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.05%) Packer
10 5 (0.88%) CASB
11 4 (0.70%) Cilium
11 4 (0.70%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.70%) VxRail
12 3 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.53%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 110 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.09%) Palo Alto
3 26 (4.56%) Google
4 21 (3.68%) iManage
5 18 (3.16%) VMware
6 14 (2.46%) Cisco
6 14 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (2.28%) CyberArk
7 13 (2.28%) Rapid7
8 12 (2.11%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.93%) Cellebrite
9 11 (1.93%) Zscaler
10 9 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.40%) EMC
11 8 (1.40%) Thales
12 6 (1.05%) F5
13 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.88%) Oracle
13 5 (0.88%) Splunk
13 5 (0.88%) TOWER Software