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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 103 99
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 -36
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 598 390 739
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.69% 3.13% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.31% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 390 226 573
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,500 £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 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £109,375 £112,250
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 18,284 11,795 20,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.26% 94.72% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,510 7,401 14,891
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,903 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,075 £122,500 £117,500
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 16 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 16 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 +3 73 £92,500 +54.17% 19
East London +11 23 £87,500 -2.78% 2
West London -7 22 £75,000 +19.53% 12
South London +10 5 £74,600 - 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 24 (4.01%) SAS
2 12 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 18 (3.01%) SPSS
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Relativity
2 3 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 125 (20.90%) Azure
2 85 (14.21%) AWS
3 75 (12.54%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (8.36%) SaaS
5 33 (5.52%) GCP
6 19 (3.18%) Entra ID
7 18 (3.01%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (2.51%) OpenShift
9 14 (2.34%) GitHub
10 13 (2.17%) Dropbox
11 12 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (1.84%) PaaS
12 11 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.34%) Google Workspace
15 8 (1.34%) IaaS
16 7 (1.17%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.20%) Network Security
2 48 (8.03%) Firewall
3 18 (3.01%) DNS
3 18 (3.01%) VPN
4 15 (2.51%) BGP
4 15 (2.51%) CHAP
4 15 (2.51%) OSPF
4 15 (2.51%) VXLAN
5 13 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 13 (2.17%) VLAN
6 9 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (1.51%) WAN
7 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.67%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.50%) Broadband
8 3 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.33%) LAN
9 2 (0.33%) SAN
9 2 (0.33%) VSAN
10 1 (0.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.34%) Big Data
2 18 (3.01%) EDRMS
3 15 (2.51%) Power BI
4 8 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.50%) Db2
6 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.50%) Tableau
7 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
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 7 (1.17%) 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
1 242 (40.47%) Finance
2 232 (38.80%) Social Skills
3 104 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (17.22%) Banking
5 99 (16.56%) Legal
6 85 (14.21%) Law
7 78 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 68 (11.37%) Retail
9 36 (6.02%) Financial Institution
10 30 (5.02%) Local Government
11 23 (3.85%) Telecoms
12 22 (3.68%) Legal Technology
13 16 (2.68%) Back Office
14 14 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (2.34%) Marketing
15 13 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.17%) Advertising
17 7 (1.17%) Automotive
17 7 (1.17%) Cyber-Physical System
Job Titles
1 98 (16.39%) Senior
2 80 (13.38%) Security Manager
3 69 (11.54%) Lead
4 64 (10.70%) Analyst
5 60 (10.03%) Information Manager
6 56 (9.36%) Information Security Manager
7 55 (9.20%) Security Engineer
8 42 (7.02%) Security Analyst
9 34 (5.69%) Consultant
10 32 (5.35%) Security Specialist
11 29 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (4.52%) Architect
13 25 (4.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 23 (3.85%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 22 (3.68%) Senior Consultant
15 22 (3.68%) Senior Manager
16 21 (3.51%) Incident Manager
17 20 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (3.34%) Information Analyst
18 19 (3.18%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.34%) OpenID
1 8 (1.34%) SAML
2 7 (1.17%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.67%) OAuth
4 3 (0.50%) .NET
4 3 (0.50%) JSON
4 3 (0.50%) Middleware
4 3 (0.50%) REST
5 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.33%) Kafka
5 2 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.17%) ADO
6 1 (0.17%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.17%) Java EE
6 1 (0.17%) JPA
6 1 (0.17%) Spring
6 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.41%) Management Information System
2 102 (17.06%) Security Posture
3 47 (7.86%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.35%) Cloud Native
4 32 (5.35%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.34%) Cybercrime
7 19 (3.18%) Operational Technology
8 14 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.34%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.01%) Freedom of Information
10 10 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
11 8 (1.34%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.17%) Blog
12 7 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (1.17%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.36%) Windows
2 26 (4.35%) Linux
3 13 (2.17%) Unix
3 13 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.51%) Android
6 7 (1.17%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (43.81%) Cybersecurity
2 222 (37.12%) Risk Management
3 153 (25.59%) Incident Response
4 132 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 96 (16.05%) Cloud Security
6 94 (15.72%) Roadmaps
7 88 (14.72%) SIEM
8 85 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (13.88%) Mentoring
10 77 (12.88%) Vulnerability Management
11 76 (12.71%) Analytics
12 73 (12.21%) Data Protection
13 72 (12.04%) AI
13 72 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 66 (11.04%) Project Management
15 64 (10.70%) Security Operations
16 62 (10.37%) Agile
16 62 (10.37%) Business Continuity
16 62 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 61 (10.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.86%) Python
2 33 (5.52%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.51%) Java
4 14 (2.34%) Bash
5 12 (2.01%) Go
6 11 (1.84%) SQL
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%) Bicep
11 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 215 (35.95%) CISSP
2 151 (25.25%) CISM
3 148 (24.75%) Degree
4 66 (11.04%) CISA
5 65 (10.87%) CRISC
6 43 (7.19%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (7.02%) Master's Degree
8 37 (6.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 33 (5.52%) Security Cleared
10 32 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (5.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (5.02%) CCSP
13 24 (4.01%) CEH
13 24 (4.01%) SANS
13 24 (4.01%) SC Cleared
14 23 (3.85%) OSCP
15 18 (3.01%) FFIEC
15 18 (3.01%) GIAC
15 18 (3.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 17 (2.84%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (40.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 174 (29.10%) NIST
3 117 (19.57%) GDPR
3 117 (19.57%) GRC
4 54 (9.03%) PCI DSS
5 48 (8.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 35 (5.85%) COBIT
6 35 (5.85%) QA
7 34 (5.69%) NIST 800
8 33 (5.52%) SOC 2
9 17 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 15 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 12 (2.01%) Accessibility
12 10 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (1.51%) NCSC
14 8 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (1.17%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (1.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 22 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.33%) IAG
4 2 (0.33%) vSphere
5 1 (0.17%) Docker
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.52%) Terraform
3 24 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (2.17%) EnCase
4 13 (2.17%) FTK
5 12 (2.01%) Ansible
6 8 (1.34%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.00%) Packer
9 5 (0.84%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.67%) Cilium
10 4 (0.67%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.50%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.50%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.50%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.33%) CASB
12 2 (0.33%) VxRail
13 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.17%) Nessus
13 1 (0.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 113 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.52%) Palo Alto
3 25 (4.18%) iManage
4 23 (3.85%) Google
5 16 (2.68%) Fortinet
6 15 (2.51%) CrowdStrike
6 15 (2.51%) VMware
6 15 (2.51%) Zscaler
7 14 (2.34%) Rapid7
8 13 (2.17%) Cellebrite
8 13 (2.17%) Cisco
8 13 (2.17%) CyberArk
9 10 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.34%) Oracle
10 8 (1.34%) Thales
11 7 (1.17%) Tenable
12 6 (1.00%) EMC
12 6 (1.00%) F5
12 6 (1.00%) Splunk
13 5 (0.84%) Qualys