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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 102 99
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 -34
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 608 385 717
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.70% 3.10% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.27% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 400 225 551
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,500 £58,875
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 £107,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,202
% change year-on-year +11.54% +7.97% -7.38%

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 18,485 11,756 20,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.22% 94.64% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 12,682 7,393 14,307
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £118,750
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 19 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 19 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 -1 73 £92,500 +32.14% 21
East London +9 23 £87,500 -2.78% 3
West London -7 22 £75,000 +10.59% 10
South London +14 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 25 (4.11%) SAS
2 14 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 19 (3.13%) SPSS
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.82%) Relativity
2 3 (0.49%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 129 (21.22%) Azure
2 90 (14.80%) AWS
3 76 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (8.39%) SaaS
5 35 (5.76%) GCP
6 20 (3.29%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.96%) Power Platform
8 16 (2.63%) OpenShift
9 15 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (2.30%) Dropbox
10 14 (2.30%) GitHub
11 12 (1.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 12 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (1.81%) PaaS
13 10 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (1.32%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.32%) IaaS
14 8 (1.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 70 (11.51%) Network Security
2 50 (8.22%) Firewall
3 19 (3.13%) DNS
4 18 (2.96%) VPN
5 16 (2.63%) BGP
5 16 (2.63%) OSPF
5 16 (2.63%) VXLAN
6 15 (2.47%) CHAP
7 13 (2.14%) TCP/IP
7 13 (2.14%) VLAN
8 10 (1.64%) WAN
9 9 (1.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.66%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.66%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.49%) Broadband
11 3 (0.49%) LAN
12 2 (0.33%) SAN
12 2 (0.33%) VSAN
12 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.45%) Big Data
2 19 (3.13%) EDRMS
3 15 (2.47%) Power BI
4 8 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.49%) Db2
5 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.49%) Tableau
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.16%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Git
2 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (0.82%) JIRA
4 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.66%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.66%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.33%) Yeoman
General
1 244 (40.13%) Finance
2 234 (38.49%) Social Skills
3 106 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (16.78%) Banking
5 101 (16.61%) Legal
6 85 (13.98%) Law
7 78 (12.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 67 (11.02%) Retail
9 36 (5.92%) Financial Institution
10 29 (4.77%) Local Government
11 23 (3.78%) Legal Technology
11 23 (3.78%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.63%) Back Office
13 15 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (2.30%) Marketing
15 13 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.15%) Automotive
17 7 (1.15%) Cyber-Physical System
17 7 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 97 (15.95%) Senior
2 81 (13.32%) Security Manager
3 70 (11.51%) Lead
4 64 (10.53%) Analyst
5 61 (10.03%) Information Manager
6 57 (9.38%) Information Security Manager
7 56 (9.21%) Security Engineer
8 42 (6.91%) Security Analyst
9 33 (5.43%) Security Specialist
10 32 (5.26%) Consultant
11 30 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.77%) Architect
13 25 (4.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 24 (3.95%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 23 (3.78%) Senior Manager
16 21 (3.45%) Incident Manager
16 21 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
17 20 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (3.29%) Head of Security
17 20 (3.29%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.15%) OpenID
1 7 (1.15%) SailPoint
1 7 (1.15%) SAML
2 3 (0.49%) .NET
2 3 (0.49%) JSON
2 3 (0.49%) Middleware
2 3 (0.49%) OAuth
2 3 (0.49%) REST
3 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.33%) Kafka
3 2 (0.33%) RESTful
4 1 (0.16%) ADO
4 1 (0.16%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.16%) Java EE
4 1 (0.16%) JPA
4 1 (0.16%) Spring
4 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.01%) Management Information System
2 100 (16.45%) Security Posture
3 48 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 32 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (3.45%) Cybercrime
7 19 (3.13%) Operational Technology
8 14 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.97%) Freedom of Information
10 11 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.64%) Freedom of Information Act
12 8 (1.32%) Blockchain
12 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.15%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.54%) Windows
2 27 (4.44%) Linux
3 13 (2.14%) Unix
3 13 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.64%) Android
6 7 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.49%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
2 227 (37.34%) Risk Management
3 156 (25.66%) Incident Response
4 134 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (16.45%) Cloud Security
6 96 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 88 (14.47%) SIEM
8 86 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (13.49%) Mentoring
10 80 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
11 77 (12.66%) Analytics
12 75 (12.34%) Data Protection
13 73 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 72 (11.84%) AI
15 65 (10.69%) Business Continuity
15 65 (10.69%) Project Management
15 65 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 64 (10.53%) Security Operations
17 62 (10.20%) Agile
18 60 (9.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.73%) Python
2 33 (5.43%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.47%) Bash
3 15 (2.47%) Java
4 12 (1.97%) Go
5 11 (1.81%) SQL
6 7 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.99%) C#
8 4 (0.66%) C
8 4 (0.66%) C++
8 4 (0.66%) Ruby
8 4 (0.66%) Rust
9 3 (0.49%) Objective-C
9 3 (0.49%) Perl
10 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.16%) Bicep
11 1 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 218 (35.86%) CISSP
2 153 (25.16%) CISM
3 150 (24.67%) Degree
4 66 (10.86%) CISA
4 66 (10.86%) CRISC
5 44 (7.24%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (7.07%) Master's Degree
7 37 (6.09%) CompTIA Security+
8 34 (5.59%) Security Cleared
9 31 (5.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 31 (5.10%) CCSP
9 31 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (3.95%) CEH
10 24 (3.95%) SANS
10 24 (3.95%) SC Cleared
11 23 (3.78%) OSCP
12 20 (3.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 19 (3.13%) AWS Certification
14 18 (2.96%) FFIEC
14 18 (2.96%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (40.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 175 (28.78%) NIST
3 119 (19.57%) GRC
4 117 (19.24%) GDPR
5 56 (9.21%) PCI DSS
6 50 (8.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 35 (5.76%) COBIT
8 34 (5.59%) QA
9 33 (5.43%) NIST 800
9 33 (5.43%) SOC 2
10 17 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 15 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 12 (1.97%) Accessibility
13 11 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (1.48%) NCSC
15 8 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (1.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 23 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.49%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.33%) IAG
4 2 (0.33%) vSphere
5 1 (0.16%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.76%) Terraform
3 24 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.30%) EnCase
4 14 (2.30%) FTK
5 13 (2.14%) Ansible
6 9 (1.48%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.99%) Packer
8 5 (0.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.66%) Cilium
9 4 (0.66%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.49%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.49%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.49%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.33%) CASB
11 2 (0.33%) VxRail
12 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 115 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.59%) Palo Alto
3 25 (4.11%) iManage
4 24 (3.95%) Google
5 17 (2.80%) Fortinet
6 16 (2.63%) VMware
6 16 (2.63%) Zscaler
7 15 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (2.30%) Cellebrite
8 14 (2.30%) Cisco
8 14 (2.30%) Rapid7
9 13 (2.14%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.48%) Oracle
12 8 (1.32%) Thales
13 7 (1.15%) Tenable
14 6 (0.99%) EMC
14 6 (0.99%) F5
14 6 (0.99%) Splunk
15 5 (0.82%) TOWER Software