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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 98 101
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 -24
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 588 400 750
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.68% 3.25% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.40% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 386 239 597
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £91,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £117,500 £109,250
England median annual salary £74,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.85% +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 18,001 11,748 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.05% 95.34% 89.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12,337 7,224 15,769
10th Percentile £40,700 £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 £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 2 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 2 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 76 £92,500 +60.63% 32
East London +21 31 £90,000 +2.86% 3
West London -10 19 £75,000 +19.53% 10
South London +21 4 £62,300 - 3
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 19 (3.23%) SAS
2 11 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (2.89%) SPSS
2 12 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Relativity
2 3 (0.51%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.51%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 123 (20.92%) Azure
2 75 (12.76%) AWS
3 72 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (8.67%) SaaS
5 33 (5.61%) GCP
6 18 (3.06%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (2.38%) GitHub
9 13 (2.21%) Dropbox
10 12 (2.04%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.04%) PaaS
10 12 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (1.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 10 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.53%) IaaS
14 7 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.19%) Amazon ELB
14 7 (1.19%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.71%) Network Security
2 45 (7.65%) Firewall
3 17 (2.89%) CHAP
3 17 (2.89%) DNS
4 15 (2.55%) VPN
5 13 (2.21%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.04%) BGP
6 12 (2.04%) OSPF
6 12 (2.04%) VLAN
6 12 (2.04%) VXLAN
7 10 (1.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (1.02%) WAN
9 4 (0.68%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.51%) Broadband
10 3 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.51%) VSAN
10 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.17%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.23%) Big Data
2 17 (2.89%) EDRMS
3 15 (2.55%) Power BI
4 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.68%) Tableau
7 3 (0.51%) Db2
7 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) MySQL
9 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.17%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.19%) Git
2 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.51%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.34%) JIRA
5 2 (0.34%) Yeoman
General
1 248 (42.18%) Finance
2 234 (39.80%) Social Skills
3 110 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (18.03%) Banking
5 98 (16.67%) Legal
6 81 (13.78%) Law
7 79 (13.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (12.07%) Retail
9 36 (6.12%) Financial Institution
10 32 (5.44%) Local Government
11 23 (3.91%) Telecoms
12 21 (3.57%) Legal Technology
13 16 (2.72%) Back Office
14 15 (2.55%) Marketing
15 14 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.36%) Aviation
18 7 (1.19%) Advertising
18 7 (1.19%) Automotive
18 7 (1.19%) Cyber-Physical System
Job Titles
1 94 (15.99%) Senior
2 82 (13.95%) Security Manager
3 68 (11.56%) Lead
4 63 (10.71%) Analyst
5 62 (10.54%) Information Manager
6 58 (9.86%) Information Security Manager
7 57 (9.69%) Security Engineer
8 40 (6.80%) Security Analyst
9 33 (5.61%) Consultant
10 30 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.10%) Security Specialist
11 26 (4.42%) Architect
11 26 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 24 (4.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 21 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (3.57%) Incident Manager
14 20 (3.40%) Auditor
14 20 (3.40%) Risk Manager
14 20 (3.40%) Senior Manager
15 19 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.19%) OpenID
1 7 (1.19%) SAML
2 6 (1.02%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.68%) Middleware
3 4 (0.68%) OAuth
4 3 (0.51%) .NET
4 3 (0.51%) JSON
4 3 (0.51%) REST
5 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.34%) Kafka
5 2 (0.34%) RESTful
6 1 (0.17%) ADO
6 1 (0.17%) EDI
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
1 139 (23.64%) Management Information System
2 101 (17.18%) Security Posture
3 46 (7.82%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.44%) Cloud Native
5 27 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 24 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.06%) Cybercrime
7 18 (3.06%) Operational Technology
8 14 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
11 9 (1.53%) Blockchain
11 9 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (1.53%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.36%) Freedom of Information Act
12 8 (1.36%) PKI
12 8 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.19%) Blog
13 7 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.69%) Windows
2 26 (4.42%) Linux
3 17 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.38%) Unix
5 10 (1.70%) Android
6 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.51%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (44.39%) Cybersecurity
2 219 (37.24%) Risk Management
3 151 (25.68%) Incident Response
4 117 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 95 (16.16%) Cloud Security
6 84 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (14.29%) SIEM
7 83 (14.12%) Mentoring
8 80 (13.61%) Roadmaps
8 80 (13.61%) Vulnerability Management
9 74 (12.59%) Analytics
10 70 (11.90%) Project Management
10 70 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 69 (11.73%) Data Protection
12 66 (11.22%) AI
13 64 (10.88%) Agile
13 64 (10.88%) Computer Science
14 60 (10.20%) Business Continuity
14 60 (10.20%) Security Operations
15 57 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.16%) Python
2 37 (6.29%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.55%) Bash
3 15 (2.55%) Java
4 12 (2.04%) Go
4 12 (2.04%) SQL
5 6 (1.02%) C#
5 6 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.68%) C
6 4 (0.68%) C++
6 4 (0.68%) Ruby
7 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
7 3 (0.51%) Perl
7 3 (0.51%) Rust
8 2 (0.34%) Bicep
8 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 217 (36.90%) CISSP
2 157 (26.70%) CISM
3 148 (25.17%) Degree
4 73 (12.41%) CISA
5 69 (11.73%) CRISC
6 40 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (6.63%) Master's Degree
8 36 (6.12%) SANS
9 35 (5.95%) CompTIA Security+
10 33 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (5.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (5.10%) CCSP
13 29 (4.93%) Security Cleared
14 24 (4.08%) CEH
14 24 (4.08%) OSCP
15 23 (3.91%) SC Cleared
16 21 (3.57%) FFIEC
17 19 (3.23%) ISACA
17 19 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 18 (3.06%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (41.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 178 (30.27%) NIST
3 116 (19.73%) GRC
4 104 (17.69%) GDPR
5 51 (8.67%) PCI DSS
6 48 (8.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 39 (6.63%) NIST 800
8 38 (6.46%) COBIT
8 38 (6.46%) QA
9 29 (4.93%) SOC 2
10 16 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 13 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 12 (2.04%) Accessibility
13 11 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (1.19%) NCSC
15 7 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (1.19%) SOC 1
System Software
1 24 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.51%) VMware Server
3 3 (0.51%) vSphere
4 2 (0.34%) IAG
5 1 (0.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.44%) Terraform
3 22 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 13 (2.21%) EnCase
5 13 (2.21%) FTK
5 13 (2.21%) RSA Archer
6 10 (1.70%) Ansible
7 6 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.02%) Packer
8 4 (0.68%) Cilium
8 4 (0.68%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.51%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.51%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.51%) VxRail
10 2 (0.34%) CASB
10 2 (0.34%) SCCM
11 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 116 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.10%) Palo Alto
3 25 (4.25%) iManage
4 22 (3.74%) Google
5 18 (3.06%) VMware
6 15 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (2.21%) Cellebrite
7 13 (2.21%) CyberArk
7 13 (2.21%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.21%) Rapid7
8 12 (2.04%) Cisco
8 12 (2.04%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.36%) Oracle
10 8 (1.36%) Thales
11 7 (1.19%) EMC
11 7 (1.19%) Tenable
12 6 (1.02%) F5
12 6 (1.02%) Splunk
13 5 (0.85%) Qualys