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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 113 104
Rank change year-on-year +27 -9 -31
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 613 354 628
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.55% 2.93% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 3.11% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 424 202 451
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,575 £45,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £62,813 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £107,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £71,716 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.33% +4.00% -3.85%

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 19,598 11,387 17,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.65% 94.28% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,237 7,180 11,521
10th Percentile £40,825 £39,679 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,025 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 August 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 August 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 +11 70 £92,500 +27.59% 45
West London +2 25 £75,000 -1.64% 15
East London 0 18 £87,500 -2.78% 4
South London +8 7 £65,000 - 4
North London - 1 £61,250 - 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 30 (4.89%) SAS
2 16 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.82%) Confluence
4 3 (0.49%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (3.92%) SPSS
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.14%) Relativity
2 3 (0.49%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 136 (22.19%) Azure
2 87 (14.19%) AWS
3 75 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (6.69%) SaaS
5 32 (5.22%) GCP
6 24 (3.92%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 17 (2.77%) Dropbox
9 15 (2.45%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 13 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.79%) PaaS
12 10 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (1.63%) GitHub
13 9 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.47%) Amazon ELB
13 9 (1.47%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.47%) AWS CloudTrail
13 9 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (11.91%) Network Security
2 52 (8.48%) Firewall
3 22 (3.59%) DNS
3 22 (3.59%) VPN
4 20 (3.26%) OSPF
5 17 (2.77%) BGP
5 17 (2.77%) VXLAN
6 15 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.45%) WAN
7 13 (2.12%) VLAN
8 9 (1.47%) CHAP
9 8 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (1.14%) LAN
11 4 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.65%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.49%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.49%) TACACS
12 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.08%) Big Data
2 24 (3.92%) EDRMS
3 12 (1.96%) Power BI
4 9 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) DataStage
7 1 (0.16%) Db2
7 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.16%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.31%) Git
2 6 (0.98%) JIRA
2 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.65%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.49%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 231 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 217 (35.40%) Finance
3 101 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (16.31%) Legal
5 83 (13.54%) Law
6 82 (13.38%) Banking
7 73 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (7.67%) Retail
9 30 (4.89%) Legal Technology
10 25 (4.08%) Local Government
11 21 (3.43%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.63%) Public Sector
16 9 (1.47%) Back Office
16 9 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.14%) Cyber-Physical System
17 7 (1.14%) French Language
17 7 (1.14%) German Language
Job Titles
1 94 (15.33%) Security Manager
1 94 (15.33%) Senior
2 73 (11.91%) Lead
3 68 (11.09%) Information Manager
4 65 (10.60%) Analyst
4 65 (10.60%) Information Security Manager
5 47 (7.67%) Security Engineer
6 43 (7.01%) Security Analyst
7 35 (5.71%) Architect
7 35 (5.71%) Security Specialist
8 27 (4.40%) Consultant
9 26 (4.24%) IT Manager
10 25 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 23 (3.75%) Senior Manager
12 21 (3.43%) Head of Security
12 21 (3.43%) Incident Manager
12 21 (3.43%) Security Architect
13 20 (3.26%) Information Analyst
13 20 (3.26%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.06%) Terraform
2 6 (0.98%) OpenID
2 6 (0.98%) SailPoint
2 6 (0.98%) SAML
3 4 (0.65%) REST
4 3 (0.49%) .NET
4 3 (0.49%) JSON
5 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.33%) Kafka
5 2 (0.33%) OAuth
5 2 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.16%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.16%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.16%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (0.16%) JPA
6 1 (0.16%) LangChain
6 1 (0.16%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (0.16%) Middleware
6 1 (0.16%) Spring
6 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (23.00%) Management Information System
2 89 (14.52%) Security Posture
3 45 (7.34%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.22%) Cloud Native
5 28 (4.57%) Onboarding
6 26 (4.24%) Cybercrime
7 20 (3.26%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
10 10 (1.63%) Freedom of Information Act
11 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
12 7 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.30%) Windows
2 30 (4.89%) Linux
3 11 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.47%) Android
6 7 (1.14%) Unix
6 7 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (45.84%) Cybersecurity
2 217 (35.40%) Risk Management
3 154 (25.12%) Incident Response
4 137 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (16.64%) Cloud Security
6 95 (15.50%) SIEM
7 93 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (14.68%) Roadmaps
9 89 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (13.87%) Vulnerability Management
11 78 (12.72%) AI
12 77 (12.56%) Mentoring
12 77 (12.56%) Security Operations
13 72 (11.75%) Business Continuity
13 72 (11.75%) Data Protection
14 69 (11.26%) Analytics
15 62 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
16 61 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 58 (9.46%) Computer Science
18 55 (8.97%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 50 (8.16%) Python
2 35 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 16 (2.61%) Bash
3 16 (2.61%) Java
4 13 (2.12%) Go
4 13 (2.12%) SQL
5 10 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (1.14%) C#
7 6 (0.98%) Ruby
8 5 (0.82%) C
8 5 (0.82%) C++
9 4 (0.65%) Perl
9 4 (0.65%) Rust
10 3 (0.49%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.16%) Bicep
12 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.16%) Groovy
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 211 (34.42%) CISSP
2 152 (24.80%) Degree
3 148 (24.14%) CISM
4 61 (9.95%) CRISC
5 53 (8.65%) CISA
6 50 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
7 44 (7.18%) Master's Degree
8 40 (6.53%) Security Cleared
9 34 (5.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 33 (5.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 32 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (5.06%) CCSP
13 28 (4.57%) CEH
14 27 (4.40%) OSCP
15 23 (3.75%) SC Cleared
16 20 (3.26%) GCIH
16 20 (3.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 18 (2.94%) GIAC
17 18 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 17 (2.77%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (38.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (28.87%) NIST
3 117 (19.09%) GDPR
4 116 (18.92%) GRC
5 59 (9.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 51 (8.32%) PCI DSS
7 35 (5.71%) COBIT
8 31 (5.06%) SOC 2
9 30 (4.89%) NIST 800
10 27 (4.40%) QA
11 18 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 16 (2.61%) NCSC
13 15 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 12 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (1.79%) Accessibility
16 9 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (1.14%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.82%) ISO 22301
18 5 (0.82%) PMO
18 5 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.49%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.33%) IAG
5 1 (0.16%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (2.77%) EnCase
3 17 (2.77%) FTK
4 13 (2.12%) Ansible
5 10 (1.63%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.98%) Packer
7 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.65%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.49%) CASB
9 3 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.49%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.49%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.49%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 2 (0.33%) Argo
10 2 (0.33%) Grafana
10 2 (0.33%) Istio
10 2 (0.33%) linkerd
10 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 118 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.36%) Palo Alto
3 25 (4.08%) iManage
4 19 (3.10%) Google
5 18 (2.94%) Cisco
5 18 (2.94%) Fortinet
5 18 (2.94%) Zscaler
6 17 (2.77%) Cellebrite
6 17 (2.77%) CrowdStrike
6 17 (2.77%) Rapid7
6 17 (2.77%) VMware
7 13 (2.12%) CyberArk
8 11 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.63%) Oracle
10 9 (1.47%) LogRhythm
10 9 (1.47%) Tenable
11 8 (1.31%) Splunk
11 8 (1.31%) Thales
12 7 (1.14%) Nuix
13 6 (0.98%) OpenAI