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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 99 91
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 565 390 777
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.69% 3.21% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 3.34% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 350 250 636
10th Percentile £52,450 £50,804 £44,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £57,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,375 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £102,350
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 17,128 11,660 21,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.65% 96.06% 90.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,557 6,980 15,899
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,725 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,250 £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 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -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 1 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 1 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 +8 78 £92,500 +60.40% 32
East London +22 36 £90,000 +2.86% 3
West London -25 16 £60,000 -4.37% 6
South London +8 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 15 (2.65%) SAS
2 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.30%) SPSS
4 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 112 (19.82%) Azure
2 72 (12.74%) AWS
3 69 (12.21%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (9.20%) SaaS
5 40 (7.08%) GCP
6 28 (4.96%) Entra ID
7 17 (3.01%) Power Platform
8 16 (2.83%) PaaS
9 15 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (2.48%) GitHub
11 13 (2.30%) IaaS
11 13 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (1.95%) Dropbox
13 10 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.59%) Nutanix
15 7 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
16 6 (1.06%) OpenShift
17 5 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 4 (0.71%) Amazon ELB
18 4 (0.71%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.50%) Network Security
2 41 (7.26%) Firewall
3 23 (4.07%) CHAP
4 10 (1.77%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (1.77%) DNS
4 10 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.77%) VPN
5 9 (1.59%) WAAS
6 6 (1.06%) BGP
6 6 (1.06%) OSPF
6 6 (1.06%) VLAN
6 6 (1.06%) VXLAN
6 6 (1.06%) WAN
7 5 (0.88%) SAN
7 5 (0.88%) VSAN
8 4 (0.71%) ATM
8 4 (0.71%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.36%) Big Data
2 14 (2.48%) Power BI
3 13 (2.30%) EDRMS
4 10 (1.77%) Tableau
5 7 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.88%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.53%) DataStage
9 3 (0.53%) DB2
9 3 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.53%) MySQL
9 3 (0.53%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.53%) Pentaho
9 3 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.53%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (1.77%) Git
2 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.35%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.18%) JIRA
General
1 250 (44.25%) Finance
2 224 (39.65%) Social Skills
3 114 (20.18%) Banking
4 108 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (16.81%) Legal
6 89 (15.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 76 (13.45%) Retail
8 69 (12.21%) Law
9 50 (8.85%) Financial Institution
10 32 (5.66%) Local Government
11 24 (4.25%) Telecoms
12 20 (3.54%) Marketing
13 14 (2.48%) Back Office
13 14 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.59%) Aviation
15 9 (1.59%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.24%) Automotive
16 7 (1.24%) Cyber-Physical System
17 6 (1.06%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 82 (14.51%) Senior
2 73 (12.92%) Security Manager
3 68 (12.04%) Lead
4 59 (10.44%) Analyst
4 59 (10.44%) Security Engineer
5 54 (9.56%) Information Manager
6 51 (9.03%) Information Security Manager
7 33 (5.84%) Consultant
7 33 (5.84%) Security Analyst
8 27 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 26 (4.60%) Architect
9 26 (4.60%) Auditor
10 25 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (4.42%) Security Auditor
11 24 (4.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 22 (3.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 20 (3.54%) Internal Auditor
13 20 (3.54%) Security Specialist
13 20 (3.54%) Senior Manager
14 19 (3.36%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.06%) OAuth
1 6 (1.06%) SailPoint
2 5 (0.88%) OpenID
2 5 (0.88%) SAML
3 4 (0.71%) Kafka
3 4 (0.71%) Middleware
4 2 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.35%) JSON
4 2 (0.35%) PySpark
4 2 (0.35%) RESTful
5 1 (0.18%) ADO
5 1 (0.18%) EDI
5 1 (0.18%) gRPC
5 1 (0.18%) NetworkX
5 1 (0.18%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.18%) Pandas
5 1 (0.18%) REST
5 1 (0.18%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (24.78%) Management Information System
2 89 (15.75%) Security Posture
3 45 (7.96%) Cyber Threat
4 28 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 20 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.19%) Operational Technology
8 17 (3.01%) Hedge funds
9 15 (2.65%) CMDB
10 14 (2.48%) Cybercrime
10 14 (2.48%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.12%) Blockchain
12 11 (1.95%) PKI
12 11 (1.95%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.24%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.24%) Blog
15 7 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (12.57%) Windows
2 28 (4.96%) Linux
3 21 (3.72%) Android
3 21 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.19%) Unix
5 11 (1.95%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.42%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.06%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (42.30%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (35.93%) Risk Management
3 139 (24.60%) Incident Response
4 93 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (15.58%) Mentoring
6 81 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 79 (13.98%) Project Management
8 76 (13.45%) Cloud Security
9 73 (12.92%) Roadmaps
10 71 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (12.21%) Analytics
12 68 (12.04%) Vulnerability Management
13 67 (11.86%) Agile
14 63 (11.15%) Computer Science
15 60 (10.62%) Data Protection
16 57 (10.09%) SIEM
17 51 (9.03%) AI
18 50 (8.85%) Internal Audit
19 48 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
19 48 (8.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 63 (11.15%) Python
2 51 (9.03%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.54%) SQL
4 18 (3.19%) Bash
4 18 (3.19%) Go
4 18 (3.19%) Java
5 6 (1.06%) C++
6 5 (0.88%) C
7 4 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.53%) C#
8 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
8 3 (0.53%) Perl
8 3 (0.53%) Ruby
8 3 (0.53%) Rust
9 2 (0.35%) Bicep
9 2 (0.35%) R
10 1 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 212 (37.52%) CISSP
2 153 (27.08%) Degree
3 148 (26.19%) CISM
4 82 (14.51%) CISA
5 56 (9.91%) CRISC
6 41 (7.26%) Master's Degree
6 41 (7.26%) SANS
7 37 (6.55%) Security Cleared
8 33 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 28 (4.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 28 (4.96%) SC Cleared
12 27 (4.78%) OSCP
13 26 (4.60%) CCSP
14 24 (4.25%) CGEIT
14 24 (4.25%) FFIEC
15 23 (4.07%) CEH
16 18 (3.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 17 (3.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (38.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 163 (28.85%) NIST
3 111 (19.65%) GRC
4 73 (12.92%) GDPR
5 51 (9.03%) PCI DSS
6 40 (7.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 38 (6.73%) COBIT
7 38 (6.73%) QA
8 32 (5.66%) NIST 800
9 22 (3.89%) SOC 2
10 16 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 15 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (1.95%) SLA
14 9 (1.59%) Accessibility
14 9 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (1.42%) NCSC
16 7 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (1.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (1.24%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.88%) Firmware
3 5 (0.88%) vSphere
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.53%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.35%) Docker
6 2 (0.35%) IAG
Systems Management
1 33 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.31%) Terraform
3 19 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (2.83%) SCCM
5 14 (2.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 13 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.30%) RSA Archer
7 11 (1.95%) EnCase
7 11 (1.95%) FTK
8 10 (1.77%) Ansible
9 6 (1.06%) CASB
9 6 (1.06%) Packer
10 5 (0.88%) VxRail
11 4 (0.71%) Cilium
11 4 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.53%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.18%) Nessus
13 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 111 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.31%) Google
3 24 (4.25%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.07%) Cisco
5 18 (3.19%) VMware
6 15 (2.65%) iManage
7 14 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.48%) CyberArk
8 13 (2.30%) Rapid7
9 11 (1.95%) Cellebrite
10 9 (1.59%) EMC
11 8 (1.42%) Thales
12 7 (1.24%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.24%) Oracle
12 7 (1.24%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.06%) F5
13 6 (1.06%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.88%) Polycom
14 5 (0.88%) Tandberg
14 5 (0.88%) TOWER Software