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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 88 86
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 565 475 781
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.94% 3.68% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.83% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 314 285 650
10th Percentile £52,875 £51,750 £44,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £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 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £124,000 £120,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 16,021 12,406 21,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.50% 96.10% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,467 7,550 16,119
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +5 84 £80,000 +14.29% 32
East London +9 35 £105,000 +238.71% 8
West London -34 18 £71,250 +23.55% 11
South London +3 7 £50,000 -23.08%
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 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.77%) SAS
3 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.53%) Confluence
6 2 (0.35%) MTS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 25 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.42%) SPSS
5 7 (1.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (20.71%) Azure
2 79 (13.98%) AWS
3 63 (11.15%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (9.20%) GCP
5 50 (8.85%) SaaS
6 29 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 21 (3.72%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (3.01%) IaaS
9 17 (3.01%) PaaS
10 14 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (2.30%) GitHub
11 13 (2.30%) Nutanix
12 9 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.42%) Dropbox
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.50%) Firewall
2 30 (5.31%) Network Security
3 27 (4.78%) CHAP
4 15 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
5 9 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.59%) WAAS
5 9 (1.59%) WAN
6 6 (1.06%) RTP
6 6 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.88%) SAN
7 5 (0.88%) VPN
7 5 (0.88%) VSAN
8 4 (0.71%) ATM
8 4 (0.71%) DNS
9 3 (0.53%) Broadband
10 2 (0.35%) DKIM
10 2 (0.35%) DMARC
11 1 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.54%) Power BI
2 17 (3.01%) Tableau
3 16 (2.83%) Big Data
4 8 (1.42%) EDRMS
4 8 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.24%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.06%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.88%) DataStage
7 5 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.88%) MySQL
7 5 (0.88%) Neo4j
7 5 (0.88%) Pentaho
7 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.53%) DB2
8 3 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (1.24%) Git
2 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
2 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.18%) JIRA
General
1 274 (48.50%) Finance
2 244 (43.19%) Social Skills
3 132 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (21.06%) Banking
5 94 (16.64%) Legal
6 76 (13.45%) Financial Institution
7 72 (12.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 67 (11.86%) Retail
9 66 (11.68%) Law
10 36 (6.37%) Marketing
11 27 (4.78%) Telecoms
12 24 (4.25%) Local Government
13 21 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (3.19%) Back Office
15 17 (3.01%) Digital Economy
16 11 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.77%) Public Sector
18 9 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (1.24%) Automotive
20 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (13.98%) Lead
2 75 (13.27%) Senior
3 65 (11.50%) Security Engineer
4 55 (9.73%) Analyst
5 44 (7.79%) Security Manager
6 36 (6.37%) Consultant
7 34 (6.02%) Security Analyst
8 33 (5.84%) Information Manager
9 30 (5.31%) Information Security Manager
10 29 (5.13%) Auditor
10 29 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (4.96%) Security Auditor
12 24 (4.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 24 (4.25%) Internal Auditor
13 22 (3.89%) Python Engineer
14 20 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 19 (3.36%) Architect
15 19 (3.36%) Head of Security
16 18 (3.19%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.48%) OAuth
2 10 (1.77%) Kafka
3 8 (1.42%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.06%) RESTful
4 6 (1.06%) SAML
5 5 (0.88%) gRPC
5 5 (0.88%) OpenID
5 5 (0.88%) REST
5 5 (0.88%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.71%) Middleware
7 3 (0.53%) EDI
7 3 (0.53%) JWT
7 3 (0.53%) Node.js
7 3 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.35%) PySpark
9 1 (0.18%) HTML
9 1 (0.18%) NetworkX
9 1 (0.18%) Pandas
9 1 (0.18%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 134 (23.72%) Management Information System
2 86 (15.22%) Security Posture
3 35 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.60%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.72%) Hedge funds
7 20 (3.54%) Product Ownership
8 19 (3.36%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.65%) Blockchain
9 15 (2.65%) CMDB
10 13 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.30%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.12%) PKI
12 9 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.42%) Cybercrime
14 7 (1.24%) Blog
14 7 (1.24%) Cyber Security Posture
14 7 (1.24%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.68%) Windows
2 26 (4.60%) Linux
3 19 (3.36%) Android
3 19 (3.36%) Unix
4 18 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.95%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.95%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (38.94%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (35.93%) Risk Management
3 132 (23.36%) Incident Response
4 92 (16.28%) Roadmaps
5 89 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (15.22%) Project Management
7 84 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (14.34%) Agile
9 75 (13.27%) Cloud Security
10 74 (13.10%) Mentoring
11 72 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 69 (12.21%) Analytics
12 69 (12.21%) Data Protection
12 69 (12.21%) Vulnerability Management
13 68 (12.04%) Computer Science
14 57 (10.09%) SIEM
15 54 (9.56%) Internal Audit
16 53 (9.38%) Risk Assessment
17 52 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
18 49 (8.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 66 (11.68%) Python
2 52 (9.20%) PowerShell
3 24 (4.25%) Go
4 22 (3.89%) SQL
5 21 (3.72%) Bash
6 19 (3.36%) Java
7 6 (1.06%) C++
8 4 (0.71%) C
9 3 (0.53%) C#
9 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
9 3 (0.53%) Perl
9 3 (0.53%) Ruby
9 3 (0.53%) Rust
10 2 (0.35%) Bicep
10 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.35%) R
11 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 223 (39.47%) CISSP
2 146 (25.84%) Degree
3 145 (25.66%) CISM
4 88 (15.58%) CISA
5 58 (10.27%) CRISC
6 43 (7.61%) SANS
7 37 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (5.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 30 (5.31%) Master's Degree
9 29 (5.13%) FFIEC
10 28 (4.96%) CGEIT
11 27 (4.78%) Security Cleared
12 25 (4.42%) CEH
13 22 (3.89%) OSCP
14 20 (3.54%) CompTIA CySA+
14 20 (3.54%) SC Cleared
15 19 (3.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 17 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (2.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (37.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 160 (28.32%) NIST
3 100 (17.70%) GRC
4 87 (15.40%) GDPR
5 49 (8.67%) PCI DSS
6 36 (6.37%) COBIT
6 36 (6.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 30 (5.31%) NIST 800
7 30 (5.31%) QA
8 26 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 25 (4.42%) SOC 2
10 22 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 17 (3.01%) SLA
12 14 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (1.24%) Accessibility
13 7 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (1.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (1.24%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.88%) ITGC
15 4 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.06%) Docker
4 5 (0.88%) Firmware
4 5 (0.88%) vSphere
5 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.35%) IAG
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (6.19%) Terraform
2 34 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.07%) SCCM
4 15 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (2.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 13 (2.30%) RSA Archer
6 12 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.59%) Ansible
8 8 (1.42%) EnCase
8 8 (1.42%) FTK
9 7 (1.24%) CASB
10 5 (0.88%) VxRail
11 4 (0.71%) Cilium
11 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.71%) Packer
12 3 (0.53%) ArcSight ESM
12 3 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.53%) Grafana
12 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 117 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.31%) Google
3 22 (3.89%) Palo Alto
4 20 (3.54%) Cisco
5 17 (3.01%) iManage
6 16 (2.83%) CyberArk
6 16 (2.83%) VMware
7 14 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (2.12%) Rapid7
9 10 (1.77%) Foundry
10 9 (1.59%) EMC
10 9 (1.59%) Thales
11 8 (1.42%) Cellebrite
11 8 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.24%) Oracle
12 7 (1.24%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.24%) Splunk
13 6 (1.06%) F5
14 5 (0.88%) Dell
14 5 (0.88%) Talend