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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 105 100
Rank change year-on-year +27 -5 -39
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 600 386 700
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.66% 3.13% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 3.31% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 396 225 533
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +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 18,571 11,661 19,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.20% 94.57% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,710 7,357 13,578
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
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 23 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 23 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 -4 70 £92,500 +32.14% 49
West London -10 22 £75,000 +10.59% 12
East London +3 20 £87,500 -2.78% 4
South London +12 3 £50,000 - 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 (4.17%) SAS
2 14 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.67%) Confluence
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (3.17%) SPSS
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Relativity
2 3 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 131 (21.83%) Azure
2 91 (15.17%) AWS
3 76 (12.67%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (8.33%) SaaS
5 36 (6.00%) GCP
6 20 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 19 (3.17%) Power Platform
8 17 (2.83%) OpenShift
9 15 (2.50%) GitHub
9 15 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (2.33%) Dropbox
11 13 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 12 (2.00%) PaaS
12 12 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.50%) IaaS
15 8 (1.33%) Amazon ELB
15 8 (1.33%) AWS CloudTrail
15 8 (1.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 69 (11.50%) Network Security
2 49 (8.17%) Firewall
3 19 (3.17%) DNS
4 18 (3.00%) VPN
5 16 (2.67%) BGP
5 16 (2.67%) OSPF
5 16 (2.67%) VXLAN
6 13 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.17%) VLAN
7 12 (2.00%) CHAP
8 10 (1.67%) WAN
9 8 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.67%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.50%) Broadband
11 3 (0.50%) LAN
12 2 (0.33%) SAN
12 2 (0.33%) VSAN
12 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.50%) Big Data
2 19 (3.17%) EDRMS
3 16 (2.67%) Power BI
4 8 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.50%) Tableau
7 2 (0.33%) Db2
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.17%) DataStage
8 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.17%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Git
2 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (0.83%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.67%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.33%) Yeoman
General
1 233 (38.83%) Finance
1 233 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 106 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (16.83%) Legal
4 96 (16.00%) Banking
5 84 (14.00%) Law
6 77 (12.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (10.50%) Retail
8 32 (5.33%) Financial Institution
9 27 (4.50%) Local Government
10 24 (4.00%) Legal Technology
11 23 (3.83%) Telecoms
12 15 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.33%) Back Office
14 13 (2.17%) Marketing
14 13 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.17%) Advertising
16 7 (1.17%) Cyber-Physical System
17 6 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (15.67%) Senior
2 82 (13.67%) Security Manager
3 70 (11.67%) Lead
4 63 (10.50%) Analyst
5 61 (10.17%) Information Manager
6 58 (9.67%) Information Security Manager
7 56 (9.33%) Security Engineer
8 41 (6.83%) Security Analyst
9 32 (5.33%) Security Specialist
10 31 (5.17%) Consultant
11 30 (5.00%) Architect
11 30 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 24 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 23 (3.83%) Senior Manager
15 21 (3.50%) Incident Manager
16 20 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (3.33%) IT Manager
17 19 (3.17%) Security Consultant
17 19 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.17%) OpenID
1 7 (1.17%) SailPoint
1 7 (1.17%) SAML
2 4 (0.67%) REST
3 3 (0.50%) .NET
3 3 (0.50%) JSON
3 3 (0.50%) OAuth
4 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.33%) Kafka
4 2 (0.33%) Middleware
4 2 (0.33%) RESTful
5 1 (0.17%) ADO
5 1 (0.17%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.17%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (0.17%) JPA
5 1 (0.17%) LangChain
5 1 (0.17%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.17%) Spring
5 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 95 (15.83%) Security Posture
3 48 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
4 33 (5.50%) Cloud Native
5 32 (5.33%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.50%) Cybercrime
6 21 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.17%) Operational Technology
8 14 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
10 11 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
12 8 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.17%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.50%) Windows
2 28 (4.67%) Linux
3 12 (2.00%) Unix
3 12 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.67%) Android
6 7 (1.17%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (43.67%) Cybersecurity
2 219 (36.50%) Risk Management
3 152 (25.33%) Incident Response
4 135 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 101 (16.83%) Cloud Security
6 96 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 87 (14.50%) SIEM
8 84 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 76 (12.67%) Vulnerability Management
11 74 (12.33%) AI
11 74 (12.33%) Analytics
12 72 (12.00%) Data Protection
13 70 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 66 (11.00%) Business Continuity
16 65 (10.83%) Security Operations
17 60 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
18 59 (9.83%) Computer Science
18 59 (9.83%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.00%) Python
2 32 (5.33%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.50%) Bash
3 15 (2.50%) Java
4 12 (2.00%) Go
4 12 (2.00%) SQL
5 7 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.00%) C#
7 4 (0.67%) C
7 4 (0.67%) C++
7 4 (0.67%) Ruby
7 4 (0.67%) Rust
8 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
8 3 (0.50%) Perl
9 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 210 (35.00%) CISSP
2 151 (25.17%) Degree
3 146 (24.33%) CISM
4 62 (10.33%) CRISC
5 59 (9.83%) CISA
6 45 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (7.17%) Master's Degree
8 36 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (5.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 31 (5.17%) CCSP
10 31 (5.17%) Security Cleared
11 30 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (4.00%) CEH
13 23 (3.83%) OSCP
13 23 (3.83%) SC Cleared
14 20 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 19 (3.17%) AWS Certification
15 19 (3.17%) SANS
16 18 (3.00%) GIAC
17 16 (2.67%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (39.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 170 (28.33%) NIST
3 116 (19.33%) GRC
4 114 (19.00%) GDPR
5 55 (9.17%) PCI DSS
6 51 (8.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 32 (5.33%) COBIT
7 32 (5.33%) QA
8 31 (5.17%) SOC 2
9 30 (5.00%) NIST 800
10 17 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 16 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 12 (2.00%) Accessibility
13 11 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (1.67%) NCSC
15 8 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (1.17%) SOC 1
17 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 23 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.33%) IAG
4 2 (0.33%) vSphere
5 1 (0.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.67%) Terraform
3 24 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.33%) EnCase
4 14 (2.33%) FTK
5 13 (2.17%) Ansible
6 9 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.00%) Packer
8 4 (0.67%) Cilium
8 4 (0.67%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.50%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.50%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.33%) CASB
10 2 (0.33%) VxRail
11 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.17%) QRadar
11 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 115 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.67%) Palo Alto
3 25 (4.17%) iManage
4 23 (3.83%) Google
5 17 (2.83%) Fortinet
5 17 (2.83%) VMware
6 16 (2.67%) Zscaler
7 15 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (2.33%) Cellebrite
8 14 (2.33%) Cisco
8 14 (2.33%) Rapid7
9 13 (2.17%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.50%) Oracle
12 8 (1.33%) Thales
13 7 (1.17%) Tenable
14 6 (1.00%) EMC
14 6 (1.00%) F5
14 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 6 (1.00%) Splunk