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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 117 104
Rank change year-on-year +31 -13 -34
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 599 348 641
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.48% 2.91% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 3.09% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 416 199 437
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,650 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £62,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,625 £91,250
90th Percentile £116,875 £108,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 19,595 11,245 17,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.15% 94.05% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,314 7,134 11,012
10th Percentile £40,825 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +14 70 £92,500 +27.59% 60
West London +1 28 £77,500 +6.90% 29
East London +4 16 £72,500 -19.44% 5
South London - 6 £80,000 - 4
North London - 1 £61,250 -
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 31 (5.18%) SAS
2 16 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.00%) Confluence
4 3 (0.50%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (4.17%) SPSS
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Carpe Diem
1 3 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 130 (21.70%) Azure
2 85 (14.19%) AWS
3 72 (12.02%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (6.51%) SaaS
5 30 (5.01%) GCP
6 24 (4.01%) Entra ID
7 18 (3.01%) Dropbox
7 18 (3.01%) OpenShift
8 15 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 13 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (1.84%) PaaS
11 10 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.50%) Amazon ELB
12 9 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.50%) AWS CloudTrail
12 9 (1.50%) OCI
12 9 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (12.02%) Network Security
2 50 (8.35%) Firewall
3 23 (3.84%) VPN
4 20 (3.34%) DNS
4 20 (3.34%) OSPF
5 17 (2.84%) BGP
5 17 (2.84%) VXLAN
6 16 (2.67%) WAN
7 13 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 13 (2.17%) VLAN
8 8 (1.34%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (1.17%) CHAP
9 7 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (1.17%) LAN
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.67%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.50%) TACACS
11 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.33%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.17%) Big Data
1 25 (4.17%) EDRMS
2 12 (2.00%) Power BI
3 9 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.17%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.17%) Db2
6 1 (0.17%) Metadata
6 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Power Query
6 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Git
2 6 (1.00%) JIRA
2 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.67%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.50%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 227 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 210 (35.06%) Finance
3 103 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (16.36%) Legal
5 82 (13.69%) Banking
6 78 (13.02%) Law
7 73 (12.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (8.01%) Retail
9 32 (5.34%) Legal Technology
10 25 (4.17%) Local Government
11 20 (3.34%) Financial Institution
12 15 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.84%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.50%) Back Office
16 8 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.17%) Cyber-Physical System
17 7 (1.17%) French Language
17 7 (1.17%) German Language
Job Titles
1 93 (15.53%) Security Manager
2 92 (15.36%) Senior
3 67 (11.19%) Information Manager
3 67 (11.19%) Lead
4 64 (10.68%) Information Security Manager
5 62 (10.35%) Analyst
6 44 (7.35%) Security Engineer
7 43 (7.18%) Security Analyst
8 34 (5.68%) Security Specialist
9 32 (5.34%) Architect
10 28 (4.67%) IT Manager
11 27 (4.51%) Consultant
12 25 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (3.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 22 (3.67%) Head of Security
14 22 (3.67%) Security Architect
15 21 (3.51%) Incident Manager
16 20 (3.34%) Senior Manager
17 19 (3.17%) Information Analyst
17 19 (3.17%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.34%) Terraform
2 6 (1.00%) OpenID
2 6 (1.00%) SailPoint
2 6 (1.00%) SAML
3 5 (0.83%) REST
4 3 (0.50%) .NET
4 3 (0.50%) JSON
5 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.33%) Kafka
5 2 (0.33%) OAuth
5 2 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.17%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.17%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (0.17%) JPA
6 1 (0.17%) LangChain
6 1 (0.17%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (0.17%) Middleware
6 1 (0.17%) Spring
6 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (23.54%) Management Information System
2 88 (14.69%) Security Posture
3 42 (7.01%) Cyber Threat
4 30 (5.01%) Cloud Native
5 28 (4.67%) Onboarding
6 27 (4.51%) Cybercrime
7 20 (3.34%) Operational Technology
8 16 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.50%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.17%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
12 10 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
13 8 (1.34%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.34%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
14 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 54 (9.02%) Windows
2 28 (4.67%) Linux
3 11 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.50%) Android
6 6 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.83%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (46.41%) Cybersecurity
2 217 (36.23%) Risk Management
3 149 (24.87%) Incident Response
4 135 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (16.69%) Cloud Security
6 96 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (15.19%) SIEM
7 91 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 85 (14.19%) Roadmaps
9 83 (13.86%) Vulnerability Management
10 79 (13.19%) AI
11 78 (13.02%) Security Operations
12 76 (12.69%) Mentoring
13 74 (12.35%) Business Continuity
14 71 (11.85%) Data Protection
15 64 (10.68%) Analytics
16 63 (10.52%) Disaster Recovery
17 58 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 56 (9.35%) Computer Science
19 54 (9.02%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.18%) Python
2 33 (5.51%) PowerShell
3 16 (2.67%) Java
4 14 (2.34%) Bash
5 13 (2.17%) Go
5 13 (2.17%) SQL
6 11 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.34%) C#
8 7 (1.17%) Ruby
9 6 (1.00%) C
9 6 (1.00%) C++
10 5 (0.83%) Perl
11 4 (0.67%) Rust
12 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.33%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.17%) Bicep
14 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 208 (34.72%) CISSP
2 150 (25.04%) Degree
3 145 (24.21%) CISM
4 60 (10.02%) CRISC
5 51 (8.51%) CISA
6 50 (8.35%) Cisco Certification
7 44 (7.35%) Master's Degree
8 42 (7.01%) Security Cleared
9 33 (5.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 32 (5.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 32 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (5.18%) CCSP
12 26 (4.34%) CEH
12 26 (4.34%) OSCP
13 24 (4.01%) SC Cleared
14 20 (3.34%) GCIH
14 20 (3.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 18 (3.01%) GIAC
15 18 (3.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 17 (2.84%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (38.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 174 (29.05%) NIST
3 115 (19.20%) GDPR
4 114 (19.03%) GRC
5 58 (9.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 47 (7.85%) PCI DSS
7 32 (5.34%) COBIT
8 30 (5.01%) NIST 800
8 30 (5.01%) SOC 2
9 26 (4.34%) QA
10 18 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 16 (2.67%) NCSC
12 13 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 12 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (1.50%) Accessibility
14 9 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (1.17%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.83%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.83%) PMO
16 5 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.33%) IAG
5 1 (0.17%) Docker
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (3.01%) EnCase
3 18 (3.01%) FTK
4 11 (1.84%) Ansible
5 10 (1.67%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.00%) Packer
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.67%) CASB
8 4 (0.67%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.50%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.50%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 114 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.34%) Palo Alto
3 22 (3.67%) iManage
4 19 (3.17%) Cisco
4 19 (3.17%) Google
4 19 (3.17%) Zscaler
5 18 (3.01%) Cellebrite
5 18 (3.01%) Fortinet
6 17 (2.84%) VMware
7 15 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (2.50%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.84%) CyberArk
8 11 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.50%) LogRhythm
9 9 (1.50%) Oracle
9 9 (1.50%) Splunk
9 9 (1.50%) Tenable
10 7 (1.17%) Nuix
10 7 (1.17%) Relativity
10 7 (1.17%) Thales