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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 84 76
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 550 573 759
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.48% 3.87% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 4.05% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 269 313 642
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +3.24%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £126,875 £120,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 13,624 14,147 19,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.21% 95.64% 91.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,811 7,811 15,760
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,227 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
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 £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +10 78 £71,850 +2.64% 22
East London +12 25 £90,000 +190.32% 9
West London -17 23 £67,500 +17.05% 4
South London +19 8 £36,500 -43.85% 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 18 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.18%) SAS
4 8 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.09%) Confluence
6 5 (0.91%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.36%) MTS
8 1 (0.18%) Apache
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (6.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.82%) SPSS
5 9 (1.64%) Adobe Premiere
5 9 (1.64%) Photoshop
6 8 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.36%) Relativity
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (16.91%) Azure
2 71 (12.91%) AWS
3 52 (9.45%) GCP
3 52 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.64%) SaaS
5 30 (5.45%) Entra ID
6 23 (4.18%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.73%) IaaS
8 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (2.55%) PaaS
9 13 (2.36%) Nutanix
10 12 (2.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (1.82%) Dropbox
11 10 (1.82%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 6 (1.09%) GitHub
15 5 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.45%) Firewall
2 22 (4.00%) Network Security
3 20 (3.64%) CHAP
4 13 (2.36%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (2.18%) WAN
6 11 (2.00%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (1.64%) WAAS
8 8 (1.45%) VPN
9 6 (1.09%) ATM
9 6 (1.09%) RTP
9 6 (1.09%) SAN
10 5 (0.91%) VSAN
11 4 (0.73%) DNS
11 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.55%) Broadband
13 2 (0.36%) DKIM
13 2 (0.36%) DMARC
13 2 (0.36%) HTTP
13 2 (0.36%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.00%) Big Data
1 22 (4.00%) Power BI
1 22 (4.00%) Tableau
2 12 (2.18%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.82%) EDRMS
4 10 (1.82%) Hadoop
5 9 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.45%) DataStage
6 8 (1.45%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.45%) MySQL
6 8 (1.45%) Neo4j
6 8 (1.45%) Pentaho
6 8 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.55%) Redis
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 4 (0.73%) JIRA
1 4 (0.73%) TeamCity
2 3 (0.55%) Git
3 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.18%) Snyk
General
1 280 (50.91%) Finance
2 250 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 151 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (17.82%) Legal
5 95 (17.27%) Banking
6 85 (15.45%) Financial Institution
7 66 (12.00%) Law
8 65 (11.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 61 (11.09%) Retail
10 47 (8.55%) Marketing
11 28 (5.09%) Digital Economy
12 24 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (3.09%) Telecoms
15 16 (2.91%) Back Office
16 12 (2.18%) Local Government
17 11 (2.00%) Public Sector
18 9 (1.64%) Billing
18 9 (1.64%) Dutch Language
18 9 (1.64%) French Language
Job Titles
1 82 (14.91%) Senior
2 61 (11.09%) Lead
3 53 (9.64%) Security Engineer
4 51 (9.27%) Analyst
5 38 (6.91%) Security Manager
6 34 (6.18%) Security Analyst
7 32 (5.82%) Consultant
8 22 (4.00%) Python Engineer
8 22 (4.00%) Risk Manager
9 20 (3.64%) Auditor
10 19 (3.45%) Information Manager
10 19 (3.45%) Security Auditor
11 18 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 18 (3.27%) Head of Security
11 18 (3.27%) Information Analyst
11 18 (3.27%) Information Security Manager
11 18 (3.27%) Internal Auditor
11 18 (3.27%) Senior Manager
12 17 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (2.91%) Product Management Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.55%) OAuth
2 9 (1.64%) Kafka
2 9 (1.64%) OAuth2
3 6 (1.09%) REST
3 6 (1.09%) RESTful
4 5 (0.91%) gRPC
4 5 (0.91%) SAML
5 4 (0.73%) EDI
5 4 (0.73%) Middleware
5 4 (0.73%) OpenID
6 3 (0.55%) JWT
6 3 (0.55%) Node.js
6 3 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.36%) PySpark
8 1 (0.18%) LDAP
8 1 (0.18%) NetworkX
8 1 (0.18%) Pandas
8 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.18%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 127 (23.09%) Management Information System
2 68 (12.36%) Security Posture
3 53 (9.64%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (7.27%) Onboarding
5 22 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.82%) Hedge funds
7 19 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
8 16 (2.91%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.36%) CMDB
10 12 (2.18%) Blockchain
11 11 (2.00%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.00%) PKI
12 10 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.82%) Cybercrime
13 9 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
14 8 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.27%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.64%) Windows
2 23 (4.18%) Linux
3 16 (2.91%) Android
3 16 (2.91%) Unix
4 14 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 9 (1.64%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.36%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (37.45%) Risk Management
2 183 (33.27%) Cybersecurity
3 128 (23.27%) Incident Response
4 101 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 92 (16.73%) Roadmaps
7 85 (15.45%) Computer Science
8 80 (14.55%) Project Management
9 79 (14.36%) Analytics
10 77 (14.00%) Agile
11 71 (12.91%) Data Protection
12 67 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 66 (12.00%) Product Management
14 62 (11.27%) SIEM
15 59 (10.73%) Vulnerability Management
16 58 (10.55%) Business Intelligence
17 57 (10.36%) Decision-Making
17 57 (10.36%) Mentoring
18 56 (10.18%) Cloud Security
19 52 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.73%) Python
2 42 (7.64%) PowerShell
3 29 (5.27%) SQL
4 18 (3.27%) Go
5 16 (2.91%) Bash
6 15 (2.73%) Java
7 3 (0.55%) C++
8 2 (0.36%) Bicep
8 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.18%) C
9 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 208 (37.82%) CISSP
2 173 (31.45%) Degree
3 131 (23.82%) CISM
4 95 (17.27%) CISA
5 54 (9.82%) CRISC
6 53 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (6.36%) SANS
8 34 (6.18%) Master's Degree
9 25 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 24 (4.36%) FFIEC
11 22 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (4.00%) Security Cleared
12 21 (3.82%) CGEIT
13 18 (3.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (2.91%) CompTIA CySA+
16 15 (2.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 15 (2.73%) SC Cleared
17 14 (2.55%) CEH
18 12 (2.18%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (35.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (24.73%) NIST
3 84 (15.27%) GDPR
4 76 (13.82%) GRC
5 40 (7.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 36 (6.55%) PCI DSS
7 28 (5.09%) COBIT
7 28 (5.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 24 (4.36%) SOC 2
9 23 (4.18%) NIST 800
10 17 (3.09%) QA
10 17 (3.09%) SLA
11 13 (2.36%) Data Quality
12 11 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (1.45%) ISAE 3402
14 6 (1.09%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.91%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.91%) ITGC
16 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 29 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.09%) Docker
4 5 (0.91%) Firmware
4 5 (0.91%) vSphere
5 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.91%) Terraform
3 23 (4.18%) SCCM
4 16 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (2.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 13 (2.36%) RSA Archer
7 9 (1.64%) CASB
8 8 (1.45%) EnCase
8 8 (1.45%) FTK
8 8 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.73%) Cilium
9 4 (0.73%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.73%) QRadar
9 4 (0.73%) VxRail
10 3 (0.55%) Ansible
10 3 (0.55%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.55%) Grafana
10 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.36%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 107 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.73%) Google
3 15 (2.73%) Adobe
3 15 (2.73%) Cisco
3 15 (2.73%) Foundry
4 14 (2.55%) VMware
5 10 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 9 (1.64%) Oracle
6 9 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.45%) Cellebrite
7 8 (1.45%) Informatica
7 8 (1.45%) Talend
8 7 (1.27%) Splunk
9 6 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.09%) VocaLink
10 5 (0.91%) Commvault
10 5 (0.91%) CyberArk
10 5 (0.91%) Nokia
10 5 (0.91%) Rapid7
10 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow