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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 82 78
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 556 474 788
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.02% 3.67% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.82% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 296 289 663
10th Percentile £52,250 £51,250 £45,000
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% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £124,750 £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 15,472 12,420 20,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 84.13% 96.23% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,128 7,588 15,922
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £113,750 £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 6 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 6 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 +3 79 £78,750 +18.87% 30
East London +4 30 £97,500 +214.52% 12
West London -33 17 £71,250 +23.55% 7
South London +12 8 £43,250 -33.46% 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 13 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.98%) SAS
3 9 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.72%) Confluence
6 2 (0.36%) MTS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (4.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.62%) SPSS
5 7 (1.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Relativity
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (21.22%) Azure
2 79 (14.21%) AWS
3 63 (11.33%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (9.53%) GCP
5 48 (8.63%) SaaS
6 27 (4.86%) Entra ID
7 21 (3.78%) Power Platform
8 17 (3.06%) IaaS
8 17 (3.06%) PaaS
9 15 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (2.34%) GitHub
10 13 (2.34%) Nutanix
10 13 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (1.62%) Dropbox
11 9 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (0.90%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 4 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.45%) Firewall
2 29 (5.22%) Network Security
3 25 (4.50%) CHAP
4 16 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.62%) Cisco IOS
5 9 (1.62%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.62%) WAAS
5 9 (1.62%) WAN
6 6 (1.08%) RTP
6 6 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.90%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.90%) SAN
7 5 (0.90%) VPN
7 5 (0.90%) VSAN
8 4 (0.72%) ATM
8 4 (0.72%) DNS
9 3 (0.54%) Broadband
10 2 (0.36%) DKIM
10 2 (0.36%) DMARC
11 1 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.60%) Power BI
1 20 (3.60%) Tableau
2 17 (3.06%) Big Data
3 9 (1.62%) EDRMS
4 8 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.44%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.26%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.08%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.90%) DataStage
7 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.90%) MySQL
7 5 (0.90%) Neo4j
7 5 (0.90%) Pentaho
7 5 (0.90%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.54%) Redis
9 2 (0.36%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 7 (1.26%) Git
2 4 (0.72%) Bitbucket
2 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 273 (49.10%) Finance
2 244 (43.88%) Social Skills
3 126 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (19.78%) Banking
5 97 (17.45%) Legal
6 77 (13.85%) Financial Institution
7 66 (11.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (11.87%) Law
8 61 (10.97%) Retail
9 43 (7.73%) Marketing
10 26 (4.68%) Telecoms
11 22 (3.96%) Digital Economy
11 22 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (3.24%) Local Government
13 17 (3.06%) Back Office
14 13 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.98%) Public Sector
17 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (1.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 79 (14.21%) Senior
2 78 (14.03%) Lead
3 60 (10.79%) Security Engineer
4 52 (9.35%) Analyst
5 42 (7.55%) Security Manager
6 35 (6.29%) Consultant
7 32 (5.76%) Security Analyst
8 28 (5.04%) Information Manager
9 27 (4.86%) Auditor
10 26 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (4.68%) Security Auditor
11 25 (4.50%) Information Security Manager
12 23 (4.14%) Internal Auditor
13 22 (3.96%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.78%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 20 (3.60%) Architect
16 19 (3.42%) Senior Manager
17 18 (3.24%) Head of Security
17 18 (3.24%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.16%) OAuth
2 10 (1.80%) Kafka
3 8 (1.44%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.08%) RESTful
5 5 (0.90%) gRPC
5 5 (0.90%) REST
6 4 (0.72%) Middleware
6 4 (0.72%) SAML
7 3 (0.54%) EDI
7 3 (0.54%) JWT
7 3 (0.54%) Node.js
7 3 (0.54%) OpenID
7 3 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.54%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.36%) 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 (24.10%) Management Information System
2 80 (14.39%) Security Posture
3 39 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (5.40%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (3.78%) Hedge funds
6 21 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.06%) Cloud Native
8 16 (2.88%) CMDB
9 14 (2.52%) Blockchain
10 13 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.34%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.16%) PKI
12 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.62%) Cybercrime
14 8 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.26%) Blog
15 7 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (12.23%) Windows
2 28 (5.04%) Linux
3 18 (3.24%) Unix
3 18 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.06%) Android
5 12 (2.16%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.98%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.36%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (35.07%) Cybersecurity
2 194 (34.89%) Risk Management
3 131 (23.56%) Incident Response
4 97 (17.45%) Roadmaps
5 91 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (15.11%) Project Management
7 83 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (14.57%) Agile
9 74 (13.31%) Analytics
9 74 (13.31%) Data Protection
10 70 (12.59%) Computer Science
11 69 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 68 (12.23%) Cloud Security
13 64 (11.51%) Vulnerability Management
14 59 (10.61%) Mentoring
14 59 (10.61%) SIEM
15 52 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
16 51 (9.17%) Product Management
17 50 (8.99%) Internal Audit
17 50 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (11.33%) Python
2 50 (8.99%) PowerShell
3 25 (4.50%) SQL
4 22 (3.96%) Go
5 21 (3.78%) Bash
6 17 (3.06%) Java
7 6 (1.08%) C++
8 4 (0.72%) C
9 3 (0.54%) C#
9 3 (0.54%) Objective-C
9 3 (0.54%) Perl
9 3 (0.54%) Ruby
9 3 (0.54%) Rust
10 2 (0.36%) Bicep
10 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.36%) R
11 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 217 (39.03%) CISSP
2 146 (26.26%) Degree
3 136 (24.46%) CISM
4 87 (15.65%) CISA
5 56 (10.07%) CRISC
6 40 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (7.01%) SANS
8 27 (4.86%) FFIEC
9 26 (4.68%) CGEIT
9 26 (4.68%) Security Cleared
10 25 (4.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 25 (4.50%) Master's Degree
11 24 (4.32%) CEH
12 20 (3.60%) SC Cleared
13 18 (3.24%) CompTIA CySA+
13 18 (3.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 17 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (3.06%) OSCP
15 14 (2.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (36.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 149 (26.80%) NIST
3 91 (16.37%) GRC
4 86 (15.47%) GDPR
5 47 (8.45%) PCI DSS
6 35 (6.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 32 (5.76%) COBIT
8 28 (5.04%) NIST 800
9 26 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 25 (4.50%) QA
11 24 (4.32%) SOC 2
12 21 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (3.24%) SLA
14 14 (2.52%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (1.44%) Accessibility
16 7 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (1.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (1.26%) JSP 440
17 6 (1.08%) Data Quality
18 4 (0.72%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.08%) Docker
4 5 (0.90%) Firmware
4 5 (0.90%) vSphere
5 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.36%) IAG
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (5.94%) Kubernetes
1 33 (5.94%) Terraform
2 23 (4.14%) SCCM
3 15 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.34%) RSA Archer
5 11 (1.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 10 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.62%) Ansible
7 9 (1.62%) CASB
8 8 (1.44%) EnCase
8 8 (1.44%) FTK
9 5 (0.90%) VxRail
10 4 (0.72%) Cilium
10 4 (0.72%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.72%) Packer
11 3 (0.54%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.54%) Grafana
11 3 (0.54%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.54%) QRadar
12 1 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 116 (20.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.40%) Google
3 22 (3.96%) Palo Alto
4 20 (3.60%) Cisco
5 17 (3.06%) iManage
6 16 (2.88%) VMware
7 14 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.52%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.16%) Foundry
8 12 (2.16%) Rapid7
9 9 (1.62%) EMC
9 9 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.62%) Thales
10 8 (1.44%) Cellebrite
11 7 (1.26%) Oracle
11 7 (1.26%) Splunk
12 6 (1.08%) F5
13 5 (0.90%) Dell
13 5 (0.90%) Talend