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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 112 106
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 -34
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 615 357 630
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.57% 2.94% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 3.12% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 420 200 454
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,350 £45,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £94,750
90th Percentile £115,375 £107,500 £115,000
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 19,550 11,435 17,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.68% 94.29% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13,195 7,208 11,608
10th Percentile £40,770 £39,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +7 71 £92,500 +32.14% 18
West London -3 25 £75,000 -1.64% 14
East London +1 18 £87,500 -2.78% 4
South London +8 6 £50,000 - 3
North London - 1 £61,250 - 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 29 (4.72%) SAS
2 16 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.81%) Confluence
4 3 (0.49%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (3.74%) SPSS
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.14%) Relativity
2 3 (0.49%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 140 (22.76%) Azure
2 88 (14.31%) AWS
3 76 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (6.83%) SaaS
5 32 (5.20%) GCP
6 24 (3.90%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.93%) OpenShift
8 16 (2.60%) Dropbox
9 15 (2.44%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 13 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.79%) GitHub
11 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.79%) PaaS
12 10 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.46%) Amazon ELB
13 9 (1.46%) AWS CloudTrail
13 9 (1.46%) OCI
13 9 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (12.03%) Network Security
2 54 (8.78%) Firewall
3 22 (3.58%) DNS
3 22 (3.58%) VPN
4 20 (3.25%) OSPF
5 17 (2.76%) BGP
5 17 (2.76%) VXLAN
6 15 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.44%) WAN
7 13 (2.11%) VLAN
8 9 (1.46%) CHAP
9 8 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
9 8 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (1.14%) LAN
11 4 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.65%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.49%) TACACS
12 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.90%) Big Data
2 23 (3.74%) EDRMS
3 12 (1.95%) Power BI
4 9 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) DataStage
7 1 (0.16%) Db2
7 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.16%) MySQL
7 1 (0.16%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.16%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Git
2 6 (0.98%) JIRA
2 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.65%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.49%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 230 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 221 (35.93%) Finance
3 104 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (15.77%) Legal
5 84 (13.66%) Banking
6 83 (13.50%) Law
7 76 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (8.13%) Retail
9 29 (4.72%) Legal Technology
10 28 (4.55%) Local Government
11 20 (3.25%) Financial Institution
12 18 (2.93%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.63%) Public Sector
16 9 (1.46%) Back Office
16 9 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.14%) Cyber-Physical System
17 7 (1.14%) French Language
17 7 (1.14%) German Language
Job Titles
1 95 (15.45%) Senior
2 90 (14.63%) Security Manager
3 76 (12.36%) Lead
4 67 (10.89%) Analyst
5 66 (10.73%) Information Manager
6 63 (10.24%) Information Security Manager
7 47 (7.64%) Security Engineer
8 43 (6.99%) Security Analyst
9 36 (5.85%) Architect
10 35 (5.69%) Security Specialist
11 28 (4.55%) Consultant
12 25 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (3.90%) IT Manager
13 24 (3.90%) Senior Manager
14 23 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 22 (3.58%) Security Architect
16 21 (3.41%) Head of Security
16 21 (3.41%) Incident Manager
17 20 (3.25%) Information Analyst
17 20 (3.25%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.98%) OpenID
1 6 (0.98%) SailPoint
1 6 (0.98%) SAML
2 4 (0.65%) REST
3 3 (0.49%) .NET
3 3 (0.49%) JSON
4 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.33%) Kafka
4 2 (0.33%) OAuth
4 2 (0.33%) RESTful
5 1 (0.16%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.16%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.16%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (0.16%) JPA
5 1 (0.16%) LangChain
5 1 (0.16%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.16%) Middleware
5 1 (0.16%) Spring
5 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (23.09%) Management Information System
2 92 (14.96%) Security Posture
3 47 (7.64%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.20%) Cloud Native
5 28 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 25 (4.07%) Cybercrime
7 19 (3.09%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
12 10 (1.63%) Freedom of Information Act
13 8 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.30%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
14 7 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (9.59%) Windows
2 30 (4.88%) Linux
3 12 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.46%) Android
6 8 (1.30%) Unix
6 8 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (45.69%) Cybersecurity
2 217 (35.28%) Risk Management
3 155 (25.20%) Incident Response
4 135 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (16.91%) Cloud Security
6 96 (15.61%) SIEM
7 93 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (14.80%) Roadmaps
9 85 (13.82%) Vulnerability Management
10 84 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 80 (13.01%) Mentoring
12 79 (12.85%) AI
13 76 (12.36%) Security Operations
14 71 (11.54%) Data Protection
15 70 (11.38%) Business Continuity
16 69 (11.22%) Analytics
17 62 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
18 60 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 58 (9.43%) Computer Science
20 55 (8.94%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 50 (8.13%) Python
2 36 (5.85%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.76%) Bash
4 16 (2.60%) Java
5 13 (2.11%) Go
6 12 (1.95%) SQL
7 9 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (1.14%) C#
9 6 (0.98%) Ruby
10 5 (0.81%) C
10 5 (0.81%) C++
11 4 (0.65%) Perl
11 4 (0.65%) Rust
12 3 (0.49%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) Groovy
14 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 211 (34.31%) CISSP
2 155 (25.20%) Degree
3 149 (24.23%) CISM
4 61 (9.92%) CRISC
5 52 (8.46%) CISA
5 52 (8.46%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (7.48%) Master's Degree
7 42 (6.83%) Security Cleared
8 35 (5.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 34 (5.53%) CCSP
9 34 (5.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 31 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (4.39%) CEH
11 27 (4.39%) OSCP
12 25 (4.07%) SC Cleared
13 20 (3.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 19 (3.09%) GCIH
15 18 (2.93%) GIAC
16 17 (2.76%) CCNP
16 17 (2.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (38.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 178 (28.94%) NIST
3 115 (18.70%) GDPR
4 112 (18.21%) GRC
5 55 (8.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 52 (8.46%) PCI DSS
7 35 (5.69%) COBIT
8 30 (4.88%) NIST 800
8 30 (4.88%) QA
8 30 (4.88%) SOC 2
9 18 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 15 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 15 (2.44%) NCSC
11 11 (1.79%) Accessibility
11 11 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (1.14%) SOC 1
14 5 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.81%) PMO
14 5 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.49%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.33%) IAG
4 2 (0.33%) vSphere
5 1 (0.16%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.04%) Terraform
3 24 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (2.60%) EnCase
4 16 (2.60%) FTK
5 14 (2.28%) Ansible
6 10 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.98%) Packer
8 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.65%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.49%) CASB
10 3 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.49%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.49%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.49%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.33%) Argo
11 2 (0.33%) Grafana
11 2 (0.33%) Istio
11 2 (0.33%) linkerd
11 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 122 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.34%) Palo Alto
3 25 (4.07%) iManage
4 20 (3.25%) Google
5 19 (3.09%) Cisco
6 18 (2.93%) Fortinet
6 18 (2.93%) VMware
6 18 (2.93%) Zscaler
7 17 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
7 17 (2.76%) Rapid7
8 16 (2.60%) Cellebrite
9 13 (2.11%) CyberArk
10 11 (1.79%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.63%) Oracle
12 9 (1.46%) LogRhythm
12 9 (1.46%) Tenable
13 8 (1.30%) Splunk
13 8 (1.30%) Thales
14 7 (1.14%) Nuix
15 6 (0.98%) OpenAI