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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 77 81
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 489 611 653
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.46% 3.93% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 4.16% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 236 339 558
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,000 £64,110 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 12,403 14,702 16,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.67% 94.61% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,935 8,102 13,389
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -6 69 £73,750 +1.72% 29
West London -1 21 £67,500 -31.76% 4
East London 0 17 £90,000 - 4
South London +18 6 £36,500 -44.49% 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 17 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.45%) SAS
3 11 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.23%) Confluence
6 5 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.41%) MTS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.04%) SPSS
5 9 (1.84%) Adobe Premiere
5 9 (1.84%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.84%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.41%) Relativity
4 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (18.00%) Azure
2 61 (12.47%) AWS
3 45 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (8.59%) GCP
5 29 (5.93%) SaaS
6 28 (5.73%) Entra ID
7 21 (4.29%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.66%) IaaS
9 12 (2.45%) Nutanix
9 12 (2.45%) PaaS
10 10 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (2.04%) Dropbox
10 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.04%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.61%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 46 (9.41%) Firewall
2 19 (3.89%) Network Security
3 15 (3.07%) VPN
4 14 (2.86%) CHAP
5 12 (2.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (2.45%) WAN
6 11 (2.25%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.84%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (1.84%) WAAS
8 6 (1.23%) ATM
8 6 (1.23%) DNS
8 6 (1.23%) RTP
9 5 (1.02%) SAN
10 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.82%) VSAN
10 4 (0.82%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.61%) HTTP
12 2 (0.41%) AMQP
12 2 (0.41%) DKIM
12 2 (0.41%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.70%) Big Data
2 22 (4.50%) Tableau
3 21 (4.29%) Power BI
4 14 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.66%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.45%) Hadoop
6 12 (2.45%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.04%) DataStage
7 10 (2.04%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.04%) EDRMS
7 10 (2.04%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.04%) MySQL
7 10 (2.04%) Neo4j
7 10 (2.04%) Pentaho
7 10 (2.04%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.61%) Metadata
8 3 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.82%) JIRA
2 3 (0.61%) Git
2 3 (0.61%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.41%) Snyk
4 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
General
1 239 (48.88%) Finance
2 228 (46.63%) Social Skills
3 147 (30.06%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (18.61%) Legal
5 73 (14.93%) Financial Institution
6 65 (13.29%) Banking
7 55 (11.25%) Law
8 48 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (8.18%) Marketing
10 33 (6.75%) Retail
11 31 (6.34%) Digital Economy
11 31 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.86%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.25%) Back Office
14 11 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (2.04%) Public Sector
16 9 (1.84%) Billing
16 9 (1.84%) Dutch Language
16 9 (1.84%) French Language
Job Titles
1 69 (14.11%) Senior
2 55 (11.25%) Analyst
3 48 (9.82%) Lead
4 45 (9.20%) Security Engineer
5 36 (7.36%) Security Analyst
6 35 (7.16%) Security Manager
7 23 (4.70%) Consultant
8 20 (4.09%) Information Analyst
9 16 (3.27%) Head of Security
9 16 (3.27%) Information Manager
9 16 (3.27%) Information Security Analyst
9 16 (3.27%) Information Security Manager
9 16 (3.27%) Product Management Director
10 15 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 15 (3.07%) Python Engineer
10 15 (3.07%) Risk Manager
10 15 (3.07%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.86%) Auditor
11 14 (2.86%) Internal Auditor
11 14 (2.86%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.66%) OAuth
2 10 (2.04%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.84%) Kafka
4 6 (1.23%) REST
4 6 (1.23%) RESTful
5 5 (1.02%) gRPC
6 4 (0.82%) EDI
7 3 (0.61%) JWT
7 3 (0.61%) Node.js
7 3 (0.61%) OpenID
7 3 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.61%) SAML
8 2 (0.41%) Middleware
8 2 (0.41%) PySpark
9 1 (0.20%) CSS
9 1 (0.20%) HTML
9 1 (0.20%) LDAP
9 1 (0.20%) Pandas
9 1 (0.20%) STL
9 1 (0.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 113 (23.11%) Management Information System
2 48 (9.82%) Security Posture
3 45 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (7.36%) Onboarding
5 26 (5.32%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
8 15 (3.07%) CMDB
9 14 (2.86%) Hedge funds
10 13 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
11 12 (2.45%) Cloud Native
12 11 (2.25%) Algorithms
13 10 (2.04%) Cybercrime
13 10 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.84%) Cloud Security Posture
15 8 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.43%) Blockchain
16 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.88%) Windows
2 27 (5.52%) Linux
3 14 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.25%) Android
5 9 (1.84%) Unix
6 8 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 8 (1.64%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (33.95%) Risk Management
2 151 (30.88%) Cybersecurity
3 123 (25.15%) Incident Response
4 107 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 99 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (18.61%) Roadmaps
7 74 (15.13%) Analytics
8 71 (14.52%) Computer Science
8 71 (14.52%) SIEM
9 65 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 64 (13.09%) Product Management
11 63 (12.88%) Agile
12 62 (12.68%) Data Protection
13 61 (12.47%) Decision-Making
13 61 (12.47%) Project Management
14 58 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 57 (11.66%) Vulnerability Management
16 54 (11.04%) Business Intelligence
16 54 (11.04%) Security Operations
17 51 (10.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.84%) Python
2 37 (7.57%) PowerShell
3 28 (5.73%) SQL
4 13 (2.66%) Bash
4 13 (2.66%) Go
5 12 (2.45%) Java
6 3 (0.61%) C++
6 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.41%) R
7 2 (0.41%) VB
8 1 (0.20%) C
8 1 (0.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 176 (35.99%) CISSP
2 157 (32.11%) Degree
3 111 (22.70%) CISM
4 75 (15.34%) CISA
5 46 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (7.36%) CRISC
7 32 (6.54%) Master's Degree
8 22 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (4.09%) SANS
11 19 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (3.68%) FFIEC
13 17 (3.48%) Security Cleared
14 16 (3.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (3.27%) CEH
15 15 (3.07%) CGEIT
16 14 (2.86%) GIAC
17 13 (2.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 12 (2.45%) CompTIA CySA+
18 12 (2.45%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (32.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 115 (23.52%) NIST
3 74 (15.13%) GDPR
4 48 (9.82%) GRC
5 43 (8.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 31 (6.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 24 (4.91%) COBIT
7 24 (4.91%) PCI DSS
8 18 (3.68%) SLA
9 17 (3.48%) SOC 2
10 15 (3.07%) Data Quality
11 12 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 9 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (1.84%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.64%) ISAE 3402
13 8 (1.64%) ISO 9001
13 8 (1.64%) ITGC
14 6 (1.23%) QA
15 5 (1.02%) ISO 22301
15 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 31 (6.34%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.23%) Docker
3 6 (1.23%) vSphere
4 5 (1.02%) Firmware
5 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (4.70%) SCCM
2 20 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.07%) Terraform
4 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.84%) CASB
6 8 (1.64%) EnCase
6 8 (1.64%) FTK
7 7 (1.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 7 (1.43%) QRadar
8 6 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.82%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.82%) Nmap
9 4 (0.82%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.61%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.61%) Grafana
10 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.61%) VxRail
11 2 (0.41%) Ansible
11 2 (0.41%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 1 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 98 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.68%) Google
3 17 (3.48%) Cisco
3 17 (3.48%) VMware
4 15 (3.07%) Adobe
4 15 (3.07%) Foundry
5 11 (2.25%) Oracle
5 11 (2.25%) Splunk
6 10 (2.04%) Informatica
6 10 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 10 (2.04%) Talend
7 9 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.64%) Cellebrite
9 7 (1.43%) Qualys
9 7 (1.43%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.23%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.23%) VocaLink
11 5 (1.02%) Commvault
11 5 (1.02%) Nokia
11 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow