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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 101 87
Rank change year-on-year +24 -14 -9
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 584 413 772
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.87% 3.27% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.40% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 338 278 642
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £65,186 £62,500 £57,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £92,188
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £102,375
England median annual salary £70,752 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.85% +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 16,723 12,131 21,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.07% 96.11% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,130 7,358 15,996
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,800
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +18 91 £90,000 +38.46% 28
East London +22 40 £97,500 +11.43% 7
West London -26 17 £77,500 +23.52% 2
South London +16 4 £62,300 -4.15% 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 10 (1.71%) SAS
2 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.34%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) MTS
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.37%) SPSS
5 7 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (20.89%) Azure
2 73 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (12.16%) AWS
4 51 (8.73%) SaaS
5 46 (7.88%) GCP
6 28 (4.79%) Entra ID
7 20 (3.42%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (2.57%) IaaS
9 15 (2.57%) PaaS
10 14 (2.40%) GitHub
10 14 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.71%) Nutanix
12 8 (1.37%) Dropbox
13 6 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
16 3 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (0.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.22%) Firewall
2 44 (7.53%) Network Security
3 29 (4.97%) CHAP
4 13 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
5 9 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.54%) WAAS
6 7 (1.20%) VPN
7 6 (1.03%) DNS
8 5 (0.86%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.86%) RTP
8 5 (0.86%) SAN
8 5 (0.86%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.86%) VSAN
8 5 (0.86%) WAN
9 4 (0.68%) ATM
10 3 (0.51%) Broadband
11 2 (0.34%) BGP
11 2 (0.34%) OSPF
11 2 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.91%) Power BI
2 16 (2.74%) Big Data
3 14 (2.40%) Tableau
4 8 (1.37%) EDRMS
4 8 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.86%) DataStage
7 5 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.86%) MySQL
7 5 (0.86%) Neo4j
7 5 (0.86%) Pentaho
7 5 (0.86%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.51%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (1.71%) Git
2 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.17%) JIRA
General
1 266 (45.55%) Finance
2 240 (41.10%) Social Skills
3 126 (21.58%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (20.89%) Banking
5 94 (16.10%) Legal
6 79 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (12.84%) Retail
8 69 (11.82%) Law
9 68 (11.64%) Financial Institution
10 31 (5.31%) Local Government
11 28 (4.79%) Marketing
12 26 (4.45%) Telecoms
13 15 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (2.40%) Back Office
15 11 (1.88%) Digital Economy
15 11 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.71%) Public Sector
17 9 (1.54%) Aviation
18 8 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (1.20%) Cyber-Physical System
Job Titles
1 76 (13.01%) Senior
2 72 (12.33%) Lead
3 69 (11.82%) Security Engineer
4 61 (10.45%) Security Manager
5 55 (9.42%) Analyst
6 47 (8.05%) Information Manager
7 44 (7.53%) Information Security Manager
8 38 (6.51%) Consultant
9 33 (5.65%) Security Analyst
10 31 (5.31%) Auditor
11 30 (5.14%) Security Auditor
12 28 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
12 28 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 26 (4.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 26 (4.45%) Internal Auditor
14 25 (4.28%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 24 (4.11%) Architect
16 21 (3.60%) Python Engineer
17 19 (3.25%) Senior Manager
18 18 (3.08%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.71%) OAuth
2 7 (1.20%) Kafka
3 6 (1.03%) SailPoint
3 6 (1.03%) SAML
4 5 (0.86%) OpenID
5 4 (0.68%) Middleware
5 4 (0.68%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.68%) RESTful
6 3 (0.51%) gRPC
6 3 (0.51%) REST
7 2 (0.34%) PySpark
8 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.17%) JSON
8 1 (0.17%) JWT
8 1 (0.17%) NetworkX
8 1 (0.17%) Node.js
8 1 (0.17%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.17%) Pandas
8 1 (0.17%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 147 (25.17%) Management Information System
2 92 (15.75%) Security Posture
3 41 (7.02%) Cyber Threat
4 30 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.42%) Hedge funds
7 18 (3.08%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.91%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.74%) Operational Technology
10 15 (2.57%) Blockchain
10 15 (2.57%) CMDB
11 14 (2.40%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.23%) PKI
13 10 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.54%) Cybercrime
14 9 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
15 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.20%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 71 (12.16%) Windows
2 31 (5.31%) Linux
3 21 (3.60%) Unix
4 20 (3.42%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.25%) Android
6 10 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.71%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.37%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.51%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (42.47%) Cybersecurity
2 212 (36.30%) Risk Management
3 140 (23.97%) Incident Response
4 92 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 89 (15.24%) Project Management
6 86 (14.73%) Mentoring
6 86 (14.73%) Roadmaps
7 84 (14.38%) Agile
7 84 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (13.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 76 (13.01%) Cloud Security
10 71 (12.16%) Data Protection
11 70 (11.99%) Vulnerability Management
12 69 (11.82%) Computer Science
13 68 (11.64%) Analytics
14 59 (10.10%) SIEM
15 57 (9.76%) Internal Audit
16 55 (9.42%) Risk Assessment
17 50 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
18 48 (8.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.33%) Python
2 52 (8.90%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.42%) Bash
3 20 (3.42%) Go
3 20 (3.42%) SQL
4 19 (3.25%) Java
5 7 (1.20%) C++
6 5 (0.86%) C
7 3 (0.51%) C#
7 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
7 3 (0.51%) Perl
7 3 (0.51%) Ruby
7 3 (0.51%) Rust
8 2 (0.34%) Bicep
8 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.34%) R
9 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 232 (39.73%) CISSP
2 158 (27.05%) CISM
3 152 (26.03%) Degree
4 90 (15.41%) CISA
5 60 (10.27%) CRISC
6 48 (8.22%) SANS
7 42 (7.19%) Master's Degree
8 35 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (5.99%) Security Cleared
9 30 (5.14%) CGEIT
9 30 (5.14%) FFIEC
10 29 (4.97%) CompTIA Security+
11 28 (4.79%) CEH
12 27 (4.62%) SC Cleared
13 26 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (4.28%) OSCP
15 23 (3.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 20 (3.42%) CCSP
17 19 (3.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 18 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (36.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 162 (27.74%) NIST
3 104 (17.81%) GRC
4 81 (13.87%) GDPR
5 50 (8.56%) PCI DSS
6 42 (7.19%) COBIT
7 39 (6.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 37 (6.34%) QA
9 32 (5.48%) NIST 800
10 24 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 21 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 21 (3.60%) SOC 2
12 13 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (1.88%) SLA
14 8 (1.37%) Accessibility
14 8 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 8 (1.37%) NCSC
15 7 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (1.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 27 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.86%) Firmware
3 5 (0.86%) vSphere
4 4 (0.68%) Docker
4 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.34%) IAG
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 32 (5.48%) Terraform
2 30 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.42%) SCCM
4 16 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (2.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.23%) RSA Archer
7 11 (1.88%) Ansible
8 8 (1.37%) EnCase
8 8 (1.37%) FTK
9 6 (1.03%) CASB
9 6 (1.03%) Packer
10 5 (0.86%) VxRail
11 4 (0.68%) Cilium
11 4 (0.68%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.68%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.51%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.34%) QRadar
14 1 (0.17%) ArcSight ESM
Vendors
1 117 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.31%) Google
3 25 (4.28%) Palo Alto
4 22 (3.77%) Cisco
5 18 (3.08%) iManage
6 17 (2.91%) CyberArk
6 17 (2.91%) VMware
7 16 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (2.40%) Rapid7
9 10 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.71%) Thales
10 9 (1.54%) EMC
11 8 (1.37%) Cellebrite
11 8 (1.37%) Oracle
12 6 (1.03%) F5
12 6 (1.03%) Foundry
13 5 (0.86%) HP
13 5 (0.86%) Splunk
13 5 (0.86%) Talend
13 5 (0.86%) TOWER Software