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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 86 80
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 530 575 754
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.51% 3.79% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.98% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 254 319 644
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,150
25th Percentile £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -1.33% +0.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £126,875 £120,000 £102,125
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 13,096 14,447 19,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.69% 95.27% 91.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,433 7,856 15,783
10th Percentile £37,375 £43,239 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £52,887
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,967 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.24% +12.67% -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 7 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 7 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 -5 72 £71,250 +0.07% 31
East London +9 25 £90,000 - 8
West London -3 23 £67,500 +17.05% 7
South London +19 8 £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 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.26%) SAS
4 10 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.32%) Confluence
6 5 (0.94%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.38%) MTS
8 1 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.89%) SPSS
5 9 (1.70%) Adobe Premiere
5 9 (1.70%) Photoshop
6 8 (1.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) Relativity
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (16.60%) Azure
2 64 (12.08%) AWS
3 49 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (8.49%) GCP
5 35 (6.60%) SaaS
6 28 (5.28%) Entra ID
7 24 (4.53%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.45%) IaaS
9 12 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (2.26%) Nutanix
9 12 (2.26%) PaaS
10 10 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (1.89%) Dropbox
10 10 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (1.70%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 5 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.57%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.55%) Firewall
2 19 (3.58%) CHAP
3 18 (3.40%) Network Security
4 12 (2.26%) WAN
5 11 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (2.08%) SD-WAN
5 11 (2.08%) VPN
6 9 (1.70%) Cisco IOS
6 9 (1.70%) WAAS
7 6 (1.13%) ATM
7 6 (1.13%) RTP
8 5 (0.94%) SAN
9 4 (0.75%) Broadband
9 4 (0.75%) DNS
9 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.75%) VSAN
10 3 (0.57%) HTTP
10 3 (0.57%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.38%) AMQP
11 2 (0.38%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.53%) Big Data
1 24 (4.53%) Power BI
2 23 (4.34%) Tableau
3 14 (2.64%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.45%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.26%) Hadoop
5 12 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.89%) DataStage
6 10 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.89%) EDRMS
6 10 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.89%) MySQL
6 10 (1.89%) Neo4j
6 10 (1.89%) Pentaho
6 10 (1.89%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.57%) Redis
8 2 (0.38%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 5 (0.94%) JIRA
2 3 (0.57%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.57%) Git
3 2 (0.38%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.38%) Snyk
4 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
General
1 273 (51.51%) Finance
2 249 (46.98%) Social Skills
3 157 (29.62%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (18.68%) Legal
5 85 (16.04%) Financial Institution
6 78 (14.72%) Banking
7 63 (11.89%) Law
8 56 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (8.68%) Marketing
9 46 (8.68%) Retail
10 34 (6.42%) Digital Economy
11 28 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.64%) Back Office
13 14 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.08%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.89%) Billing
16 9 (1.70%) Dutch Language
16 9 (1.70%) French Language
16 9 (1.70%) German Language
Job Titles
1 77 (14.53%) Senior
2 55 (10.38%) Lead
3 51 (9.62%) Analyst
4 47 (8.87%) Security Engineer
5 35 (6.60%) Security Analyst
6 34 (6.42%) Security Manager
7 29 (5.47%) Consultant
8 22 (4.15%) Risk Manager
9 19 (3.58%) Auditor
9 19 (3.58%) Information Analyst
9 19 (3.58%) Python Engineer
9 19 (3.58%) Security Auditor
10 18 (3.40%) Head of Security
10 18 (3.40%) Internal Auditor
11 17 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 17 (3.21%) Information Manager
11 17 (3.21%) Product Management Director
12 16 (3.02%) Information Security Analyst
12 16 (3.02%) Information Security Manager
12 16 (3.02%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.64%) OAuth
2 10 (1.89%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.70%) Kafka
4 6 (1.13%) REST
4 6 (1.13%) RESTful
5 5 (0.94%) gRPC
6 4 (0.75%) EDI
6 4 (0.75%) OpenID
6 4 (0.75%) SAML
7 3 (0.57%) JWT
7 3 (0.57%) Middleware
7 3 (0.57%) Node.js
7 3 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.38%) PySpark
9 1 (0.19%) FIDO
9 1 (0.19%) LDAP
9 1 (0.19%) NetworkX
9 1 (0.19%) Pandas
9 1 (0.19%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 123 (23.21%) Management Information System
2 58 (10.94%) Security Posture
3 53 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (8.11%) Onboarding
5 27 (5.09%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.40%) Hedge funds
7 17 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (2.45%) CMDB
8 13 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.08%) Blockchain
9 11 (2.08%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.89%) Cybercrime
10 10 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
11 8 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
12 7 (1.32%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.70%) Windows
2 25 (4.72%) Linux
3 14 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.45%) Android
5 12 (2.26%) Unix
6 10 (1.89%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.51%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
10 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (36.60%) Risk Management
2 173 (32.64%) Cybersecurity
3 123 (23.21%) Incident Response
4 104 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 103 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (18.11%) Roadmaps
7 82 (15.47%) Analytics
8 80 (15.09%) Computer Science
9 77 (14.53%) Agile
10 76 (14.34%) Project Management
11 73 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 71 (13.40%) Product Management
13 68 (12.83%) Data Protection
14 63 (11.89%) Decision-Making
15 62 (11.70%) SIEM
16 60 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
16 60 (11.32%) Vulnerability Management
17 59 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
18 51 (9.62%) Mentoring
19 50 (9.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 54 (10.19%) Python
2 39 (7.36%) PowerShell
3 30 (5.66%) SQL
4 15 (2.83%) Go
5 14 (2.64%) Bash
5 14 (2.64%) Java
6 3 (0.57%) C++
6 3 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.38%) Bicep
7 2 (0.38%) R
8 1 (0.19%) C
8 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 199 (37.55%) CISSP
2 167 (31.51%) Degree
3 126 (23.77%) CISM
4 94 (17.74%) CISA
5 51 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (9.62%) CRISC
6 34 (6.42%) SANS
7 33 (6.23%) Master's Degree
8 23 (4.34%) CompTIA Security+
8 23 (4.34%) FFIEC
9 21 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (3.77%) CGEIT
11 19 (3.58%) Security Cleared
12 18 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (3.02%) CompTIA CySA+
14 15 (2.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (2.64%) CEH
16 13 (2.45%) GIAC
17 12 (2.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (33.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (24.53%) NIST
3 80 (15.09%) GDPR
4 65 (12.26%) GRC
5 41 (7.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (5.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 28 (5.28%) COBIT
8 27 (5.09%) PCI DSS
9 22 (4.15%) NIST 800
10 18 (3.40%) SLA
10 18 (3.40%) SOC 2
11 15 (2.83%) Data Quality
12 12 (2.26%) QA
13 11 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (1.51%) ISAE 3402
15 7 (1.32%) ISO 9001
15 7 (1.32%) ITGC
16 5 (0.94%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 28 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.13%) Docker
4 5 (0.94%) Firmware
4 5 (0.94%) vSphere
5 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.34%) SCCM
2 21 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.58%) Terraform
4 15 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (2.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 13 (2.45%) RSA Archer
7 9 (1.70%) CASB
8 8 (1.51%) EnCase
8 8 (1.51%) FTK
9 7 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.13%) QRadar
11 3 (0.57%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.57%) Grafana
11 3 (0.57%) Nmap
11 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.57%) VxRail
12 2 (0.38%) Ansible
12 2 (0.38%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 100 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.15%) Google
3 17 (3.21%) Foundry
4 15 (2.83%) Adobe
4 15 (2.83%) Cisco
5 14 (2.64%) VMware
6 11 (2.08%) Oracle
7 10 (1.89%) Informatica
7 10 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.89%) Talend
8 9 (1.70%) Splunk
9 8 (1.51%) Cellebrite
10 6 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.13%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.13%) VocaLink
11 5 (0.94%) Commvault
11 5 (0.94%) Nokia
11 5 (0.94%) Qualys
11 5 (0.94%) ServiceNow