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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 77 84
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 482 649 669
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.65% 3.84% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 4.15% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 220 365 563
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,550 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,000 £62,500 £58,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -
75th Percentile £90,313 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,188 £118,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 11,932 15,634 17,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.27% 92.49% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7,643 9,118 14,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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 74 £75,000 +3.45% 26
West London -6 17 £67,500 +22.73% 5
East London -13 10 £90,000 +69.81% 8
South London +12 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 19 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.66%) Confluence
4 8 (1.66%) SAS
5 4 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.41%) MTS
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Mule
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (4.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.87%) Adobe Premiere
4 9 (1.87%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.66%) SPSS
6 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (2.07%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.41%) Relativity
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (17.01%) Azure
2 55 (11.41%) AWS
3 41 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (8.30%) GCP
5 28 (5.81%) SaaS
6 26 (5.39%) Power Platform
7 18 (3.73%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.49%) IaaS
9 11 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
9 11 (2.28%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.07%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.66%) Dropbox
11 8 (1.66%) PaaS
12 7 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.24%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 5 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (1.04%) Nutanix
15 4 (0.83%) Tessian
15 4 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (10.58%) Firewall
2 24 (4.98%) Network Security
3 16 (3.32%) VPN
4 13 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.87%) WAN
6 7 (1.45%) DNS
6 7 (1.45%) RTP
6 7 (1.45%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.24%) CHAP
8 4 (0.83%) BGP
8 4 (0.83%) OSPF
8 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.83%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.62%) DMARC
9 3 (0.62%) HTTP
9 3 (0.62%) SAN
9 3 (0.62%) Spanning Tree
10 2 (0.41%) ATM
10 2 (0.41%) DKIM
10 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.39%) Power BI
2 20 (4.15%) Big Data
3 16 (3.32%) Tableau
4 15 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.49%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (2.28%) DataStage
8 11 (2.28%) Hadoop
8 11 (2.28%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.28%) MySQL
8 11 (2.28%) Neo4j
8 11 (2.28%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.28%) Pentaho
8 11 (2.28%) RDBMS
9 8 (1.66%) EDRMS
10 4 (0.83%) Metadata
11 3 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (1.24%) JIRA
2 4 (0.83%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.62%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.41%) Snyk
5 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.21%) MLflow
General
1 240 (49.79%) Finance
2 234 (48.55%) Social Skills
3 159 (32.99%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (20.12%) Legal
5 63 (13.07%) Banking
5 63 (13.07%) Financial Institution
6 50 (10.37%) Law
7 39 (8.09%) Marketing
8 37 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (6.85%) Digital Economy
10 32 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (4.56%) Retail
13 13 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.70%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.28%) Billing
15 9 (1.87%) Back Office
15 9 (1.87%) Dutch Language
15 9 (1.87%) French Language
15 9 (1.87%) German Language
Job Titles
1 70 (14.52%) Senior
2 57 (11.83%) Analyst
3 41 (8.51%) Lead
4 37 (7.68%) Security Engineer
5 32 (6.64%) Security Analyst
5 32 (6.64%) Security Manager
6 19 (3.94%) Information Analyst
6 19 (3.94%) Risk Manager
6 19 (3.94%) Security Specialist
7 18 (3.73%) Product Management Director
7 18 (3.73%) Product Specialist
8 16 (3.32%) Architect
9 15 (3.11%) Information Security Analyst
9 15 (3.11%) IT Manager
10 14 (2.90%) Consultant
10 14 (2.90%) Information Security Manager
10 14 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (2.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 13 (2.70%) Head of Security
11 13 (2.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.28%) OAuth
2 9 (1.87%) OAuth2
3 7 (1.45%) Kafka
4 6 (1.24%) RESTful
5 5 (1.04%) EDI
5 5 (1.04%) REST
6 4 (0.83%) gRPC
7 3 (0.62%) CSS
7 3 (0.62%) HTML
7 3 (0.62%) JWT
7 3 (0.62%) Node.js
7 3 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.41%) OpenID
8 2 (0.41%) SAML
9 1 (0.21%) FIDO
9 1 (0.21%) LDAP
9 1 (0.21%) Middleware
9 1 (0.21%) NumPy
9 1 (0.21%) STL
9 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (22.82%) Management Information System
2 51 (10.58%) Security Posture
3 50 (10.37%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (7.05%) Onboarding
5 25 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.94%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.28%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.28%) Taxonomies
11 10 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 10 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.87%) CMDB
12 9 (1.87%) Social Media
13 8 (1.66%) Cybercrime
13 8 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.66%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.96%) Windows
2 25 (5.19%) Linux
3 9 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.24%) Unix
6 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.41%) Android
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (35.06%) Risk Management
2 148 (30.71%) Cybersecurity
3 115 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 113 (23.44%) Incident Response
5 111 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (20.54%) Roadmaps
7 78 (16.18%) SIEM
8 75 (15.56%) Product Management
9 73 (15.15%) Analytics
10 71 (14.73%) Computer Science
11 67 (13.90%) Decision-Making
12 66 (13.69%) Agile
13 61 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (11.83%) Project Management
15 56 (11.62%) Product Roadmap
15 56 (11.62%) Security Operations
16 53 (11.00%) Vulnerability Management
17 51 (10.58%) Cloud Security
18 49 (10.17%) Business Case
18 49 (10.17%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.13%) Python
2 23 (4.77%) PowerShell
2 23 (4.77%) SQL
3 11 (2.28%) Java
4 8 (1.66%) Bash
5 7 (1.45%) Go
6 2 (0.41%) VB
7 1 (0.21%) C++
7 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 166 (34.44%) Degree
2 157 (32.57%) CISSP
3 114 (23.65%) CISM
4 64 (13.28%) CISA
5 51 (10.58%) CRISC
6 42 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (7.47%) Master's Degree
8 21 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (4.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 17 (3.53%) CEH
10 15 (3.11%) GIAC
11 14 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (2.49%) GCIH
12 12 (2.49%) SANS
13 11 (2.28%) FFIEC
14 10 (2.07%) PMI Certification
15 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.87%) PMP
16 8 (1.66%) CCSP
16 8 (1.66%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (33.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 111 (23.03%) NIST
3 71 (14.73%) GDPR
4 44 (9.13%) GRC
5 37 (7.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 33 (6.85%) SOC 2
7 25 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 22 (4.56%) PCI DSS
9 18 (3.73%) NIST 800
10 17 (3.53%) COBIT
11 16 (3.32%) Data Quality
12 15 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 12 (2.49%) SOC 1
14 11 (2.28%) SLA
15 8 (1.66%) ISAE 3402
15 8 (1.66%) ISO 9001
15 8 (1.66%) ITGC
16 6 (1.24%) QA
17 5 (1.04%) ISO 22301
17 5 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.24%) Docker
3 5 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.62%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
5 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.49%) SCCM
2 12 (2.49%) Terraform
3 11 (2.28%) RSA Archer
4 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.66%) QRadar
6 7 (1.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.24%) CASB
7 6 (1.24%) EnCase
7 6 (1.24%) FTK
8 5 (1.04%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.83%) Nmap
9 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.62%) Ansible
10 3 (0.62%) ArcSight ESM
10 3 (0.62%) Grafana
10 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.41%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 2 (0.41%) Nessus
12 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 93 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.32%) Foundry
3 15 (3.11%) Adobe
4 13 (2.70%) Oracle
5 12 (2.49%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.49%) Splunk
5 12 (2.49%) VMware
6 11 (2.28%) Informatica
6 11 (2.28%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.28%) Talend
7 10 (2.07%) Qualys
8 9 (1.87%) Cisco
9 8 (1.66%) Google
10 7 (1.45%) Rapid7
11 6 (1.24%) Cellebrite
11 6 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.24%) Darktrace
11 6 (1.24%) HubSpot
12 5 (1.04%) Carbon Black
12 5 (1.04%) ServiceNow