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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 94 87
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 561 401 786
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.66% 3.28% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.43% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 354 243 638
10th Percentile £52,150 £48,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,063 £62,500 £57,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £103,915
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +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 17,178 11,708 21,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.40% 95.86% 89.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,717 6,957 16,010
10th Percentile £40,700 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 75 £92,500 +60.40% 32
East London +22 36 £90,000 +2.86% 5
West London -13 17 £75,000 +19.53% 3
South London +20 4 £62,300 - 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 15 (2.67%) SAS
2 7 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.50%) SPSS
3 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 118 (21.03%) Azure
2 73 (13.01%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (12.83%) AWS
4 52 (9.27%) SaaS
5 37 (6.60%) GCP
6 26 (4.63%) Entra ID
7 16 (2.85%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (2.67%) PaaS
9 14 (2.50%) GitHub
10 12 (2.14%) IaaS
10 12 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (1.96%) Dropbox
12 10 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.60%) Nutanix
14 8 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.25%) OpenShift
16 6 (1.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 5 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
17 5 (0.89%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 52 (9.27%) Network Security
2 43 (7.66%) Firewall
3 22 (3.92%) CHAP
4 12 (2.14%) DNS
5 11 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (1.78%) VPN
7 8 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (1.25%) BGP
8 7 (1.25%) OSPF
8 7 (1.25%) VLAN
8 7 (1.25%) VXLAN
8 7 (1.25%) WAAS
8 7 (1.25%) WAN
9 5 (0.89%) SAN
9 5 (0.89%) VSAN
10 4 (0.71%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.53%) ATM
11 3 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.03%) Big Data
2 14 (2.50%) EDRMS
3 13 (2.32%) Power BI
4 8 (1.43%) Tableau
5 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.53%) Db2
7 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.18%) Impala
9 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) MySQL
9 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.18%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (1.60%) Git
2 6 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.36%) JIRA
4 2 (0.36%) Yeoman
General
1 240 (42.78%) Finance
2 224 (39.93%) Social Skills
3 110 (19.61%) Banking
4 104 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (16.22%) Legal
6 86 (15.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (13.19%) Retail
8 69 (12.30%) Law
9 45 (8.02%) Financial Institution
10 32 (5.70%) Local Government
11 24 (4.28%) Telecoms
12 17 (3.03%) Marketing
13 14 (2.50%) Back Office
13 14 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.60%) Aviation
16 7 (1.25%) Automotive
16 7 (1.25%) Cyber-Physical System
16 7 (1.25%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.07%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 83 (14.80%) Senior
2 76 (13.55%) Security Manager
3 65 (11.59%) Lead
4 59 (10.52%) Analyst
4 59 (10.52%) Security Engineer
5 57 (10.16%) Information Manager
6 54 (9.63%) Information Security Manager
7 34 (6.06%) Security Analyst
8 32 (5.70%) Consultant
9 27 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (4.63%) Architect
11 25 (4.46%) Auditor
12 24 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (4.28%) Security Auditor
13 23 (4.10%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 22 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 22 (3.92%) Security Specialist
15 19 (3.39%) Incident Manager
15 19 (3.39%) Internal Auditor
15 19 (3.39%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.07%) OAuth
1 6 (1.07%) OpenID
1 6 (1.07%) SailPoint
1 6 (1.07%) SAML
2 4 (0.71%) Middleware
3 3 (0.53%) JSON
3 3 (0.53%) Kafka
3 3 (0.53%) RESTful
4 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.18%) ADO
5 1 (0.18%) EDI
5 1 (0.18%) gRPC
5 1 (0.18%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.18%) PySpark
5 1 (0.18%) REST
5 1 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (24.60%) Management Information System
2 91 (16.22%) Security Posture
3 44 (7.84%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 24 (4.28%) Cloud Native
6 20 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.21%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.67%) Cybercrime
8 15 (2.67%) Hedge funds
9 14 (2.50%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.32%) CMDB
11 11 (1.96%) Blockchain
12 10 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
12 10 (1.78%) PKI
13 8 (1.43%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.25%) Blog
14 7 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 68 (12.12%) Windows
2 26 (4.63%) Linux
3 21 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.39%) Android
5 17 (3.03%) Unix
6 11 (1.96%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.43%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.07%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (43.14%) Cybersecurity
2 207 (36.90%) Risk Management
3 144 (25.67%) Incident Response
4 96 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 84 (14.97%) Mentoring
6 82 (14.62%) Cloud Security
7 79 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 76 (13.55%) Project Management
9 74 (13.19%) Roadmaps
10 72 (12.83%) Vulnerability Management
11 71 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (12.30%) Analytics
13 64 (11.41%) Computer Science
13 64 (11.41%) SIEM
14 63 (11.23%) Agile
15 62 (11.05%) Data Protection
16 58 (10.34%) AI
17 49 (8.73%) Internal Audit
18 48 (8.56%) Security Operations
19 45 (8.02%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 57 (10.16%) Python
2 49 (8.73%) PowerShell
3 17 (3.03%) Bash
3 17 (3.03%) Go
4 16 (2.85%) Java
5 15 (2.67%) SQL
6 5 (0.89%) C++
6 5 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.71%) C
8 3 (0.53%) C#
8 3 (0.53%) Objective-C
8 3 (0.53%) Perl
8 3 (0.53%) Ruby
8 3 (0.53%) Rust
9 2 (0.36%) Bicep
9 2 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 210 (37.43%) CISSP
2 150 (26.74%) Degree
3 145 (25.85%) CISM
4 78 (13.90%) CISA
5 57 (10.16%) CRISC
6 41 (7.31%) SANS
7 38 (6.77%) Master's Degree
8 36 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (6.42%) Security Cleared
9 33 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (5.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 30 (5.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (5.17%) CCSP
13 27 (4.81%) OSCP
13 27 (4.81%) SC Cleared
14 24 (4.28%) CEH
14 24 (4.28%) FFIEC
15 23 (4.10%) CGEIT
16 17 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
17 16 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (38.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 169 (30.12%) NIST
3 111 (19.79%) GRC
4 78 (13.90%) GDPR
5 52 (9.27%) PCI DSS
6 41 (7.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 38 (6.77%) QA
8 37 (6.60%) COBIT
9 35 (6.24%) NIST 800
10 23 (4.10%) SOC 2
11 16 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 10 (1.78%) Accessibility
15 9 (1.60%) SLA
16 8 (1.43%) NCSC
17 7 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
17 7 (1.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (1.25%) JSP 440
System Software
1 26 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.89%) vSphere
4 4 (0.71%) Firmware
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.53%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.36%) Docker
6 2 (0.36%) IAG
Systems Management
1 34 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.35%) Terraform
3 21 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 14 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (2.50%) SCCM
5 13 (2.32%) RSA Archer
6 11 (1.96%) EnCase
6 11 (1.96%) FTK
7 10 (1.78%) Ansible
8 6 (1.07%) CASB
8 6 (1.07%) Packer
9 5 (0.89%) VxRail
10 4 (0.71%) Cilium
10 4 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.53%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 114 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.99%) Google
3 25 (4.46%) Palo Alto
4 21 (3.74%) Cisco
5 18 (3.21%) iManage
5 18 (3.21%) VMware
6 14 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
6 14 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 13 (2.32%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.96%) Cellebrite
9 9 (1.60%) EMC
10 8 (1.43%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.43%) Thales
11 7 (1.25%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.07%) F5
13 5 (0.89%) Dell
13 5 (0.89%) Oracle
13 5 (0.89%) Splunk
13 5 (0.89%) TOWER Software