Cybersecurity Job Trends in the South East

Cybersecurity
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 31 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,090 540 827
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 6.93% 6.28% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.65% 7.09% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 591 372 583
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,920 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% -4.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Cybersecurity 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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,298 7,614 13,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.87% 88.57% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,040 3,982 9,658
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,888 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the South East

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Thames Valley +47 358 £45,500 +4.60% 112
Hampshire +8 326 £60,000 +20.00% 57
Surrey -1 175 £59,490 +13.31% 46
Berkshire +82 157 £45,000 -25.00% 57
Kent +11 121 £52,500 -4.55% 26
Buckinghamshire +24 112 £47,500 +86.27% 27
Oxfordshire +1 89 £61,500 +2.50% 30
West Sussex +1 56 £38,750 -42.59% 21
East Sussex +8 50 £44,000 -1.61% 11
Middlesex +6 1 £97,500 - 23
Home Counties - 1 £60,000 -
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 38 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.092%) CMS
4 1 (0.092%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.38%) Simulink
3 4 (0.37%) CATIA
3 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 495 (45.41%) Azure
2 148 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (5.41%) AWS
4 45 (4.13%) Entra ID
5 38 (3.49%) SaaS
6 26 (2.39%) GCP
7 14 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (1.19%) OneDrive
9 11 (1.01%) Power Platform
10 10 (0.92%) Google Workspace
11 9 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.46%) Cloudflare
12 5 (0.46%) Serverless
13 4 (0.37%) Datadog
13 4 (0.37%) IaaS
13 4 (0.37%) PaaS
13 4 (0.37%) Sumo Logic
14 3 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 116 (10.64%) Firewall
2 74 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
3 64 (5.87%) DNS
4 53 (4.86%) WAN
5 50 (4.59%) VPN
6 49 (4.50%) Network Security
7 43 (3.94%) LAN
8 31 (2.84%) TCP/IP
9 29 (2.66%) Cisco Nexus
10 26 (2.39%) DHCP
10 26 (2.39%) HTTP
10 26 (2.39%) Internet
11 25 (2.29%) VLAN
12 23 (2.11%) SSL
13 17 (1.56%) VoIP
14 14 (1.28%) FTP
15 12 (1.10%) BGP
16 11 (1.01%) SSH
17 10 (0.92%) ICMP
17 10 (0.92%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.37%) Power BI
3 3 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.28%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.28%) Tableau
4 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.092%) Metadata
5 1 (0.092%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.092%) MySQL
5 1 (0.092%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (1.74%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (0.92%) JIRA
3 9 (0.83%) Git
3 9 (0.83%) GitLab
4 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.37%) Apache Continuum
6 3 (0.28%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 526 (48.26%) Social Skills
2 91 (8.35%) Finance
3 86 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 37 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 32 (2.94%) Retail
7 29 (2.66%) Law
8 28 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 26 (2.39%) Marketing
10 25 (2.29%) Legal
11 24 (2.20%) Aerospace
11 24 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.93%) Military
14 18 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.47%) Banking
16 14 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.92%) Electronics
17 10 (0.92%) Games
18 7 (0.64%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 274 (25.14%) Analyst
2 224 (20.55%) Security Analyst
3 206 (18.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 166 (15.23%) Junior
5 162 (14.86%) Junior Analyst
5 162 (14.86%) Junior Security Analyst
6 150 (13.76%) Ethical Hacker
7 127 (11.65%) Senior
8 77 (7.06%) IT Support
9 60 (5.50%) Architect
10 56 (5.14%) Consultant
11 49 (4.50%) IT Manager
12 48 (4.40%) Security Architect
13 46 (4.22%) IT Engineer
13 46 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
14 45 (4.13%) Lead
15 41 (3.76%) Senior Security Analyst
16 39 (3.58%) Security Manager
17 38 (3.49%) Support Engineer
18 36 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.10%) SAML
2 11 (1.01%) OAuth
3 9 (0.83%) Kafka
3 9 (0.83%) LDAP
4 8 (0.73%) JSON
4 8 (0.73%) XML
5 7 (0.64%) Middleware
6 6 (0.55%) HTML
6 6 (0.55%) Node.js
6 6 (0.55%) React
7 5 (0.46%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.46%) CSS
7 5 (0.46%) Django
7 5 (0.46%) WebSockets
8 4 (0.37%) REST
9 3 (0.28%) gRPC
9 3 (0.28%) JSON Schema
9 3 (0.28%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.28%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (0.28%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 154 (14.13%) Cyberattack
2 58 (5.32%) Security Operations Centre
3 55 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 54 (4.95%) Cyber Threat
5 46 (4.22%) Security Posture
6 36 (3.30%) Driving Licence
7 28 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
9 18 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 10 (0.92%) Product Ownership
12 9 (0.83%) Blog
12 9 (0.83%) Clustering
12 9 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
12 9 (0.83%) Operational Technology
13 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 130 (11.93%) Windows
2 57 (5.23%) Windows Server
3 49 (4.50%) Linux
4 10 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.092%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.092%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (18.72%) Mentoring
2 155 (14.22%) Ethical Hacking
3 127 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (9.17%) Security Operations
6 99 (9.08%) Vulnerability Management
7 97 (8.90%) SIEM
8 73 (6.70%) Incident Response
9 67 (6.15%) Information Security
10 60 (5.50%) Business Continuity
10 60 (5.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 60 (5.50%) Penetration Testing
11 57 (5.23%) AI
12 56 (5.14%) Risk Management
13 53 (4.86%) ITIL
14 51 (4.68%) Decision-Making
15 47 (4.31%) Customer Service
15 47 (4.31%) Project Delivery
16 45 (4.13%) Incident Management
17 41 (3.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (5.05%) Python
2 37 (3.39%) PowerShell
3 23 (2.11%) SQL
4 15 (1.38%) MATLAB
5 14 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.01%) Bash
6 11 (1.01%) C++
7 10 (0.92%) Rust
8 9 (0.83%) C#
9 7 (0.64%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.37%) Go
11 4 (0.37%) Java
11 4 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.28%) C
12 3 (0.28%) Perl
12 3 (0.28%) Uniface
13 2 (0.18%) Ada
13 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.092%) PHP
Qualifications
1 313 (28.72%) Azure Certification
2 188 (17.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 168 (15.41%) CompTIA CySA+
4 161 (14.77%) CEH
5 111 (10.18%) Security Cleared
6 83 (7.61%) Degree
7 69 (6.33%) SC Cleared
8 49 (4.50%) CISSP
9 38 (3.49%) DV Cleared
10 32 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (2.39%) CISM
13 22 (2.02%) CREST Certified
14 20 (1.83%) CRISC
15 18 (1.65%) GIAC
16 17 (1.56%) CCNA
17 14 (1.28%) DBS Check
18 13 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 13 (1.19%) GCIA
19 12 (1.10%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (5.32%) NIST
3 51 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 49 (4.50%) GDPR
5 44 (4.04%) GRC
6 31 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 23 (2.11%) QA
8 22 (2.02%) NCSC
8 22 (2.02%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.19%) SOC 2
10 12 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 12 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 7 (0.64%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.55%) SLA
14 5 (0.46%) ISO 22301
14 5 (0.46%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.37%) Def Stans
System Software
1 81 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.39%) Hyper-V
3 26 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.83%) Docker
5 7 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.46%) ClearTrust
7 4 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.28%) vSphere
9 1 (0.092%) KVM
Systems Management
1 42 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.19%) Terraform
4 12 (1.10%) Ansible
5 11 (1.01%) CASB
6 10 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.83%) Grafana
7 9 (0.83%) Kibana
7 9 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.83%) QRadar
8 6 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.55%) Graylog
9 5 (0.46%) Backup Exec
9 5 (0.46%) Puppet
10 4 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.28%) Podman
11 3 (0.28%) SCCM
12 1 (0.092%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 542 (49.72%) Microsoft
2 310 (28.44%) ForeScout
3 60 (5.50%) Cisco
4 51 (4.68%) Palo Alto
5 38 (3.49%) VMware
6 36 (3.30%) Aruba
7 35 (3.21%) Qualys
8 28 (2.57%) Splunk
9 19 (1.74%) Google
10 15 (1.38%) Siemens
11 13 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.83%) Citrix
12 9 (0.83%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.83%) Veeam
13 7 (0.64%) Carbon Black
13 7 (0.64%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.64%) SAP
14 6 (0.55%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.55%) Tenable
15 5 (0.46%) SonicWALL