CompTIA Security+ Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CompTIA Security+
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 480 629
Rank change year-on-year +359 +149 -73
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 1,030 81 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.44% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.64% 0.63% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 150 64 92
10th Percentile - £35,150 £30,075
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +9.89%
75th Percentile £54,000 £57,813 £59,063
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £51,058 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.93% -2.75% -4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CompTIA Security+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,486 12,825 18,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.88% 37.95% 25.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,761 5,311 11,646
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,000 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CompTIA Security+ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CompTIA Security+ job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CompTIA Security+
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CompTIA Security+.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CompTIA Security+ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CompTIA Security+ in the UK excluding London

CompTIA Security+
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CompTIA Security+ within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +183 284 £30,500 -42.18% 53
Midlands +128 220 £42,000 -8.70% 34
South East +134 195 £48,000 -19.33% 57
Yorkshire +93 160 £30,500 -20.78% 22
South West +30 121 £32,000 -36.00% 28
East Midlands +68 112 £42,000 +20.00% 19
West Midlands +69 107 £43,401 -5.65% 15
North West +62 86 £30,500 -44.55% 24
East of England +61 84 £50,000 +53.85% 24
Scotland +70 70 £30,500 -44.55% 12
Wales - 52 £47,500 - 15
North East - 38 £30,500 - 8
Northern Ireland -46 17 £39,000 - 6
CompTIA Security+
UK

CompTIA Security+
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (0.58%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 900 (87.38%) Azure
2 28 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (2.23%) AWS
4 15 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
4 15 (1.46%) Entra ID
5 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (0.49%) Cloudflare
7 4 (0.39%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.29%) GCP
8 3 (0.29%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.19%) GitHub
9 2 (0.19%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.097%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.097%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.097%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.097%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.27%) Firewall
2 21 (2.04%) VPN
3 20 (1.94%) DNS
3 20 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.46%) LAN
4 15 (1.46%) WAN
5 12 (1.17%) SSL
5 12 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.97%) HTTP
7 9 (0.87%) FTP
7 9 (0.87%) SMTP
8 8 (0.78%) DHCP
8 8 (0.78%) Internet
8 8 (0.78%) VLAN
9 6 (0.58%) Network Security
10 4 (0.39%) VoIP
11 1 (0.097%) BGP
11 1 (0.097%) IPsec
11 1 (0.097%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.097%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.29%) Power BI
2 2 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.097%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Git
2 1 (0.097%) JIRA
General
1 895 (86.89%) Social Skills
2 57 (5.53%) Multimedia
3 43 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (1.46%) Finance
4 15 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (1.17%) Legal
6 11 (1.07%) Retail
7 8 (0.78%) Aerospace
7 8 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.29%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.19%) Law
12 1 (0.097%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 932 (90.49%) Analyst
2 901 (87.48%) Security Analyst
3 887 (86.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 865 (83.98%) Junior
4 865 (83.98%) Junior Analyst
4 865 (83.98%) Junior Security Analyst
5 57 (5.53%) Trainee
6 24 (2.33%) Senior
6 24 (2.33%) SOC Analyst
7 14 (1.36%) IT Engineer
8 12 (1.17%) Security Engineer
9 11 (1.07%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (0.78%) Support Engineer
11 7 (0.68%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 7 (0.68%) Information Analyst
11 7 (0.68%) Information Security Analyst
11 7 (0.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (0.68%) IT Security Analyst
11 7 (0.68%) IT Support
11 7 (0.68%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.87%) LDAP
2 2 (0.19%) Middleware
2 2 (0.19%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.097%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.097%) Node.js
3 1 (0.097%) React
3 1 (0.097%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.097%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (0.097%) Spring
3 1 (0.097%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (2.43%) Security Operations Centre
2 13 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (0.87%) Client/Server
3 9 (0.87%) CSOC
4 8 (0.78%) Management Information System
5 7 (0.68%) Security Posture
6 6 (0.58%) Driving Licence
7 5 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (0.49%) Cyberattack
7 5 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.19%) CCTV
9 2 (0.19%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.19%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.19%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.19%) MISP
9 2 (0.19%) SCADA
10 1 (0.097%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.097%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.59%) Windows
2 31 (3.01%) Linux
3 10 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.097%) AIX
6 1 (0.097%) Android
6 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (96.50%) Cybersecurity
2 939 (91.17%) Mentoring
3 60 (5.83%) SIEM
4 57 (5.53%) Ethical Hacking
4 57 (5.53%) Line Management
5 44 (4.27%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (4.08%) Security Operations
7 31 (3.01%) Incident Response
8 28 (2.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (2.52%) Information Security
10 25 (2.43%) Vulnerability Management
11 22 (2.14%) ITIL
12 18 (1.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 16 (1.55%) Data Protection
14 15 (1.46%) Cloud Security
15 14 (1.36%) Use Case
16 13 (1.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 12 (1.17%) Runbook
17 12 (1.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
18 11 (1.07%) AI
Programming Languages
1 32 (3.11%) PowerShell
2 23 (2.23%) Python
3 13 (1.26%) Bash
4 8 (0.78%) C++
4 8 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 8 (0.78%) Perl
5 2 (0.19%) C#
5 2 (0.19%) Go
6 1 (0.097%) Java
6 1 (0.097%) Natural
6 1 (0.097%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 888 (86.21%) CompTIA CySA+
2 872 (84.66%) Azure Certification
3 74 (7.18%) CEH
4 58 (5.63%) Network+ Certification
5 50 (4.85%) A+ Certification
6 33 (3.20%) Security Cleared
7 30 (2.91%) CISSP
8 26 (2.52%) SC Cleared
9 24 (2.33%) Degree
10 17 (1.65%) SSCP
11 13 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.17%) CISA
12 12 (1.17%) CISM
13 9 (0.87%) CCNA
13 9 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.87%) CREST Certified
14 7 (0.68%) GCIA
14 7 (0.68%) SANS
15 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 24 (2.33%) NIST
3 20 (1.94%) GDPR
4 9 (0.87%) GRC
5 6 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.29%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.19%) SLA
8 1 (0.097%) COBIT
8 1 (0.097%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.097%) NCSC
8 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.07%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (0.97%) QRadar
2 5 (0.49%) Graylog
2 5 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.39%) Terraform
4 3 (0.29%) Ansible
4 3 (0.29%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.097%) CASB
6 1 (0.097%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.097%) Kibana
6 1 (0.097%) Nessus
Vendors
1 921 (89.42%) Microsoft
2 865 (83.98%) ForeScout
3 15 (1.46%) Cisco
4 13 (1.26%) Splunk
5 9 (0.87%) VMware
6 6 (0.58%) Google
7 5 (0.49%) Apple
8 4 (0.39%) Datto
8 4 (0.39%) SonicWALL
8 4 (0.39%) Veeam
9 3 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.19%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.19%) Meraki
10 2 (0.19%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle
11 1 (0.097%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.097%) Qualys
11 1 (0.097%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.097%) Tenable
11 1 (0.097%) Varonis