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 22 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 473 657
Rank change year-on-year +364 +184 -73
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 1,040 65 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.53% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.01% 0.51% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 159 39 91
10th Percentile - £35,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,831 £58,750
90th Percentile £61,000 £61,450 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £51,058 £52,500
% change year-on-year -21.66% -2.75% -5.75%

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 12,982 12,669 19,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.07% 41.80% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,485 5,062 12,356
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%

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 22 June 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 22 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
North of England +180 291 £30,500 -42.18% 45
Midlands +130 226 £44,401 -3.48% 34
South East +124 189 £42,500 -15.00% 45
Yorkshire +94 163 £30,500 -20.78% 16
South West +43 122 £30,500 -40.26% 21
East Midlands +76 114 £51,058 +45.88% 18
West Midlands +75 111 £40,000 -13.04% 16
North West +83 89 £30,500 -44.55% 21
East of England +65 84 £50,000 +58.73% 19
Scotland +77 73 £30,500 -44.55% 10
Wales - 51 £33,000 - 10
North East - 39 £30,500 - 9
Northern Ireland -22 17 £39,000 - 3
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 7 (0.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 900 (86.54%) Azure
2 24 (2.31%) AWS
2 24 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (1.25%) Entra ID
4 12 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (0.48%) Cloudflare
6 5 (0.48%) Google Workspace
7 3 (0.29%) GCP
7 3 (0.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.19%) GitHub
8 2 (0.19%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.096%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.096%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.096%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.096%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.096%) SaaS
9 1 (0.096%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.13%) Firewall
2 21 (2.02%) VPN
3 18 (1.73%) DNS
3 18 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.54%) LAN
4 16 (1.54%) WAN
5 12 (1.15%) SSL
5 12 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.96%) HTTP
7 9 (0.87%) FTP
7 9 (0.87%) SMTP
8 8 (0.77%) Internet
8 8 (0.77%) VLAN
9 7 (0.67%) DHCP
10 5 (0.48%) Network Security
11 4 (0.38%) VoIP
12 1 (0.096%) BGP
12 1 (0.096%) IPsec
12 1 (0.096%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.096%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.29%) Power BI
2 2 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.096%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Burp Suite
1 3 (0.29%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.19%) Git
General
1 897 (86.25%) Social Skills
2 69 (6.63%) Multimedia
3 41 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (1.54%) Finance
5 15 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (1.44%) Legal
5 15 (1.44%) Retail
6 8 (0.77%) Aerospace
6 8 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (0.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.19%) Law
10 1 (0.096%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 931 (89.52%) Analyst
2 901 (86.63%) Security Analyst
3 885 (85.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 865 (83.17%) Junior
4 865 (83.17%) Junior Analyst
4 865 (83.17%) Junior Security Analyst
5 69 (6.63%) Trainee
6 22 (2.12%) SOC Analyst
7 19 (1.83%) Senior
8 15 (1.44%) IT Engineer
9 13 (1.25%) Security Engineer
10 10 (0.96%) Information Analyst
10 10 (0.96%) Information Security Analyst
11 9 (0.87%) Digital Analyst
11 9 (0.87%) Support Engineer
12 8 (0.77%) IT Support
12 8 (0.77%) IT Support Engineer
13 7 (0.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 7 (0.67%) IT Analyst
13 7 (0.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.87%) LDAP
2 2 (0.19%) Middleware
2 2 (0.19%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.096%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.096%) Node.js
3 1 (0.096%) React
3 1 (0.096%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.096%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (0.096%) Spring
3 1 (0.096%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 13 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (0.87%) Client/Server
4 8 (0.77%) CSOC
4 8 (0.77%) Security Posture
5 6 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (0.58%) Driving Licence
5 6 (0.58%) Management Information System
6 5 (0.48%) Cyberattack
7 4 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.29%) Insider Threat
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 (0.096%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.46%) Windows
2 30 (2.88%) Linux
3 10 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.096%) AIX
6 1 (0.096%) Android
6 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.096%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,002 (96.35%) Cybersecurity
2 954 (91.73%) Mentoring
3 74 (7.12%) Ethical Hacking
4 69 (6.63%) Line Management
5 61 (5.87%) SIEM
6 45 (4.33%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (3.85%) Security Operations
8 30 (2.88%) Information Security
9 26 (2.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (2.40%) Incident Response
11 21 (2.02%) ITIL
12 19 (1.83%) Vulnerability Management
13 16 (1.54%) Data Protection
14 14 (1.35%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 14 (1.35%) Use Case
14 14 (1.35%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 13 (1.25%) Cloud Security
16 12 (1.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 11 (1.06%) AI
18 10 (0.96%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 28 (2.69%) PowerShell
2 24 (2.31%) Python
3 12 (1.15%) Bash
4 8 (0.77%) C++
4 8 (0.77%) Perl
5 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.19%) C#
6 2 (0.19%) Go
6 2 (0.19%) SQL
7 1 (0.096%) Java
7 1 (0.096%) Natural
7 1 (0.096%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 887 (85.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 870 (83.65%) Azure Certification
3 89 (8.56%) CEH
4 69 (6.63%) Network+ Certification
5 61 (5.87%) A+ Certification
6 33 (3.17%) CISSP
6 33 (3.17%) Security Cleared
7 29 (2.79%) SC Cleared
8 27 (2.60%) Degree
9 17 (1.63%) SSCP
10 15 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.35%) CISM
12 12 (1.15%) CCNA
12 12 (1.15%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.06%) CISA
14 10 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.67%) GIAC
16 7 (0.67%) SANS
17 6 (0.58%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (2.60%) NIST
3 25 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (1.83%) GDPR
5 9 (0.87%) GRC
6 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.19%) SLA
10 1 (0.096%) COBIT
10 1 (0.096%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.096%) NCSC
10 1 (0.096%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (1.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (0.96%) QRadar
2 5 (0.48%) Graylog
2 5 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.38%) Terraform
4 3 (0.29%) Ansible
4 3 (0.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.29%) Nmap
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.096%) CASB
6 1 (0.096%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.096%) Kibana
6 1 (0.096%) Nessus
Vendors
1 920 (88.46%) Microsoft
2 865 (83.17%) ForeScout
3 17 (1.63%) Cisco
4 13 (1.25%) Splunk
5 8 (0.77%) VMware
6 7 (0.67%) Google
7 5 (0.48%) Apple
8 4 (0.38%) Datto
8 4 (0.38%) SonicWALL
8 4 (0.38%) Veeam
9 3 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.19%) Meraki
10 2 (0.19%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.096%) Carbon Black
11 1 (0.096%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.096%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.096%) Oracle
11 1 (0.096%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.096%) Qualys
11 1 (0.096%) Zscaler