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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 466 662
Rank change year-on-year +362 +196 -79
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 1,045 63 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.56% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.12% 0.50% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 164 37 89
10th Percentile - £35,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,161 £58,750
90th Percentile £59,625 £63,900 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £51,058 £52,500
% change year-on-year -21.66% -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 12,864 12,563 19,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.20% 42.30% 24.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 5,026 12,300
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,338
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,438 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 15 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 15 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 +180 296 £30,500 -42.18% 38
Midlands +133 228 £42,000 -8.70% 21
South East +136 187 £42,500 -14.14% 44
Yorkshire +88 165 £30,500 -20.78% 12
South West +48 123 £30,500 -40.26% 18
East Midlands +77 114 £51,058 +45.88% 11
West Midlands +79 113 £37,500 -18.48% 10
North West +77 91 £30,500 -44.55% 18
East of England +58 82 £50,000 +58.73% 21
Scotland +78 74 £30,500 -44.55% 8
Wales - 51 £33,000 - 7
North East - 40 £30,500 - 9
Northern Ireland -19 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 8 (0.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 900 (86.12%) Azure
2 24 (2.30%) AWS
2 24 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (1.24%) Entra ID
4 12 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (0.57%) Google Workspace
5 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (0.48%) Cloudflare
7 3 (0.29%) GCP
7 3 (0.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.096%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.096%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.096%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.096%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.096%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.096%) GitHub
9 1 (0.096%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.096%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.096%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.83%) Firewall
2 20 (1.91%) VPN
3 18 (1.72%) DNS
4 17 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.44%) LAN
5 15 (1.44%) WAN
6 12 (1.15%) SSL
7 11 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.86%) HTTP
9 8 (0.77%) FTP
9 8 (0.77%) SMTP
10 7 (0.67%) DHCP
10 7 (0.67%) Internet
10 7 (0.67%) VLAN
11 5 (0.48%) Network Security
12 4 (0.38%) VoIP
13 2 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.096%) BGP
14 1 (0.096%) IPsec
14 1 (0.096%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.29%) Power BI
2 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.096%) Adabas
3 1 (0.096%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.38%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.096%) Git
General
1 898 (85.93%) Social Skills
2 77 (7.37%) Multimedia
3 40 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (1.53%) Finance
4 16 (1.53%) Retail
5 15 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (1.44%) Legal
6 8 (0.77%) Aerospace
7 7 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.29%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.19%) Law
11 1 (0.096%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 928 (88.80%) Analyst
2 900 (86.12%) Security Analyst
3 885 (84.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 865 (82.78%) Junior
4 865 (82.78%) Junior Analyst
4 865 (82.78%) Junior Security Analyst
5 77 (7.37%) Trainee
6 20 (1.91%) SOC Analyst
7 18 (1.72%) Senior
8 16 (1.53%) IT Engineer
9 13 (1.24%) Security Engineer
10 10 (0.96%) Information Analyst
10 10 (0.96%) Information Security Analyst
10 10 (0.96%) Support Engineer
11 9 (0.86%) Digital Analyst
11 9 (0.86%) IT Support
11 9 (0.86%) IT Support Engineer
12 7 (0.67%) Infrastructure Support
12 7 (0.67%) IT Analyst
12 7 (0.67%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.77%) LDAP
2 1 (0.096%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.096%) Middleware
2 1 (0.096%) Node.js
2 1 (0.096%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.096%) React
2 1 (0.096%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (0.096%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (0.096%) Spring
2 1 (0.096%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
2 13 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (0.77%) Client/Server
3 8 (0.77%) CSOC
3 8 (0.77%) Security Posture
4 6 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (0.57%) Driving Licence
4 6 (0.57%) Management Information System
5 5 (0.48%) Cyberattack
6 4 (0.38%) Insider Threat
6 4 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.19%) CCTV
8 2 (0.19%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.19%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.19%) MISP
9 1 (0.096%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.096%) PKI
9 1 (0.096%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.35%) Windows
2 28 (2.68%) 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 1,008 (96.46%) Cybersecurity
2 962 (92.06%) Mentoring
3 83 (7.94%) Ethical Hacking
4 77 (7.37%) Line Management
5 59 (5.65%) SIEM
6 43 (4.11%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (3.64%) Security Operations
8 30 (2.87%) Information Security
9 25 (2.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (2.20%) Incident Response
11 20 (1.91%) ITIL
12 17 (1.63%) Vulnerability Management
13 16 (1.53%) Data Protection
14 14 (1.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 13 (1.24%) Cloud Security
15 13 (1.24%) Use Case
16 12 (1.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
17 11 (1.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 10 (0.96%) Computer Science
18 10 (0.96%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 26 (2.49%) PowerShell
2 23 (2.20%) Python
3 11 (1.05%) Bash
4 8 (0.77%) C++
4 8 (0.77%) Perl
5 5 (0.48%) 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 (84.88%) CompTIA CySA+
2 870 (83.25%) Azure Certification
3 97 (9.28%) CEH
4 77 (7.37%) Network+ Certification
5 69 (6.60%) A+ Certification
6 34 (3.25%) Security Cleared
7 32 (3.06%) CISSP
8 30 (2.87%) SC Cleared
9 27 (2.58%) Degree
10 17 (1.63%) SSCP
11 15 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.34%) CISM
13 13 (1.24%) CREST Certified
14 12 (1.15%) CCNA
15 11 (1.05%) CISA
16 10 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
17 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (0.77%) GIAC
19 7 (0.67%) SANS
20 6 (0.57%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.68%) NIST
3 25 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (1.82%) GDPR
5 9 (0.86%) GRC
6 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.29%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.19%) SLA
11 1 (0.096%) COBIT
11 1 (0.096%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.096%) NCSC
11 1 (0.096%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.86%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.096%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (0.96%) QRadar
2 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.48%) Graylog
3 5 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.38%) Nmap
5 3 (0.29%) Terraform
6 2 (0.19%) Ansible
6 2 (0.19%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.096%) CASB
7 1 (0.096%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.096%) Grafana
7 1 (0.096%) Kibana
7 1 (0.096%) Nessus
7 1 (0.096%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 919 (87.94%) Microsoft
2 865 (82.78%) ForeScout
3 17 (1.63%) Cisco
4 12 (1.15%) Splunk
5 8 (0.77%) Google
6 7 (0.67%) VMware
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