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 10 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 446 584
Rank change year-on-year +284 +138 -103
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 863 105 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.30% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.19% 0.83% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 146 86 67
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £30,688 £44,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,151 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 13,942 12,623 15,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.13% 36.45% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,167 5,338 8,261
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,110 £34,988 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £66,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +144 225 £30,500 -39.00% 69
South East +116 182 £52,500 -12.50% 63
Midlands +114 181 £46,801 +1.74% 41
Yorkshire +78 130 £30,500 -20.78% 27
South West -3 98 £36,750 -26.50% 38
East Midlands +61 94 £42,000 +20.00% 23
West Midlands +51 87 £46,801 +1.74% 18
East of England +32 72 £55,000 +69.23% 30
North West +46 65 £30,500 -44.59% 31
Scotland +61 57 £30,500 -44.55% 18
Wales - 44 £47,500 - 14
North East - 30 £30,500 - 12
Northern Ireland -61 14 £39,000 - 7
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 11 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 749 (86.79%) Azure
2 36 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (2.67%) AWS
3 23 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 23 (2.67%) Entra ID
4 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (0.93%) Google Workspace
6 5 (0.58%) Cloudflare
7 4 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.35%) GCP
8 3 (0.35%) Mimecast
8 3 (0.35%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.23%) GitHub
9 2 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.12%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.79%) Firewall
2 26 (3.01%) DNS
2 26 (3.01%) VPN
3 23 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.20%) LAN
4 19 (2.20%) WAN
5 16 (1.85%) SSL
6 15 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.39%) DHCP
7 12 (1.39%) VLAN
8 11 (1.27%) HTTP
9 10 (1.16%) FTP
9 10 (1.16%) SMTP
10 8 (0.93%) Internet
10 8 (0.93%) VoIP
11 7 (0.81%) Network Security
12 2 (0.23%) SAN
13 1 (0.12%) BGP
13 1 (0.12%) IPsec
13 1 (0.12%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.35%) Power BI
2 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.12%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Git
2 1 (0.12%) JIRA
General
1 738 (85.52%) Social Skills
2 48 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (3.82%) Multimedia
4 19 (2.20%) Finance
5 14 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (1.39%) Legal
7 9 (1.04%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.04%) Retail
8 8 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (0.81%) Public Sector
10 4 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.23%) Law
12 1 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 775 (89.80%) Analyst
2 740 (85.75%) Security Analyst
3 727 (84.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 704 (81.58%) Junior
4 704 (81.58%) Junior Analyst
4 704 (81.58%) Junior Security Analyst
5 33 (3.82%) Trainee
6 31 (3.59%) Senior
7 27 (3.13%) SOC Analyst
8 18 (2.09%) IT Engineer
9 16 (1.85%) Security Engineer
10 15 (1.74%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (1.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 11 (1.27%) IT Support
11 11 (1.27%) IT Support Engineer
11 11 (1.27%) Support Engineer
12 9 (1.04%) Senior IT Engineer
12 9 (1.04%) Senior IT Support
12 9 (1.04%) Senior Support Engineer
13 8 (0.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.16%) LDAP
2 2 (0.23%) Middleware
2 2 (0.23%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.12%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.12%) Node.js
3 1 (0.12%) React
3 1 (0.12%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.12%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (0.12%) Spring
3 1 (0.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.36%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (1.27%) CSOC
5 10 (1.16%) Driving Licence
5 10 (1.16%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.04%) Client/Server
7 8 (0.93%) Cyberattack
8 7 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.70%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.23%) CCTV
10 2 (0.23%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.23%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.23%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.23%) MISP
10 2 (0.23%) SCADA
11 1 (0.12%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.12%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.75%) Windows
2 31 (3.59%) Linux
3 14 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.12%) AIX
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (96.18%) Cybersecurity
2 753 (87.25%) Mentoring
3 72 (8.34%) SIEM
4 55 (6.37%) Security Operations
5 48 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (5.21%) Incident Response
7 34 (3.94%) Vulnerability Management
8 33 (3.82%) Ethical Hacking
8 33 (3.82%) Line Management
9 32 (3.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (3.59%) Information Security
11 26 (3.01%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 22 (2.55%) Cloud Security
13 17 (1.97%) ITIL
13 17 (1.97%) Runbook
13 17 (1.97%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 15 (1.74%) Use Case
15 14 (1.62%) Disaster Recovery
15 14 (1.62%) Kalman Filter
16 13 (1.51%) AI
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.40%) PowerShell
2 27 (3.13%) Python
3 16 (1.85%) Bash
4 13 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (1.04%) C++
5 9 (1.04%) Perl
6 2 (0.23%) C#
6 2 (0.23%) Go
7 1 (0.12%) Java
7 1 (0.12%) Natural
7 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 723 (83.78%) CompTIA CySA+
2 711 (82.39%) Azure Certification
3 52 (6.03%) CEH
4 46 (5.33%) Network+ Certification
5 38 (4.40%) CISSP
6 35 (4.06%) A+ Certification
6 35 (4.06%) Security Cleared
7 30 (3.48%) Degree
8 28 (3.24%) SC Cleared
9 18 (2.09%) SSCP
10 15 (1.74%) CISM
11 14 (1.62%) CISA
12 13 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.04%) CCNA
14 9 (1.04%) CREST Certified
14 9 (1.04%) GCIA
14 9 (1.04%) GIAC
15 8 (0.93%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (3.01%) NIST
4 19 (2.20%) GDPR
5 16 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (1.04%) GRC
7 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (2.09%) Hyper-V
2 17 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.23%) Docker
4 2 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (1.27%) QRadar
2 9 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.58%) Graylog
4 4 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.46%) Terraform
5 3 (0.35%) Ansible
5 3 (0.35%) Nessus
6 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 776 (89.92%) Microsoft
2 702 (81.34%) ForeScout
3 20 (2.32%) Cisco
4 15 (1.74%) Splunk
5 14 (1.62%) VMware
6 10 (1.16%) Google
7 9 (1.04%) Apple
8 8 (0.93%) Datto
8 8 (0.93%) SonicWALL
8 8 (0.93%) Veeam
9 4 (0.46%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.46%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.23%) Dell
11 2 (0.23%) Qualys
11 2 (0.23%) Tenable
12 1 (0.12%) Meraki
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle
12 1 (0.12%) Proofpoint
12 1 (0.12%) ServiceNow