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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 470 647
Rank change year-on-year +367 +177 -73
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 1,099 61 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.65% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.96% 0.48% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 166 34 87
10th Percentile - £35,000 £26,650
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -2.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,161 £58,125
90th Percentile £59,375 £67,500 £63,500
UK median annual salary £39,500 £52,373 £52,500
% change year-on-year -24.58% -0.24% -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 13,806 12,689 18,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.73% 42.72% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6,250 5,056 12,298
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £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 £71,250 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,555
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.70% -10.74%

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 8 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 8 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 +185 314 £30,500 -44.55% 67
Midlands +126 240 £42,000 -8.70% 39
South East +125 192 £41,250 -16.67% 56
Yorkshire +90 174 £30,500 -20.78% 24
South West +60 130 £30,500 -40.26% 24
West Midlands +73 120 £35,000 -23.91% 21
East Midlands +66 119 £51,058 +45.88% 18
North West +85 98 £30,500 -44.57% 32
East of England +52 85 £50,000 +58.73% 25
Scotland +73 79 £30,500 -44.55% 18
Wales - 54 £33,000 - 10
North East - 42 £30,500 - 12
Northern Ireland -20 18 £39,000 - 2
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 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 951 (86.53%) Azure
2 22 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (1.91%) AWS
4 12 (1.09%) Entra ID
5 10 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (0.64%) Google Workspace
7 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.36%) Cloudflare
9 3 (0.27%) GCP
9 3 (0.27%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.091%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.091%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (0.091%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.091%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.091%) GitHub
11 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.091%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.091%) SaaS
11 1 (0.091%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.37%) Firewall
2 20 (1.82%) VPN
3 14 (1.27%) DNS
3 14 (1.27%) LAN
3 14 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.27%) WAN
4 10 (0.91%) SSL
5 9 (0.82%) HTTP
5 9 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.73%) FTP
6 8 (0.73%) SMTP
7 6 (0.55%) DHCP
7 6 (0.55%) VLAN
8 5 (0.45%) Internet
9 4 (0.36%) Network Security
9 4 (0.36%) VoIP
10 3 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.27%) Power BI
2 2 (0.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.091%) Adabas
3 1 (0.091%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.091%) Git
General
1 953 (86.72%) Social Skills
2 82 (7.46%) Multimedia
3 37 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (1.46%) Finance
4 16 (1.46%) Retail
5 15 (1.36%) Legal
6 13 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (0.73%) Aerospace
8 6 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.27%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.091%) Law
11 1 (0.091%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 977 (88.90%) Analyst
2 952 (86.62%) Security Analyst
3 938 (85.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 919 (83.62%) Junior
4 919 (83.62%) Junior Analyst
4 919 (83.62%) Junior Security Analyst
5 82 (7.46%) Trainee
6 17 (1.55%) Senior
7 16 (1.46%) IT Engineer
7 16 (1.46%) SOC Analyst
8 12 (1.09%) Security Engineer
9 11 (1.00%) Support Engineer
10 10 (0.91%) Information Analyst
10 10 (0.91%) Information Security Analyst
10 10 (0.91%) IT Support
10 10 (0.91%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (0.82%) Digital Analyst
12 7 (0.64%) Infrastructure Support
12 7 (0.64%) IT Analyst
12 7 (0.64%) IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.73%) LDAP
2 1 (0.091%) Middleware
2 1 (0.091%) Node.js
2 1 (0.091%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (0.091%) React
2 1 (0.091%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (0.091%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (0.091%) Spring
2 1 (0.091%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (0.73%) Client/Server
4 7 (0.64%) Security Posture
5 6 (0.55%) CSOC
5 6 (0.55%) Driving Licence
5 6 (0.55%) Management Information System
6 5 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (0.36%) Cyberattack
7 4 (0.36%) Insider Threat
8 3 (0.27%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.27%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.18%) CCTV
9 2 (0.18%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.18%) MISP
10 1 (0.091%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.091%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.091%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.091%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.82%) Windows
2 23 (2.09%) Linux
3 11 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.091%) AIX
6 1 (0.091%) Android
6 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,064 (96.82%) Cybersecurity
2 1,020 (92.81%) Mentoring
3 88 (8.01%) Ethical Hacking
4 82 (7.46%) Line Management
5 52 (4.73%) SIEM
6 40 (3.64%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (3.09%) Security Operations
8 30 (2.73%) Information Security
9 21 (1.91%) Incident Response
10 20 (1.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (1.73%) ITIL
12 15 (1.36%) Data Protection
13 14 (1.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 13 (1.18%) Use Case
14 13 (1.18%) Vulnerability Management
15 11 (1.00%) Cloud Security
15 11 (1.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 10 (0.91%) Agile
16 10 (0.91%) Coaching
16 10 (0.91%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 23 (2.09%) PowerShell
2 21 (1.91%) Python
3 10 (0.91%) Bash
4 8 (0.73%) C++
4 8 (0.73%) Perl
5 3 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.18%) C#
6 2 (0.18%) Go
6 2 (0.18%) SQL
7 1 (0.091%) Java
7 1 (0.091%) Natural
7 1 (0.091%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 938 (85.35%) CompTIA CySA+
2 923 (83.99%) Azure Certification
3 101 (9.19%) CEH
4 82 (7.46%) Network+ Certification
5 74 (6.73%) A+ Certification
6 31 (2.82%) CISSP
6 31 (2.82%) Security Cleared
7 28 (2.55%) SC Cleared
8 24 (2.18%) Degree
9 17 (1.55%) CISM
10 16 (1.46%) SSCP
11 13 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.18%) CREST Certified
12 11 (1.00%) CCNA
12 11 (1.00%) CISA
13 9 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.64%) SANS
15 6 (0.55%) CISMP
15 6 (0.55%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (2.73%) NIST
3 25 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (1.64%) GDPR
5 11 (1.00%) GRC
6 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.091%) COBIT
10 1 (0.091%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.091%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.091%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.091%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (0.91%) QRadar
2 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.36%) Graylog
4 4 (0.36%) Nmap
5 3 (0.27%) Terraform
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.091%) CASB
7 1 (0.091%) Grafana
7 1 (0.091%) Kibana
7 1 (0.091%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 969 (88.17%) Microsoft
2 919 (83.62%) ForeScout
3 14 (1.27%) Cisco
4 11 (1.00%) Splunk
5 9 (0.82%) Google
6 7 (0.64%) VMware
7 5 (0.45%) Apple
8 4 (0.36%) Datto
8 4 (0.36%) SonicWALL
8 4 (0.36%) Veeam
9 3 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.18%) Meraki
10 2 (0.18%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.091%) Carbon Black
11 1 (0.091%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle
11 1 (0.091%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.091%) Tenable
11 1 (0.091%) Zscaler