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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 448 571
Rank change year-on-year +274 +123 -81
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 799 102 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.02% 0.29% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.73% 0.80% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 135 86 69
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,000 £38,987
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +20.69%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 13,943 12,759 15,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.88% 36.57% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,208 5,324 8,115
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,691 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,125 £67,500
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 17 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 17 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 +119 202 £30,500 -39.00% 67
South East +99 176 £52,500 -12.50% 62
Midlands +110 168 £46,801 +1.74% 32
Yorkshire +76 117 £30,500 -20.78% 26
South West -20 90 £40,000 -20.00% 34
East Midlands +59 87 £42,000 +20.00% 17
West Midlands +55 81 £46,801 +1.74% 15
East of England +36 68 £55,000 +69.23% 27
North West +33 58 £32,000 -41.86% 32
Scotland +49 51 £30,500 -44.55% 16
Wales - 41 £47,500 - 12
North East - 27 £30,500 - 10
Northern Ireland -65 13 £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 11 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 698 (87.36%) Azure
2 37 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 23 (2.88%) AWS
4 23 (2.88%) Entra ID
5 9 (1.13%) Google Workspace
5 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (0.63%) Cloudflare
7 3 (0.38%) GCP
7 3 (0.38%) Mimecast
7 3 (0.38%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.25%) GitHub
8 2 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.13%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.76%) Firewall
2 29 (3.63%) VPN
3 28 (3.50%) DNS
4 25 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.75%) LAN
5 22 (2.75%) WAN
6 17 (2.13%) SSL
7 15 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (1.63%) DHCP
8 13 (1.63%) VLAN
9 12 (1.50%) HTTP
10 11 (1.38%) FTP
10 11 (1.38%) SMTP
11 9 (1.13%) VoIP
12 8 (1.00%) Internet
12 8 (1.00%) Network Security
13 3 (0.38%) SAN
14 1 (0.13%) BGP
14 1 (0.13%) SNMP
14 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.38%) Power BI
2 2 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.13%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Git
2 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 685 (85.73%) Social Skills
2 50 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (2.88%) Multimedia
4 20 (2.50%) Finance
5 13 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (1.25%) Aerospace
6 10 (1.25%) Legal
7 8 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (0.88%) Public Sector
8 7 (0.88%) Retail
9 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.25%) Law
12 1 (0.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 719 (89.99%) Analyst
2 683 (85.48%) Security Analyst
3 672 (84.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 650 (81.35%) Junior
4 650 (81.35%) Junior Analyst
4 650 (81.35%) Junior Security Analyst
5 32 (4.01%) Senior
6 28 (3.50%) SOC Analyst
7 23 (2.88%) Trainee
8 18 (2.25%) IT Engineer
9 16 (2.00%) Security Engineer
9 16 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (1.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 11 (1.38%) IT Support
10 11 (1.38%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (1.38%) Support Engineer
11 9 (1.13%) Senior IT Engineer
11 9 (1.13%) Senior IT Support
11 9 (1.13%) Senior Support Engineer
12 8 (1.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.38%) LDAP
2 2 (0.25%) Middleware
2 2 (0.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.13%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.13%) Node.js
3 1 (0.13%) React
3 1 (0.13%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.13%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (0.13%) Spring
3 1 (0.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
2 18 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (1.38%) CSOC
4 11 (1.38%) Driving Licence
5 10 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.25%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.13%) Client/Server
7 7 (0.88%) Cyberattack
7 7 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.25%) CCTV
9 2 (0.25%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.25%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.25%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.25%) MISP
9 2 (0.25%) SCADA
10 1 (0.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.26%) Windows
2 31 (3.88%) Linux
3 15 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (96.25%) Cybersecurity
2 687 (85.98%) Mentoring
3 71 (8.89%) SIEM
4 57 (7.13%) Security Operations
5 48 (6.01%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (5.76%) Incident Response
7 36 (4.51%) Vulnerability Management
8 33 (4.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (3.63%) Information Security
10 28 (3.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 23 (2.88%) Cloud Security
11 23 (2.88%) Ethical Hacking
11 23 (2.88%) Line Management
12 18 (2.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 17 (2.13%) Runbook
14 16 (2.00%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (1.88%) ITIL
15 15 (1.88%) Kalman Filter
15 15 (1.88%) Security Monitoring
15 15 (1.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 39 (4.88%) PowerShell
2 29 (3.63%) Python
3 18 (2.25%) Bash
4 14 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (1.25%) C++
5 10 (1.25%) Perl
6 2 (0.25%) C#
6 2 (0.25%) Go
7 1 (0.13%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) Natural
7 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 671 (83.98%) CompTIA CySA+
2 657 (82.23%) Azure Certification
3 43 (5.38%) CEH
4 37 (4.63%) CISSP
4 37 (4.63%) Network+ Certification
5 36 (4.51%) Security Cleared
6 29 (3.63%) Degree
6 29 (3.63%) SC Cleared
7 24 (3.00%) A+ Certification
8 18 (2.25%) SSCP
9 14 (1.75%) CISA
9 14 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.63%) CISM
11 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.25%) CCNA
12 10 (1.25%) GCIA
12 10 (1.25%) GIAC
13 9 (1.13%) CREST Certified
13 9 (1.13%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (3.00%) NIST
4 19 (2.38%) GDPR
5 18 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (1.13%) GRC
7 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.50%) SLA
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 19 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.25%) Docker
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (1.50%) QRadar
2 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (0.63%) Graylog
5 4 (0.50%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.50%) Terraform
6 3 (0.38%) Ansible
6 3 (0.38%) Nessus
7 2 (0.25%) Grafana
7 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 724 (90.61%) Microsoft
2 648 (81.10%) ForeScout
3 22 (2.75%) Cisco
4 16 (2.00%) Splunk
5 15 (1.88%) VMware
6 11 (1.38%) Google
7 9 (1.13%) Apple
7 9 (1.13%) Datto
7 9 (1.13%) SonicWALL
7 9 (1.13%) Veeam
8 5 (0.63%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.50%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.38%) Dell
11 2 (0.25%) Qualys
11 2 (0.25%) Tenable
12 1 (0.13%) Carbon Black
12 1 (0.13%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.13%) Proofpoint
12 1 (0.13%) Zscaler