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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 450 613
Rank change year-on-year +316 +163 -101
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 979 93 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.35% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.32% 0.73% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 153 75 84
10th Percentile - £35,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £54,000 £57,500 £59,063
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.10% -3.18%

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 13,380 12,756 17,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.49% 37.52% 25.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,778 5,313 10,802
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £78,750 £80,000
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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +180 269 £30,500 -44.55% 44
Midlands +125 209 £42,000 -8.70% 24
South East +127 186 £52,500 -12.50% 46
Yorkshire +100 152 £30,500 -20.78% 18
South West +23 115 £33,500 -33.00% 25
East Midlands +74 106 £42,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +72 102 £43,401 -5.65% 10
North West +64 81 £30,500 -44.57% 20
East of England +57 80 £50,000 +53.85% 20
Scotland +71 66 £30,500 -44.55% 14
Wales - 50 £47,500 - 11
North East - 36 £30,500 - 7
Northern Ireland -49 16 £39,000 - 5
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 6 (0.61%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 848 (86.62%) Azure
2 27 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (2.35%) AWS
4 18 (1.84%) Azure Sentinel
5 15 (1.53%) Entra ID
6 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (0.51%) Cloudflare
8 4 (0.41%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.31%) GCP
9 3 (0.31%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.20%) GitHub
10 2 (0.20%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.10%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.49%) Firewall
2 21 (2.15%) DNS
2 21 (2.15%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.04%) VPN
4 15 (1.53%) LAN
4 15 (1.53%) WAN
5 12 (1.23%) SSL
5 12 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (1.02%) HTTP
7 9 (0.92%) FTP
7 9 (0.92%) SMTP
8 8 (0.82%) DHCP
8 8 (0.82%) Internet
8 8 (0.82%) VLAN
9 7 (0.72%) Network Security
10 4 (0.41%) VoIP
11 1 (0.10%) BGP
11 1 (0.10%) IPsec
11 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.10%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.31%) Power BI
2 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.20%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.10%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Git
2 1 (0.10%) JIRA
General
1 841 (85.90%) Social Skills
2 57 (5.82%) Multimedia
3 43 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (1.53%) Finance
4 15 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (1.23%) Legal
6 11 (1.12%) Retail
7 8 (0.82%) Aerospace
7 8 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.41%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 879 (89.79%) Analyst
2 847 (86.52%) Security Analyst
3 834 (85.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 811 (82.84%) Junior
4 811 (82.84%) Junior Analyst
4 811 (82.84%) Junior Security Analyst
5 57 (5.82%) Trainee
6 25 (2.55%) Senior
7 24 (2.45%) SOC Analyst
8 14 (1.43%) IT Engineer
9 13 (1.33%) Security Engineer
10 12 (1.23%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (0.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 7 (0.72%) Information Analyst
12 7 (0.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (0.72%) IT Analyst
12 7 (0.72%) IT Security Analyst
12 7 (0.72%) IT Support
12 7 (0.72%) IT Support Engineer
12 7 (0.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.92%) LDAP
2 2 (0.20%) Middleware
2 2 (0.20%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.10%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.10%) Node.js
3 1 (0.10%) React
3 1 (0.10%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.10%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (0.10%) Spring
3 1 (0.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
2 13 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (1.02%) CSOC
4 9 (0.92%) Client/Server
4 9 (0.92%) Management Information System
5 8 (0.82%) Security Posture
6 7 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (0.61%) Driving Licence
8 5 (0.51%) Cyberattack
8 5 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.31%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.20%) CCTV
10 2 (0.20%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.20%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.20%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.20%) MISP
10 2 (0.20%) SCADA
11 1 (0.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.68%) Windows
2 31 (3.17%) Linux
3 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.10%) Android
6 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (96.53%) Cybersecurity
2 885 (90.40%) Mentoring
3 62 (6.33%) SIEM
4 57 (5.82%) Ethical Hacking
4 57 (5.82%) Line Management
5 46 (4.70%) Security Operations
6 43 (4.39%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (3.47%) Incident Response
8 28 (2.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (2.86%) Information Security
8 28 (2.86%) Vulnerability Management
9 20 (2.04%) ITIL
10 19 (1.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 18 (1.84%) Cloud Security
12 15 (1.53%) Data Protection
13 14 (1.43%) Use Case
14 13 (1.33%) Runbook
14 13 (1.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 12 (1.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 11 (1.12%) AI
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.37%) PowerShell
2 24 (2.45%) Python
3 14 (1.43%) Bash
4 9 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (0.82%) C++
5 8 (0.82%) Perl
6 2 (0.20%) C#
6 2 (0.20%) Go
7 1 (0.10%) Java
7 1 (0.10%) Natural
7 1 (0.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 836 (85.39%) CompTIA CySA+
2 819 (83.66%) Azure Certification
3 75 (7.66%) CEH
4 57 (5.82%) Network+ Certification
5 50 (5.11%) A+ Certification
6 34 (3.47%) Security Cleared
7 33 (3.37%) CISSP
8 27 (2.76%) SC Cleared
9 25 (2.55%) Degree
10 17 (1.74%) SSCP
11 14 (1.43%) CISM
12 13 (1.33%) CISA
12 13 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.92%) CCNA
13 9 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.92%) CREST Certified
14 8 (0.82%) GCIA
15 7 (0.72%) SANS
16 6 (0.61%) GIAC
16 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (2.55%) NIST
4 20 (2.04%) GDPR
5 9 (0.92%) GRC
6 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.10%) COBIT
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (1.02%) QRadar
2 5 (0.51%) Graylog
2 5 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.41%) Terraform
4 3 (0.31%) Ansible
4 3 (0.31%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.20%) Grafana
5 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) CASB
6 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.10%) Kibana
6 1 (0.10%) Nessus
Vendors
1 869 (88.76%) Microsoft
2 811 (82.84%) ForeScout
3 16 (1.63%) Cisco
4 13 (1.33%) Splunk
5 9 (0.92%) VMware
6 6 (0.61%) Google
7 5 (0.51%) Apple
8 4 (0.41%) Datto
8 4 (0.41%) SonicWALL
8 4 (0.41%) Veeam
9 3 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.31%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.20%) Meraki
10 2 (0.20%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.10%) Carbon Black
11 1 (0.10%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.10%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.10%) Tenable
11 1 (0.10%) Varonis
11 1 (0.10%) Zscaler