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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 455 604
Rank change year-on-year +323 +149 -104
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 979 99 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.33% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.22% 0.78% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 153 80 73
10th Percentile - £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 13,554 12,676 15,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.47% 37.09% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,828 5,321 9,419
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £28,483
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £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 27 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 27 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 +172 265 £30,500 -44.55% 45
Midlands +123 206 £44,401 -3.48% 28
South East +130 194 £52,500 -12.50% 42
Yorkshire +92 152 £30,500 -20.78% 18
South West +15 114 £32,000 -36.00% 26
East Midlands +66 106 £42,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +64 100 £46,801 +1.74% 14
East of England +56 79 £52,500 +61.54% 19
North West +62 78 £30,500 -44.59% 21
Scotland +73 67 £30,500 -44.55% 12
Wales - 50 £47,500 - 12
North East - 35 £30,500 - 7
Northern Ireland -55 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 8 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.61%) 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
1 852 (87.03%) Azure
2 32 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (2.35%) AWS
4 20 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
5 19 (1.94%) Entra ID
6 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (0.61%) Google Workspace
8 5 (0.51%) Cloudflare
9 4 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.31%) GCP
10 3 (0.31%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.20%) GitHub
11 2 (0.20%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.20%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.10%) AWS KMS
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.70%) Firewall
2 23 (2.35%) DNS
3 22 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 22 (2.25%) VPN
4 16 (1.63%) LAN
4 16 (1.63%) WAN
5 14 (1.43%) SSL
6 13 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.02%) HTTP
7 10 (1.02%) VLAN
8 9 (0.92%) DHCP
8 9 (0.92%) FTP
8 9 (0.92%) SMTP
9 8 (0.82%) Internet
10 7 (0.72%) Network Security
11 6 (0.61%) VoIP
12 1 (0.10%) BGP
12 1 (0.10%) IPsec
12 1 (0.10%) SAN
12 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
1 844 (86.21%) Social Skills
2 48 (4.90%) Multimedia
3 44 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (1.74%) Finance
5 14 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (1.33%) Legal
7 11 (1.12%) Retail
8 8 (0.82%) Aerospace
8 8 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (0.61%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.20%) Law
13 1 (0.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 882 (90.09%) Analyst
2 849 (86.72%) Security Analyst
3 835 (85.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 812 (82.94%) Junior
4 812 (82.94%) Junior Analyst
4 812 (82.94%) Junior Security Analyst
5 48 (4.90%) Trainee
6 27 (2.76%) Senior
7 25 (2.55%) SOC Analyst
8 16 (1.63%) IT Engineer
9 14 (1.43%) Security Engineer
10 13 (1.33%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (0.92%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 9 (0.92%) IT Support
11 9 (0.92%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (0.92%) Support Engineer
12 7 (0.72%) Information Analyst
12 7 (0.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (0.72%) Senior IT Support
12 7 (0.72%) Senior 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 27 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 13 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
3 11 (1.12%) CSOC
3 11 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (1.02%) Management Information System
5 9 (0.92%) Client/Server
5 9 (0.92%) Security Posture
6 8 (0.82%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.61%) Cyberattack
7 6 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.20%) CCTV
9 2 (0.20%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.20%) MISP
9 2 (0.20%) SCADA
10 1 (0.10%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.10%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.88%) Windows
2 31 (3.17%) Linux
3 10 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.51%) 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
1 944 (96.42%) Cybersecurity
2 876 (89.48%) Mentoring
3 67 (6.84%) SIEM
4 49 (5.01%) Security Operations
5 48 (4.90%) Ethical Hacking
5 48 (4.90%) Line Management
6 45 (4.60%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (3.88%) Incident Response
8 31 (3.17%) Information Security
8 31 (3.17%) Vulnerability Management
9 29 (2.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (2.25%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 21 (2.15%) Cloud Security
12 18 (1.84%) ITIL
13 16 (1.63%) Runbook
14 14 (1.43%) Data Protection
14 14 (1.43%) Use Case
14 14 (1.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 12 (1.23%) Kalman Filter
15 12 (1.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 34 (3.47%) PowerShell
2 25 (2.55%) Python
3 15 (1.53%) Bash
4 12 (1.23%) 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
1 829 (84.68%) CompTIA CySA+
2 819 (83.66%) Azure Certification
3 66 (6.74%) CEH
4 58 (5.92%) Network+ Certification
5 50 (5.11%) A+ Certification
6 37 (3.78%) CISSP
7 34 (3.47%) Security Cleared
8 28 (2.86%) Degree
9 27 (2.76%) SC Cleared
10 18 (1.84%) SSCP
11 16 (1.63%) CISM
12 14 (1.43%) CISA
13 13 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.92%) CCNA
14 9 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (0.92%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.92%) GCIA
15 7 (0.72%) GIAC
15 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (2.66%) NIST
4 20 (2.04%) GDPR
5 12 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (0.92%) GRC
7 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.20%) SLA
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 14 (1.43%) Hyper-V
2 11 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.20%) Docker
4 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (1.02%) QRadar
2 7 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.51%) Graylog
5 4 (0.41%) Terraform
6 3 (0.31%) Ansible
6 3 (0.31%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Nessus
7 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 876 (89.48%) Microsoft
2 811 (82.84%) ForeScout
3 18 (1.84%) Cisco
4 13 (1.33%) Splunk
5 11 (1.12%) VMware
6 8 (0.82%) Google
7 7 (0.72%) Apple
8 6 (0.61%) Datto
8 6 (0.61%) SonicWALL
8 6 (0.61%) Veeam
9 4 (0.41%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.31%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.10%) Carbon Black
11 1 (0.10%) Meraki
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