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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 432 558
Rank change year-on-year +216 +126 -95
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 678 111 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.32% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.87% 0.88% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 121 98 66
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,563 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +21.04%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,165 £61,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.52% +6.02%

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 13,915 12,600 15,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.29% 36.07% 25.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,357 5,332 7,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,304
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,250 £38,880
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £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 31 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 31 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 +72 163 £50,750 +31.82% 73
South East +97 159 £52,000 -20.00% 67
Midlands +86 141 £47,500 +11.76% 44
Yorkshire +48 95 £55,000 +42.86% 34
South West -29 77 £40,000 -20.00% 40
East Midlands +42 72 £57,500 +64.29% 25
West Midlands +34 69 £47,500 +3.26% 19
East of England +35 61 £52,500 +61.54% 33
North West +29 47 £35,000 -36.36% 27
Scotland +35 41 £65,029 +113.21% 18
Wales - 35 £47,500 - 13
North East -41 21 £46,500 +45.31% 13
Northern Ireland -75 11 £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 13 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 597 (88.05%) Azure
2 43 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (4.13%) Entra ID
4 25 (3.69%) AWS
4 25 (3.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (1.62%) Google Workspace
6 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (0.88%) Cloudflare
8 5 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (0.74%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.59%) GCP
10 3 (0.44%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.29%) GitHub
11 2 (0.29%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.15%) AWS KMS
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.26%) Firewall
2 31 (4.57%) DNS
2 31 (4.57%) VPN
3 25 (3.69%) TCP/IP
4 22 (3.24%) LAN
4 22 (3.24%) WAN
5 20 (2.95%) SSL
6 17 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (2.21%) DHCP
7 15 (2.21%) VLAN
8 12 (1.77%) HTTP
9 11 (1.62%) FTP
9 11 (1.62%) SMTP
9 11 (1.62%) VoIP
10 10 (1.47%) Network Security
11 8 (1.18%) Internet
12 3 (0.44%) SAN
13 1 (0.15%) BGP
13 1 (0.15%) SNMP
13 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.44%) Power BI
2 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.15%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.15%) JIRA
General
1 581 (85.69%) Social Skills
2 50 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (3.10%) Finance
4 10 (1.47%) Aerospace
4 10 (1.47%) Legal
5 9 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.03%) Multimedia
7 7 (1.03%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.03%) Retail
8 5 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.29%) Law
11 1 (0.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 607 (89.53%) Analyst
2 571 (84.22%) Security Analyst
3 560 (82.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 542 (79.94%) Junior
4 542 (79.94%) Junior Analyst
4 542 (79.94%) Junior Security Analyst
5 34 (5.01%) Senior
6 29 (4.28%) SOC Analyst
7 20 (2.95%) IT Engineer
8 16 (2.36%) IT Support
8 16 (2.36%) Security Engineer
8 16 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
9 13 (1.92%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (1.92%) Support Engineer
10 11 (1.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 11 (1.62%) Senior IT Engineer
10 11 (1.62%) Senior IT Support
10 11 (1.62%) Senior Support Engineer
11 8 (1.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (1.03%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.62%) LDAP
2 4 (0.59%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Middleware
3 2 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.15%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.15%) Node.js
4 1 (0.15%) React
4 1 (0.15%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.15%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (0.15%) Spring
4 1 (0.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.98%) Security Operations Centre
2 18 (2.65%) Cyber Defence
2 18 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (1.92%) Driving Licence
4 11 (1.62%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.47%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.33%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.88%) CSOC
8 6 (0.88%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.59%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.29%) CCTV
10 2 (0.29%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.29%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.29%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.29%) MISP
10 2 (0.29%) SCADA
11 1 (0.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.78%) Windows
2 32 (4.72%) Linux
3 18 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.92%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (95.13%) Cybersecurity
2 560 (82.60%) Mentoring
3 67 (9.88%) SIEM
4 53 (7.82%) Security Operations
5 50 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (6.05%) Incident Response
7 36 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (5.31%) Vulnerability Management
8 30 (4.42%) Information Security
9 28 (4.13%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 20 (2.95%) Cloud Security
11 18 (2.65%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (2.65%) ITIL
12 17 (2.51%) Kalman Filter
12 17 (2.51%) Runbook
13 16 (2.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 15 (2.21%) Security Monitoring
15 14 (2.06%) Threat Intelligence
16 13 (1.92%) Customer Service
16 13 (1.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.90%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.42%) Python
3 18 (2.65%) Bash
4 14 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (1.47%) C++
5 10 (1.47%) Perl
6 2 (0.29%) C#
6 2 (0.29%) Go
7 1 (0.15%) Java
7 1 (0.15%) Natural
7 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 563 (83.04%) CompTIA CySA+
2 549 (80.97%) Azure Certification
3 38 (5.60%) CISSP
4 32 (4.72%) Degree
4 32 (4.72%) Security Cleared
5 27 (3.98%) CEH
6 26 (3.83%) Network+ Certification
7 25 (3.69%) SC Cleared
8 18 (2.65%) SSCP
9 15 (2.21%) CISM
10 14 (2.06%) CISA
10 14 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.62%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.47%) CCNA
12 10 (1.47%) CREST Certified
12 10 (1.47%) GCIA
12 10 (1.47%) GIAC
13 9 (1.33%) A+ Certification
14 7 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (5.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.69%) NIST
4 21 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 20 (2.95%) GDPR
6 10 (1.47%) GRC
7 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (3.39%) Active Directory
1 23 (3.39%) Hyper-V
2 17 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.29%) Docker
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (1.77%) QRadar
2 11 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (0.88%) Graylog
4 4 (0.59%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.44%) Ansible
5 3 (0.44%) Nessus
6 2 (0.29%) Grafana
6 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 621 (91.59%) Microsoft
2 540 (79.65%) ForeScout
3 24 (3.54%) Cisco
4 17 (2.51%) VMware
5 16 (2.36%) Splunk
6 13 (1.92%) Google
7 11 (1.62%) Apple
7 11 (1.62%) Datto
7 11 (1.62%) SonicWALL
7 11 (1.62%) Veeam
8 5 (0.74%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.44%) Dell
11 2 (0.29%) Qualys
11 2 (0.29%) Tenable
12 1 (0.15%) Carbon Black
12 1 (0.15%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.15%) Orchard
12 1 (0.15%) Zscaler