Cybersecurity Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,074 1,754 3,675
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 10.61% 6.00% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 6.52% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,091 1,075 2,599
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.93% -8.19%
75th Percentile £71,875 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,700 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year - +0.84% -8.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,251 26,904 57,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.85% 92.04% 82.98%
Number of salaries quoted 30,493 13,671 41,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,336 £27,019
25th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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 +36 2,332 £50,000 -4.76% 314
Midlands +34 1,910 £54,500 +1.87% 166
North West +46 1,498 £55,000 - 183
West Midlands +22 1,412 £51,250 -10.87% 95
South East +29 1,128 £50,000 -9.09% 381
Yorkshire +20 686 £47,500 +18.11% 102
South West +23 586 £60,000 +33.33% 170
East of England +66 531 £40,000 -15.79% 99
East Midlands +51 509 £55,000 +53.84% 70
Scotland +42 339 £40,000 -27.27% 100
Wales +21 220 £55,000 - 43
North East +34 148 £45,000 -30.77% 31
Northern Ireland -10 52 £57,500 -17.13% 29
Isle of Man +3 3 £45,000 +30.43%
Channel Islands +2 2 - -
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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
1 107 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 84 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.085%) CMS
3 6 (0.085%) WordPress
4 4 (0.057%) Apache
4 4 (0.057%) IIS
5 2 (0.028%) Drupal
5 2 (0.028%) nginx
5 2 (0.028%) SAS
6 1 (0.014%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.014%) Confluence
Applications
1 98 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.33%) Simulink
5 5 (0.071%) CATIA
6 4 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.028%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.014%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.34%) Cloudability
2 21 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.071%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.042%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.014%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.014%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.014%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.014%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,566 (36.27%) Azure
2 2,335 (33.01%) Cloud Computing
3 462 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
4 335 (4.74%) AWS
5 277 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 95 (1.34%) GitHub
7 77 (1.09%) GCP
8 57 (0.81%) SaaS
9 47 (0.66%) Power Platform
10 46 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 46 (0.65%) Google Workspace
11 42 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 33 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (0.42%) OneDrive
13 30 (0.42%) PaaS
13 30 (0.42%) Serverless
14 28 (0.40%) IaaS
15 21 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (0.23%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (0.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2,435 (34.42%) Internet
2 258 (3.65%) Firewall
3 116 (1.64%) VPN
4 109 (1.54%) DNS
5 89 (1.26%) Network Security
6 76 (1.07%) DHCP
7 66 (0.93%) WAN
8 65 (0.92%) LAN
9 63 (0.89%) Broadband
10 60 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 59 (0.83%) VLAN
12 49 (0.69%) TCP/IP
13 30 (0.42%) VoIP
14 22 (0.31%) Unified Communications
15 19 (0.27%) HTTP
15 19 (0.27%) SSL
16 15 (0.21%) Wireless
17 14 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (0.18%) DMZ
19 11 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (0.30%) SQL Server
2 17 (0.24%) Power BI
3 9 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.13%) Neo4j
4 4 (0.057%) MySQL
5 3 (0.042%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.042%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.028%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.028%) Big Data
6 2 (0.028%) GIS
6 2 (0.028%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.028%) Metadata
6 2 (0.028%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.028%) Tableau
7 1 (0.014%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.014%) Flink
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.014%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 99 (1.40%) Git
2 28 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
3 22 (0.31%) Snyk
4 15 (0.21%) JIRA
5 13 (0.18%) GitLab
6 6 (0.085%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.085%) Yeoman
7 5 (0.071%) Apache Continuum
7 5 (0.071%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.071%) VersionOne
8 4 (0.057%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.057%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.057%) JMeter
8 4 (0.057%) Locust
8 4 (0.057%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.028%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.014%) GDB
10 1 (0.014%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.014%) WinDbg
General
1 4,827 (68.24%) Social Skills
2 2,489 (35.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,351 (33.23%) Banking
4 269 (3.80%) Finance
5 239 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
6 195 (2.76%) Multimedia
7 168 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 107 (1.51%) Marketing
9 105 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 104 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
11 88 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 73 (1.03%) Law
13 68 (0.96%) Retail
14 57 (0.81%) Games
15 54 (0.76%) Back Office
16 53 (0.75%) Aerospace
17 44 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
18 42 (0.59%) Legal
19 31 (0.44%) Military
20 29 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,765 (24.95%) Lecturer
2 1,384 (19.56%) Analyst
3 1,240 (17.53%) Security Analyst
4 1,185 (16.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1,110 (15.69%) Junior
6 1,082 (15.30%) Junior Analyst
6 1,082 (15.30%) Junior Security Analyst
7 810 (11.45%) Ethical Hacker
8 411 (5.81%) Senior
9 215 (3.04%) Architect
10 208 (2.94%) Trainee
11 199 (2.81%) Security Manager
12 195 (2.76%) IT Support
13 183 (2.59%) Security Architect
14 182 (2.57%) Consultant
15 168 (2.37%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 168 (2.37%) Lead
16 155 (2.19%) Support Engineer
17 145 (2.05%) IT Manager
18 141 (1.99%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (1.54%) HTML
2 104 (1.47%) CSS
3 46 (0.65%) LDAP
4 42 (0.59%) REST
5 40 (0.57%) OAuth
5 40 (0.57%) SAML
6 39 (0.55%) OpenID
7 36 (0.51%) GraphQL
7 36 (0.51%) SOAP
8 22 (0.31%) React
9 12 (0.17%) Tailwind CSS
10 10 (0.14%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.13%) Middleware
11 9 (0.13%) XMPP
12 7 (0.099%) Kafka
12 7 (0.099%) Microsoft Graph
12 7 (0.099%) Node.js
12 7 (0.099%) SAP CAF
13 6 (0.085%) MERN Stack
13 6 (0.085%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2,326 (32.88%) IoT
2 915 (12.93%) Cyberattack
3 132 (1.87%) Onboarding
4 131 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 122 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 118 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 93 (1.31%) Driving Licence
8 83 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
9 70 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 54 (0.76%) Data Centre
10 54 (0.76%) Operational Technology
11 41 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
12 38 (0.54%) PKI
13 37 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
14 32 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
16 27 (0.38%) Cloud Native
16 27 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (0.37%) Low-Code
18 25 (0.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 350 (4.95%) Windows
2 149 (2.11%) Windows Server
3 80 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 79 (1.12%) Linux
5 23 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (0.20%) Android
9 12 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.085%) VMS
11 5 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.042%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.014%) AIX
13 1 (0.014%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.014%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.014%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,529 (35.75%) AI
2 2,354 (33.28%) User Experience
3 2,334 (32.99%) Machine Learning
4 2,328 (32.91%) Web Development
5 1,499 (21.19%) Mentoring
6 912 (12.89%) Ethical Hacking
7 369 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 299 (4.23%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (3.00%) ITIL
10 210 (2.97%) Incident Response
11 191 (2.70%) Risk Management
12 188 (2.66%) Security Operations
13 180 (2.54%) Information Security
14 175 (2.47%) SIEM
15 162 (2.29%) Customer Service
16 155 (2.19%) Disaster Recovery
17 141 (1.99%) Line Management
18 140 (1.98%) Roadmaps
18 140 (1.98%) Service Delivery
19 137 (1.94%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 220 (3.11%) Python
2 150 (2.12%) JavaScript
3 148 (2.09%) PowerShell
4 75 (1.06%) Bash
5 51 (0.72%) SQL
6 41 (0.58%) R
7 35 (0.49%) T-SQL
8 31 (0.44%) C++
9 27 (0.38%) C#
9 27 (0.38%) MATLAB
10 22 (0.31%) Java
11 21 (0.30%) C
12 15 (0.21%) Rust
13 14 (0.20%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.099%) Go
15 7 (0.099%) Perl
16 6 (0.085%) PHP
17 3 (0.042%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.042%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 2,577 (36.43%) Degree
2 2,330 (32.94%) Master's Degree
3 2,319 (32.78%) PhD
4 2,318 (32.77%) Postgraduate
5 2,015 (28.48%) Azure Certification
6 1,236 (17.47%) CompTIA Security+
7 1,103 (15.59%) CompTIA CySA+
8 941 (13.30%) CEH
9 381 (5.39%) Security Cleared
10 275 (3.89%) SC Cleared
11 166 (2.35%) CISSP
12 153 (2.16%) AWS Certification
13 141 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 122 (1.72%) CISM
14 122 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
15 116 (1.64%) A+ Certification
16 103 (1.46%) DV Cleared
17 97 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 80 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
19 67 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 262 (3.70%) NIST
3 176 (2.49%) GRC
4 171 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 166 (2.35%) GDPR
6 90 (1.27%) NCSC
7 77 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 72 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 70 (0.99%) SLA
10 40 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 36 (0.51%) QA
12 20 (0.28%) Accessibility
12 20 (0.28%) JSP 440
13 19 (0.27%) Data Quality
14 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.17%) IEC 61508
16 11 (0.16%) MISRA
16 11 (0.16%) MISRA C
16 11 (0.16%) SOC 3
17 10 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 277 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 55 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 37 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.48%) Docker
6 20 (0.28%) vSphere
7 11 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.071%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.057%) Firmware
12 3 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.014%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.014%) KVM
13 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 133 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (0.54%) Kubernetes
2 38 (0.54%) Terraform
3 25 (0.35%) Grafana
4 23 (0.33%) Ansible
5 16 (0.23%) QRadar
6 15 (0.21%) Functional Safety
7 12 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.11%) SCCM
10 7 (0.099%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.085%) CASB
11 6 (0.085%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.071%) Backup Exec
12 5 (0.071%) FTK
12 5 (0.071%) Kibana
12 5 (0.071%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2,702 (38.20%) Microsoft
2 1,891 (26.73%) ForeScout
3 110 (1.55%) Cisco
4 81 (1.15%) VMware
5 68 (0.96%) Apple
6 59 (0.83%) Palo Alto
7 55 (0.78%) Adobe
7 55 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
8 44 (0.62%) ServiceNow
9 37 (0.52%) Fortinet
10 33 (0.47%) Splunk
11 32 (0.45%) Google
11 32 (0.45%) Tenable
12 31 (0.44%) SAP
13 26 (0.37%) Siemens
14 18 (0.25%) Veeam
15 15 (0.21%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.18%) MuleSoft
17 12 (0.17%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.17%) Meraki