Cybercrime Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cybercrime (Computer Crime)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cybercrime in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybercrime over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 538 540
Rank change year-on-year +47 +2 -168
Permanent jobs citing Cybercrime 18 28 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.078% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 33
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,813 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -
75th Percentile - £56,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £67,500 £87,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% -3.70%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cybercrime falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,649 12,311 11,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.19% 34.27% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,315 5,294 8,462
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,543
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Cybercrime
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cybercrime job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cybercrime
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Cybercrime
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybercrime in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybercrime in the UK excluding London

Cybercrime
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 Cybercrime within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
South East +24 15 £60,000 +14.29% 1
North West - 2 £93,750 - 2
North of England - 2 £93,750 - 2
South West - 1 £87,500 -
Cybercrime
UK

Cybercrime
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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 15 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
1 8 (44.44%) Lead
1 8 (44.44%) React Developer
1 8 (44.44%) Senior
1 8 (44.44%) Senior Developer
1 8 (44.44%) Senior React Developer
1 8 (44.44%) Team Leader
2 7 (38.89%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) CSS
1 8 (44.44%) HTML
1 8 (44.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (16.67%) Coaching
2 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (16.67%) Escalation Management
2 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (11.11%) Agile
3 2 (11.11%) B2B
3 2 (11.11%) Backlog Management
3 2 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (11.11%) Customer Insight
3 2 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 2 (11.11%) Product Backlog
3 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.11%) SDLC
3 2 (11.11%) Value Proposition
3 2 (11.11%) Wireframes
4 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes