Cybersecurity Jobs in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 52 105
Rank change year-on-year +18 +53 -12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,405 1,673 2,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.73% 5.33% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 5.60% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 1,105 1,399
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,217
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £89,688 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £107,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,954 29,884 72,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.57% 95.13% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,939 21,954 34,489
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the London region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Central London +21 179 £67,500 -12.90% 40
West London -7 133 £55,000 +46.67% 10
South London -11 35 £78,750 +21.15% 1
East London +18 10 £67,500 +3.85% 9
North London +6 8 £45,000 -28.00% 4
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (5.27%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.57%) Apache
3 8 (0.57%) IIS
4 4 (0.28%) Confluence
4 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.14%) CMS
5 2 (0.14%) nginx
5 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (0.14%) WordPress
6 1 (0.071%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.071%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 55 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.43%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.43%) Revit
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.071%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 450 (32.03%) Azure
2 201 (14.31%) Microsoft 365
3 195 (13.88%) Entra ID
4 147 (10.46%) AWS
5 70 (4.98%) GCP
6 47 (3.35%) SaaS
7 39 (2.78%) PaaS
8 37 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
8 37 (2.63%) IaaS
8 37 (2.63%) Power Platform
9 20 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
10 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 16 (1.14%) Serverless
12 15 (1.07%) Mimecast
13 14 (1.00%) Google Workspace
14 10 (0.71%) Nutanix
15 9 (0.64%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.64%) Azure Functions
16 8 (0.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 281 (20.00%) Firewall
2 158 (11.25%) Broadband
3 154 (10.96%) 5G
4 138 (9.82%) Network Security
5 80 (5.69%) DNS
6 66 (4.70%) WAN
7 60 (4.27%) LAN
8 56 (3.99%) TCP/IP
9 55 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (3.20%) Intrusion Detection
10 45 (3.20%) Wireless
11 37 (2.63%) VPN
12 36 (2.56%) Internet
13 33 (2.35%) DHCP
14 27 (1.92%) Wireshark
15 23 (1.64%) Unified Communications
16 22 (1.57%) SD-WAN
17 18 (1.28%) MPLS
18 17 (1.21%) BGP
18 17 (1.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.35%) Power BI
2 32 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.42%) Oracle Database
4 13 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 12 (0.85%) MySQL
6 11 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.50%) Hadoop
8 7 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.43%) Big Data
9 6 (0.43%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.43%) SAP HANA
9 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.36%) CockroachDB
10 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.28%) GIS
12 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.21%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.14%) Power Query
13 2 (0.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (3.63%) Jenkins
2 33 (2.35%) Metasploit
3 30 (2.14%) Burp Suite
4 23 (1.64%) JIRA
5 17 (1.21%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.36%) Git
6 5 (0.36%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.28%) Maven
7 4 (0.28%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.14%) GitLab
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.071%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.071%) Selenium
10 1 (0.071%) Vagrant
General
1 355 (25.27%) Finance
2 335 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 326 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (14.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (7.54%) Legal
6 101 (7.19%) Law
7 74 (5.27%) Banking
8 64 (4.56%) Public Sector
9 51 (3.63%) Marketing
10 47 (3.35%) Telecoms
11 46 (3.27%) Retail
12 43 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (2.35%) Games
14 28 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.28%) Aerospace
17 18 (1.28%) Financial Institution
18 15 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 335 (23.84%) Senior
2 233 (16.58%) Analyst
3 145 (10.32%) Linux Specialist
4 143 (10.18%) Technical Specialist
5 139 (9.89%) Security Engineer
6 131 (9.32%) Security Analyst
7 120 (8.54%) Architect
8 98 (6.98%) Consultant
9 95 (6.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 90 (6.41%) Lead
10 90 (6.41%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 89 (6.33%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 89 (6.33%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 69 (4.91%) Security Manager
13 66 (4.70%) Tester
14 63 (4.48%) IT Analyst
14 63 (4.48%) Penetration Tester
15 62 (4.41%) Security Architect
16 60 (4.27%) Security Consultant
17 59 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.06%) .NET
2 28 (1.99%) REST
3 27 (1.92%) HTML
3 27 (1.92%) JSON
4 26 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (1.64%) CSS
6 20 (1.42%) jQuery
7 14 (1.00%) OAuth
8 12 (0.85%) OpenID
9 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.78%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.71%) ARM Templates
10 10 (0.71%) SAML
11 9 (0.64%) Django
11 9 (0.64%) Flask
11 9 (0.64%) Kafka
11 9 (0.64%) YAML
12 8 (0.57%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (0.50%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.89%) Social Media
2 146 (10.39%) Management Information System
3 80 (5.69%) Cyber Threat
4 75 (5.34%) Security Posture
5 61 (4.34%) PKI
6 54 (3.84%) Cyberattack
7 51 (3.63%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.99%) IoT
9 40 (2.85%) Operational Technology
10 38 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
11 36 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 33 (2.35%) Onboarding
13 32 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
14 30 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.99%) Replication
16 23 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
17 22 (1.57%) Client/Server
18 21 (1.49%) Cyber Security Posture
19 20 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 272 (19.36%) Linux
2 234 (16.65%) Windows
3 152 (10.82%) Ubuntu
4 88 (6.26%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 35 (2.49%) Android
7 30 (2.14%) Kali Linux
8 27 (1.92%) Windows 10
9 22 (1.57%) Unix
10 16 (1.14%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.50%) Debian
13 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.28%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.14%) CentOS
17 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
18 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (26.05%) Information Security
2 273 (19.43%) SIEM
3 232 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
4 204 (14.52%) Incident Response
5 199 (14.16%) IT Strategy
6 185 (13.17%) Technology Strategy
7 183 (13.02%) Artificial Intelligence
8 169 (12.03%) Security Operations
9 156 (11.10%) CRM
10 155 (11.03%) Penetration Testing
11 135 (9.61%) Computer Science
12 130 (9.25%) Risk Management
13 128 (9.11%) Security Architecture
14 126 (8.97%) ITIL
15 120 (8.54%) Cloud Security
16 118 (8.40%) Agile
17 107 (7.62%) Mentoring
18 105 (7.47%) Vulnerability Management
19 103 (7.33%) DevOps
20 99 (7.05%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 192 (13.67%) Bash
2 152 (10.82%) Python
3 115 (8.19%) PowerShell
4 94 (6.69%) SQL
5 44 (3.13%) Java
6 42 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 28 (1.99%) C
8 17 (1.21%) C++
8 17 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.07%) C#
10 12 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.71%) RPG
12 9 (0.64%) Perl
13 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.28%) Go
14 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
16 1 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.071%) R
Qualifications
1 273 (19.43%) CISSP
2 247 (17.58%) Degree
3 147 (10.46%) CISM
4 136 (9.68%) Security Cleared
5 83 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 80 (5.69%) SC Cleared
7 77 (5.48%) DV Cleared
8 65 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
9 63 (4.48%) GIAC
10 60 (4.27%) CISA
11 56 (3.99%) CEH
12 51 (3.63%) CREST Certified
13 49 (3.49%) CRISC
14 43 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (2.92%) Master's Degree
16 32 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (2.28%) CCSP
17 23 (1.64%) CCNP
17 23 (1.64%) OSCP
18 22 (1.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (16.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 169 (12.03%) NIST
3 73 (5.20%) GDPR
4 58 (4.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 54 (3.84%) NCSC
6 52 (3.70%) GRC
6 52 (3.70%) PCI DSS
7 38 (2.70%) COBIT
8 31 (2.21%) QA
9 21 (1.49%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 18 (1.28%) SLA
12 14 (1.00%) Data Quality
13 13 (0.93%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.85%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.43%) ISO 31000
18 6 (0.43%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 275 (19.57%) Active Directory
2 65 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (3.20%) Docker
4 19 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (1.35%) vSphere
5 13 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.71%) Firmware
8 6 (0.43%) Forefront TMG
8 6 (0.43%) RACF
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.071%) LXC
10 1 (0.071%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 170 (12.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 145 (10.32%) Jamf Pro
3 58 (4.13%) Ansible
4 29 (2.06%) Kubernetes
4 29 (2.06%) QRadar
5 26 (1.85%) Terraform
6 22 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.14%) SCOM
8 11 (0.78%) Nessus
9 10 (0.71%) CASB
9 10 (0.71%) Grafana
9 10 (0.71%) Graphite
9 10 (0.71%) Nagios
10 9 (0.64%) CSIRT
10 9 (0.64%) Puppet
11 8 (0.57%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.57%) HAProxy
11 8 (0.57%) Nmap
11 8 (0.57%) SCCM
11 8 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 514 (36.58%) Microsoft
2 173 (12.31%) CyberArk
3 158 (11.25%) Tanium
4 83 (5.91%) VMware
5 74 (5.27%) Cisco
6 59 (4.20%) Google
7 49 (3.49%) Splunk
8 33 (2.35%) IBM
8 33 (2.35%) Qualys
9 32 (2.28%) Veeam
10 29 (2.06%) Palo Alto
11 28 (1.99%) Oracle
12 26 (1.85%) Juniper
13 25 (1.78%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.71%) Apple
15 22 (1.57%) SolarWinds
16 21 (1.49%) Dell
17 20 (1.42%) Adobe
17 20 (1.42%) HP
18 18 (1.28%) ServiceNow