Cyberattack Jobs

Cyberattack
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 493 469
Rank change year-on-year -31 -24 +271
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 428 545 1,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.57% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 1.33% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 256 117 208
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,095 £30,875
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,477 £42,118
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,959 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.60% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £84,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyberattack is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England -4 380 £66,959 +21.74% 55
UK excluding London -117 283 £50,000 -13.79% 42
North of England +86 163 £50,000 -26.85% 17
North West +79 130 £50,000 -27.75% 11
Work from Home -120 115 £72,500 +20.83% 21
London +101 103 £73,750 +58.61% 16
South West -138 58 £68,500 +2.78% 2
Yorkshire +19 26 £50,000 -9.09% 5
South East -51 25 £49,250 -6.19% 13
Midlands -5 17 £32,000 -54.29% 5
Scotland -64 12 £47,000 -18.97% 1
West Midlands -9 9 £32,000 -55.86% 4
East Midlands -10 8 £52,500 -19.23% 1
North East -6 7 - - 1
Wales +5 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
East of England -5 4 £95,000 +68.89% 5

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.47%) Apache
2 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 96 (22.43%) Azure
2 56 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (7.01%) AWS
4 13 (3.04%) GCP
5 9 (2.10%) IaaS
5 9 (2.10%) PaaS
6 6 (1.40%) SaaS
7 4 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (0.93%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.70%) GitHub
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.47%) dbt
9 2 (0.47%) MinIO
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.23%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.23%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.64%) Firewall
1 37 (8.64%) Internet
2 33 (7.71%) DNS
3 29 (6.78%) LAN
4 25 (5.84%) DKIM
4 25 (5.84%) DMARC
5 22 (5.14%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.04%) WAN
7 12 (2.80%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (1.87%) DHCP
9 7 (1.64%) Broadband
9 7 (1.64%) VLAN
10 6 (1.40%) HTTP
10 6 (1.40%) SAN
10 6 (1.40%) SMTP
11 5 (1.17%) Wireless
12 4 (0.93%) SSL
13 2 (0.47%) Network Security
14 1 (0.23%) tcpdump
14 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.80%) BigQuery
2 12 (2.80%) Data Hub
2 12 (2.80%) DB2
2 12 (2.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (2.80%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.70%) Redis
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Pinot
4 2 (0.47%) Big Data
4 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.47%) Flink
4 2 (0.47%) Metabase
4 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.47%) Presto
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Git
1 2 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
2 1 (0.23%) Subversion
2 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 154 (35.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 61 (14.25%) Social Skills
3 60 (14.02%) Finance
4 30 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.14%) Banking
7 21 (4.91%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.34%) Legal
11 9 (2.10%) Law
12 7 (1.64%) Games
13 6 (1.40%) Military
13 6 (1.40%) Retail
14 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.70%) Marketing
16 2 (0.47%) Publishing
17 1 (0.23%) Local Government
17 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (24.30%) Analyst
2 80 (18.69%) Security Analyst
3 75 (17.52%) Architect
3 75 (17.52%) Senior
4 67 (15.65%) Lead
5 44 (10.28%) Software Engineer
6 43 (10.05%) Software Architect
7 40 (9.35%) Programmer
7 40 (9.35%) Security Manager
7 40 (9.35%) Software Programmer
8 35 (8.18%) Lead Software Engineer
9 34 (7.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 33 (7.71%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 31 (7.24%) Security Assurance Manager
12 30 (7.01%) Information Assurance Manager
12 30 (7.01%) Information Manager
12 30 (7.01%) Information Security Manager
13 29 (6.78%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (6.07%) Information Analyst
14 26 (6.07%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.44%) HTML
2 11 (2.57%) Kafka
3 8 (1.87%) Middleware
4 5 (1.17%) CSS
4 5 (1.17%) D3.js
4 5 (1.17%) React
5 3 (0.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.70%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.70%) Ember.js
5 3 (0.70%) WebGL
6 2 (0.47%) Node.js
6 2 (0.47%) Vue
7 1 (0.23%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.23%) POSIX
7 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.79%) Cyber Threat
2 32 (7.48%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.67%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (4.67%) Data Fabric
4 18 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.50%) Security Posture
6 14 (3.27%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 12 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.34%) iPhone
10 8 (1.87%) Replication
11 5 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.17%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.17%) PKI
11 5 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.70%) CSOC
12 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 80 (18.69%) Windows
2 45 (10.51%) Linux
3 20 (4.67%) zOS
4 17 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.87%) CentOS
5 8 (1.87%) Solaris
5 8 (1.87%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.87%) Unix
6 6 (1.40%) Mac OS X
6 6 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.93%) Android
7 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (43.93%) Cybersecurity
2 167 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (34.58%) Mentoring
4 146 (34.11%) Agile
5 137 (32.01%) Software Engineering
6 124 (28.97%) Machine Learning
7 120 (28.04%) Creative Thinking
7 120 (28.04%) Data Engineering
7 120 (28.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 120 (28.04%) User Experience
8 100 (23.36%) Incident Response
9 78 (18.22%) Information Security
9 78 (18.22%) SIEM
10 60 (14.02%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 60 (14.02%) Threat Intelligence
11 58 (13.55%) Security Operations
12 51 (11.92%) Analytics
12 51 (11.92%) Roadmaps
13 50 (11.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 48 (11.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.91%) PowerShell
2 20 (4.67%) Python
3 18 (4.21%) SQL
4 12 (2.80%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.57%) Go
6 6 (1.40%) C++
6 6 (1.40%) Java
6 6 (1.40%) Ruby
7 3 (0.70%) Bash
7 3 (0.70%) Bicep
8 2 (0.47%) Lisp
9 1 (0.23%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.68%) CISSP
4 27 (6.31%) CISM
5 25 (5.84%) Degree
5 25 (5.84%) DV Cleared
6 24 (5.61%) GIAC
7 22 (5.14%) CREST Certified
8 17 (3.97%) OSCP
9 16 (3.74%) AWS Certification
9 16 (3.74%) Azure Certification
10 14 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (2.10%) CCSP
13 8 (1.87%) CompTIA CySA+
14 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.40%) CEH
15 6 (1.40%) ISACA
16 5 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (10.51%) NCSC
3 29 (6.78%) NIST
4 9 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (1.87%) GDPR
6 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 6 (1.40%) IASME
7 6 (1.40%) QA
8 5 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.47%) GRC
10 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.23%) COBIT
11 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.70%) Docker
5 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (5.84%) CASB
2 7 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.93%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.93%) Nessus
3 4 (0.93%) QRadar
4 2 (0.47%) Argo
4 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.47%) Terraform
5 1 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.23%) Puppet
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.74%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (2.80%) Databricks
3 12 (2.80%) F5
3 12 (2.80%) Oracle
4 10 (2.34%) Splunk
5 8 (1.87%) IBM
6 7 (1.64%) Veeam
7 6 (1.40%) Epicor
8 4 (0.93%) BT
8 4 (0.93%) Cisco
9 3 (0.70%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.70%) VMware
10 2 (0.47%) Facebook
10 2 (0.47%) Intel
11 1 (0.23%) AlienVault
11 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.23%) HP
11 1 (0.23%) Qualys
11 1 (0.23%) Red Hat