Cyber Defence
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 799 678 581
Rank change year-on-year -121 -97 +274
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 115 281 887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.29% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.67% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 65 60 103
10th Percentile £53,087 £50,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,416 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +6.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £107,500 £87,813 £72,500
90th Percentile - £97,290 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £102,500 £70,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +46.43% +47.37% -17.03%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Defence 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 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
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 £86,250 £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%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence.

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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 -81 108 £90,000 +28.57% 34
UK excluding London -112 75 £102,500 +46.43% 22
South West -26 48 £105,000 +13.92% 10
London +75 33 £90,000 +56.52% 9
Work from Home -127 20 £67,500 +8.00% 11
North of England +14 12 £62,500 +2.04% 4
South East -42 10 £66,410 +0.24% 5
North West +2 8 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Yorkshire +49 4 £32,500 -53.24% 2
Midlands -8 3 £52,500 -25.00% 3
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 -
Scotland -61 2 £74,000 +26.74%

Cyber Defence
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (8.70%) AWS
2 9 (7.83%) Azure
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.48%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.61%) IaaS
4 3 (2.61%) PaaS
5 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.87%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (31.30%) Network Security
2 29 (25.22%) Firewall
3 9 (7.83%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (3.48%) VoIP
5 2 (1.74%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.74%) Wireless
6 1 (0.87%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.04%) Big Data
2 4 (3.48%) Power BI
3 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Git
1 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.87%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.87%) Jasmine
2 1 (0.87%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Mercurial
2 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.87%) Subversion
2 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (28.70%) Military
2 32 (27.83%) Social Skills
3 30 (26.09%) Aerospace
4 21 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (14.78%) Finance
6 9 (7.83%) Legal
7 7 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.22%) Law
9 5 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.87%) Electronics
11 1 (0.87%) Games
11 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Retail
11 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Consultant
2 33 (28.70%) Security Consultant
3 25 (21.74%) Analyst
4 24 (20.87%) Senior
5 18 (15.65%) Security Analyst
6 15 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 14 (12.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Head of Compliance
9 6 (5.22%) Head of Information
9 6 (5.22%) Head of Information Assurance
9 6 (5.22%) Lead
9 6 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.35%) Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Operations Analyst
11 4 (3.48%) Security Operations Analyst
11 4 (3.48%) Senior Operations Analyst
11 4 (3.48%) Senior Security Analyst
12 3 (2.61%) Security Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.61%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.87%) .NET
2 1 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.87%) JMS
2 1 (0.87%) Kafka
2 1 (0.87%) POSIX
2 1 (0.87%) Spring
2 1 (0.87%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.04%) Security Operations Centre
2 31 (26.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 20 (17.39%) Cyberattack
4 18 (15.65%) Management Information System
4 18 (15.65%) Operational Technology
5 10 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.35%) Driving Licence
8 4 (3.48%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.61%) CSOC
9 3 (2.61%) IoT
10 2 (1.74%) FPGA
10 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.87%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.09%) Linux
2 13 (11.30%) Windows
3 2 (1.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Android
4 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.87%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.87%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (75.65%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (53.91%) Information Security
3 59 (51.30%) SIEM
4 57 (49.57%) Security Operations
5 50 (43.48%) Agile
6 37 (32.17%) Security Architecture
7 33 (28.70%) Mentoring
8 28 (24.35%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 28 (24.35%) Incident Response
8 28 (24.35%) Threat Intelligence
9 24 (20.87%) Resource Management
10 21 (18.26%) Incident Management
10 21 (18.26%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 20 (17.39%) Coaching
11 20 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 18 (15.65%) Programme Management
12 18 (15.65%) Vulnerability Management
13 17 (14.78%) Analytics
14 16 (13.91%) Malware Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.65%) Python
2 14 (12.17%) Bash
3 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.61%) Java
5 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.87%) C
6 1 (0.87%) C#
6 1 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.04%) DV Cleared
3 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.83%) CISSP
4 9 (7.83%) Degree
5 6 (5.22%) CISA
6 5 (4.35%) MBCS
7 4 (3.48%) CISM
7 4 (3.48%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (2.61%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.74%) CCNA
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.74%) CRISC
9 2 (1.74%) GCIA
9 2 (1.74%) GIAC
9 2 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.74%) PMP
9 2 (1.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (48.70%) NIST
2 26 (22.61%) NIST 800
3 22 (19.13%) NCSC
4 10 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (6.09%) GRC
6 6 (5.22%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.61%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (2.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.61%) JSP 440
7 3 (2.61%) RMADS
8 2 (1.74%) COBIT
8 2 (1.74%) GLBA
8 2 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.87%) GDPR
9 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (13.04%) vSphere
2 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) Docker
4 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.87%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.04%) SolarWinds
2 15 (13.04%) Tanium
2 15 (13.04%) Tripwire
3 3 (2.61%) Splunk
4 2 (1.74%) Cisco
5 1 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.87%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.87%) Google
5 1 (0.87%) IBM
5 1 (0.87%) Perforce
5 1 (0.87%) Qualys