Cyber Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 499 685
Rank change year-on-year -17 +186 -50
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 424 554 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% 1.32% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 332 343 363
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £50,000 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -14.96% +10.89%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,290 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Threat 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 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £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 £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 Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +39 383 £65,000 +8.33% 109
UK excluding London -33 262 £60,000 +9.09% 77
Work from Home 0 138 £67,000 +12.56% 51
London +45 137 £75,000 +8.98% 48
North of England +2 75 £50,000 -9.09% 27
South East +31 67 £55,000 -26.67% 22
North West -23 50 £50,000 -16.00% 18
East of England +43 45 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Midlands -1 25 £65,000 +18.18% 9
South West -51 24 £62,500 +5.00% 15
Scotland -77 21 £67,500 +19.47% 1
Yorkshire +61 17 £60,000 +16.81% 7
East Midlands +6 15 £65,000 +85.71% 6
West Midlands +5 10 £70,000 +27.27% 3
North East +1 8 £39,500 -28.18% 2
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

Cyber Threat
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 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.47%) Apache
2 2 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.47%) Confluence
2 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.59%) Simulink
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 99 (23.35%) Azure
2 70 (16.51%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (12.50%) AWS
4 17 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (2.36%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (1.89%) Cloudflare
7 6 (1.42%) GCP
8 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.94%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.47%) Google Docs
10 2 (0.47%) Serverless
11 1 (0.24%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (19.81%) Firewall
2 47 (11.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 35 (8.25%) Network Security
4 15 (3.54%) Internet
5 14 (3.30%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.59%) LAN
7 10 (2.36%) DNS
7 10 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (2.12%) WAN
9 8 (1.89%) MPLS
9 8 (1.89%) Wireshark
10 7 (1.65%) Wireless
11 5 (1.18%) HTTP
11 5 (1.18%) SMTP
11 5 (1.18%) SNMP
11 5 (1.18%) SSL
12 4 (0.94%) DHCP
12 4 (0.94%) OSPF
12 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.94%) Power BI
3 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.47%) Big Data
3 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.47%) GitLab
1 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 132 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 99 (23.35%) Finance
3 95 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.84%) Legal
5 28 (6.60%) Banking
6 22 (5.19%) Games
6 22 (5.19%) Retail
7 20 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.48%) Law
9 16 (3.77%) Electronics
10 9 (2.12%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.42%) Automotive
13 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 104 (24.53%) Analyst
2 58 (13.68%) Senior
3 53 (12.50%) Lead
4 49 (11.56%) Security Analyst
5 48 (11.32%) Security Manager
6 32 (7.55%) Architect
7 29 (6.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 26 (6.13%) SOC Analyst
9 23 (5.42%) IT Manager
9 23 (5.42%) Security Architect
10 19 (4.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
10 19 (4.48%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 19 (4.48%) IT Security Manager
10 19 (4.48%) Security Engineer
10 19 (4.48%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
11 16 (3.77%) Technical Leader
12 15 (3.54%) Data Manager
12 15 (3.54%) Embedded Engineer
12 15 (3.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 15 (3.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.19%) Middleware
2 8 (1.89%) Kafka
2 8 (1.89%) Laravel
3 5 (1.18%) NETCONF
4 3 (0.71%) .NET
4 3 (0.71%) Sass
5 2 (0.47%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.47%) Flask
5 2 (0.47%) React
5 2 (0.47%) RESTful
6 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.24%) EDI
6 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.33%) Management Information System
2 59 (13.92%) Cyberattack
3 44 (10.38%) Security Posture
4 42 (9.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (6.13%) Operational Technology
6 19 (4.48%) Client/Server
7 17 (4.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 13 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (3.07%) Cyber Security Posture
9 11 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.36%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (2.12%) SCADA
12 8 (1.89%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.89%) Replication
13 7 (1.65%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.65%) Onboarding
14 5 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.57%) Windows
2 25 (5.90%) Linux
3 13 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.59%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.59%) Unix
5 8 (1.89%) CentOS
5 8 (1.89%) Solaris
5 8 (1.89%) zOS
6 4 (0.94%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (65.09%) Cybersecurity
2 168 (39.62%) Incident Response
3 120 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (25.47%) Security Operations
5 100 (23.58%) SIEM
6 88 (20.75%) Information Security
7 83 (19.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 83 (19.58%) Threat Intelligence
8 62 (14.62%) Risk Management
9 58 (13.68%) Computer Science
10 57 (13.44%) Cyber Intelligence
11 49 (11.56%) Penetration Testing
12 44 (10.38%) Disaster Recovery
13 43 (10.14%) Roadmaps
14 41 (9.67%) Vulnerability Management
15 40 (9.43%) Agile
16 38 (8.96%) Cloud Security
16 38 (8.96%) Security Architecture
16 38 (8.96%) Vulnerability Assessment
17 37 (8.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.60%) Python
2 19 (4.48%) PHP
3 16 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.30%) C#
5 13 (3.07%) C
6 11 (2.59%) MATLAB
7 9 (2.12%) SQL
8 8 (1.89%) Rust
9 6 (1.42%) C++
10 4 (0.94%) Bash
11 3 (0.71%) R
12 2 (0.47%) Go
12 2 (0.47%) Java
12 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 115 (27.12%) Degree
2 105 (24.76%) CISSP
3 74 (17.45%) Security Cleared
4 47 (11.08%) CISM
5 42 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (8.49%) CompTIA Security+
6 36 (8.49%) SC Cleared
7 26 (6.13%) GIAC
8 22 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (5.19%) CREST Certified
9 21 (4.95%) CISA
10 19 (4.48%) DV Cleared
11 18 (4.25%) CEH
12 15 (3.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 15 (3.54%) CCSP
13 14 (3.30%) CRISC
14 12 (2.83%) Master's Degree
15 9 (2.12%) Azure Certification
15 9 (2.12%) SANS
16 8 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (21.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (15.80%) NIST
3 42 (9.91%) GDPR
4 35 (8.25%) GRC
5 28 (6.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (6.13%) PCI DSS
7 17 (4.01%) NCSC
8 12 (2.83%) HIPAA
9 9 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (2.12%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.89%) NIST 800
11 7 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (1.42%) Data Quality
13 5 (1.18%) SLA
14 4 (0.94%) COBIT
14 4 (0.94%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.71%) ISO 31000
15 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.94%) Docker
4 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.24%) LXC
Systems Management
1 9 (2.12%) QRadar
2 8 (1.89%) CSIRT
2 8 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.65%) Terraform
4 6 (1.42%) Ansible
4 6 (1.42%) Nessus
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.71%) SELinux
8 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.24%) CASB
8 1 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 86 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.54%) Qualys
3 14 (3.30%) Cisco
4 13 (3.07%) Splunk
5 12 (2.83%) Darktrace
6 10 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (1.89%) Google
7 8 (1.89%) IBM
8 7 (1.65%) VMware
9 6 (1.42%) Sage
9 6 (1.42%) Workday
10 5 (1.18%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.71%) Apple
12 3 (0.71%) Intel
12 3 (0.71%) Juniper
12 3 (0.71%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.47%) Oracle
13 2 (0.47%) SonicWALL