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 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 622 507 460
Rank change year-on-year -115 -47 +262
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 303 538 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 1.29% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 254 116 202
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £30,125
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,940 £41,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,229 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,763 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.01% +9.55% +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 35,381 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%

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 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 15 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 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 -104 256 £67,229 +19.52% 44
UK excluding London -196 165 £50,000 -17.01% 37
Work from Home -92 115 £72,500 +20.83% 21
London +136 102 £75,000 +61.29% 9
North of England +3 56 £50,000 -27.75% 16
South West -147 48 £68,500 +2.78% 4
North West +9 36 £50,000 -30.65% 3
South East -39 25 £49,250 -6.19% 9
Yorkshire +33 20 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Midlands 0 16 £32,000 -54.29% 3
Scotland -53 12 £47,000 -18.97% 1
West Midlands +10 8 £32,000 -55.86% 2
East Midlands -10 8 £52,500 -19.23% 1
Wales +3 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
East of England -4 4 £95,000 +68.89% 4

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 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.66%) Apache
2 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 94 (31.02%) Azure
2 55 (18.15%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (9.57%) AWS
4 13 (4.29%) GCP
5 9 (2.97%) IaaS
5 9 (2.97%) PaaS
6 6 (1.98%) SaaS
7 4 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.32%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.99%) GitHub
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.66%) dbt
9 2 (0.66%) MinIO
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.21%) Firewall
1 37 (12.21%) Internet
2 33 (10.89%) DNS
3 28 (9.24%) LAN
4 25 (8.25%) DKIM
4 25 (8.25%) DMARC
5 22 (7.26%) TCP/IP
6 13 (4.29%) WAN
7 12 (3.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (2.64%) DHCP
9 7 (2.31%) Broadband
9 7 (2.31%) VLAN
10 6 (1.98%) HTTP
10 6 (1.98%) SAN
10 6 (1.98%) SMTP
11 4 (1.32%) SSL
11 4 (1.32%) Wireless
12 2 (0.66%) Network Security
13 1 (0.33%) VPN
13 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.96%) BigQuery
2 12 (3.96%) Data Hub
2 12 (3.96%) DB2
2 12 (3.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.96%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.99%) Redis
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Pinot
4 2 (0.66%) Big Data
4 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.66%) Flink
4 2 (0.66%) Metabase
4 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.66%) Presto
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Git
1 2 (0.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
2 1 (0.33%) Subversion
2 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.47%) Finance
3 31 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.26%) Banking
7 21 (6.93%) Financial Institution
8 16 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.97%) Law
11 8 (2.64%) Legal
12 7 (2.31%) Games
13 6 (1.98%) Military
13 6 (1.98%) Retail
14 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.99%) Marketing
16 2 (0.66%) Publishing
17 1 (0.33%) Local Government
17 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (33.66%) Analyst
2 79 (26.07%) Security Analyst
3 76 (25.08%) Senior
4 40 (13.20%) Security Manager
5 34 (11.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 33 (10.89%) Architect
6 33 (10.89%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 32 (10.56%) Lead
8 31 (10.23%) Security Assurance Manager
9 30 (9.90%) Information Assurance Manager
9 30 (9.90%) Information Manager
9 30 (9.90%) Information Security Manager
10 29 (9.57%) Senior Analyst
11 25 (8.25%) Information Analyst
11 25 (8.25%) Information Security Analyst
12 22 (7.26%) Security Engineer
13 17 (5.61%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 17 (5.61%) Security Architect
13 17 (5.61%) Senior Security Engineer
14 15 (4.95%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.27%) HTML
2 11 (3.63%) Kafka
3 8 (2.64%) Middleware
4 5 (1.65%) CSS
4 5 (1.65%) D3.js
4 5 (1.65%) React
5 3 (0.99%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.99%) Ember.js
5 3 (0.99%) WebGL
6 2 (0.66%) Node.js
6 2 (0.66%) Vue
7 1 (0.33%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.33%) POSIX
7 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.47%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (10.23%) Management Information System
3 20 (6.60%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (6.60%) Data Fabric
4 17 (5.61%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.95%) Security Posture
6 14 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.62%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 12 (3.96%) Cloud Native
8 12 (3.96%) Public Cloud
9 10 (3.30%) iPhone
10 8 (2.64%) Replication
11 5 (1.65%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.65%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.65%) PKI
11 5 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.99%) CSOC
12 3 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 80 (26.40%) Windows
2 45 (14.85%) Linux
3 20 (6.60%) zOS
4 17 (5.61%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.64%) CentOS
5 8 (2.64%) Solaris
5 8 (2.64%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.64%) Unix
6 6 (1.98%) Mac OS X
6 6 (1.98%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.98%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.32%) Android
7 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (60.73%) Cybersecurity
2 99 (32.67%) Incident Response
3 78 (25.74%) Information Security
3 78 (25.74%) SIEM
4 60 (19.80%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 60 (19.80%) Threat Intelligence
5 59 (19.47%) Security Operations
6 50 (16.50%) Analytics
6 50 (16.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 50 (16.50%) Roadmaps
7 48 (15.84%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 47 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (14.85%) Security Management
10 43 (14.19%) Cloud Security
11 39 (12.87%) Risk Management
12 38 (12.54%) Coaching
13 37 (12.21%) SOAR
14 36 (11.88%) Penetration Testing
15 35 (11.55%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.27%) PowerShell
1 19 (6.27%) Python
2 18 (5.94%) SQL
3 10 (3.30%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.97%) Go
5 6 (1.98%) Java
6 4 (1.32%) C++
6 4 (1.32%) Ruby
7 3 (0.99%) Bash
7 3 (0.99%) Bicep
8 2 (0.66%) Lisp
9 1 (0.33%) C#
9 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 58 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 51 (16.83%) CISSP
4 26 (8.58%) CISM
5 24 (7.92%) Degree
5 24 (7.92%) DV Cleared
5 24 (7.92%) GIAC
6 23 (7.59%) CREST Certified
7 16 (5.28%) OSCP
8 15 (4.95%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.95%) Azure Certification
9 14 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (2.64%) CCSP
11 8 (2.64%) CEH
12 7 (2.31%) CompTIA CySA+
12 7 (2.31%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.65%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (18.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (14.85%) NCSC
3 29 (9.57%) NIST
4 8 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.64%) GDPR
5 7 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (1.65%) IASME
6 5 (1.65%) QA
7 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.32%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) COBIT
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.99%) Docker
5 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (8.25%) CASB
2 7 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.32%) Nessus
3 4 (1.32%) QRadar
4 2 (0.66%) Argo
4 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.66%) Terraform
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.95%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.96%) Databricks
3 12 (3.96%) F5
3 12 (3.96%) Oracle
4 10 (3.30%) Splunk
5 8 (2.64%) IBM
6 7 (2.31%) Veeam
7 6 (1.98%) Epicor
8 4 (1.32%) BT
8 4 (1.32%) Cisco
9 3 (0.99%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.99%) VMware
10 2 (0.66%) Facebook
10 2 (0.66%) Intel
11 1 (0.33%) AlienVault
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.33%) HP
11 1 (0.33%) Qualys
11 1 (0.33%) Red Hat