Cyberattack Jobs in England

Cyberattack
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 462 544
Rank change year-on-year -94 +82 +142
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 288 601 766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.51% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 217 98 149
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,831 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,442 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £55,548
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -0.99% -17.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,288 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £80,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £58,000 £56,776
% change year-on-year +18.10% +2.16% -15.89%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,659 39,766 61,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.70% 43.18% 46.56%
Number of salaries quoted 20,908 21,633 30,609
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +59 103 £75,000 +61.29% 16
South West -108 74 £68,500 -1.01% 3
North of England -29 64 £50,000 -25.93% 8
North West -31 44 £50,000 -26.85% 4
South East -38 24 £49,250 -6.19% 3
Yorkshire +60 20 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Midlands +10 15 £32,000 -54.29% 5
West Midlands +27 9 £32,000 -55.86% 4
East Midlands -19 6 £52,500 -19.23% 1
East of England +6 4 £95,000 +68.89% 6
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.35%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (18.75%) Azure
2 44 (15.28%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (13.89%) AWS
4 29 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (4.17%) GCP
6 4 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (1.39%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.04%) IaaS
7 3 (1.04%) PaaS
7 3 (1.04%) SaaS
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.69%) dbt
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 55 (19.10%) DNS
2 51 (17.71%) TCP/IP
3 37 (12.85%) DHCP
3 37 (12.85%) Firewall
4 35 (12.15%) HTTP
5 30 (10.42%) Internet
6 18 (6.25%) DKIM
6 18 (6.25%) DMARC
7 13 (4.51%) Intrusion Detection
7 13 (4.51%) LAN
7 13 (4.51%) WAN
8 7 (2.43%) Broadband
8 7 (2.43%) VLAN
9 6 (2.08%) SAN
9 6 (2.08%) SMTP
10 4 (1.39%) SSL
11 2 (0.69%) Network Security
12 1 (0.35%) VoIP
12 1 (0.35%) VPN
12 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 12 (4.17%) Data Hub
2 12 (4.17%) DB2
2 12 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.69%) Metabase
3 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.69%) Redis
4 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.35%) Git
2 1 (0.35%) Subversion
2 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (33.33%) Finance
2 74 (25.69%) Social Skills
3 60 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.33%) Banking
6 21 (7.29%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.56%) Law
8 14 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.08%) Retail
11 5 (1.74%) Military
12 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.39%) Legal
13 3 (1.04%) Marketing
14 2 (0.69%) Publishing
15 1 (0.35%) Games
15 1 (0.35%) Local Government
15 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (29.51%) Analyst
2 77 (26.74%) Senior
3 61 (21.18%) Security Analyst
4 40 (13.89%) Security Manager
5 36 (12.50%) Architect
6 33 (11.46%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 33 (11.46%) Lead
7 31 (10.76%) Security Assurance Manager
8 30 (10.42%) Information Assurance Manager
8 30 (10.42%) Information Manager
8 30 (10.42%) Information Security Manager
9 27 (9.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 26 (9.03%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (6.25%) Information Analyst
11 18 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
12 16 (5.56%) Consultant
13 15 (5.21%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (4.86%) Security Engineer
15 13 (4.51%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.63%) HTML
2 29 (10.07%) OpenID
2 29 (10.07%) SAML
3 8 (2.78%) Kafka
3 8 (2.78%) Middleware
4 2 (0.69%) CSS
4 2 (0.69%) D3.js
4 2 (0.69%) Node.js
4 2 (0.69%) React
4 2 (0.69%) Vue
5 1 (0.35%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.35%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.79%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (10.76%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.94%) Data Fabric
4 19 (6.60%) Cyber Defence
5 16 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.21%) Security Posture
7 14 (4.86%) Product Ownership
8 13 (4.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 12 (4.17%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.78%) Replication
11 7 (2.43%) PKI
12 6 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (1.74%) Cyber Security Posture
14 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.39%) Operational Technology
15 3 (1.04%) CSOC
15 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
16 2 (0.69%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 71 (24.65%) Windows
2 44 (15.28%) Linux
3 20 (6.94%) zOS
4 17 (5.90%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.78%) CentOS
5 8 (2.78%) Solaris
5 8 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.78%) Unix
6 6 (2.08%) Mac OS X
6 6 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (52.43%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (31.94%) Incident Response
3 72 (25.00%) SIEM
4 63 (21.88%) Roadmaps
5 62 (21.53%) Agile
5 62 (21.53%) Cloud Security
6 57 (19.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 57 (19.79%) Security Operations
6 57 (19.79%) Threat Intelligence
7 51 (17.71%) Information Security
8 50 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (15.28%) Analytics
10 43 (14.93%) Identity Management
10 43 (14.93%) Security Management
11 40 (13.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 40 (13.89%) Risk Management
12 38 (13.19%) Line Management
12 38 (13.19%) SDLC
12 38 (13.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 32 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.25%) SQL
2 14 (4.86%) Python
3 11 (3.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.04%) Java
4 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.69%) Go
5 2 (0.69%) Lisp
6 1 (0.35%) C#
6 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 105 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.49%) DV Cleared
3 42 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 32 (11.11%) CISSP
5 29 (10.07%) AWS Certification
5 29 (10.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (8.33%) GIAC
7 22 (7.64%) CREST Certified
7 22 (7.64%) Degree
8 9 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.43%) CISM
10 6 (2.08%) CEH
11 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.39%) CCSAM
11 4 (1.39%) CISA
11 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.04%) CRISC
12 3 (1.04%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.04%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (18.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (15.28%) NCSC
3 24 (8.33%) NIST
4 7 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.43%) GDPR
4 7 (2.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 7 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (1.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (14.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.69%) Docker
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (10.42%) Terraform
2 18 (6.25%) CASB
3 4 (1.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.39%) Nessus
3 4 (1.39%) QRadar
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.35%) Puppet
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.17%) Databricks
2 12 (4.17%) F5
2 12 (4.17%) Oracle
3 10 (3.47%) Splunk
4 8 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (2.78%) IBM
5 7 (2.43%) Veeam
6 6 (2.08%) Epicor
7 4 (1.39%) BT
7 4 (1.39%) Cisco
8 3 (1.04%) LogRhythm
8 3 (1.04%) VMware
9 2 (0.69%) Facebook
9 2 (0.69%) Intel
10 1 (0.35%) AlienVault
10 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.35%) HP
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.35%) Spotify