Threat Detection Jobs in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 706 660 738
Rank change year-on-year -46 +78 -76
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 74 68 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 60 55 113
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +13.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,625 £72,573 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £68,823 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.08% +14.71% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East -10 28 £42,500 -22.73% 4
North of England +11 23 £57,500 -3.40% 13
North West -26 15 £50,000 +8.13% 10
South West -43 10 £52,500 -11.80% 3
Yorkshire +71 8 £80,000 +16.24% 3
East of England -7 6 £43,750 -37.50% 2
Scotland -68 6 £66,500 -21.76% 3
West Midlands -19 1 £77,500 +10.71% 3
Midlands -46 1 £77,500 +10.71% 5
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.35%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) Azure
2 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (10.81%) Azure Storage
2 8 (10.81%) Entra ID
3 7 (9.46%) AWS
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Event Grid
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (8.11%) IaaS
5 5 (6.76%) PaaS
5 5 (6.76%) SaaS
6 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.35%) GitHub
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.35%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 31 (41.89%) Firewall
2 13 (17.57%) DNS
3 8 (10.81%) TCP/IP
4 7 (9.46%) Internet
5 4 (5.41%) Network Security
6 2 (2.70%) DHCP
6 2 (2.70%) SSL
7 1 (1.35%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.35%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.35%) IMAP
7 1 (1.35%) LAN
7 1 (1.35%) NAS
7 1 (1.35%) SAN
7 1 (1.35%) SMTP
7 1 (1.35%) SSH
7 1 (1.35%) VLAN
7 1 (1.35%) VoIP
7 1 (1.35%) VPN
7 1 (1.35%) WAN
7 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 24 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Law
5 1 (1.35%) Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.35%) Legal
5 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (47.30%) Analyst
2 16 (21.62%) Security Analyst
3 12 (16.22%) Senior
4 10 (13.51%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (10.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 7 (9.46%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Security Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) SOC Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Security Analyst
11 2 (2.70%) Consultant
11 2 (2.70%) IT Manager
11 2 (2.70%) Lead
11 2 (2.70%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) ARM Templates
2 7 (9.46%) YAML
3 3 (4.05%) OAuth
3 3 (4.05%) OpenID
3 3 (4.05%) SAML
4 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.35%) .NET
5 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.35%) ADO
5 1 (1.35%) Java EE
5 1 (1.35%) LDAP
5 1 (1.35%) OpenJDK
5 1 (1.35%) REST
5 1 (1.35%) SOAP
5 1 (1.35%) Spring
5 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (12.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (12.16%) Cyberattack
3 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 8 (10.81%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (10.81%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.05%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.08%) Windows
2 8 (10.81%) Linux
3 7 (9.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (66.22%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (54.05%) Incident Response
3 27 (36.49%) SIEM
4 26 (35.14%) Security Operations
5 19 (25.68%) Penetration Testing
6 15 (20.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 15 (20.27%) Patch Management
6 15 (20.27%) Threat Intelligence
7 13 (17.57%) Information Security
7 13 (17.57%) Use Case
7 13 (17.57%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
8 12 (16.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 11 (14.86%) DevOps
10 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.16%) Risk Management
12 8 (10.81%) Task Automation
13 7 (9.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 7 (9.46%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.16%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (9.46%) Bicep
4 1 (1.35%) C#
4 1 (1.35%) Java
4 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Degree
2 10 (13.51%) CISSP
3 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) GIAC
5 5 (6.76%) CEH
5 5 (6.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (5.41%) CISM
7 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.70%) GCFA
8 2 (2.70%) GCFE
8 2 (2.70%) OSCP
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (35.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (13.51%) NIST
2 10 (13.51%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.41%) NIST 800
4 3 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.05%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.35%) GDPR
5 1 (1.35%) GxP
5 1 (1.35%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.35%) NCSC
5 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 27 (36.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.81%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.35%) Docker
4 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) WSUS
2 7 (9.46%) Terraform
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.35%) DatAdvantage
4 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.35%) QRadar
4 1 (1.35%) SCCM
4 1 (1.35%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (1.35%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) LogRhythm
2 4 (5.41%) WatchGuard
3 3 (4.05%) McAfee
3 3 (4.05%) VMware
4 2 (2.70%) Cisco
4 2 (2.70%) Qualys
4 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
4 2 (2.70%) Varonis
5 1 (1.35%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.35%) CyberTech
5 1 (1.35%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.35%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.35%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.35%) Symantec
5 1 (1.35%) Tripwire