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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 653 629
Rank change year-on-year -150 -24 +207
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 108 370 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.84% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 63 76 108
10th Percentile £53,969 £50,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,076 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,290 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £97,500 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% +50.00% -13.04%

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 34,939 44,198 74,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 42.68% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 22,999 23,881 34,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £83,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Top 13 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 4 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 -133 101 £90,000 +20.00% 30
UK excluding London -160 72 £97,500 +30.00% 21
South West -45 44 £105,000 +13.92% 6
London +16 31 £90,000 +22.03% 7
Work from Home -168 20 £67,500 -2.46% 10
North of England -15 12 £62,500 -9.68% 7
South East -45 10 £66,410 -11.45% 2
North West +3 8 £65,000 -10.34% 2
Yorkshire +48 4 £32,500 -53.03% 4
Midlands +13 3 £52,500 -25.00% 3
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 -
Scotland -71 2 £74,000 -12.94%
East of England +16 1 £55,000 -15.38% 2

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 (9.26%) Azure
2 9 (8.33%) AWS
3 4 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.78%) IaaS
4 3 (2.78%) PaaS
5 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.93%) SaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (33.33%) Network Security
2 25 (23.15%) Firewall
3 7 (6.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.85%) VoIP
4 2 (1.85%) Wireless
5 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.96%) Big Data
2 2 (1.85%) Power BI
3 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.93%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.93%) Subversion
3 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (30.56%) Military
2 30 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 28 (25.93%) Aerospace
4 21 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (13.89%) Finance
6 9 (8.33%) Legal
7 7 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.56%) Law
9 5 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.93%) Electronics
11 1 (0.93%) Games
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (31.48%) Consultant
2 33 (30.56%) Security Consultant
3 22 (20.37%) Senior
4 19 (17.59%) Analyst
5 15 (13.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 15 (13.89%) Security Analyst
6 13 (12.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 11 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Head of Compliance
8 6 (5.56%) Head of Information
8 6 (5.56%) Head of Information Assurance
8 6 (5.56%) Lead
9 5 (4.63%) Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (2.78%) Incident Manager
11 3 (2.78%) Security Architect
11 3 (2.78%) Senior Manager
11 3 (2.78%) Senior Security Architect
11 3 (2.78%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.89%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.93%) .NET
2 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.93%) JMS
2 1 (0.93%) Kafka
2 1 (0.93%) POSIX
2 1 (0.93%) Spring
2 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 29 (26.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 19 (17.59%) Cyberattack
4 17 (15.74%) Operational Technology
5 13 (12.04%) Management Information System
6 10 (9.26%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (4.63%) Driving Licence
9 4 (3.70%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.78%) CSOC
10 3 (2.78%) IoT
11 2 (1.85%) FPGA
11 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.93%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (26.85%) Linux
2 13 (12.04%) Windows
3 2 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Android
4 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.93%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.93%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (79.63%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (53.70%) Information Security
3 55 (50.93%) Security Operations
3 55 (50.93%) SIEM
4 48 (44.44%) Agile
5 37 (34.26%) Security Architecture
6 31 (28.70%) Mentoring
7 25 (23.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 25 (23.15%) Threat Intelligence
8 24 (22.22%) Incident Response
8 24 (22.22%) Resource Management
9 20 (18.52%) Coaching
9 20 (18.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 19 (17.59%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 18 (16.67%) Programme Management
12 17 (15.74%) Analytics
12 17 (15.74%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (15.74%) Incident Management
12 17 (15.74%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (13.89%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.59%) Python
2 14 (12.96%) Bash
3 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.78%) Java
5 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) C
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 19 (17.59%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.33%) Degree
5 7 (6.48%) CISSP
6 5 (4.63%) MBCS
7 4 (3.70%) CISA
8 3 (2.78%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.85%) CCNA
9 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.85%) CISM
9 2 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.85%) CRISC
9 2 (1.85%) GCIA
9 2 (1.85%) GCIH
9 2 (1.85%) GIAC
9 2 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.85%) PMP
9 2 (1.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (50.00%) NIST
2 24 (22.22%) NIST 800
3 22 (20.37%) NCSC
4 10 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (6.48%) GRC
6 5 (4.63%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.78%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (2.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.78%) JSP 440
7 3 (2.78%) RMADS
8 2 (1.85%) COBIT
8 2 (1.85%) GLBA
8 2 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.93%) GDPR
9 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (13.89%) vSphere
2 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.78%) Docker
4 1 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) Ansible
2 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.78%) Terraform
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.93%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) SolarWinds
1 15 (13.89%) Tanium
1 15 (13.89%) Tripwire
2 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.78%) Splunk
4 2 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.93%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) IBM
5 1 (0.93%) Perforce
5 1 (0.93%) Qualys