Cyber Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cyber Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 835 679 1109
Rank change year-on-year -156 +430 -455
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 75 316 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.31% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.32% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 38 73 50
10th Percentile £28,650 £39,294 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £46,454 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £61,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% -6.15% -1.52%
75th Percentile £100,938 £77,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £101,250 £87,500 £100,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year - -1.15% -19.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cyber Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
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 Intelligence within the UK 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
England -121 69 £67,000 +8.94% 16
UK excluding London -142 54 £52,500 - 10
Work from Home -144 24 £67,000 +10.74% 6
London +18 17 £86,250 +32.69% 7
South East -37 17 £58,750 -21.67% 3
South West -67 15 £55,029 -26.63% 3
North of England +6 14 £75,000 +40.19% 3
North West +12 12 £75,000 +40.19% 2
Midlands +18 4 £27,000 -64.00%
West Midlands - 4 £27,000 -
Scotland -66 3 £47,557 -0.32%
Yorkshire +53 2 - - 1
East of England +14 1 £20,000 -33.33%

Cyber Intelligence
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 2 (2.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.33%) Azure
2 14 (18.67%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.33%) AWS
4 4 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.33%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Firewall
2 6 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (8.00%) Network Security
3 4 (5.33%) HTTP
3 4 (5.33%) SMTP
3 4 (5.33%) SSL
3 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.67%) Big Data
3 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.33%) Mercurial
2 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (46.67%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Banking
3 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.33%) Law
5 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 5 (6.67%) Games
7 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.33%) Police
7 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.00%) Electronics
9 2 (2.67%) Legal
10 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Retail
10 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Analyst
2 16 (21.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 16 (21.33%) Cyber Threat Specialist
2 16 (21.33%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 14 (18.67%) Senior
4 12 (16.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Lead
5 8 (10.67%) Security Manager
6 7 (9.33%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 7 (9.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (9.33%) IT Manager
6 7 (9.33%) IT Security Manager
6 7 (9.33%) Senior Cyber Threat Specialist
6 7 (9.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 6 (8.00%) Cyber Intelligence Specialist
8 5 (6.67%) Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Database Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (5.33%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) .NET
1 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (1.33%) JMS
1 1 (1.33%) Kafka
1 1 (1.33%) Spring
1 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 54 (72.00%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (18.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (10.67%) Cyberattack
4 6 (8.00%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (5.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.67%) FPGA
6 2 (2.67%) Insider Threat
6 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.67%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) CSOC
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.33%) SCADA
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.67%) Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (69.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 52 (69.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 34 (45.33%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (38.67%) Security Operations
4 21 (28.00%) Incident Response
5 19 (25.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 15 (20.00%) SIEM
7 13 (17.33%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (12.00%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.67%) GAP Analysis
9 8 (10.67%) Incident Management
9 8 (10.67%) Line Management
9 8 (10.67%) Risk Register
9 8 (10.67%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.67%) Task Automation
9 8 (10.67%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (9.33%) Decision-Making
10 7 (9.33%) Open Source
11 6 (8.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (2.67%) Bash
3 2 (2.67%) Java
4 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) GIAC
4 7 (9.33%) CISSP
4 7 (9.33%) CREST Certified
4 7 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.67%) Degree
6 4 (5.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.33%) CCSP
6 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.33%) CRISC
7 2 (2.67%) CEH
7 2 (2.67%) CISM
7 2 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) CASP
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) GRC
1 9 (12.00%) NIST
2 8 (10.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.33%) ISO 9001
4 3 (4.00%) NCSC
5 2 (2.67%) GDPR
5 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.33%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.33%) ISA99
6 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.67%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (10.67%) Qualys
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) Intel
4 3 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (1.33%) CA
5 1 (1.33%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) Perforce