Cyber Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 480 671
Rank change year-on-year -26 +191 -88
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 426 614 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.58% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 1.35% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 332 357 357
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -17.24% +20.83%
75th Percentile £79,063 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,290 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +9.09% -16.98% +18.30%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Threat 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 34,624 45,327 72,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 42.88% 47.09%
Number of salaries quoted 22,930 24,274 34,104
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,302 £34,287
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
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 £84,056
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 Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +33 383 £65,000 +4.00% 125
UK excluding London -54 265 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Work from Home +7 143 £65,000 +18.18% 54
London +59 138 £71,250 +3.53% 36
North of England +3 77 £50,000 -9.09% 37
South East +17 66 £56,875 +1.11% 16
North West -25 51 £50,000 -16.00% 19
East of England +63 43 £65,000 +44.44% 4
Midlands +22 25 £65,000 +18.18% 6
South West -56 25 £62,500 -10.46% 19
Scotland -84 21 £67,500 +22.73% 1
Yorkshire +70 17 £61,250 +19.24% 16
East Midlands +1 16 £65,000 +79.31% 2
West Midlands +21 9 £70,000 +24.44% 4
North East +11 9 £39,500 -28.18% 2
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1
Wales -29 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland +22 1 £45,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

Cyber Threat
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 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.47%) Apache
2 2 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.23%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.23%) nginx
3 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.35%) Simulink
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 92 (21.60%) Azure
2 70 (16.43%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (14.79%) AWS
4 17 (3.99%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (2.35%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (1.88%) Cloudflare
7 6 (1.41%) GCP
8 4 (0.94%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.70%) Serverless
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.47%) Google Docs
10 2 (0.47%) IaaS
10 2 (0.47%) PaaS
10 2 (0.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (23.71%) Firewall
2 56 (13.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 40 (9.39%) Network Security
4 17 (3.99%) Internet
5 14 (3.29%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.05%) LAN
7 10 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (2.11%) WAN
9 8 (1.88%) DNS
9 8 (1.88%) MPLS
9 8 (1.88%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.41%) HTTP
10 6 (1.41%) SMTP
11 5 (1.17%) SNMP
11 5 (1.17%) VPN
11 5 (1.17%) Wireless
12 4 (0.94%) SSL
13 3 (0.70%) BGP
13 3 (0.70%) EIGRP
13 3 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.94%) Power BI
3 2 (0.47%) Big Data
4 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.47%) GitLab
1 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.23%) GDB
2 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 133 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 97 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (22.07%) Finance
4 29 (6.81%) Banking
5 27 (6.34%) Legal
6 25 (5.87%) Games
7 23 (5.40%) Law
8 21 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 21 (4.93%) Retail
9 14 (3.29%) Electronics
10 9 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.41%) Automotive
12 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 113 (26.53%) Analyst
2 58 (13.62%) Security Analyst
3 52 (12.21%) Lead
3 52 (12.21%) Security Manager
4 44 (10.33%) Senior
5 36 (8.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 30 (7.04%) Architect
7 28 (6.57%) SOC Analyst
8 24 (5.63%) IT Manager
9 22 (5.16%) Security Architect
10 21 (4.93%) Security Engineer
11 20 (4.69%) IT Security Manager
12 16 (3.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
12 16 (3.76%) Cyber Threat Specialist
12 16 (3.76%) Data Manager
12 16 (3.76%) Technical Leader
12 16 (3.76%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
13 14 (3.29%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 13 (3.05%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.16%) Middleware
2 8 (1.88%) Kafka
2 8 (1.88%) Laravel
3 5 (1.17%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.94%) .NET
5 3 (0.70%) React
6 2 (0.47%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.47%) Flask
6 2 (0.47%) LDAP
6 2 (0.47%) RESTful
6 2 (0.47%) Sass
7 1 (0.23%) EDI
7 1 (0.23%) HTML
7 1 (0.23%) HTML5
7 1 (0.23%) Redux
7 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.55%) Management Information System
2 53 (12.44%) Cyberattack
3 44 (10.33%) Security Posture
4 43 (10.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 30 (7.04%) Operational Technology
6 24 (5.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 19 (4.46%) Client/Server
8 16 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.82%) Cyber Security Posture
10 10 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.35%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.35%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (2.35%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.11%) SCADA
12 8 (1.88%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.88%) Driving Licence
12 8 (1.88%) Replication
13 7 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.79%) Windows
2 26 (6.10%) Linux
3 12 (2.82%) Ubuntu
3 12 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.58%) Unix
5 8 (1.88%) CentOS
5 8 (1.88%) Solaris
5 8 (1.88%) zOS
6 5 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.94%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.47%) Android
8 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (68.31%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (38.03%) Incident Response
3 121 (28.40%) Security Operations
4 117 (27.46%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (26.29%) SIEM
6 95 (22.30%) Information Security
7 73 (17.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 73 (17.14%) Threat Intelligence
8 65 (15.26%) Computer Science
9 63 (14.79%) Penetration Testing
10 62 (14.55%) Risk Management
11 51 (11.97%) Cyber Intelligence
12 46 (10.80%) Vulnerability Management
13 43 (10.09%) Agile
14 42 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
15 41 (9.62%) Roadmaps
16 39 (9.15%) Cloud Security
16 39 (9.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
17 36 (8.45%) Data Protection
17 36 (8.45%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.10%) Python
2 18 (4.23%) PHP
3 14 (3.29%) C#
4 12 (2.82%) C
4 12 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.35%) MATLAB
6 9 (2.11%) SQL
7 8 (1.88%) Rust
8 6 (1.41%) C++
9 4 (0.94%) Bash
9 4 (0.94%) Java
10 2 (0.47%) Go
10 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.47%) R
10 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (27.23%) CISSP
2 114 (26.76%) Degree
3 78 (18.31%) Security Cleared
4 47 (11.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 46 (10.80%) CISM
6 41 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (9.15%) SC Cleared
8 33 (7.75%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (6.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 27 (6.34%) CCSP
10 25 (5.87%) GIAC
11 23 (5.40%) CISA
12 21 (4.93%) DV Cleared
13 20 (4.69%) CREST Certified
14 16 (3.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 16 (3.76%) CEH
14 16 (3.76%) CompTIA CySA+
14 16 (3.76%) Network+ Certification
15 14 (3.29%) CRISC
16 12 (2.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (21.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (18.08%) NIST
3 40 (9.39%) GDPR
4 36 (8.45%) GRC
5 30 (7.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (6.34%) PCI DSS
7 20 (4.69%) SOC 2
8 19 (4.46%) NCSC
9 13 (3.05%) HIPAA
10 11 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 8 (1.88%) NIST 800
13 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (1.41%) Data Quality
15 5 (1.17%) ISO 9001
15 5 (1.17%) SLA
16 3 (0.70%) ISO 31000
16 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 3 (0.70%) PMO
17 2 (0.47%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
System Software
1 17 (3.99%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.17%) Docker
4 4 (0.94%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) LXC
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (2.11%) QRadar
2 8 (1.88%) CSIRT
3 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.17%) Nessus
5 4 (0.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (0.94%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.70%) SELinux
7 2 (0.47%) Ansible
7 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.47%) Terraform
8 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 82 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.46%) Cisco
3 16 (3.76%) Qualys
4 15 (3.52%) Splunk
5 12 (2.82%) Darktrace
6 10 (2.35%) IBM
7 9 (2.11%) VMware
8 8 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (1.88%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.41%) Google
9 6 (1.41%) Sage
9 6 (1.41%) Workday
10 5 (1.17%) Juniper
11 4 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.94%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.70%) Apple
12 3 (0.70%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.47%) F5
13 2 (0.47%) Trend Micro