Threat Detection Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Threat Detection
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £56,750 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 680 772 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 76.40% 86.35% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 474 347 356
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,780 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,125
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Threat Detection relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Threat Detection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Cambridge - 1 £45,000 - 4
Threat Detection
East of England

Threat Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Associate Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform