Threat Hunter Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Threat Hunter
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Threat Hunter salary in Cambridgeshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Threat Hunter 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 674 1,019 564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 93.06% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 447 550 361
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,103 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £85,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +2.14%

Threat Hunter
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 Hunter within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Peterborough - 1 £80,000 - 1
Threat Hunter
East of England

Threat Hunter Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, Threat Hunter job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Threat Hunter in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark

Threat Hunter Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk