Cyber Threat Job Trends in Central London

Cyber Threats
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 153 161
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 +78
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 15 28 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.59% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 2.08% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 16
10th Percentile £51,125 £60,892 £47,875
25th Percentile £53,125 £61,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -3.64% -12.70%
75th Percentile £99,375 £120,938 £137,500
90th Percentile £114,375 £142,750 £145,000
London median annual salary £69,384 £80,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.08% +34.58% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 881 1,343 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.74% 42.15% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 672 743 932
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £96,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £116,000 £122,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.27% +1.94%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Threat relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in Central London

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cyber Threat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in Central London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in Central London

Cyber Threat
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
City of London +14 15 £60,000 -9.43% 10
City of Westminster +25 1 - - 9
Cyber Threat
London

Cyber Threat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Mimecast
2 3 (20.00%) Tessian
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) Broadband
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Security
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Responder
3 1 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Advisor
3 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
1 1 (6.67%) OpenID
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Security Posture
2 3 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Blog
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 9 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 9 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 9 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 8 (53.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
4 6 (40.00%) SIEM
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (20.00%) Coaching
7 3 (20.00%) Information Security
7 3 (20.00%) ITIL
7 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Runbook
7 3 (20.00%) SABSA
7 3 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bash
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Perl
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) CISSP
2 4 (26.67%) CISM
3 2 (13.33%) GIAC
4 1 (6.67%) CEH
4 1 (6.67%) CREST Certified
4 1 (6.67%) CRISC
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) GCFA
4 1 (6.67%) GCFE
4 1 (6.67%) GCIH
4 1 (6.67%) GPEN
4 1 (6.67%) OSCP
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (40.00%) NIST
3 3 (20.00%) GDPR
3 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (6.67%) NCSC
4 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper