Cyberattack Job Trends in the City of London

Cyberattack
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 149 157
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 +74
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 1 14 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.046% 0.53% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 1.24% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72,000
25th Percentile - - £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £112,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile - - £140,000
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary - - £112,500
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Cyberattack 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 745 1,130 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.51% 42.42% 33.89%
Number of salaries quoted 579 684 837
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,900 £115,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyberattack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cyberattack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory