Cyber Threat Job Trends in the City of London

Cyber Threats
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 136 150
Rank change year-on-year +19 +14 +73
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 17 29 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.74% 1.09% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 2.56% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 16
10th Percentile £51,675 £57,670 £47,875
25th Percentile £54,375 £60,355 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -14.06%
75th Percentile £89,375 £102,813 £137,500
90th Percentile £112,625 £141,250 £145,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -12.70%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 782 1,132 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.90% 42.64% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 604 678 841
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,375 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in the City of London

Cyber Threat
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 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Mimecast
2 3 (17.65%) Tessian
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) Broadband
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.88%) IAM Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Responder
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth
1 1 (5.88%) OpenID
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SAML
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Security Posture
2 3 (17.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (17.65%) Operational Technology
2 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.76%) Blog
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (64.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 11 (64.71%) Threat Intelligence
3 10 (58.82%) Cyber Intelligence
3 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
3 10 (58.82%) Security Operations
4 9 (52.94%) Risk Management
5 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
5 6 (35.29%) SIEM
6 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
6 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 3 (17.65%) Business Development
8 3 (17.65%) Change Advisory Board
8 3 (17.65%) Information Security
8 3 (17.65%) ITIL
8 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (17.65%) SABSA
8 3 (17.65%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Perl
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) CISSP
2 4 (23.53%) CISM
3 3 (17.65%) GIAC
4 2 (11.76%) CREST Certified
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CEH
5 1 (5.88%) CRISC
5 1 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) GCFA
5 1 (5.88%) GCFE
5 1 (5.88%) GCIH
5 1 (5.88%) GPEN
5 1 (5.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (35.29%) NIST
3 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 2 (11.76%) QA
5 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Juniper