Threat Detection Jobs in the City of London

Threat Detection
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 158 206
Rank change year-on-year +19 +48 +91
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 4 20 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.20% 0.59% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.65% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £53,650 - £67,500
25th Percentile £55,750 - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £67,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -27.57% +29.82%
75th Percentile £71,000 - £98,000
90th Percentile £73,850 £80,050 -
Central London median annual salary £62,750 £67,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -6.34% -27.57% +12.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,886 3,077 4,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.32% 91.41% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 2,351 3,483
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,315 £42,550
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the City of London

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the City of London.

Salary trend for Threat Detection in the City of London

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in the City of London

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Information Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) SOC Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft