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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 156 215
Rank change year-on-year +23 +59 +57
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 2 18 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.098% 0.54% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.59% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - - £67,500
25th Percentile - - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £67,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.25% -27.57% +60.87%
75th Percentile - - £98,000
90th Percentile - £80,050 -
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £67,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +49.25% -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 1,953 3,057 4,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.97% 91.91% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,479 2,401 3,648
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £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
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Information Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft