Cyber Threat Job Trends in County Down

Cyber Threats
Northern Ireland > County Down

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in County Down. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Down 2.89% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.77% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary - - -

All Generic Skills
County Down

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 County Down.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 57 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Down 32.95% 17.65% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £59,500 - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £37,500
75th Percentile - - £38,750
90th Percentile £72,000 - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +23.81%

Cyber Threat
Job Locations in County Down

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the County Down region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Donaghadee - 1 - -
Cyber Threat
Northern Ireland

Cyber Threat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Down 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) IT Manager
1 5 (100.00%) IT Services Manager
1 5 (100.00%) Resilience Manager
1 5 (100.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 5 (100.00%) Business Continuity Management
1 5 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 5 (100.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 5 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 5 (100.00%) Runbook
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISM
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO 22301
1 5 (100.00%) NIST