Cyber Defence Job Trends in the East of England

Cyber Defence
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 171 134
Rank change year-on-year +13 -37 +95
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 1 9 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.024% 0.25% 0.093%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.075% 0.65% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile - £76,750 -
England median annual salary £65,368 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.57% +4.00% -28.57%

All Generic Skills
East of England

Cyber Defence 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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,327 1,381 882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.84% 38.50% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 626 552 583
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,583 £28,760
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £38,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,875 £87,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cyber Defence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cyber Defence

Cyber Defence
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +10 1 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk