Cyberattack Jobs in England

Cyberattack
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 443 545
Rank change year-on-year -119 +102 +155
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 288 656 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.98% 1.62% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 218 109 144
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £52,500 £55,548
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% -5.49% -17.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,991 £78,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £58,000 £56,888
% change year-on-year +18.10% +1.96% -15.72%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyberattack is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,443 40,387 60,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.72% 43.32% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20,757 21,802 30,475
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,422 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,650 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in England.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +49 103 £75,000 +61.29% 14
South West -91 74 £68,500 -1.01% 3
North of England -38 65 £50,000 -25.93% 5
North West -43 44 £50,000 -25.93% 1
South East -39 24 £49,250 -6.19% 8
Yorkshire +57 21 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Midlands 0 14 £32,000 -54.29% 6
West Midlands +26 9 £32,000 -54.29% 3
East Midlands -22 5 £52,500 -22.22% 3
East of England +2 4 £95,000 +68.89% 4
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.35%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (18.75%) Azure
2 44 (15.28%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (13.89%) AWS
4 29 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (4.17%) GCP
6 5 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.39%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.04%) IaaS
8 3 (1.04%) PaaS
8 3 (1.04%) SaaS
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.69%) dbt
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 55 (19.10%) DNS
2 51 (17.71%) TCP/IP
3 37 (12.85%) DHCP
3 37 (12.85%) Firewall
4 35 (12.15%) HTTP
5 30 (10.42%) Internet
6 18 (6.25%) DKIM
6 18 (6.25%) DMARC
7 13 (4.51%) Intrusion Detection
7 13 (4.51%) LAN
7 13 (4.51%) WAN
8 7 (2.43%) Broadband
8 7 (2.43%) VLAN
9 6 (2.08%) SAN
9 6 (2.08%) SMTP
10 4 (1.39%) SSL
11 2 (0.69%) Network Security
12 1 (0.35%) VoIP
12 1 (0.35%) VPN
12 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 12 (4.17%) Data Hub
2 12 (4.17%) DB2
2 12 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.69%) Metabase
3 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.69%) Redis
4 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.35%) Git
2 1 (0.35%) Subversion
2 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (32.99%) Finance
2 73 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 60 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.33%) Banking
6 21 (7.29%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.56%) Law
8 14 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.08%) Retail
11 5 (1.74%) Military
12 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.39%) Legal
13 3 (1.04%) Marketing
14 2 (0.69%) Publishing
15 1 (0.35%) Games
15 1 (0.35%) Local Government
15 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (28.47%) Analyst
2 76 (26.39%) Senior
3 59 (20.49%) Security Analyst
4 41 (14.24%) Security Manager
5 36 (12.50%) Architect
6 34 (11.81%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 33 (11.46%) Lead
8 31 (10.76%) Security Assurance Manager
9 30 (10.42%) Information Assurance Manager
9 30 (10.42%) Information Manager
9 30 (10.42%) Information Security Manager
10 26 (9.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 25 (8.68%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (6.25%) Consultant
12 18 (6.25%) Information Analyst
12 18 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
13 15 (5.21%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (5.21%) Security Consultant
13 15 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (4.51%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.63%) HTML
2 29 (10.07%) OpenID
2 29 (10.07%) SAML
3 8 (2.78%) Kafka
3 8 (2.78%) Middleware
4 2 (0.69%) CSS
4 2 (0.69%) D3.js
4 2 (0.69%) Node.js
4 2 (0.69%) React
4 2 (0.69%) Vue
5 1 (0.35%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.35%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.10%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (10.76%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.94%) Data Fabric
4 19 (6.60%) Cyber Defence
5 17 (5.90%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.21%) Security Posture
7 14 (4.86%) Product Ownership
8 12 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 12 (4.17%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.78%) Replication
10 7 (2.43%) PKI
10 7 (2.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (2.08%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.74%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.04%) CSOC
14 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
16 1 (0.35%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 70 (24.31%) Windows
2 44 (15.28%) Linux
3 20 (6.94%) zOS
4 17 (5.90%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.78%) CentOS
5 8 (2.78%) Solaris
5 8 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.78%) Unix
6 6 (2.08%) Mac OS X
6 6 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (52.43%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (31.94%) Incident Response
3 73 (25.35%) SIEM
4 63 (21.88%) Roadmaps
5 62 (21.53%) Agile
5 62 (21.53%) Cloud Security
6 57 (19.79%) Security Operations
7 55 (19.10%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 55 (19.10%) Threat Intelligence
8 51 (17.71%) Information Security
9 49 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (15.28%) Analytics
10 44 (15.28%) Security Management
11 43 (14.93%) Identity Management
12 40 (13.89%) Risk Management
13 39 (13.54%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 38 (13.19%) Line Management
14 38 (13.19%) SDLC
15 37 (12.85%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 32 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.25%) SQL
2 14 (4.86%) Python
3 11 (3.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.04%) Java
4 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.69%) Go
5 2 (0.69%) Lisp
6 1 (0.35%) C#
6 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 107 (37.15%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.18%) DV Cleared
3 44 (15.28%) SC Cleared
4 34 (11.81%) CISSP
5 29 (10.07%) AWS Certification
5 29 (10.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (8.33%) GIAC
7 23 (7.99%) Degree
8 22 (7.64%) CREST Certified
9 10 (3.47%) Master's Degree
10 9 (3.13%) CISM
11 5 (1.74%) CEH
11 5 (1.74%) CISA
11 5 (1.74%) CRISC
12 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.39%) CCSAM
12 4 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.04%) CCSP
13 3 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (15.63%) NCSC
3 24 (8.33%) NIST
4 7 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.43%) GDPR
4 7 (2.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 7 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.69%) Docker
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (10.42%) Terraform
2 18 (6.25%) CASB
3 4 (1.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.39%) Nessus
3 4 (1.39%) QRadar
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.35%) Puppet
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.17%) Databricks
2 12 (4.17%) F5
2 12 (4.17%) Oracle
3 10 (3.47%) Splunk
4 8 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (2.78%) IBM
5 7 (2.43%) Veeam
6 6 (2.08%) Epicor
7 4 (1.39%) BT
7 4 (1.39%) Cisco
8 3 (1.04%) LogRhythm
8 3 (1.04%) VMware
9 2 (0.69%) Facebook
10 1 (0.35%) AlienVault
10 1 (0.35%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.35%) HP
10 1 (0.35%) Intel
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.35%) Spotify