Cyberattack Jobs in England

Cyberattack
UK > England

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 592 475
Rank change year-on-year +477 -117 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 1,362 257 504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.78% 0.29% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.36% 0.85% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16 218 83
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,160 £32,674
25th Percentile £49,063 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,229 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +22.24% -3.51%
75th Percentile £85,313 £76,250 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,625 £91,991 £85,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +14.41% +2.61%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyberattack 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,503 30,294 38,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.79% 33.86% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 20,923 20,470
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,764
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 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
North of England +320 1,019 £72,500 +45.00% 136
North West +248 979 £61,750 +23.50% 61
London +110 99 £67,500 -10.00% 33
South East +140 78 £44,000 -10.66% 148
South West +103 46 - - 79
Yorkshire +79 39 £80,000 +60.00% 57
Midlands +104 34 - - 120
East of England +77 34 - - 96
East Midlands +64 26 - - 48
West Midlands +58 8 - - 64
North East - 1 - - 18
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 23 (1.69%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 314 (23.05%) AWS
2 229 (16.81%) Azure
3 178 (13.07%) GCP
4 82 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
4 82 (6.02%) Serverless
5 49 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.073%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 659 (48.38%) VPN
2 399 (29.30%) DNS
3 262 (19.24%) Cisco IOS
4 82 (6.02%) Broadband
4 82 (6.02%) SSH
4 82 (6.02%) SSL
5 6 (0.44%) Firewall
6 3 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.15%) HTTP
7 2 (0.15%) SMTP
7 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (3.38%) Big Data
General
1 1,235 (90.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 732 (53.74%) Analytical Skills
3 468 (34.36%) Finance
4 291 (21.37%) Law
5 285 (20.93%) Legal
6 107 (7.86%) Social Skills
7 5 (0.37%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.22%) Games
9 1 (0.073%) Retail
Job Titles
1 446 (32.75%) Developer
1 446 (32.75%) Software Developer
2 262 (19.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 204 (14.98%) Senior
4 179 (13.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 179 (13.14%) Software Engineer
5 84 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 82 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 46 (3.38%) Data Scientist
8 23 (1.69%) Senior Data Scientist
9 21 (1.54%) PLC Engineer
10 18 (1.32%) Project Manager
11 8 (0.59%) Analyst
11 8 (0.59%) Security Analyst
12 6 (0.44%) Consultant
12 6 (0.44%) Information Security Consultant
12 6 (0.44%) Security Consultant
13 4 (0.29%) Security Engineer
14 3 (0.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 3 (0.22%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (19.24%) Elastic Stack
2 228 (16.74%) Node.js
3 227 (16.67%) .NET
4 82 (6.02%) RESTful
4 82 (6.02%) Web Services
5 49 (3.60%) Pandas
6 3 (0.22%) React
7 2 (0.15%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.15%) OAuth
7 2 (0.15%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.073%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 178 (13.07%) Linux Command Line
1 178 (13.07%) Self-Motivation
2 96 (7.05%) Cyber Threat
3 88 (6.46%) Management Information System
4 82 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 82 (6.02%) PKI
5 46 (3.38%) Algorithms
6 21 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.22%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (0.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 888 (65.20%) Linux
2 708 (51.98%) Android
3 262 (19.24%) Windows
4 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (72.91%) Line Management
2 754 (55.36%) Mathematics
3 643 (47.21%) Agile
4 446 (32.75%) Android Development
4 446 (32.75%) Design Patterns
4 446 (32.75%) OO
4 446 (32.75%) OOP
5 404 (29.66%) Cybersecurity
6 367 (26.95%) DevOps
7 352 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
8 284 (20.85%) Risk Management
9 283 (20.78%) Creative Thinking
10 274 (20.12%) Software Engineering
11 262 (19.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 262 (19.24%) Platform Engineering
11 262 (19.24%) Storage Management
11 262 (19.24%) Task Automation
12 224 (16.45%) Machine Learning
13 219 (16.08%) Mentoring
14 203 (14.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 991 (72.76%) Python
2 647 (47.50%) Java
3 624 (45.81%) C++
3 624 (45.81%) Go
4 264 (19.38%) Bash
5 262 (19.24%) PowerShell
6 251 (18.43%) JavaScript
7 227 (16.67%) Rust
8 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 688 (50.51%) DV Cleared
1 688 (50.51%) Security Cleared
2 178 (13.07%) AWS Certification
2 178 (13.07%) AWS Certified Developer
2 178 (13.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 48 (3.52%) Degree
4 24 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
6 21 (1.54%) HND
7 3 (0.22%) CEH
7 3 (0.22%) CISSP
8 2 (0.15%) CISM
8 2 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.073%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.073%) CISA
9 1 (0.073%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.073%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.073%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (21.15%) NCSC
2 93 (6.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (6.24%) NIST
4 18 (1.32%) PMBOK
5 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.59%) GDPR
6 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.15%) GRC
7 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.073%) SOC 2
System Software
1 731 (53.67%) Docker
2 262 (19.24%) Hyper-V
2 262 (19.24%) VMware NSX
2 262 (19.24%) vSphere
3 82 (6.02%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.15%) Postfix
4 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 710 (52.13%) Ansible
2 393 (28.85%) Terraform
3 72 (5.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.15%) Nagios
4 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
4 2 (0.15%) Puppet
4 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.073%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.073%) QRadar
Vendors
1 263 (19.31%) Splunk
2 262 (19.24%) 3PAR
2 262 (19.24%) Cisco
2 262 (19.24%) Juniper
3 82 (6.02%) Thales
4 12 (0.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.22%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.15%) Ping Identity
6 2 (0.15%) VMware
7 1 (0.073%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.073%) IBM
7 1 (0.073%) McAfee