Cyber Threat Jobs in England

Cyber Threats
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 490 535
Rank change year-on-year +45 +45 +118
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 244 400 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.42% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 1.26% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 133 309 266
10th Percentile £43,918 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +9.20% -17.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £110,000 £96,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +9.20% -14.96%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,822 31,811 36,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 38.16% 33.01% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,753 21,266 19,925
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £36,120
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £46,750
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 £87,000
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%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
London +51 88 £82,500 +6.45% 294
South East +55 38 £49,500 -10.00% 171
Midlands +83 22 £63,750 -1.92% 125
North of England +3 22 £66,367 +32.73% 206
West Midlands +83 20 £62,500 -10.71% 81
East of England +11 19 £35,000 -46.15% 106
South West +107 17 £48,507 -22.39% 92
North West -28 12 £66,367 +32.73% 91
Yorkshire +55 9 £65,000 +13.04% 101
North East +44 1 £80,000 +102.53% 14
East Midlands +41 1 - - 44
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
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 11 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 109 (44.67%) AWS
2 82 (33.61%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (33.61%) Serverless
3 40 (16.39%) Azure
4 29 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.56%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (3.28%) OneDrive
7 7 (2.87%) GCP
7 7 (2.87%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.64%) SaaS
9 3 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.41%) Datadog
11 1 (0.41%) GitHub
11 1 (0.41%) IaaS
11 1 (0.41%) PaaS
11 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 82 (33.61%) Broadband
1 82 (33.61%) SSH
1 82 (33.61%) SSL
2 59 (24.18%) Firewall
3 17 (6.97%) TCP/IP
4 16 (6.56%) VPN
5 13 (5.33%) Network Security
6 11 (4.51%) DHCP
6 11 (4.51%) DNS
6 11 (4.51%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (2.87%) VLAN
7 7 (2.87%) WAN
8 6 (2.46%) LAN
9 5 (2.05%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.23%) DMZ
11 2 (0.82%) Internet
11 2 (0.82%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.82%) Wireless
11 2 (0.82%) WLAN
12 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.82%) IDA Disassembler
1 2 (0.82%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.41%) GDB
2 1 (0.41%) GitLab
2 1 (0.41%) WinDbg
General
1 136 (55.74%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.62%) Finance
3 29 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.74%) Law
5 12 (4.92%) Legal
6 10 (4.10%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.69%) Banking
7 9 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.64%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.23%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.82%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.41%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (36.07%) Cloud Engineer
2 82 (33.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (18.44%) Analyst
4 20 (8.20%) Senior
5 19 (7.79%) Security Engineer
6 18 (7.38%) Security Analyst
7 16 (6.56%) SOC Analyst
8 15 (6.15%) Lead
8 15 (6.15%) Security Manager
9 11 (4.51%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 11 (4.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 11 (4.51%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 10 (4.10%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 10 (4.10%) Incident Manager
11 9 (3.69%) Consultant
11 9 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Security Consultant
13 6 (2.46%) Information Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (34.02%) Web Services
2 82 (33.61%) RESTful
3 4 (1.64%) Middleware
4 3 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.23%) Leaflet
5 2 (0.82%) Node.js
5 2 (0.82%) REST
6 1 (0.41%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.41%) libvirt
6 1 (0.41%) NestJS
6 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.41%) React
6 1 (0.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 109 (44.67%) Management Information System
2 95 (38.93%) Cyberattack
3 83 (34.02%) Onboarding
4 82 (33.61%) PKI
5 24 (9.84%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (6.15%) Cyber Defence
7 14 (5.74%) Security Posture
8 11 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.05%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.05%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.64%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.23%) Tandem
13 2 (0.82%) Clustering
13 2 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 2 (0.82%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.61%) Windows
2 14 (5.74%) Linux
3 5 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (77.46%) Cybersecurity
2 97 (39.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 89 (36.48%) Roadmaps
4 87 (35.66%) DevOps
5 85 (34.84%) Deployment Automation
6 83 (34.02%) Key Management
6 83 (34.02%) Use Case
7 82 (33.61%) Programme Delivery
8 73 (29.92%) Incident Response
9 55 (22.54%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 55 (22.54%) Threat Intelligence
10 52 (21.31%) Security Operations
10 52 (21.31%) SIEM
11 39 (15.98%) Information Security
11 39 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (14.34%) Vulnerability Management
13 30 (12.30%) Risk Management
14 29 (11.89%) Cyber Intelligence
15 27 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (10.66%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 95 (38.93%) Python
2 15 (6.15%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.28%) Bash
4 7 (2.87%) SQL
5 5 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.23%) C#
7 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.82%) C++
8 2 (0.82%) Perl
8 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.41%) C
9 1 (0.41%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.41%) Java
9 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.41%) PHP
9 1 (0.41%) Rust
9 1 (0.41%) VB
9 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (16.39%) CISSP
2 29 (11.89%) Degree
3 21 (8.61%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.20%) CISM
5 15 (6.15%) GCIH
5 15 (6.15%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.74%) OSCP
7 11 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.10%) GCIA
8 10 (4.10%) GIAC
8 10 (4.10%) OSCE
9 8 (3.28%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.28%) CEH
9 8 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.46%) CISA
10 6 (2.46%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.46%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.46%) SANS
10 6 (2.46%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (52.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 118 (48.36%) NIST
3 20 (8.20%) GDPR
4 19 (7.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (5.74%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.46%) NCSC
8 5 (2.05%) GRC
9 4 (1.64%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.23%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.82%) COBIT
11 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 93 (38.11%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.23%) Docker
6 2 (0.82%) Postfix
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
7 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (35.66%) Terraform
2 10 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.69%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.28%) SCCM
5 6 (2.46%) CSIRT
5 6 (2.46%) Nessus
6 5 (2.05%) Puppet
7 3 (1.23%) Ansible
7 3 (1.23%) Iperf
7 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.82%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.82%) Nagios
8 2 (0.82%) Nmap
8 2 (0.82%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.82%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.41%) CASB
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (33.61%) Thales
2 52 (21.31%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.20%) Splunk
4 13 (5.33%) VMware
5 7 (2.87%) Cisco
6 6 (2.46%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.46%) Google
7 5 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.64%) IBM
8 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.23%) Ruckus Wireless
9 3 (1.23%) SonicWALL
10 2 (0.82%) Aruba
10 2 (0.82%) LogRhythm
10 2 (0.82%) Sophos
10 2 (0.82%) Sun
10 2 (0.82%) Tenable
11 1 (0.41%) Dell
11 1 (0.41%) Intel