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 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 429 565
Rank change year-on-year -118 +136 +119
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 303 675 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.71% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 1.63% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 209 109 136
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £47,000 £39,826 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £56,888
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -7.71% -15.72%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,991 £77,750 £89,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £57,825 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.46% +0.56% -14.81%

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 29,284 41,506 59,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.81% 43.48% 46.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20,829 22,166 30,545
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,695 £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 17 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 17 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 +65 98 £75,000 +61.29% 18
South West -75 93 £68,500 -1.01% 7
North of England -41 70 £50,000 +25.00% 12
North West -42 50 £50,000 +62.17% 4
South East -44 23 £48,500 -7.62% 7
Yorkshire +66 20 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Midlands +8 12 £32,000 -53.45% 6
West Midlands +36 9 £32,000 -54.29% 2
East of England +20 4 £95,000 +123.53% 5
East Midlands -16 3 £52,500 -19.23% 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 6 (1.98%) Jupyter
1 6 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.47%) Azure
2 46 (15.18%) AWS
3 43 (14.19%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (4.95%) GCP
6 8 (2.64%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.99%) IaaS
9 3 (0.99%) PaaS
9 3 (0.99%) SaaS
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.66%) dbt
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 55 (18.15%) DNS
2 51 (16.83%) TCP/IP
3 37 (12.21%) DHCP
3 37 (12.21%) Firewall
4 34 (11.22%) HTTP
5 30 (9.90%) Internet
6 18 (5.94%) DKIM
6 18 (5.94%) DMARC
7 13 (4.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 13 (4.29%) LAN
7 13 (4.29%) WAN
8 7 (2.31%) Broadband
8 7 (2.31%) VLAN
9 6 (1.98%) SAN
10 5 (1.65%) SMTP
11 3 (0.99%) SSL
12 2 (0.66%) Network Security
13 1 (0.33%) VoIP
13 1 (0.33%) VPN
13 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.60%) Big Data
2 15 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.97%) BigQuery
3 9 (2.97%) Data Hub
3 9 (2.97%) DB2
3 9 (2.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.97%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.66%) Metabase
4 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.66%) Redis
5 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (0.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.33%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) Subversion
2 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 115 (37.95%) Finance
2 86 (28.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (24.75%) Social Skills
4 28 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.60%) Banking
6 16 (5.28%) Financial Institution
6 16 (5.28%) Law
7 14 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.96%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.98%) Retail
10 5 (1.65%) Military
11 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.32%) Legal
12 3 (0.99%) Marketing
13 2 (0.66%) Publishing
14 1 (0.33%) Games
14 1 (0.33%) Local Government
14 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (27.06%) Analyst
2 79 (26.07%) Senior
3 57 (18.81%) Security Analyst
4 41 (13.53%) Security Manager
5 40 (13.20%) Lead
6 37 (12.21%) Architect
7 34 (11.22%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 31 (10.23%) Security Assurance Manager
9 30 (9.90%) Information Assurance Manager
9 30 (9.90%) Information Manager
9 30 (9.90%) Information Security Manager
10 25 (8.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 25 (8.25%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (5.94%) Consultant
11 18 (5.94%) Information Analyst
11 18 (5.94%) Information Security Analyst
12 15 (4.95%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (4.95%) Security Consultant
12 15 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (4.62%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.45%) HTML
2 29 (9.57%) OpenID
2 29 (9.57%) SAML
3 8 (2.64%) Node.js
4 6 (1.98%) .NET
4 6 (1.98%) Kafka
4 6 (1.98%) Middleware
4 6 (1.98%) Pandas
4 6 (1.98%) PyTorch
4 6 (1.98%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.66%) CSS
5 2 (0.66%) D3.js
5 2 (0.66%) React
5 2 (0.66%) Vue
6 1 (0.33%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.17%) Cyber Threat
2 31 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.60%) Algorithms
4 19 (6.27%) Cyber Defence
5 18 (5.94%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.95%) Data Fabric
6 15 (4.95%) Security Posture
7 14 (4.62%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 9 (2.97%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.31%) PKI
10 7 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.98%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.98%) Replication
11 6 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.65%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.99%) CSOC
14 3 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.12%) Windows
2 45 (14.85%) Linux
3 17 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.95%) zOS
5 6 (1.98%) CentOS
5 6 (1.98%) Mac OS X
5 6 (1.98%) Solaris
5 6 (1.98%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.98%) Unix
5 6 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.98%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (48.51%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (28.05%) Incident Response
3 73 (24.09%) SIEM
4 66 (21.78%) Agile
5 63 (20.79%) Roadmaps
6 62 (20.46%) Cloud Security
7 56 (18.48%) Security Operations
8 52 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (16.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 50 (16.50%) Information Security
9 50 (16.50%) Threat Intelligence
10 46 (15.18%) Analytics
11 45 (14.85%) Security Management
12 44 (14.52%) Mentoring
13 43 (14.19%) Identity Management
14 41 (13.53%) Risk Management
15 39 (12.87%) SDLC
16 38 (12.54%) Line Management
17 37 (12.21%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 36 (11.88%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.20%) Python
2 23 (7.59%) Java
2 23 (7.59%) JavaScript
3 15 (4.95%) SQL
4 14 (4.62%) R
5 11 (3.63%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.64%) Go
7 6 (1.98%) Rust
8 2 (0.66%) Lisp
9 1 (0.33%) C#
9 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 133 (43.89%) Security Cleared
2 87 (28.71%) DV Cleared
3 44 (14.52%) SC Cleared
4 42 (13.86%) Degree
5 35 (11.55%) AWS Certification
5 35 (11.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (10.56%) CISSP
7 22 (7.26%) GIAC
8 20 (6.60%) CREST Certified
9 15 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (2.97%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.64%) CISM
12 6 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.98%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (1.65%) CISA
13 5 (1.65%) CRISC
14 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.32%) CCSAM
14 4 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (18.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (15.18%) NCSC
3 25 (8.25%) NIST
4 7 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.31%) GDPR
4 7 (2.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 7 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 6 (1.98%) QA
6 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (13.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.28%) Docker
3 7 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (9.90%) Terraform
2 18 (5.94%) CASB
2 18 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.32%) Nessus
3 4 (1.32%) QRadar
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.30%) Splunk
3 9 (2.97%) Databricks
3 9 (2.97%) F5
3 9 (2.97%) Oracle
4 8 (2.64%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (2.31%) Veeam
6 6 (1.98%) Epicor
6 6 (1.98%) IBM
7 4 (1.32%) BT
7 4 (1.32%) Cisco
8 3 (0.99%) LogRhythm
8 3 (0.99%) VMware
9 2 (0.66%) Facebook
10 1 (0.33%) AlienVault
10 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.33%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.33%) HP
10 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.33%) Spotify