Threat Detection Jobs in England

Threat Detection
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 590 739 794
Rank change year-on-year +149 +55 +199
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 93 103 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 68 80 81
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,438 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.36% -18.52% +12.03%
75th Percentile £89,063 £67,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £81,625 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +27.27% -20.08% +19.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in England

Threat Detection
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +114 37 £85,000 +30.77% 65
South East +89 24 £74,500 +75.29% 28
Midlands +68 9 £52,500 -32.26% 3
West Midlands +71 8 £53,750 -30.65% 2
East of England +45 8 £46,250 +5.71% 5
South West +116 6 £51,058 -2.75% 5
North of England +26 4 £70,000 +40.00% 13
North West -7 4 £70,000 +40.00% 8
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 - 1
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
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 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.56%) AWS
2 28 (30.11%) Azure
3 14 (15.05%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (7.53%) GCP
5 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.30%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.30%) Serverless
6 4 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.15%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.15%) PaaS
8 2 (2.15%) SaaS
9 1 (1.08%) GitHub
9 1 (1.08%) IaaS
9 1 (1.08%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 29 (31.18%) Firewall
2 18 (19.35%) DNS
3 17 (18.28%) VPN
4 16 (17.20%) TCP/IP
5 11 (11.83%) Network Security
6 10 (10.75%) HTTP
7 9 (9.68%) SMTP
8 5 (5.38%) DHCP
8 5 (5.38%) VLAN
9 1 (1.08%) ADSL
9 1 (1.08%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.08%) FTP
9 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
9 1 (1.08%) Internet
9 1 (1.08%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.08%) LAN
9 1 (1.08%) SAN
9 1 (1.08%) SSL
9 1 (1.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
General
1 33 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.20%) Finance
4 15 (16.13%) Law
4 15 (16.13%) Telecoms
5 13 (13.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (11.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (8.60%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.38%) Legal
9 4 (4.30%) Retail
10 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.08%) Advertising
11 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.08%) Automotive
11 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Games
11 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (30.11%) Security Engineer
2 18 (19.35%) Senior
3 12 (12.90%) Analyst
4 10 (10.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Development Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Information Security Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) SOC Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Incident Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Security Analyst
7 5 (5.38%) Security Manager
8 4 (4.30%) Architect
8 4 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Consultant
8 4 (4.30%) Head of Cybersecurity
8 4 (4.30%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.15%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.08%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.08%) EDI
2 1 (1.08%) LAMP
2 1 (1.08%) Loki
2 1 (1.08%) XML
2 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (34.41%) Security Posture
2 25 (26.88%) Cyber Threat
3 22 (23.66%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (13.98%) Management Information System
5 8 (8.60%) Virtual Team
6 5 (5.38%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (5.38%) Fixed Income
7 4 (4.30%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.15%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.15%) Insider Threat
8 2 (2.15%) PKI
8 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.15%) Tandem
8 2 (2.15%) YARA
9 1 (1.08%) BYOD
9 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Windows
2 4 (4.30%) Linux
3 3 (3.23%) VMS
4 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) AIX
5 1 (1.08%) CentOS
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (70.97%) Incident Response
2 60 (64.52%) Cybersecurity
3 42 (45.16%) Security Operations
4 35 (37.63%) SIEM
5 28 (30.11%) Cloud Security
5 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (27.96%) Information Security
7 25 (26.88%) Threat Intelligence
7 25 (26.88%) Vulnerability Management
8 19 (20.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 16 (17.20%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (17.20%) Risk Management
9 16 (17.20%) Security Architecture
10 15 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (13.98%) Cyber Intelligence
11 13 (13.98%) Mentoring
11 13 (13.98%) Task Automation
12 11 (11.83%) Data Protection
12 11 (11.83%) Security Monitoring
12 11 (11.83%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (33.33%) Python
2 15 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 12 (12.90%) Bash
4 8 (8.60%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.23%) C++
7 2 (2.15%) Java
7 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.15%) Rust
7 2 (2.15%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.08%) AWK
8 1 (1.08%) C
8 1 (1.08%) Korn
8 1 (1.08%) Perl
8 1 (1.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (23.66%) CISSP
2 20 (21.51%) Degree
3 16 (17.20%) Security Cleared
4 14 (15.05%) CISM
5 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
6 10 (10.75%) GCIH
6 10 (10.75%) OSCP
7 8 (8.60%) CEH
8 7 (7.53%) GCIA
9 6 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (5.38%) GIAC
10 5 (5.38%) OSCE
10 5 (5.38%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 5 (5.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
11 3 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
12 2 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (2.15%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (23.66%) NIST
3 17 (18.28%) GDPR
4 7 (7.53%) PCI DSS
5 5 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (5.38%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.15%) GRC
6 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.08%) KVM
5 1 (1.08%) Postfix
5 1 (1.08%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.08%) Snort
5 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.08%) VMware Server
5 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (9.68%) Terraform
2 8 (8.60%) QRadar
3 7 (7.53%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.45%) Ansible
5 5 (5.38%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.15%) CASB
6 2 (2.15%) Grafana
6 2 (2.15%) Istio
6 2 (2.15%) linkerd
7 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.08%) Nagios
7 1 (1.08%) Nessus
7 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (39.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.28%) Splunk
3 15 (16.13%) Google
4 5 (5.38%) Cisco
5 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.15%) Alibaba
6 2 (2.15%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.15%) VMware
7 1 (1.08%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.08%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.08%) Datto
7 1 (1.08%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.08%) Juniper
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle
7 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) Tenable