Threat Intelligence Job Trends in England

Threat Intelligence
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Threat Intelligence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 395 492
Rank change year-on-year 0 +97 -27
Permanent jobs citing Threat Intelligence 230 310 189
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.71% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 132 132 147
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,050
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,875 £80,000
UK median annual salary £78,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +7.44% -6.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Threat Intelligence 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 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Threat Intelligence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Threat Intelligence job vacancy trend in England

Threat Intelligence
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Threat Intelligence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Threat Intelligence

Threat Intelligence
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Threat Intelligence in England

Threat Intelligence
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 Intelligence within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -9 92 £90,000 +28.57% 28
North of England +3 43 £63,500 +8.09% 30
Midlands +38 41 £55,000 +22.22% 18
South East +25 30 £48,924 -26.43% 41
East Midlands +2 24 £51,058 +13.46% 10
North West +25 19 £63,500 -2.31% 16
Yorkshire -26 18 £58,250 +2.42% 10
West Midlands +28 17 £66,000 +10.69% 8
South West +15 10 £80,000 +32.78% 15
East of England +12 9 £68,750 +10.00% 25
North East +15 6 £78,000 - 4
Threat Intelligence
UK

Threat Intelligence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.61%) AWS
2 50 (21.74%) Azure
3 22 (9.57%) GCP
4 11 (4.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (3.48%) Nutanix
6 7 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.04%) SaaS
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.87%) dbt
8 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.43%) Datadog
8 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.43%) Figma
8 1 (0.43%) IaaS
8 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.65%) Firewall
2 26 (11.30%) Network Security
3 15 (6.52%) VPN
4 12 (5.22%) Wireshark
5 7 (3.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (3.04%) SD-WAN
5 7 (3.04%) WAN
6 6 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.30%) Internet
8 2 (0.87%) SSL
9 1 (0.43%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.43%) MySQL
2 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Burp Suite
2 7 (3.04%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.87%) JIRA
4 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.43%) Git
General
1 59 (25.65%) Finance
2 58 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.43%) Legal
5 20 (8.70%) Banking
6 17 (7.39%) Retail
7 15 (6.52%) Law
8 12 (5.22%) Financial Institution
9 11 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Marketing
13 3 (1.30%) Back Office
13 3 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.87%) Military
14 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 84 (36.52%) Lead
2 45 (19.57%) Analyst
3 27 (11.74%) Security Analyst
3 27 (11.74%) Senior
4 18 (7.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 18 (7.83%) Security Specialist
5 17 (7.39%) Security Engineer
6 13 (5.65%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
7 12 (5.22%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 10 (4.35%) Head of Security
8 10 (4.35%) Security Manager
9 8 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.48%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 8 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (3.48%) SOC Analyst
10 7 (3.04%) Cyber Threat Analyst
10 7 (3.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (2.61%) Head of IT
11 6 (2.61%) Head of IT Security
11 6 (2.61%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.74%) ARM Templates
2 2 (0.87%) Django
2 2 (0.87%) PyTorch
2 2 (0.87%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.43%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.43%) NestJS
3 1 (0.43%) Next.js
3 1 (0.43%) React
3 1 (0.43%) REST
3 1 (0.43%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 121 (52.61%) Cyber Threat
2 84 (36.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 82 (35.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 71 (30.87%) Operational Technology
5 35 (15.22%) Security Posture
6 17 (7.39%) Insider Threat
7 16 (6.96%) Cyberattack
8 15 (6.52%) Cyber Defence
9 12 (5.22%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (2.61%) Onboarding
12 5 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.74%) ARM Cortex
13 4 (1.74%) Blog
13 4 (1.74%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.74%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.30%) CMDB
14 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 3 (1.30%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.65%) Linux
2 34 (14.78%) Windows
3 6 (2.61%) Mac OS
3 6 (2.61%) Unix
4 4 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 136 (59.13%) Security Operations
3 119 (51.74%) Vulnerability Management
4 103 (44.78%) Cyber Intelligence
5 99 (43.04%) Risk Management
6 97 (42.17%) Incident Response
7 95 (41.30%) Cybersecurity
8 85 (36.96%) Mentoring
9 82 (35.65%) Roadmaps
10 78 (33.91%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 76 (33.04%) SIEM
12 72 (31.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (29.57%) Business Strategy
14 66 (28.70%) Coaching
15 65 (28.26%) Change Advisory Board
15 65 (28.26%) ITIL
15 65 (28.26%) SABSA
15 65 (28.26%) Technology Roadmap
16 56 (24.35%) Information Security
17 49 (21.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.87%) Python
2 23 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (2.61%) Bash
5 4 (1.74%) Bicep
5 4 (1.74%) Java
5 4 (1.74%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.87%) Go
7 2 (0.87%) Perl
7 2 (0.87%) SQL
8 1 (0.43%) C
8 1 (0.43%) C++
8 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (16.09%) CISSP
2 34 (14.78%) GIAC
3 18 (7.83%) CISM
3 18 (7.83%) Degree
3 18 (7.83%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.39%) GCIH
4 17 (7.39%) OSCP
5 15 (6.52%) CEH
5 15 (6.52%) CREST Certified
5 15 (6.52%) GCIA
6 14 (6.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (5.65%) CISA
7 13 (5.65%) GCFA
7 13 (5.65%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.48%) GPEN
8 8 (3.48%) MCP
9 7 (3.04%) CCNA
9 7 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.04%) MCSE
9 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (51.74%) NIST
2 104 (45.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (28.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 28 (12.17%) GDPR
5 21 (9.13%) PCI DSS
6 11 (4.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.61%) QA
9 4 (1.74%) EU AI Act
9 4 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.74%) SLA
10 3 (1.30%) COBIT
10 3 (1.30%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.87%) NCSC
12 1 (0.43%) GRC
12 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (2.61%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.91%) CSIRT
1 9 (3.91%) Terraform
2 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.48%) QRadar
3 7 (3.04%) CASB
3 7 (3.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.04%) Nmap
3 7 (3.04%) SCCM
4 5 (2.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (1.74%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 2 (0.87%) Nessus
6 2 (0.87%) Suricata
7 1 (0.43%) Ansible
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.83%) Splunk
3 14 (6.09%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (3.48%) Cisco
5 6 (2.61%) VMware
6 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.30%) Qualys
7 3 (1.30%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.30%) Tenable
8 2 (0.87%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.87%) Carbon Black
8 2 (0.87%) Google
9 1 (0.43%) Cadence
9 1 (0.43%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.43%) Netskope