Cyber Threat Job Trends in London

Cyber Threats
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 313 362
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +111
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 75 117 90
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.76% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 1.74% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 45 60 77
10th Percentile £41,850 £59,920 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £69,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £80,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +34.58% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,750 £85,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -13.29%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,741 6,719 7,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.60% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,398 3,503 5,621
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.27% +1.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £128,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in London

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Threat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in London

Cyber Threat
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +24 15 £60,000 -9.43% 13
West London - 4 £41,500 - 10
North London - 2 - -
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (34.67%) Azure
2 14 (18.67%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (14.67%) Entra ID
3 11 (14.67%) SaaS
4 8 (10.67%) Google Workspace
5 7 (9.33%) Datadog
5 7 (9.33%) IaaS
5 7 (9.33%) PaaS
6 5 (6.67%) AWS
7 3 (4.00%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.00%) Tessian
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.67%) GCP
9 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.33%) dbt
9 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (29.33%) Firewall
2 11 (14.67%) VPN
3 9 (12.00%) Broadband
3 9 (12.00%) DNS
4 7 (9.33%) DHCP
4 7 (9.33%) SAN
4 7 (9.33%) VLAN
4 7 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (5.33%) Network Security
7 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.67%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
General
1 35 (46.67%) Finance
2 26 (34.67%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.67%) Banking
4 8 (10.67%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Legal
6 4 (5.33%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Law
8 2 (2.67%) Marketing
8 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Analyst
2 18 (24.00%) Senior
3 14 (18.67%) Security Analyst
4 12 (16.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 12 (16.00%) Lead
5 7 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) IT Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior IT Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) GraphQL
1 8 (10.67%) LDAP
1 8 (10.67%) OAuth
1 8 (10.67%) OpenID
1 8 (10.67%) REST
1 8 (10.67%) SAML
1 8 (10.67%) SOAP
2 1 (1.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.67%) Cyberattack
2 9 (12.00%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (10.67%) Security Posture
3 8 (10.67%) Virtual Team
4 6 (8.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (5.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (5.33%) Operational Technology
7 3 (4.00%) Blog
7 3 (4.00%) Insider Threat
7 3 (4.00%) IoT
7 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (74.67%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (45.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 34 (45.33%) Incident Response
2 34 (45.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 33 (44.00%) Security Operations
4 28 (37.33%) SIEM
5 26 (34.67%) Cyber Intelligence
6 21 (28.00%) Mentoring
7 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 17 (22.67%) Information Security
10 15 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (17.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (17.33%) ITIL
12 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
12 11 (14.67%) Data Loss Prevention
12 11 (14.67%) Regulatory Compliance
13 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (13.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.00%) Bash
2 9 (12.00%) SQL
3 8 (10.67%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.33%) Python
5 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) Degree
2 12 (16.00%) CISSP
3 7 (9.33%) Azure Certification
3 7 (9.33%) CISM
3 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.33%) GIAC
4 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.00%) CREST Certified
5 3 (4.00%) GCIH
5 3 (4.00%) SANS
6 2 (2.67%) GCIA
7 1 (1.33%) CEH
7 1 (1.33%) CISA
7 1 (1.33%) CRISC
7 1 (1.33%) GCED
7 1 (1.33%) GCFA
7 1 (1.33%) GPEN
7 1 (1.33%) GSEC
7 1 (1.33%) OSCP
7 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (34.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (28.00%) NIST
3 12 (16.00%) GDPR
4 11 (14.67%) SLA
5 9 (12.00%) NCSC
6 7 (9.33%) QA
7 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
8 3 (4.00%) COBIT
8 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (2.67%) NIST 800
10 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 21 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.67%) Firmware
3 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (9.33%) SCCM
3 5 (6.67%) CSIRT
4 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (1.33%) Nmap
5 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) VMware
3 8 (10.67%) Tenable
4 7 (9.33%) AppDynamics
4 7 (9.33%) Dynatrace
5 6 (8.00%) Splunk
6 3 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.67%) ConnectWise
7 2 (2.67%) Draytek
7 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.33%) Juniper
8 1 (1.33%) Qualys