Threat Detection Jobs in London

Threat Detection
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 464 552
Rank change year-on-year +108 +88 +289
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 37 43 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 26 27 32
10th Percentile £69,000 - £42,125
25th Percentile £73,932 £52,500 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £69,963 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £98,000
England median annual salary £72,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +30.91% -18.52% +11.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,216 21,652 31,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.32% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,929 15,871 22,511
10th Percentile £41,700 £37,500 £42,789
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,055
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in London

Threat Detection
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London +11 3 £100,000 +49.25% 4
South London - 1 £60,000 -
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.70%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) Network Security
2 7 (18.92%) DNS
3 6 (16.22%) Firewall
3 6 (16.22%) HTTP
3 6 (16.22%) SMTP
3 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.11%) VPN
5 1 (2.70%) ADSL
5 1 (2.70%) DHCP
5 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.70%) Fast Ethernet
5 1 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.70%) LAN
5 1 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.70%) SAN
5 1 (2.70%) VLAN
5 1 (2.70%) WAN
5 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
2 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Telecoms
4 7 (18.92%) Law
5 6 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (16.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (16.22%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (13.51%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Security Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Development Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Information Security Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Incident Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Threat Hunter
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Security
6 2 (5.41%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Security Product Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Management Information System
2 10 (27.03%) Security Posture
3 6 (16.22%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (13.51%) Fixed Income
4 5 (13.51%) Virtual Team
5 3 (8.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (5.41%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.70%) BYOD
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) VMS
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Incident Response
2 24 (64.86%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (43.24%) Information Security
4 14 (37.84%) Security Operations
4 14 (37.84%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (35.14%) Security Architecture
6 11 (29.73%) Risk Management
7 9 (24.32%) SIEM
7 9 (24.32%) Task Automation
8 8 (21.62%) Cyber Intelligence
8 8 (21.62%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security
9 7 (18.92%) Data Protection
9 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (16.22%) DevSecOps
10 6 (16.22%) Security Monitoring
11 5 (13.51%) Customer-Centric Approach
11 5 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (13.51%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.81%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) C++
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
4 2 (5.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Degree
2 11 (29.73%) CISSP
3 6 (16.22%) CISM
4 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (13.51%) GCIA
4 5 (13.51%) GCIH
4 5 (13.51%) OSCE
4 5 (13.51%) OSCP
4 5 (13.51%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 5 (13.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (5.41%) CCSP
6 2 (5.41%) CEH
6 2 (5.41%) CRISC
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) NIST
2 8 (21.62%) GDPR
3 6 (16.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
5 3 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (5.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (2.70%) GRC
7 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Server
3 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) CSIRT
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) CASB
3 2 (5.41%) Istio
3 2 (5.41%) linkerd
4 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) Alibaba
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Datto
4 1 (2.70%) Forcepoint
4 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.70%) Juniper