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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 467 559
Rank change year-on-year +121 +92 +279
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 40 43 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 30 27 33
10th Percentile £69,200 - £43,000
25th Percentile £74,557 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £69,963 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,500 £115,000 £98,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +31.82% -18.52% +12.50%

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 12,446 21,516 32,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.25% 90.97% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,205 15,872 23,232
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,171
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 £115,000
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 21 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 21 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 +9 3 £100,000 +49.25% 2
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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) GCP
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.50%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (32.50%) Network Security
2 7 (17.50%) DNS
3 6 (15.00%) HTTP
3 6 (15.00%) SMTP
3 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (12.50%) Firewall
5 3 (7.50%) VPN
6 1 (2.50%) ADSL
6 1 (2.50%) DHCP
6 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.50%) Fast Ethernet
6 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.50%) LAN
6 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.50%) SAN
6 1 (2.50%) VLAN
6 1 (2.50%) WAN
6 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 7 (17.50%) Law
5 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (15.00%) Legal
5 6 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Development Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Information Security Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Incident Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Security Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Threat Hunter
7 2 (5.00%) Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Product Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Security Posture
2 12 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (17.50%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (12.50%) Fixed Income
4 5 (12.50%) Virtual Team
5 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (7.50%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (2.50%) BYOD
8 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) VMS
3 2 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 23 (57.50%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (45.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 17 (42.50%) Security Architecture
5 16 (40.00%) Information Security
5 16 (40.00%) Security Operations
6 15 (37.50%) Risk Management
7 12 (30.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 10 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 10 (25.00%) DevSecOps
9 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
9 9 (22.50%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (22.50%) Penetration Testing
9 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (22.50%) Task Automation
10 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
10 8 (20.00%) Data Protection
10 8 (20.00%) DevOps
10 8 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) C++
4 2 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 2 (5.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Degree
2 12 (30.00%) CISSP
3 5 (12.50%) CISM
3 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.50%) GCIA
3 5 (12.50%) GCIH
3 5 (12.50%) OSCE
3 5 (12.50%) OSCP
3 5 (12.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 5 (12.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (7.50%) CCSP
6 2 (5.00%) CEH
6 2 (5.00%) CRISC
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) GDPR
1 12 (30.00%) NIST
2 8 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (2.50%) GRC
6 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Server
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) CASB
3 5 (12.50%) CSIRT
4 3 (7.50%) Istio
4 3 (7.50%) linkerd
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Google
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Alibaba
3 2 (5.00%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Datto
4 1 (2.50%) Forcepoint
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Juniper