Cyberattack Jobs in Merseyside

Cyberattack
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 79 101
Rank change year-on-year +50 +22 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 26 17 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.95% 1.30% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.69% 4.82% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 17 1
10th Percentile - £44,900 -
25th Percentile £56,750 - £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £47,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.47% +23.68% +7.04%
75th Percentile £60,250 £50,000 £40,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £61,750 £50,000 £69,503
% change year-on-year +23.50% -28.06% +15.84%

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

Cyberattack 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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 177 353 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 40.50% 27.07% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 78 266 123
10th Percentile £30,875 £26,625 £29,100
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £43,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -8.42% -0.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,038 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,625 £88,750 £71,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in Merseyside

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in Merseyside.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in Merseyside

Cyberattack
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 15 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
Southport - 4 - -
Wirral - 1 £58,500 -
Cyberattack
North West

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 25 (96.15%) VPN
2 20 (76.92%) DNS
3 5 (19.23%) Cisco IOS
General
1 25 (96.15%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (96.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (76.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
1 20 (76.92%) Software Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (96.15%) Android
1 25 (96.15%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Line Management
1 25 (96.15%) Mathematics
2 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 20 (76.92%) Android Development
2 20 (76.92%) Design Patterns
2 20 (76.92%) OO
2 20 (76.92%) OOP
3 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 5 (19.23%) DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Storage Management
4 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.85%) Incident Response
5 1 (3.85%) Internal Audit
5 1 (3.85%) Security Operations
5 1 (3.85%) SIEM
5 1 (3.85%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Python
2 20 (76.92%) C++
2 20 (76.92%) Go
2 20 (76.92%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) DV Cleared
1 20 (76.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (96.15%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
2 5 (19.23%) VMware NSX
2 5 (19.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (96.15%) Ansible
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Splunk
2 5 (19.23%) 3PAR
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco
2 5 (19.23%) Juniper
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft