Cyber Defence Jobs in the North of England

Cyber Defence
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 354 374
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 -12
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 12 74 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.069% 0.42% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 1.06% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 7
10th Percentile £31,250 £57,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £59,338 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,850 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +33.40% -33.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £97,290 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,500 - £63,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £75,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.81% +31.74% -11.54%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Cyber Defence is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,380 7,008 8,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.15% 40.00% 44.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,980 3,126 4,324
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,200 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,707 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,459 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the North of England

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in the North of England

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in the North of England

Cyber Defence
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
North West -5 8 £65,000 -29.48% 2
Yorkshire +46 4 £32,500 -53.03% 5
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (8.33%) Jasmine
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Law
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (8.33%) JMS
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (16.67%) FPGA
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (8.33%) Cybercrime
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Incident Response
3 6 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) SIEM
5 4 (33.33%) SOAR
6 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (25.00%) Change Management
6 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (25.00%) Information Security
6 3 (25.00%) Open Source
7 2 (16.67%) Compliance Audit
7 2 (16.67%) Data Encryption
7 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (16.67%) IT Audit
7 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CISA
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (16.67%) CREST Certified
3 2 (16.67%) CRISC
3 2 (16.67%) FFIEC
3 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SANS
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) GCFA
4 1 (8.33%) GCIA
4 1 (8.33%) GCIH
4 1 (8.33%) GIAC
4 1 (8.33%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) NIST
1 5 (41.67%) PCI DSS
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (16.67%) COBIT
3 2 (16.67%) GLBA
3 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft