Threat Hunter Job Trends in Peterborough

Threat Hunter
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The median Threat Hunter salary in Peterborough is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Threat Hunter 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Peterborough 0.64% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Peterborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Peterborough. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Peterborough with a recognized job title 148 165 71
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 88.24% 98.61%
Number of salaries quoted 97 81 56
10th Percentile £28,600 £27,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £32,200 £32,000 £30,952
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.43%
75th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,100 £65,000 £64,375
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £43,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.91% +4.76% -

Threat Hunter Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Threat Hunter job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Peterborough region featuring Threat Hunter in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark

Threat Hunter Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk