Cyber Defence Jobs in Portsmouth

Cyber Defence
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies in Portsmouth. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 54 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 0.75% 0.19% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.46% 0.60% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,000 £58,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £61,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.03% - -
75th Percentile £73,500 £63,500 -
90th Percentile £73,800 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £73,000 £61,000 -
% change year-on-year +19.67% - -

All Generic Skills
Portsmouth

Cyber Defence 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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 122 168 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 30.35% 32.31% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 44 148 87
10th Percentile £32,500 £24,500 £29,400
25th Percentile £40,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -3.23% -21.19%
75th Percentile £60,625 £63,750 £59,022
90th Percentile £73,700 £82,500 £67,500
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -2.73%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in Portsmouth

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in Portsmouth.

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in Portsmouth

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 3 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) SOC Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) GCIH
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft