Cyberattack Jobs in the South East

Cyberattack
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 375 330
Rank change year-on-year +140 -45 -98
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 78 25 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.81% 0.14% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 0.42% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 19
10th Percentile £41,550 £46,775 £47,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £49,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.66% -6.19% +61.54%
75th Percentile £48,750 £75,250 £57,625
90th Percentile £49,500 £80,000 £72,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,229 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.03% +22.24% -3.51%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,750 5,906 5,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 38.92% 33.67% 42.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,867 3,785 3,054
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,625 £34,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £73,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the South East

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the South East.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in the South East

Cyberattack
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Surrey +77 43 £42,000 -28.81% 21
Kent +53 19 £45,750 -51.84% 18
Thames Valley +69 5 £42,500 -9.57% 49
Hampshire +76 4 £50,000 +12.75% 28
East Sussex - 3 - - 9
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 9
Middlesex - 2 - -
West Sussex +38 1 - - 9
Berkshire +30 1 £42,500 -9.57% 22
Sussex +20 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 18
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 29 (37.18%) AWS
2 19 (24.36%) Azure
3 18 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (14.10%) Serverless
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.10%) Broadband
1 11 (14.10%) SSH
1 11 (14.10%) SSL
2 2 (2.56%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
General
1 61 (78.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 40 (51.28%) Law
2 40 (51.28%) Legal
3 19 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.41%) Finance
6 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (23.08%) Developer
1 18 (23.08%) Software Developer
2 11 (14.10%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (6.41%) Analyst
3 5 (6.41%) Security Analyst
4 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
5 2 (2.56%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (2.56%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (1.28%) Commercial Lawyer
6 1 (1.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (1.28%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) Information Analyst
6 1 (1.28%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (1.28%) Security Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.08%) .NET
1 18 (23.08%) Node.js
1 18 (23.08%) Pandas
2 11 (14.10%) RESTful
2 11 (14.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (17.95%) Management Information System
3 11 (14.10%) Onboarding
3 11 (14.10%) PKI
4 2 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.08%) Android
1 18 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (74.36%) Line Management
2 57 (73.08%) Cybersecurity
3 39 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
4 21 (26.92%) Agile
5 18 (23.08%) Android Development
5 18 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 18 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 18 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 18 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 18 (23.08%) Kanban
5 18 (23.08%) Mathematics
5 18 (23.08%) OO
5 18 (23.08%) OOP
5 18 (23.08%) OWASP
5 18 (23.08%) Secure Coding
5 18 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 18 (23.08%) Statistics
6 12 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 11 (14.10%) DevOps
7 11 (14.10%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.18%) Python
2 18 (23.08%) C++
2 18 (23.08%) Go
2 18 (23.08%) Java
2 18 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 18 (23.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (26.92%) DV Cleared
1 21 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.28%) CEH
3 1 (1.28%) CISA
3 1 (1.28%) CISSP
3 1 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) CREST Certified
3 1 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (51.28%) NCSC
2 13 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (15.38%) NIST
4 3 (3.85%) PMBOK
5 2 (2.56%) GDPR
5 2 (2.56%) GRC
5 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (23.08%) Docker
2 11 (14.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (37.18%) Terraform
2 18 (23.08%) Ansible
2 18 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.28%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (1.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Thales
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.28%) Darktrace
3 1 (1.28%) IBM
3 1 (1.28%) McAfee