Cyber Kill Chain Job Trends in the South East

Cyber Kill Chain
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 - 376
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 10 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.068% - 0.060%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51,000
25th Percentile £71,250 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.43%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £80,000
90th Percentile £74,875 - £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £87,610
% change year-on-year +3.57% -20.10% +13.78%

All Generic Skills
South East

Cyber Kill Chain 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 3,484 3,309 6,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.72% 42.31% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 1,526 3,891
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,991 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,363
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Kill Chain relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend in the South East

Cyber Kill Chain
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
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 Cyber Kill Chain within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
Thames Valley - 9 £72,500 - 2
Oxfordshire - 7 £72,500 - 1
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £75,000 - 1
Cyber Kill Chain
England

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) FTP
1 9 (90.00%) HTTP
1 9 (90.00%) WAN
2 7 (70.00%) BGP
2 7 (70.00%) DHCP
2 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) ICMP
2 7 (70.00%) IPsec
2 7 (70.00%) MPLS
2 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 7 (70.00%) SD-WAN
2 7 (70.00%) SNMP
2 7 (70.00%) SSH
2 7 (70.00%) SSL
2 7 (70.00%) VLAN
2 7 (70.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) Internet
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) SMTP
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Architect
1 7 (70.00%) Network Architect
1 7 (70.00%) Network Security Architect
1 7 (70.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) OAuth
1 7 (70.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (80.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 7 (70.00%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 3 (30.00%) SOAR
5 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Swim Lanes
6 1 (10.00%) Blue Team
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Red Team
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
6 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (80.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) CASB
1 7 (70.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (20.00%) QRadar
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (30.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) ArcSight
5 1 (10.00%) New Relic
5 1 (10.00%) Qualys
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Zerto