Cyber Warfare Job Trends in the South East

Cyberwarfare
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Warfare in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Warfare over the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Warfare 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.006% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £26,000 - -

All Generic Skills
South East

Cyber Warfare 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 4,329 3,751 4,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.51% 41.36% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,998 1,822 2,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -9.71% -8.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,984
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.75% -9.26%

Cyber Warfare
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cyber Warfare job vacancy trend in the South East

Cyber Warfare
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 Warfare within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 August 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
Hampshire - 1 - - 4
Cyber Warfare
England

Cyber Warfare
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800