Cyber Defence Job Trends in Stevenage

Cyber Defence
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies in Stevenage. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stevenage 0.22% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Generic Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 56 65 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stevenage 12.04% 31.40% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 33 28 18
10th Percentile £27,750 £51,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £51,813 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £48,875
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +17.65% -18.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £67,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,250 £73,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.35% +12.73% +6.80%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk