Cyber Kill Chain Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cyber Kill Chain
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 168 - 253
Rank change year-on-year - - -19
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 9 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.15% - 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% - 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - £50,500
25th Percentile £71,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £65,000
90th Percentile - - £81,500
South East median annual salary £72,500 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +30.43%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,406 1,473 2,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.18% 43.59% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 936 588 1,498
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,763 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,438 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £60,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,088 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cyber Kill Chain
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Oxfordshire - 7 £72,500 - 1
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Cyber Kill Chain
South East

Cyber Kill Chain
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (100.00%) FTP
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
1 9 (100.00%) WAN
2 7 (77.78%) BGP
2 7 (77.78%) DHCP
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 7 (77.78%) ICMP
2 7 (77.78%) IPsec
2 7 (77.78%) MPLS
2 7 (77.78%) Network Security
2 7 (77.78%) SD-WAN
2 7 (77.78%) SNMP
2 7 (77.78%) SSH
2 7 (77.78%) SSL
2 7 (77.78%) VLAN
2 7 (77.78%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) Internet
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) SMTP
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
1 7 (77.78%) Network Architect
1 7 (77.78%) Network Security Architect
1 7 (77.78%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) OAuth
1 7 (77.78%) SAML
2 2 (22.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (77.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 7 (77.78%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) SOAR
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Swim Lanes
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (77.78%) NIST
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) CASB
1 7 (77.78%) FortiGate
2 2 (22.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) Palo Alto
2 2 (22.22%) ArcSight
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk