Threat Detection Jobs in the Thames Valley

Threat Detection
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 238 238
Rank change year-on-year +60 0 +25
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 5 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.090% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £90,625 £44,375 £48,000
25th Percentile £104,688 £52,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £136,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +127.08% +4.35% -42.50%
75th Percentile £162,813 £71,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £165,625 £73,750 £74,250
South East median annual salary £74,000 £42,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +74.12% -26.09% -42.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,221 5,669 5,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 94.04% 84.71% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 3,877 3,051
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £56,673 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.35% -9.09% -

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the Thames Valley

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Threat Detection in the Thames Valley

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in the Thames Valley

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Oxfordshire - 4 £136,250 - 9
Buckinghamshire +36 1 - -
Threat Detection
South East

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft