Cyberattack Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack 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 102 601 416
Rank change year-on-year +499 -185 -78
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 1,167 162 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.96% 0.23% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.80% 0.67% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 14 145 71
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,063 £47,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,250 £73,550
90th Percentile £91,250 - £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% +16.10% +3.92%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyberattack 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,266 24,085 25,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.63% 33.95% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6,113 15,187 11,130
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +309 996 £65,000 +30.00% 28
North West +245 978 £61,750 +23.50% 10
South East +142 66 £44,000 -10.66% 21
South West +108 45 - - 11
Midlands +83 36 £71,000 +121.88% 6
East Midlands +50 26 - -
East of England +62 23 £70,000 -26.32% 11
Yorkshire +65 17 £80,000 +60.00% 16
West Midlands +58 10 £71,000 +121.88% 6
Isle of Man - 1 £43,000 -
North East - 1 - - 2
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (1.97%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.086%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (17.99%) AWS
2 208 (17.82%) Azure
3 172 (14.74%) GCP
4 36 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 651 (55.78%) VPN
2 393 (33.68%) DNS
3 260 (22.28%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) HTTP
6 2 (0.17%) SMTP
6 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.086%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.086%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.94%) Big Data
2 36 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1,147 (98.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 690 (59.13%) Analytical Skills
3 446 (38.22%) Finance
4 241 (20.65%) Law
5 237 (20.31%) Legal
6 4 (0.34%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.086%) Electronics
7 1 (0.086%) Retail
Job Titles
1 427 (36.59%) Developer
1 427 (36.59%) Software Developer
2 260 (22.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 198 (16.97%) Senior
4 174 (14.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 174 (14.91%) Software Engineer
5 46 (3.94%) Data Scientist
6 23 (1.97%) Senior Data Scientist
7 7 (0.60%) Analyst
8 6 (0.51%) Project Manager
9 5 (0.43%) Consultant
9 5 (0.43%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (0.43%) Security Analyst
9 5 (0.43%) Security Consultant
10 3 (0.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 2 (0.17%) Security Engineer
11 2 (0.17%) SOC Analyst
12 1 (0.086%) Commercial Lawyer
12 1 (0.086%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 1 (0.086%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (22.28%) Elastic Stack
2 209 (17.91%) Node.js
3 208 (17.82%) .NET
4 36 (3.08%) Pandas
5 2 (0.17%) React
6 1 (0.086%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.086%) OAuth
6 1 (0.086%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.086%) REST
6 1 (0.086%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 172 (14.74%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (14.74%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (3.94%) Algorithms
3 12 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (0.43%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.26%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.086%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 860 (73.69%) Linux
2 687 (58.87%) Android
3 260 (22.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (79.09%) Line Management
2 733 (62.81%) Mathematics
3 607 (52.01%) Agile
4 428 (36.68%) Design Patterns
4 428 (36.68%) OO
5 427 (36.59%) Android Development
5 427 (36.59%) OOP
6 315 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
7 283 (24.25%) DevOps
8 270 (23.14%) Risk Management
9 260 (22.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 260 (22.28%) Platform Engineering
9 260 (22.28%) Storage Management
9 260 (22.28%) Task Automation
10 247 (21.17%) Cybersecurity
11 235 (20.14%) Creative Thinking
12 234 (20.05%) Software Engineering
13 219 (18.77%) Machine Learning
14 201 (17.22%) Mentoring
15 196 (16.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 883 (75.66%) Python
2 622 (53.30%) Java
3 600 (51.41%) C++
4 599 (51.33%) Go
5 260 (22.28%) Bash
5 260 (22.28%) PowerShell
6 232 (19.88%) JavaScript
7 209 (17.91%) Rust
8 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 652 (55.87%) Security Cleared
2 651 (55.78%) DV Cleared
3 172 (14.74%) AWS Certification
3 172 (14.74%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (14.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 49 (4.20%) Degree
5 23 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.97%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.26%) CEH
6 3 (0.26%) CISM
6 3 (0.26%) CISSP
7 1 (0.086%) CASP
7 1 (0.086%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.086%) GIAC
7 1 (0.086%) ISEB
7 1 (0.086%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (20.31%) NCSC
2 13 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (0.77%) GDPR
4 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 6 (0.51%) PMBOK
6 4 (0.34%) NIST
7 2 (0.17%) GRC
7 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.086%) SOC 2
System Software
1 710 (60.84%) Docker
2 260 (22.28%) Hyper-V
2 260 (22.28%) VMware NSX
2 260 (22.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 687 (58.87%) Ansible
2 296 (25.36%) Terraform
3 59 (5.06%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.086%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.086%) QRadar
Vendors
1 261 (22.37%) Splunk
2 260 (22.28%) 3PAR
2 260 (22.28%) Cisco
2 260 (22.28%) Juniper
3 11 (0.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.17%) Darktrace
4 2 (0.17%) McAfee
5 1 (0.086%) IBM
5 1 (0.086%) Ping Identity