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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 421 405
Rank change year-on-year +330 -16 -93
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 1,211 399 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.05% 0.50% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.91% 1.57% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12 148 80
10th Percentile £42,000 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,188 £47,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.79% +3.78%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,250 £72,763
90th Percentile £91,125 - £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,979 £58,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +13.76% +0.87%

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 13,597 25,470 23,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.27% 32.06% 42.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6,007 15,530 10,826
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +150 1,018 £80,000 +60.00% 16
North West +104 978 £65,000 +30.00% 13
South East +131 78 £44,000 -12.00% 16
South West +97 47 - - 6
Yorkshire +66 39 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Midlands +100 34 - - 8
East of England +69 34 - - 11
East Midlands +72 26 - - 2
West Midlands +69 8 - - 6
North East +37 1 - - 1
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 (1.90%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 236 (19.49%) AWS
2 209 (17.26%) Azure
3 172 (14.20%) GCP
4 36 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (2.15%) Serverless
6 8 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.083%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 651 (53.76%) VPN
2 393 (32.45%) DNS
3 260 (21.47%) Cisco IOS
4 26 (2.15%) Broadband
4 26 (2.15%) SSH
4 26 (2.15%) SSL
5 4 (0.33%) Firewall
6 3 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.17%) HTTP
7 2 (0.17%) SMTP
7 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.083%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.80%) Big Data
2 36 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1,148 (94.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 711 (58.71%) Analytical Skills
3 445 (36.75%) Finance
4 242 (19.98%) Law
5 237 (19.57%) Legal
6 51 (4.21%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.083%) Retail
Job Titles
1 427 (35.26%) Developer
1 427 (35.26%) Software Developer
2 260 (21.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 197 (16.27%) Senior
4 173 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 173 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 46 (3.80%) Data Scientist
6 27 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (1.90%) Senior Data Scientist
9 21 (1.73%) PLC Engineer
10 7 (0.58%) Analyst
10 7 (0.58%) Security Analyst
11 6 (0.50%) Consultant
11 6 (0.50%) Information Security Consultant
11 6 (0.50%) Project Manager
11 6 (0.50%) Security Consultant
12 3 (0.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 2 (0.17%) Operations Analyst
13 2 (0.17%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (21.47%) Elastic Stack
2 209 (17.26%) Node.js
3 208 (17.18%) .NET
4 36 (2.97%) Pandas
5 26 (2.15%) RESTful
5 26 (2.15%) Web Services
6 2 (0.17%) React
7 1 (0.083%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.083%) OAuth
7 1 (0.083%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.083%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 172 (14.20%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (14.20%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 37 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (2.64%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.15%) PKI
6 21 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.17%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 859 (70.93%) Linux
2 687 (56.73%) Android
3 260 (21.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (76.22%) Line Management
2 733 (60.53%) Mathematics
3 606 (50.04%) Agile
4 427 (35.26%) Android Development
4 427 (35.26%) Design Patterns
4 427 (35.26%) OO
4 427 (35.26%) OOP
5 338 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
6 309 (25.52%) DevOps
7 292 (24.11%) Cybersecurity
8 269 (22.21%) Risk Management
9 260 (21.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 260 (21.47%) Platform Engineering
9 260 (21.47%) Storage Management
9 260 (21.47%) Task Automation
10 254 (20.97%) Software Engineering
11 235 (19.41%) Creative Thinking
12 218 (18.00%) Machine Learning
13 201 (16.60%) Mentoring
14 196 (16.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 908 (74.98%) Python
2 622 (51.36%) Java
3 599 (49.46%) C++
3 599 (49.46%) Go
4 260 (21.47%) Bash
4 260 (21.47%) PowerShell
5 232 (19.16%) JavaScript
6 208 (17.18%) Rust
7 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 651 (53.76%) DV Cleared
1 651 (53.76%) Security Cleared
2 172 (14.20%) AWS Certification
2 172 (14.20%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (14.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 49 (4.05%) Degree
4 24 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
6 21 (1.73%) HND
7 3 (0.25%) CEH
7 3 (0.25%) CISSP
8 2 (0.17%) CISM
8 2 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.083%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.083%) CISA
9 1 (0.083%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.083%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.083%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (19.49%) NCSC
2 36 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (2.39%) NIST
4 8 (0.66%) GDPR
5 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 6 (0.50%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.17%) GRC
6 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.083%) SOC 2
System Software
1 710 (58.63%) Docker
2 260 (21.47%) Hyper-V
2 260 (21.47%) VMware NSX
2 260 (21.47%) vSphere
3 26 (2.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 687 (56.73%) Ansible
2 322 (26.59%) Terraform
3 59 (4.87%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.083%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.083%) QRadar
Vendors
1 260 (21.47%) 3PAR
1 260 (21.47%) Cisco
1 260 (21.47%) Juniper
1 260 (21.47%) Splunk
2 26 (2.15%) Thales
3 11 (0.91%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.083%) Darktrace
4 1 (0.083%) IBM
4 1 (0.083%) McAfee
4 1 (0.083%) Ping Identity