Cyberattack Job Trends 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 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 447 355
Rank change year-on-year -38 -92 -15
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 38 134 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.36% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 1.06% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 87
10th Percentile £41,800 £41,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,475 £42,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £50,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £82,000 £76,000
UK median annual salary £45,564 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.06% -7.69% +13.04%

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 13,795 12,697 10,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.80% 34.04% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,360 5,585 7,843
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,057 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £54,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% -1.59% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyberattack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyberattack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 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 30 December 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
Scotland +29 17 £46,000 - 5
North of England -8 14 £45,000 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire +5 8 £45,000 -25.00% 4
North West -3 6 £50,000 -14.53% 5
South West -6 4 £45,564 -14.03% 3
South East +4 2 £77,500 +29.17% 2
Midlands +17 1 - - 2
East Midlands -12 1 - - 2
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) Azure
1 19 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 16 (42.11%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.63%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) GitHub
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (47.37%) Broadband
2 3 (7.89%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) Internet
4 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.63%) VPN
General
1 19 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 16 (42.11%) Games
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Military
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Senior
2 9 (23.68%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) IAM Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Senior Developer
4 7 (18.42%) Sales Representative
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Sales Representative
6 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
6 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat Specialist
6 3 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) CyberArk Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Cyber Threat Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Head of Security
8 1 (2.63%) Project Control Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) GraphQL
1 18 (47.37%) REST
1 18 (47.37%) SOAP
2 16 (42.11%) LDAP
2 16 (42.11%) OAuth
2 16 (42.11%) OpenID
2 16 (42.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
1 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (84.21%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (57.89%) Mentoring
3 18 (47.37%) Programme Delivery
4 16 (42.11%) Identity Access Management
4 16 (42.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 16 (42.11%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.16%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.16%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (10.53%) Coaching
6 4 (10.53%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (7.89%) Cyber Intelligence
7 3 (7.89%) Mathematics
7 3 (7.89%) Project Management
7 3 (7.89%) SIEM
8 2 (5.26%) Agile
8 2 (5.26%) Computer Science
8 2 (5.26%) Project Planning
8 2 (5.26%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 18 (47.37%) Bash
3 16 (42.11%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
1 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.26%) CEH
2 2 (5.26%) CISSP
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (2.63%) CISM
3 1 (2.63%) CSSLP
3 1 (2.63%) GCIA
3 1 (2.63%) GCIH
3 1 (2.63%) OSCP
3 1 (2.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (50.00%) NIST
2 18 (47.37%) NCSC
3 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) CyberArk
2 1 (2.63%) Spotify
2 1 (2.63%) Veeam
2 1 (2.63%) VMware