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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 566 406
Rank change year-on-year +447 -160 -48
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 980 196 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.51% 0.28% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.73% 0.81% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17 145 75
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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% +5.05%

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 12,674 24,143 25,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.43% 34.01% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,207 15,233 11,244
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
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 £79,601 £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 11 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 11 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 +295 815 £65,000 +30.00% 20
North West +225 798 £61,750 +23.50% 12
South East +143 66 £44,000 -10.66% 33
South West +77 44 - - 13
Midlands +79 30 £42,000 +31.25% 12
East of England +59 23 £70,000 -26.32% 21
East Midlands +55 18 - - 4
Yorkshire +63 16 £80,000 +60.00% 6
West Midlands +63 12 £42,000 +31.25% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £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 (2.35%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (21.43%) AWS
2 209 (21.33%) Azure
3 172 (17.55%) GCP
4 36 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 461 (47.04%) VPN
2 393 (40.10%) DNS
3 70 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.31%) Firewall
6 2 (0.20%) HTTP
6 2 (0.20%) SMTP
6 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.69%) Big Data
2 36 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 957 (97.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 501 (51.12%) Analytical Skills
3 447 (45.61%) Finance
4 241 (24.59%) Law
5 238 (24.29%) Legal
6 5 (0.51%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.10%) Electronics
7 1 (0.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 427 (43.57%) Developer
1 427 (43.57%) Software Developer
2 198 (20.20%) Senior
3 174 (17.76%) Senior Software Engineer
3 174 (17.76%) Software Engineer
4 70 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 46 (4.69%) Data Scientist
6 23 (2.35%) Senior Data Scientist
7 8 (0.82%) Analyst
8 6 (0.61%) Project Manager
9 5 (0.51%) Consultant
9 5 (0.51%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (0.51%) Security Analyst
9 5 (0.51%) Security Consultant
10 3 (0.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 3 (0.31%) IT Security Officer
10 3 (0.31%) Security Officer
11 2 (0.20%) IT Analyst
11 2 (0.20%) Security Engineer
11 2 (0.20%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (21.33%) Node.js
2 208 (21.22%) .NET
3 70 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (3.67%) Pandas
5 2 (0.20%) React
6 1 (0.10%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.10%) OAuth
6 1 (0.10%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.10%) REST
6 1 (0.10%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 172 (17.55%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (17.55%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (4.69%) Algorithms
3 13 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (0.61%) Management Information System
5 5 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.31%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 670 (68.37%) Linux
2 497 (50.71%) Android
3 70 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (74.80%) Line Management
2 607 (61.94%) Agile
3 543 (55.41%) Mathematics
4 428 (43.67%) Design Patterns
4 428 (43.67%) OO
5 427 (43.57%) Android Development
5 427 (43.57%) OOP
6 248 (25.31%) Cybersecurity
7 235 (23.98%) Creative Thinking
8 234 (23.88%) Software Engineering
9 219 (22.35%) Machine Learning
10 201 (20.51%) Mentoring
11 196 (20.00%) Microservices
12 174 (17.76%) Cloud Security
13 172 (17.55%) Data Engineering
13 172 (17.55%) Scrum
13 172 (17.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 172 (17.55%) User Experience
14 125 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
15 93 (9.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 693 (70.71%) Python
2 622 (63.47%) Java
3 600 (61.22%) C++
4 599 (61.12%) Go
5 232 (23.67%) JavaScript
6 209 (21.33%) Rust
7 70 (7.14%) Bash
7 70 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 652 (66.53%) Security Cleared
2 651 (66.43%) DV Cleared
3 172 (17.55%) AWS Certification
3 172 (17.55%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (17.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 50 (5.10%) Degree
5 23 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (0.41%) CISM
6 4 (0.41%) CISSP
7 3 (0.31%) CEH
8 1 (0.10%) CASP
8 1 (0.10%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.10%) GIAC
8 1 (0.10%) ISEB
8 1 (0.10%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (24.18%) NCSC
2 15 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (0.92%) GDPR
5 6 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 6 (0.61%) PMBOK
6 4 (0.41%) NIST
7 2 (0.20%) GRC
7 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.10%) COBIT
8 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 520 (53.06%) Docker
2 70 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 70 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 70 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 497 (50.71%) Ansible
2 106 (10.82%) Terraform
3 59 (6.02%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (7.24%) Splunk
2 70 (7.14%) 3PAR
2 70 (7.14%) Cisco
2 70 (7.14%) Juniper
3 11 (1.12%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.20%) Darktrace
4 2 (0.20%) McAfee
5 1 (0.10%) IBM
5 1 (0.10%) Ping Identity