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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 390 370
Rank change year-on-year -189 -20 +189
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 193 450 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.73% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 1.79% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 143 79 90
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,166 £27,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,131 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,250 £73,025 £65,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £58,000 £56,162
% change year-on-year +18.10% +3.27% -16.80%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyberattack is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,957 25,147 30,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.04% 41.01% 43.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,202 11,462 15,942
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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
South West -103 74 £68,500 -1.01% 3
North of England -38 64 £50,000 -25.93% 7
North West -38 44 £50,000 -26.85% 3
South East -31 24 £49,250 -6.19% 2
Yorkshire +49 20 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Midlands +12 15 £32,000 -54.29% 5
Scotland -61 12 £47,000 -18.97% 1
West Midlands +21 9 £32,000 -55.86% 4
East Midlands -17 6 £52,500 -19.23% 1
East of England +6 4 £95,000 +68.89% 7
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 7 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 44 (22.80%) Azure
2 36 (18.65%) AWS
3 35 (18.13%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (15.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.55%) IaaS
6 3 (1.55%) PaaS
6 3 (1.55%) SaaS
7 2 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.04%) dbt
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (31.61%) DNS
2 49 (25.39%) TCP/IP
3 38 (19.69%) Internet
4 35 (18.13%) DHCP
5 33 (17.10%) HTTP
6 26 (13.47%) DKIM
6 26 (13.47%) DMARC
7 25 (12.95%) Firewall
8 13 (6.74%) LAN
8 13 (6.74%) WAN
9 7 (3.63%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (3.11%) SAN
10 6 (3.11%) VLAN
11 4 (2.07%) SMTP
11 4 (2.07%) SSL
12 2 (1.04%) Broadband
12 2 (1.04%) Network Security
13 1 (0.52%) tcpdump
13 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.04%) Metabase
1 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.04%) Redis
2 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.04%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.52%) Git
2 1 (0.52%) Subversion
2 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.80%) Finance
2 44 (22.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.70%) Law
5 6 (3.11%) Military
6 4 (2.07%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.04%) Marketing
7 2 (1.04%) Publishing
7 2 (1.04%) Retail
8 1 (0.52%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Local Government
8 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (30.57%) Analyst
2 51 (26.42%) Senior
3 43 (22.28%) Security Analyst
4 40 (20.73%) Security Manager
5 33 (17.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 31 (16.06%) Security Assurance Manager
7 30 (15.54%) Information Assurance Manager
7 30 (15.54%) Information Manager
7 30 (15.54%) Information Security Manager
8 26 (13.47%) Information Analyst
8 26 (13.47%) Information Security Analyst
9 23 (11.92%) Architect
10 15 (7.77%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (7.77%) Lead
10 15 (7.77%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (6.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 9 (4.66%) IT Manager
12 9 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (4.15%) Administrator
13 8 (4.15%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.06%) HTML
2 29 (15.03%) OpenID
2 29 (15.03%) SAML
3 2 (1.04%) CSS
3 2 (1.04%) D3.js
3 2 (1.04%) Node.js
3 2 (1.04%) React
3 2 (1.04%) Vue
4 1 (0.52%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.62%) Cyber Threat
2 29 (15.03%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.77%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.74%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.59%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.55%) CSOC
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.52%) CESG
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.52%) IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.06%) Windows
2 17 (8.81%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.77%) Linux
4 6 (3.11%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.07%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (50.78%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (35.75%) Cloud Security
3 55 (28.50%) Information Security
4 51 (26.42%) SIEM
5 45 (23.32%) Incident Response
6 41 (21.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 41 (21.24%) Threat Intelligence
7 40 (20.73%) Roadmaps
7 40 (20.73%) Security Management
8 39 (20.21%) Risk Management
9 37 (19.17%) Agile
9 37 (19.17%) SDLC
10 36 (18.65%) Line Management
10 36 (18.65%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 35 (18.13%) SOAR
12 33 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (16.58%) Information Assurance
14 30 (15.54%) Identity Management
14 30 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (15.54%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.18%) Python
2 6 (3.11%) SQL
3 3 (1.55%) Java
3 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.04%) Lisp
4 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.52%) C#
5 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.24%) DV Cleared
3 35 (18.13%) SC Cleared
4 29 (15.03%) AWS Certification
4 29 (15.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (12.44%) GIAC
6 16 (8.29%) CREST Certified
7 12 (6.22%) CISSP
8 9 (4.66%) Degree
9 5 (2.59%) CISM
10 4 (2.07%) CEH
10 4 (2.07%) CISA
11 3 (1.55%) OSCP
12 2 (1.04%) CASP
12 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.04%) FFIEC
12 2 (1.04%) GCIA
12 2 (1.04%) GCIH
12 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (25.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (18.13%) NCSC
3 18 (9.33%) NIST
4 8 (4.15%) GDPR
5 7 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (2.07%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.04%) GRC
9 1 (0.52%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (12.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.04%) Docker
5 1 (0.52%) Firmware
5 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (15.03%) Terraform
2 26 (13.47%) CASB
3 4 (2.07%) Nessus
4 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.63%) Veeam
3 6 (3.11%) Epicor
3 6 (3.11%) Splunk
4 2 (1.04%) BT
4 2 (1.04%) Facebook
4 2 (1.04%) VMware
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco
5 1 (0.52%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.52%) HP
5 1 (0.52%) Spotify