Cyber Threat Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threats
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 441 532
Rank change year-on-year -50 +91 -50
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 270 347 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.13% 1.36% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 209 200 154
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,107 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -16.98% +16.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,550 £100,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £97,290 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Threat 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 23,852 25,466 30,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.05% 41.21% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,176 11,511 15,839
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £39,750
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 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
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 Cyber Threat within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North of England +14 79 £50,000 -9.09% 26
South East +34 68 £58,750 +6.82% 14
North West -16 52 £50,000 -16.00% 13
East of England +44 44 £65,000 +44.44% 6
South West -44 26 £58,750 -15.47% 16
Midlands +10 25 £65,000 +15.56% 7
Scotland -85 21 £67,500 +22.73% 1
Yorkshire +76 18 £60,000 +12.82% 12
East Midlands -1 16 £65,000 +85.71% 3
West Midlands +16 9 £70,000 +24.44% 4
North East +6 9 £39,500 -28.18% 1
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1
Wales -17 2 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
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 2 (0.74%) Apache
1 2 (0.74%) Confluence
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.37%) IIS
2 1 (0.37%) nginx
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.07%) Simulink
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 51 (18.89%) Azure
2 37 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (11.11%) AWS
4 15 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.96%) Cloudflare
6 5 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.74%) GCP
7 2 (0.74%) Google Docs
7 2 (0.74%) IaaS
7 2 (0.74%) PaaS
7 2 (0.74%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.74%) SaaS
7 2 (0.74%) Serverless
8 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.37%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.52%) Firewall
2 39 (14.44%) Intrusion Detection
3 22 (8.15%) Network Security
4 17 (6.30%) Internet
5 7 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.22%) HTTP
6 6 (2.22%) LAN
6 6 (2.22%) SMTP
6 6 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.22%) WAN
7 5 (1.85%) DNS
7 5 (1.85%) MPLS
7 5 (1.85%) SNMP
7 5 (1.85%) SSL
7 5 (1.85%) Wireless
8 3 (1.11%) VPN
9 2 (0.74%) DMZ
9 2 (0.74%) FTP
9 2 (0.74%) Sourcefire
9 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.74%) Big Data
1 2 (0.74%) Power BI
2 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.74%) GitLab
1 2 (0.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) GDB
General
1 81 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.93%) Finance
4 18 (6.67%) Law
5 16 (5.93%) Games
5 16 (5.93%) Retail
6 15 (5.56%) Electronics
7 14 (5.19%) Legal
7 14 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.70%) Banking
9 6 (2.22%) Automotive
9 6 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Police
11 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 75 (27.78%) Analyst
2 37 (13.70%) Security Manager
3 32 (11.85%) Senior
4 30 (11.11%) Lead
5 28 (10.37%) SOC Analyst
6 23 (8.52%) Security Analyst
7 17 (6.30%) Architect
8 15 (5.56%) IT Manager
8 15 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.19%) Embedded Engineer
9 14 (5.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 13 (4.81%) Security Architect
11 12 (4.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
11 12 (4.44%) Cyber Threat Specialist
11 12 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 12 (4.44%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
12 11 (4.07%) IT Security Manager
13 10 (3.70%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (3.70%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.96%) Laravel
2 6 (2.22%) Middleware
3 5 (1.85%) NETCONF
4 3 (1.11%) React
5 2 (0.74%) .NET
5 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.74%) Flask
5 2 (0.74%) LDAP
5 2 (0.74%) RESTful
6 1 (0.37%) EDI
6 1 (0.37%) HTML
6 1 (0.37%) HTML5
6 1 (0.37%) Redux
6 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.30%) Management Information System
2 42 (15.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 34 (12.59%) Cyberattack
4 30 (11.11%) Security Posture
5 19 (7.04%) Client/Server
6 14 (5.19%) Operational Technology
7 12 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (4.07%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.11%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.11%) Smart Energy
14 2 (0.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 2 (0.74%) Cybercrime
14 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.74%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.11%) Windows
2 9 (3.33%) Linux
3 5 (1.85%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.48%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.48%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (71.48%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (41.48%) Incident Response
3 84 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (25.19%) Security Operations
5 63 (23.33%) SIEM
6 59 (21.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 59 (21.85%) Threat Intelligence
7 51 (18.89%) Information Security
8 40 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 38 (14.07%) Cyber Intelligence
10 36 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
11 33 (12.22%) Project Management
12 30 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
13 29 (10.74%) Cloud Security
13 29 (10.74%) Risk Management
14 26 (9.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 25 (9.26%) Risk Assessment
16 24 (8.89%) Agile
17 22 (8.15%) Security Architecture
18 21 (7.78%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.15%) Python
2 19 (7.04%) PHP
3 13 (4.81%) C
3 13 (4.81%) C#
4 11 (4.07%) MATLAB
5 9 (3.33%) SQL
6 8 (2.96%) Rust
7 7 (2.59%) C++
8 4 (1.48%) Bash
9 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.74%) R
10 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.37%) Java
11 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (30.00%) Degree
2 69 (25.56%) CISSP
3 60 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 33 (12.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 28 (10.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (10.37%) SC Cleared
6 26 (9.63%) CISM
7 20 (7.41%) GIAC
8 18 (6.67%) CREST Certified
9 16 (5.93%) DV Cleared
10 13 (4.81%) CEH
11 11 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (3.70%) CISA
13 7 (2.59%) Master's Degree
14 6 (2.22%) CCIE
14 6 (2.22%) CCNP
14 6 (2.22%) GCFA
15 5 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.85%) CCSP
15 5 (1.85%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (21.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (15.19%) NIST
3 26 (9.63%) GDPR
4 16 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (4.81%) GRC
6 9 (3.33%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (2.22%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.85%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.85%) NIST 800
10 5 (1.85%) SLA
11 4 (1.48%) ISO 9001
11 4 (1.48%) NCSC
12 3 (1.11%) PMO
13 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.74%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
13 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.48%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.74%) Docker
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.48%) Nessus
3 3 (1.11%) SELinux
4 2 (0.74%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.37%) QRadar
5 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.81%) Splunk
3 12 (4.44%) Cisco
4 9 (3.33%) VMware
5 6 (2.22%) Sage
5 6 (2.22%) Workday
6 3 (1.11%) Apple
6 3 (1.11%) Darktrace
7 2 (0.74%) ArcSight
7 2 (0.74%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.74%) F5
7 2 (0.74%) Google
7 2 (0.74%) IBM
7 2 (0.74%) Juniper
7 2 (0.74%) TippingPoint
7 2 (0.74%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.37%) Citrix
8 1 (0.37%) Qualys
8 1 (0.37%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.37%) Tripwire