Threat Detection Jobs in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 704 677
Rank change year-on-year +185 -27 +43
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 58 67 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.090% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 47 57 58
10th Percentile £38,800 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,625 £41,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -11.80% +13.38%
75th Percentile £74,000 £62,500 £72,647
90th Percentile £91,000 £80,500 £79,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +27.27% -20.08% +19.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in the UK excluding London

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +87 24 £74,500 +75.29% 161
Midlands +94 9 £52,500 -32.26% 75
West Midlands +65 8 £53,750 -30.65% 40
East of England +49 8 £46,250 +5.71% 71
South West +103 7 £51,058 -2.75% 58
Scotland +119 6 £45,000 -32.33% 22
North of England +34 3 £70,000 +40.00% 87
North West -2 3 £70,000 +40.00% 36
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 - 30
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.62%) GCP
6 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.17%) Serverless
7 3 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.72%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 25 (43.10%) Firewall
2 15 (25.86%) VPN
3 11 (18.97%) DNS
4 10 (17.24%) TCP/IP
5 5 (8.62%) DHCP
6 4 (6.90%) VLAN
7 3 (5.17%) HTTP
7 3 (5.17%) Network Security
7 3 (5.17%) SMTP
8 2 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.72%) Internet
9 1 (1.72%) NAS
9 1 (1.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) MySQL
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.07%) Law
3 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (6.90%) Finance
5 4 (6.90%) Retail
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Automotive
7 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Security Engineer
2 17 (29.31%) Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 8 (13.79%) SOC Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) SOC Manager
6 6 (10.34%) Security Analyst
7 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Consultant
9 3 (5.17%) Development Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Information Security Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Security Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (39.66%) Security Posture
2 21 (36.21%) Cyber Threat
3 20 (34.48%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (6.90%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.45%) PKI
6 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.45%) Tandem
6 2 (3.45%) YARA
7 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.72%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.72%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Linux
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) VMS
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) Cybersecurity
1 43 (74.14%) Incident Response
2 32 (55.17%) SIEM
3 28 (48.28%) Security Operations
4 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (36.21%) Cloud Security
5 21 (36.21%) Threat Intelligence
6 15 (25.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 12 (20.69%) Vulnerability Management
8 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (13.79%) Information Security
9 8 (13.79%) SOAR
9 8 (13.79%) Use Case
10 7 (12.07%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (12.07%) Kalman Filter
10 7 (12.07%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 7 (12.07%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.34%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) Kusto Query Language
3 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.07%) Bash
5 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.69%) CISSP
4 8 (13.79%) CISM
4 8 (13.79%) Degree
5 7 (12.07%) CEH
5 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
6 5 (8.62%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (8.62%) GCIH
6 5 (8.62%) GIAC
6 5 (8.62%) OSCP
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.45%) GCIA
8 1 (1.72%) CCNA
8 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.72%) SANS
8 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (29.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (22.41%) NIST
3 9 (15.52%) GDPR
4 4 (6.90%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.72%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.72%) Snort
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) QRadar
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
3 5 (8.62%) Terraform
4 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.72%) Nessus
5 1 (1.72%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Microsoft
2 17 (29.31%) Splunk
3 8 (13.79%) Google
4 6 (10.34%) ArcSight
5 5 (8.62%) Cisco
6 4 (6.90%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.45%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle
8 1 (1.72%) Qualys
8 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.72%) VMware