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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 694 665
Rank change year-on-year +163 -29 +49
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 55 65 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.091% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 45 54 61
10th Percentile £40,800 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -16.00% +13.38%
75th Percentile £73,000 £61,250 £72,647
90th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,000 £55,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +30.91% -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 36,826 59,821 56,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.51% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,888 41,261 29,198
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 21 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 21 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 +83 21 £74,000 +74.12% 57
East of England +44 8 £46,250 +5.71% 9
Midlands +67 7 £52,500 -32.26% 4
South West +122 6 £51,058 -2.75% 5
Scotland +120 6 £45,000 -15.09% 6
West Midlands +62 6 £53,750 -30.65% 4
North of England +31 6 £58,500 +17.00% 19
North West -9 5 £64,250 +28.50% 9
Yorkshire +60 1 £54,000 -19.35% 10
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
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 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) AWS
1 18 (32.73%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.09%) GCP
5 4 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.64%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.82%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.82%) Serverless
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (36.36%) Firewall
2 12 (21.82%) DNS
3 11 (20.00%) VPN
4 9 (16.36%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.09%) DHCP
5 5 (9.09%) HTTP
6 4 (7.27%) VLAN
7 3 (5.45%) Network Security
7 3 (5.45%) SMTP
8 2 (3.64%) FTP
8 2 (3.64%) HTTPS
8 2 (3.64%) SSH
8 2 (3.64%) SSL
9 1 (1.82%) Internet
9 1 (1.82%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.82%) NAS
9 1 (1.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) MySQL
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 22 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.73%) Telecoms
4 6 (10.91%) Law
5 5 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (7.27%) Finance
6 4 (7.27%) Retail
7 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.82%) Automotive
9 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Security Engineer
2 14 (25.45%) Analyst
3 9 (16.36%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) SOC Manager
5 6 (10.91%) Security Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior
8 3 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Consultant
8 3 (5.45%) Development Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Information Security Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Security Manager
9 2 (3.64%) IT Consultant
9 2 (3.64%) IT Sales Consultant
9 2 (3.64%) Operations Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Sales Consultant
9 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) EDI
1 2 (3.64%) LAMP
1 2 (3.64%) Loki
1 2 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.82%) Security Posture
2 18 (32.73%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (30.91%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (7.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.45%) Replication
7 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.64%) Life Science
7 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.64%) PKI
7 2 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (3.64%) YARA
8 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.82%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Windows
3 2 (3.64%) AIX
3 2 (3.64%) CentOS
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (3.64%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) VMS
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (76.36%) Incident Response
2 41 (74.55%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (52.73%) SIEM
4 25 (45.45%) Security Operations
5 21 (38.18%) Cloud Security
6 20 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (34.55%) Threat Intelligence
8 13 (23.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 12 (21.82%) Vulnerability Management
10 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (14.55%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (14.55%) Information Security
11 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
11 8 (14.55%) SOAR
11 8 (14.55%) Use Case
12 7 (12.73%) Incident Management
12 7 (12.73%) Kalman Filter
13 6 (10.91%) Data Loss Prevention
13 6 (10.91%) Open Source
13 6 (10.91%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.09%) Bash
5 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.64%) AWK
6 2 (3.64%) C
6 2 (3.64%) C++
6 2 (3.64%) Korn
6 2 (3.64%) Perl
6 2 (3.64%) PHP
6 2 (3.64%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) CISSP
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) CISM
3 8 (14.55%) Degree
4 6 (10.91%) CEH
5 5 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (9.09%) GCIH
5 5 (9.09%) GIAC
6 4 (7.27%) OSCP
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.64%) GCIA
8 1 (1.82%) CCNA
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.82%) SANS
8 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (23.64%) NIST
3 9 (16.36%) GDPR
4 4 (7.27%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.45%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.82%) GRC
7 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
2 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.64%) KVM
3 2 (3.64%) Postfix
3 2 (3.64%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.82%) Snort
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) QRadar
2 4 (7.27%) Ansible
2 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Nessus
3 3 (5.45%) Terraform
4 2 (3.64%) Grafana
4 2 (3.64%) Nagios
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.82%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 26 (47.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.45%) Splunk
3 8 (14.55%) Google
4 6 (10.91%) ArcSight
5 5 (9.09%) Cisco
5 5 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.45%) Oracle
7 2 (3.64%) IBM
7 2 (3.64%) LogRhythm
7 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.64%) SAP
7 2 (3.64%) Tenable
8 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.82%) Qualys
8 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.82%) VMware