Tradecraft Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Tradecraft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Tradecraft skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 - 728
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Tradecraft 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £47,557
75th Percentile - - £48,809
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £102,500 - £47,557

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Tradecraft 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 46,931 24,830 57,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.85% 91.28% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,906 13,894 40,971
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%

Tradecraft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Tradecraft relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Tradecraft job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Tradecraft
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Tradecraft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Tradecraft

Tradecraft
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 Tradecraft within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2026. 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 - 2 - - 1
Tradecraft
UK

Tradecraft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 2 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) GCED
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk