Cyber Defence Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence 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 Defence over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 501 452
Rank change year-on-year -186 -49 +188
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 71 277 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.45% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 1.08% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34 53 57
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £59,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +70.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,290 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £72,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.81% +31.74% -11.54%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Defence 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 23,856 25,595 30,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.04% 41.25% 43.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,215 11,533 15,779
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 Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in the UK excluding London

Cyber Defence
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 Defence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South West -61 43 £105,000 +13.92% 5
North of England -21 12 £62,500 -11.79% 8
South East -60 10 £66,410 -11.45% 4
North West 0 8 £65,000 -29.48% 2
Yorkshire +37 4 £32,500 -53.03% 5
Midlands +3 3 £52,500 -25.00% 4
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 -
Scotland -69 2 £74,000 -12.94%
East of England +21 1 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Cyber Defence
UK

Cyber Defence
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) AWS
2 6 (8.45%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.23%) IaaS
4 3 (4.23%) PaaS
5 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.41%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (30.99%) Firewall
2 20 (28.17%) Network Security
3 2 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.82%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.82%) VoIP
3 2 (2.82%) Wireless
4 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) Big Data
2 2 (2.82%) Power BI
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.41%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.41%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.41%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Subversion
2 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (38.03%) Aerospace
2 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
3 21 (29.58%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (25.35%) Military
5 6 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.63%) Finance
7 3 (4.23%) Law
8 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.41%) Electronics
9 1 (1.41%) Games
9 1 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Consultant
1 19 (26.76%) Senior
2 18 (25.35%) Security Consultant
3 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Head of Compliance
5 6 (8.45%) Head of Information
5 6 (8.45%) Head of Information Assurance
6 5 (7.04%) Architect
6 5 (7.04%) Lead
6 5 (7.04%) Security Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Security Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Security Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.23%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (1.41%) JMS
1 1 (1.41%) Kafka
1 1 (1.41%) POSIX
1 1 (1.41%) Spring
1 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) Security Operations Centre
2 13 (18.31%) Management Information System
3 12 (16.90%) Operational Technology
4 6 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (7.04%) Cyberattack
6 4 (5.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (5.63%) Security Posture
7 3 (4.23%) CSOC
7 3 (4.23%) IoT
8 2 (2.82%) FPGA
8 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.41%) Cybercrime
9 1 (1.41%) SCADA
9 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (38.03%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.41%) Android
4 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.41%) FreeBSD
4 1 (1.41%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (73.24%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (52.11%) Information Security
3 31 (43.66%) Agile
4 28 (39.44%) SIEM
5 26 (36.62%) Security Operations
6 24 (33.80%) Resource Management
7 23 (32.39%) Mentoring
8 22 (30.99%) Security Architecture
9 20 (28.17%) Coaching
9 20 (28.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 18 (25.35%) Programme Management
11 15 (21.13%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (18.31%) Actionable Insight
12 13 (18.31%) Digital Forensics
12 13 (18.31%) Malware Analysis
13 11 (15.49%) OSINT
13 11 (15.49%) Penetration Testing
13 11 (15.49%) Prototyping
14 10 (14.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 10 (14.08%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.94%) Python
2 14 (19.72%) Bash
3 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.82%) Java
5 1 (1.41%) C
5 1 (1.41%) C#
5 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (61.97%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.58%) DV Cleared
3 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.86%) CISSP
5 4 (5.63%) CISA
5 4 (5.63%) Degree
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CISM
6 2 (2.82%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (2.82%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.82%) CRISC
6 2 (2.82%) FFIEC
6 2 (2.82%) GCIA
6 2 (2.82%) GCIH
6 2 (2.82%) GIAC
6 2 (2.82%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.82%) PMP
6 2 (2.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (40.85%) NIST
2 24 (33.80%) NIST 800
3 10 (14.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (9.86%) GRC
4 7 (9.86%) NCSC
5 5 (7.04%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.23%) HMG Infosec
6 3 (4.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (4.23%) JSP 440
6 3 (4.23%) RMADS
7 2 (2.82%) COBIT
7 2 (2.82%) GLBA
7 2 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.41%) GDPR
8 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Ansible
2 3 (4.23%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) Splunk
3 2 (2.82%) Cisco
4 1 (1.41%) Darktrace