Advanced Persistent Threat Jobs

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Advanced Persistent Threat skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Advanced Persistent Threat over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 726 898 967
Rank change year-on-year +172 +69 +255
Permanent jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat 4 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.001% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.001% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £60,250 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
75th Percentile £69,375 - £72,500
90th Percentile £69,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Advanced Persistent Threat 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,380 85,029 95,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.31% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,821 55,996
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%

Advanced Persistent Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Advanced Persistent Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat.

Salary trend for Advanced Persistent Threat in the UK

Advanced Persistent Threat
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Advanced Persistent Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +142 4 £65,000 - 7
UK excluding London +182 3 £65,000 - 1
South East +85 2 - -
Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1
London - 1 £65,000 - 6

Advanced Persistent Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Law
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Information Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Hunter
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Hunter
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Forensics
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Forensics
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (50.00%) Security Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCFP
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) EnCE
1 2 (50.00%) GCFA
1 2 (50.00%) GCFE
1 2 (50.00%) GREM
2 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) EnCase
1 2 (50.00%) FTK
1 2 (50.00%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) FireEye
2 2 (50.00%) NetWitness
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Intel