Cyberattack
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 112 414
Rank change year-on-year -84 +302 +82
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 1,028 1,306 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.65% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.98% 6.46% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 126 24 221
10th Percentile £28,000 £42,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £50,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £61,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% -9.26% +16.38%
75th Percentile £70,063 £80,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,266 £90,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -50.00% +14.29% -11.02%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,799 20,211 31,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.79% 41.08% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16,442 10,061 19,771
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,251 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -9.09%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyberattack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the UK

Cyberattack
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyberattack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cyberattack

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the UK over the 6 months to 21 July 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
UK excluding London -56 959 £30,000 -50.00% 36
England -94 863 £35,000 -44.00% 42
North of England -96 291 £30,000 -53.85% 17
Yorkshire +51 187 £30,000 -57.14% 7
Midlands +88 178 £42,000 - 2
South East +44 156 £45,000 -5.26% 6
South West +21 135 £66,780 - 5
Work from Home -279 110 £59,500 +5.78% 8
East Midlands +43 98 £35,000 -
Scotland +90 90 - - 1
West Midlands +52 80 £70,000 - 2
North West -163 74 £55,000 -15.38% 9
East of England +28 60 - - 3
London -42 49 £60,000 -5.88% 13
Wales - 45 - - 1
North East -18 30 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 15 - - 1

Cyberattack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (0.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 872 (84.82%) Azure
2 31 (3.02%) Entra ID
3 23 (2.24%) Google Workspace
4 17 (1.65%) AWS
5 13 (1.26%) GCP
6 8 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (0.58%) Power Platform
8 5 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.29%) Cloudflare
9 3 (0.29%) Mimecast
9 3 (0.29%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.19%) Akamai
10 2 (0.19%) IaaS
10 2 (0.19%) PaaS
11 1 (0.097%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.45%) Broadband
2 10 (0.97%) Firewall
3 8 (0.78%) DNS
4 5 (0.49%) DHCP
4 5 (0.49%) Internet
4 5 (0.49%) VPN
5 4 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (0.39%) SSH
5 4 (0.39%) SSL
6 3 (0.29%) Network Security
7 2 (0.19%) HTTP
8 1 (0.097%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.58%) Power BI
2 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Git
1 5 (0.49%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.097%) JIRA
General
1 894 (86.96%) Social Skills
2 56 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (3.40%) Games
4 26 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (1.17%) Law
7 10 (0.97%) Legal
8 9 (0.88%) Finance
9 6 (0.58%) Police
9 6 (0.58%) Retail
10 2 (0.19%) Advertising
10 2 (0.19%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.19%) Military
11 1 (0.097%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 825 (80.25%) Ethical Hacker
2 65 (6.32%) Senior
3 51 (4.96%) Sales Representative
4 35 (3.40%) Architect
5 29 (2.82%) Senior Sales Representative
6 23 (2.24%) Analyst
7 21 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.56%) Consultant
9 11 (1.07%) Lead
10 9 (0.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 9 (0.88%) Developer
10 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Architect
10 9 (0.88%) Security Analyst
10 9 (0.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 8 (0.78%) Security Engineer
11 8 (0.78%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (0.68%) IAM Developer
12 7 (0.68%) IT Analyst
12 7 (0.68%) IT Security Analyst
13 6 (0.58%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.72%) OAuth
1 28 (2.72%) OpenID
1 28 (2.72%) SAML
2 23 (2.24%) GraphQL
2 23 (2.24%) LDAP
2 23 (2.24%) REST
2 23 (2.24%) SOAP
3 6 (0.58%) Regular Expression
4 5 (0.49%) .NET
5 4 (0.39%) Node.js
5 4 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.13%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (1.17%) AI Agents
2 12 (1.17%) Onboarding
3 11 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 7 (0.68%) Security Posture
6 6 (0.58%) CSOC
6 6 (0.58%) Low-Code
6 6 (0.58%) Social Media
7 5 (0.49%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.39%) PKI
9 3 (0.29%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.19%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.19%) Shadow IT
11 1 (0.097%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.097%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.097%) IoT
11 1 (0.097%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.097%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.07%) Windows
2 8 (0.78%) Linux
3 3 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (93.87%) Cybersecurity
2 826 (80.35%) Ethical Hacking
3 49 (4.77%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (4.47%) Roadmaps
5 45 (4.38%) Programme Delivery
6 42 (4.09%) Mentoring
7 35 (3.40%) Identity Access Management
8 34 (3.31%) ITIL
9 30 (2.92%) TOGAF
10 29 (2.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (2.63%) Line Management
12 24 (2.33%) Incident Response
12 24 (2.33%) Regulatory Compliance
13 22 (2.14%) Information Security
13 22 (2.14%) Time Management
14 18 (1.75%) AI
14 18 (1.75%) Decision-Making
15 17 (1.65%) Cloud Security
16 15 (1.46%) Agile
16 15 (1.46%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (3.21%) PowerShell
2 23 (2.24%) Bash
2 23 (2.24%) T-SQL
3 15 (1.46%) JavaScript
4 14 (1.36%) Python
4 14 (1.36%) SQL
5 4 (0.39%) Go
5 4 (0.39%) Java
5 4 (0.39%) Rust
6 3 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.097%) C
7 1 (0.097%) C#
7 1 (0.097%) C++
Qualifications
1 825 (80.25%) Azure Certification
1 825 (80.25%) CEH
2 29 (2.82%) Degree
3 18 (1.75%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (1.07%) SC Cleared
5 9 (0.88%) SANS
6 8 (0.78%) GIAC
7 6 (0.58%) CISSP
7 6 (0.58%) ISACA
8 5 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.097%) CCSAS
10 1 (0.097%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.097%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.097%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.097%) GPEN
10 1 (0.097%) GXPN
10 1 (0.097%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.097%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.54%) NIST
2 23 (2.24%) NCSC
3 21 (2.04%) GDPR
4 18 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.39%) SLA
7 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.097%) COBIT
9 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 35 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.49%) Docker
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (0.49%) Ansible
1 5 (0.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.19%) Terraform
3 1 (0.097%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (0.097%) SCCM
Vendors
1 848 (82.49%) Microsoft
2 825 (80.25%) ForeScout
3 11 (1.07%) ServiceNow
4 6 (0.58%) Checkmarx
5 5 (0.49%) ForgeRock
5 5 (0.49%) Google
5 5 (0.49%) Okta
6 4 (0.39%) Thales
7 3 (0.29%) Meraki
8 2 (0.19%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.19%) Splunk
8 2 (0.19%) VMware
9 1 (0.097%) Cisco
9 1 (0.097%) Sophos
9 1 (0.097%) Tenable
9 1 (0.097%) Zscaler