Cyberattack Jobs

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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 456 529
Rank change year-on-year +327 +73 -65
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 1,387 543 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.32% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.37% 1.52% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 23 250 119
10th Percentile £42,000 £35,000 £36,219
25th Percentile £50,625 £47,500 £42,385
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,959 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +15.45% +0.87%
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,991 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £50,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +17.50% -13.79% +5.45%

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 21,766 35,609 37,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.43% 33.52% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,376 22,654 22,048
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £64,015
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -14.08% +2.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £99,750 £108,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 14 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 7 July 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 +318 1,384 £60,000 -4.00% 92
UK excluding London +311 1,229 £58,750 +17.50% 70
North of England +153 1,036 £65,000 +30.00% 14
North West +95 976 £65,000 +30.00% 11
Work from Home +431 911 £50,000 -35.48% 36
London +112 102 £63,750 -15.00% 32
South East +127 78 £44,000 -25.11% 13
Yorkshire +69 59 £70,000 +40.00% 2
South West +79 47 - - 5
Midlands +101 34 - - 13
East of England +62 34 - - 19
East Midlands +68 26 - - 8
West Midlands +63 8 - - 5
North East +32 1 - - 1

Cyberattack
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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (1.66%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.072%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 316 (22.78%) AWS
2 231 (16.65%) Azure
3 179 (12.91%) GCP
4 82 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
4 82 (5.91%) Serverless
5 49 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.072%) Asana
8 1 (0.072%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 659 (47.51%) VPN
2 397 (28.62%) DNS
3 262 (18.89%) Cisco IOS
4 82 (5.91%) Broadband
4 82 (5.91%) SSH
4 82 (5.91%) SSL
5 5 (0.36%) Firewall
6 2 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.14%) VLAN
7 1 (0.072%) Intranet
7 1 (0.072%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (3.32%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (0.072%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.072%) Metasploit
1 1 (0.072%) SonarQube
General
1 1,236 (89.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 748 (53.93%) Analytical Skills
3 467 (33.67%) Finance
4 291 (20.98%) Law
5 286 (20.62%) Legal
6 125 (9.01%) Social Skills
7 3 (0.22%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.14%) Marketing
8 2 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.072%) Games
9 1 (0.072%) Retail
Job Titles
1 446 (32.16%) Developer
1 446 (32.16%) Software Developer
2 262 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 207 (14.92%) Senior
4 179 (12.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 179 (12.91%) Software Engineer
5 84 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 82 (5.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 46 (3.32%) Data Scientist
8 39 (2.81%) PLC Engineer
9 23 (1.66%) Senior Data Scientist
10 18 (1.30%) Project Manager
11 7 (0.50%) Analyst
12 6 (0.43%) Consultant
12 6 (0.43%) Information Security Consultant
12 6 (0.43%) Security Analyst
12 6 (0.43%) Security Consultant
13 4 (0.29%) Operations Analyst
13 4 (0.29%) Security Engineer
14 3 (0.22%) Compliance Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (18.89%) Elastic Stack
2 228 (16.44%) Node.js
3 227 (16.37%) .NET
4 82 (5.91%) RESTful
4 82 (5.91%) Web Services
5 49 (3.53%) Pandas
6 3 (0.22%) React
7 2 (0.14%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.14%) OAuth
7 2 (0.14%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.072%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 178 (12.83%) Linux Command Line
1 178 (12.83%) Self-Motivation
2 96 (6.92%) Cyber Threat
3 88 (6.34%) Management Information System
4 82 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 82 (5.91%) PKI
5 46 (3.32%) Algorithms
6 39 (2.81%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.14%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.072%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.072%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 889 (64.10%) Linux
2 708 (51.05%) Android
3 263 (18.96%) Windows
4 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (71.59%) Line Management
2 754 (54.36%) Mathematics
3 645 (46.50%) Agile
4 446 (32.16%) Android Development
4 446 (32.16%) Design Patterns
4 446 (32.16%) OO
4 446 (32.16%) OOP
5 426 (30.71%) Cybersecurity
6 369 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
7 367 (26.46%) DevOps
8 292 (21.05%) Software Engineering
9 283 (20.40%) Creative Thinking
9 283 (20.40%) Risk Management
10 262 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 262 (18.89%) Platform Engineering
10 262 (18.89%) Storage Management
10 262 (18.89%) Task Automation
11 224 (16.15%) Machine Learning
12 219 (15.79%) Mentoring
13 203 (14.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 992 (71.52%) Python
2 647 (46.65%) Java
3 624 (44.99%) C++
3 624 (44.99%) Go
4 265 (19.11%) Bash
5 263 (18.96%) PowerShell
6 251 (18.10%) JavaScript
7 227 (16.37%) Rust
8 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 690 (49.75%) Security Cleared
2 688 (49.60%) DV Cleared
3 178 (12.83%) AWS Certification
3 178 (12.83%) AWS Certified Developer
3 178 (12.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 49 (3.53%) Degree
5 39 (2.81%) HND
6 24 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.66%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.14%) CISA
8 2 (0.14%) CISSP
8 2 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.14%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.14%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.072%) CEH
9 1 (0.072%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.072%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.072%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.072%) OSCE
9 1 (0.072%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (20.69%) NCSC
2 94 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 86 (6.20%) NIST
4 18 (1.30%) PMBOK
5 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.58%) GDPR
6 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.14%) GRC
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.072%) GPG13
9 1 (0.072%) RMADS
9 1 (0.072%) SOC 2
System Software
1 731 (52.70%) Docker
2 262 (18.89%) Hyper-V
2 262 (18.89%) VMware NSX
2 262 (18.89%) vSphere
3 82 (5.91%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.14%) Postfix
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 710 (51.19%) Ansible
2 393 (28.33%) Terraform
3 72 (5.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.14%) Nagios
4 2 (0.14%) Proxmox
4 2 (0.14%) Puppet
4 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.072%) Nessus
5 1 (0.072%) Nmap
5 1 (0.072%) QRadar
Vendors
1 263 (18.96%) Splunk
2 262 (18.89%) 3PAR
2 262 (18.89%) Cisco
2 262 (18.89%) Juniper
3 82 (5.91%) Thales
4 10 (0.72%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.14%) Ping Identity
5 2 (0.14%) TippingPoint
5 2 (0.14%) VMware
6 1 (0.072%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.072%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.072%) Google
6 1 (0.072%) IBM
6 1 (0.072%) McAfee
6 1 (0.072%) Sun