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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 579 479
Rank change year-on-year +411 -100 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 997 337 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 0.34% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.21% 0.96% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 23 254 130
10th Percentile £41,600 £41,909 £39,826
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +16.10% +6.21%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £91,991 £79,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £50,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +17.00% -13.79% +16.00%

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 19,141 35,171 44,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 35.49% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,995 23,063 23,482
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,500 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the UK

Cyberattack
Top 15 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 9 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 +397 993 £65,000 -4.41% 147
UK excluding London +436 899 £58,500 +17.00% 103
North of England +279 734 £65,000 +30.00% 24
North West +225 717 £61,750 +23.50% 17
Work from Home +366 558 £51,250 -29.31% 97
London +88 80 £66,250 -11.67% 57
South East +136 66 £44,000 -10.66% 32
South West +84 44 - - 10
Midlands +77 30 £42,000 +31.25% 10
East of England +56 23 £70,000 -26.32% 22
East Midlands +56 18 - - 4
Yorkshire +57 16 £80,000 +60.00% 5
West Midlands +62 12 £42,000 +31.25% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £43,000 -
North East - 1 - - 2

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 (2.31%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 221 (22.17%) AWS
2 218 (21.87%) Azure
3 167 (16.75%) GCP
4 49 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
4 49 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 399 (40.02%) DNS
2 397 (39.82%) VPN
3 6 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (0.50%) Firewall
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) SMTP
5 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.20%) VLAN
6 1 (0.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (4.61%) Big Data
General
1 962 (96.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 470 (47.14%) Finance
3 450 (45.14%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (29.09%) Law
5 288 (28.89%) Legal
6 7 (0.70%) Social Skills
7 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.30%) Games
9 2 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.20%) Marketing
9 2 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.10%) Electronics
10 1 (0.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 446 (44.73%) Developer
1 446 (44.73%) Software Developer
2 196 (19.66%) Senior
3 169 (16.95%) Senior Software Engineer
3 169 (16.95%) Software Engineer
4 46 (4.61%) Data Scientist
5 23 (2.31%) Senior Data Scientist
6 18 (1.81%) Project Manager
7 11 (1.10%) Analyst
8 8 (0.80%) Security Analyst
9 5 (0.50%) Consultant
9 5 (0.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (0.50%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (0.50%) Security Consultant
10 4 (0.40%) Security Engineer
11 3 (0.30%) IT Security Officer
11 3 (0.30%) Security Officer
12 2 (0.20%) Linux Administrator
12 2 (0.20%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 2 (0.20%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (21.77%) Node.js
2 216 (21.66%) .NET
3 49 (4.91%) Pandas
4 3 (0.30%) React
5 2 (0.20%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.20%) OAuth
5 2 (0.20%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.10%) REST
6 1 (0.10%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 167 (16.75%) Linux Command Line
1 167 (16.75%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (4.61%) Algorithms
3 15 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (0.70%) Management Information System
5 5 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.30%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.20%) CSOC
7 2 (0.20%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 616 (61.79%) Linux
2 446 (44.73%) Android
3 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (73.32%) Line Management
2 635 (63.69%) Agile
3 492 (49.35%) Mathematics
4 447 (44.83%) Design Patterns
4 447 (44.83%) OO
5 446 (44.73%) Android Development
5 446 (44.73%) OOP
6 306 (30.69%) Cybersecurity
7 283 (28.39%) Creative Thinking
8 243 (24.37%) Software Engineering
9 214 (21.46%) Machine Learning
10 208 (20.86%) Mentoring
11 192 (19.26%) Microservices
12 170 (17.05%) Cloud Security
13 167 (16.75%) Data Engineering
13 167 (16.75%) Scrum
13 167 (16.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 167 (16.75%) User Experience
14 95 (9.53%) Statistics
15 68 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 637 (63.89%) Python
2 636 (63.79%) Java
3 614 (61.58%) C++
4 613 (61.48%) Go
5 240 (24.07%) JavaScript
6 217 (21.77%) Rust
7 3 (0.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.20%) Bash
8 2 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 678 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 677 (67.90%) DV Cleared
3 167 (16.75%) AWS Certification
3 167 (16.75%) AWS Certified Developer
3 167 (16.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 50 (5.02%) Degree
5 23 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.31%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (0.50%) CISM
7 4 (0.40%) CISSP
8 3 (0.30%) CEH
9 2 (0.20%) CIPFA
9 2 (0.20%) ISEB
9 2 (0.20%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.10%) CASP
10 1 (0.10%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (28.99%) NCSC
2 18 (1.81%) PMBOK
3 16 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.00%) GDPR
6 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
8 2 (0.20%) GRC
8 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.10%) COBIT
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 469 (47.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.20%) Postfix
2 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 448 (44.93%) Ansible
2 72 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 49 (4.91%) Terraform
4 2 (0.20%) Nagios
4 2 (0.20%) Proxmox
4 2 (0.20%) Puppet
4 2 (0.20%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.10%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (1.10%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (0.20%) Darktrace
3 2 (0.20%) McAfee
3 2 (0.20%) Ping Identity
3 2 (0.20%) TippingPoint
3 2 (0.20%) VMware
4 1 (0.10%) IBM
4 1 (0.10%) Splunk