Cyber Defence Jobs

Cyber Defence
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 666 798 764
Rank change year-on-year +132 -34 -194
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 53 118 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 35 67 47
10th Percentile £43,851 £53,381 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,875 £65,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £90,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +50.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,500 £107,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,750 - £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,750 £102,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -40.73% +64.00% +35.14%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cyber Defence 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 21,092 37,154 40,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 33.35% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,772 23,650 21,978
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £109,865
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +4.76%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence.

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 June 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 +110 51 £65,000 -27.78% 478
London +87 28 £65,000 -27.78% 112
UK excluding London +143 24 £60,750 -40.73% 392
Midlands +103 7 £57,000 +8.57% 58
West Midlands - 7 £57,000 - 32
Work from Home +109 6 £100,000 +48.15% 256
South East +86 6 £74,000 +21.31% 72
North of England +63 4 £55,000 -12.00% 92
North West +29 4 £55,000 -15.38% 45
East of England - 4 - - 87
Scotland +99 1 £135,652 +83.31% 16
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 15

Cyber Defence
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 4 (7.55%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (7.55%) IaaS
3 4 (7.55%) PaaS
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.66%) SaaS
5 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) Firewall
2 5 (9.43%) Network Security
3 3 (5.66%) FTP
3 3 (5.66%) HTTP
3 3 (5.66%) LAN
3 3 (5.66%) SMTP
3 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.66%) VPN
3 3 (5.66%) WAN
4 1 (1.89%) 4G
4 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.89%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) JUnit
2 1 (1.89%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Games
5 2 (3.77%) Military
5 2 (3.77%) Police
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Analyst
2 12 (22.64%) Lead
2 12 (22.64%) Security Manager
3 11 (20.75%) Security Analyst
4 7 (13.21%) Operational Security Manager
4 7 (13.21%) Operations Manager
4 7 (13.21%) Security Operations Manager
5 5 (9.43%) Information Manager
5 5 (9.43%) Information Security Manager
5 5 (9.43%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) SOC Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Head of Security
8 2 (3.77%) IT Security Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Security Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.77%) LDAP
1 2 (3.77%) Leaflet
2 1 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.89%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (20.75%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (9.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 5 (9.43%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.66%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.66%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.77%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.89%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (47.17%) Security Operations
3 18 (33.96%) Incident Response
3 18 (33.96%) Information Security
4 16 (30.19%) SIEM
5 14 (26.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 14 (26.42%) Threat Intelligence
6 13 (24.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (20.75%) Risk Management
8 10 (18.87%) Agile
8 10 (18.87%) Cloud Security
9 9 (16.98%) Coaching
9 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
10 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (13.21%) Information Security Management
11 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.21%) Vulnerability Management
12 6 (11.32%) Performance Metrics
12 6 (11.32%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.55%) R
2 2 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (3.77%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) Bash
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.89%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) CISSP
3 8 (15.09%) CISM
4 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 7 (13.21%) DV Cleared
4 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
5 6 (11.32%) GCIH
6 5 (9.43%) GIAC
7 3 (5.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (5.66%) CCSP
7 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.66%) CREST Certified
8 2 (3.77%) CCSAS
8 2 (3.77%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (3.77%) CISMP
8 2 (3.77%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.89%) ISSEP
9 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.89%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (24.53%) NIST
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) GRC
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (3.77%) NCSC
5 1 (1.89%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) CASB
1 1 (1.89%) Kibana
1 1 (1.89%) Nessus
1 1 (1.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.87%) Splunk
3 3 (5.66%) Rapid7
4 2 (3.77%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.89%) Qualys