Cyber Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cyber Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 728 1103
Rank change year-on-year -76 +375 -455
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 74 248 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.24% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.26% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 36 67 51
10th Percentile £38,153 £41,218 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,469 £47,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -3.85% -1.52%
75th Percentile £101,250 £79,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £53,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year +10.85% -0.21% -19.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cyber Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Intelligence over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Intelligence
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 -65 68 £67,000 -4.29% 19
UK excluding London -94 53 £58,750 +10.85% 12
Work from Home -87 23 £71,000 +16.39% 9
London +21 17 £86,250 +15.00% 6
South East -20 17 £58,750 -21.67% 3
South West -41 15 £55,029 -26.63% 2
North of England +17 14 £100,000 +86.92% 6
North West +2 12 £100,000 +86.92% 3
Midlands +1 3 £27,000 -64.00%
Scotland -56 3 £47,557 -0.32%
West Midlands - 3 £27,000 -
Yorkshire +52 2 - - 3
East of England +15 1 £20,000 -

Cyber Intelligence
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 2 (2.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (14.86%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.41%) AWS
5 3 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.35%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) Firewall
2 6 (8.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (8.11%) Network Security
3 4 (5.41%) HTTP
3 4 (5.41%) SMTP
3 4 (5.41%) SSL
3 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.70%) Big Data
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.35%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.35%) Mercurial
2 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (47.30%) Finance
2 16 (21.62%) Banking
3 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Law
5 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.76%) Aerospace
6 5 (6.76%) Games
7 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.05%) Electronics
8 3 (4.05%) Police
9 2 (2.70%) Legal
10 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Retail
10 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
1 17 (22.97%) Cyber Threat Specialist
1 17 (22.97%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 15 (20.27%) Analyst
2 15 (20.27%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 8 (10.81%) Lead
4 8 (10.81%) Security Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Senior Cyber Threat Specialist
4 8 (10.81%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 7 (9.46%) IT Manager
5 7 (9.46%) IT Security Manager
6 6 (8.11%) Cyber Intelligence Specialist
6 6 (8.11%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Database Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) .NET
1 1 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (1.35%) JMS
1 1 (1.35%) Kafka
1 1 (1.35%) Spring
1 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 54 (72.97%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (17.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (10.81%) Cyberattack
4 6 (8.11%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.70%) FPGA
6 2 (2.70%) Insider Threat
6 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) CSOC
7 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.35%) SCADA
7 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (70.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 52 (70.27%) Threat Intelligence
2 34 (45.95%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (37.84%) Security Operations
4 21 (28.38%) Incident Response
5 19 (25.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 14 (18.92%) SIEM
7 13 (17.57%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (12.16%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.81%) GAP Analysis
9 8 (10.81%) Line Management
9 8 (10.81%) Risk Register
9 8 (10.81%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.81%) Task Automation
9 8 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (9.46%) Decision-Making
10 7 (9.46%) Incident Management
10 7 (9.46%) Open Source
11 6 (8.11%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.76%) Python
3 2 (2.70%) Bash
3 2 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.51%) GIAC
4 7 (9.46%) CISSP
4 7 (9.46%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.11%) CREST Certified
6 5 (6.76%) Degree
7 4 (5.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (5.41%) CCSP
7 4 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.41%) CRISC
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.70%) CEH
9 2 (2.70%) CISM
9 2 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.35%) CASP
10 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) GRC
1 9 (12.16%) NIST
2 8 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.41%) ISO 9001
4 3 (4.05%) NCSC
5 2 (2.70%) GDPR
5 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.35%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.35%) ISA99
6 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (14.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.70%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (10.81%) Qualys
3 4 (5.41%) Oracle
4 3 (4.05%) Intel
4 3 (4.05%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) CA
5 1 (1.35%) Google
5 1 (1.35%) Perforce