Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 28 July 2021

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberthreat in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberthreat over the 6 months to 28 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Cyberthreat
UK
6 months to
28 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 660 539 704
Rank change year-on-year -121 +165 -265
Permanent jobs citing Cyberthreat 346 261 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.78% 1.06% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 225 167 277
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% +0.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £79,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,750 £52,613
% change year-on-year +4.27% +0.26% -4.34%

Cyberthreat is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 44,239 24,658 50,681
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.17% 35.47% 35.19%
Number of salaries quoted 26,825 19,623 38,762
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,986 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

Cyberthreat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberthreat in the UK

Cyberthreat
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyberthreat in the UK

Cyberthreat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberthreat over the 6 months to 28 July 2021.

Salary histogram for Cyberthreat in the UK

Cyberthreat
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberthreat within the UK over the 6 months to 28 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -105 298 £65,000 +8.33% 56
UK excluding London -99 186 £55,000 +4.27% 45
London -103 131 £65,000 -3.70% 14
Work from Home -192 49 £67,500 -10.00% 4
South East -76 41 £62,500 +25.00% 12
North of England -36 39 £45,000 +20.00% 12
South West -79 32 £57,000 +8.57% 7
East of England -18 28 £63,750 -20.31% 3
Scotland -51 25 £54,500 -26.10% 1
Yorkshire -33 23 £40,000 +23.08% 6
Midlands -93 19 £68,750 +14.58% 7
West Midlands -105 17 £77,500 +29.17% 6
North West -46 11 £45,000 +20.00% 6
North East - 5 £57,500 -
Wales -31 2 £41,250 - 3

For the 6 months to 28 July 2021, IT jobs citing Cyberthreat also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Cyberthreat.

1 208 (60.12%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (46.82%) Information Security
3 119 (34.39%) Threat Intelligence
4 112 (32.37%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 104 (30.06%) Social Skills
6 99 (28.61%) Risk Management
7 96 (27.75%) Security Operations
8 87 (25.14%) Management Information System
9 79 (22.83%) Firewall
10 78 (22.54%) Cyber Intelligence
11 76 (21.97%) SIEM
12 74 (21.39%) Linux
13 71 (20.52%) Security Cleared
14 69 (19.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 65 (18.79%) Microsoft
15 65 (18.79%) Finance
16 64 (18.50%) CISSP
16 64 (18.50%) Azure
17 60 (17.34%) Vulnerability Management
18 56 (16.18%) Python
19 51 (14.74%) Degree
20 50 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
21 49 (14.16%) AWS
22 48 (13.87%) Windows
23 45 (13.01%) Middleware
23 45 (13.01%) Penetration Testing
24 41 (11.85%) ITIL
25 40 (11.56%) Agile Software Development
26 39 (11.27%) Mentoring
27 37 (10.69%) Cyberattack

Cyberthreat
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.18%) IIS
2 7 (2.02%) Apache
3 4 (1.16%) JBoss
4 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (5.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 18 (5.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 64 (18.50%) Azure
2 49 (14.16%) AWS
3 22 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.05%) GCP
4 14 (4.05%) SaaS
5 9 (2.60%) Google App Engine
6 7 (2.02%) Azure Active Directory
7 5 (1.45%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.16%) PaaS
9 1 (0.29%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 79 (22.83%) Firewall
2 35 (10.12%) Network Security
3 18 (5.20%) HTTP
4 16 (4.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 16 (4.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 16 (4.62%) TCP/IP
5 15 (4.34%) Cisco ASA
6 12 (3.47%) Intrusion Detection
6 12 (3.47%) SAN
7 11 (3.18%) VPN
8 10 (2.89%) 802.11
9 8 (2.31%) DNS
9 8 (2.31%) SNMP
10 7 (2.02%) FTP
11 6 (1.73%) SSL
12 5 (1.45%) SMTP
12 5 (1.45%) VLAN
12 5 (1.45%) VoIP
12 5 (1.45%) Wireless
13 4 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.60%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.16%) Big Data
2 4 (1.16%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.16%) MySQL
3 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.29%) Redis
4 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (4.05%) GitLab
2 10 (2.89%) Burp Suite
2 10 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.31%) Metasploit
4 6 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.45%) Git (software)
5 5 (1.45%) JIRA
5 5 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.16%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.16%) Selenium
7 2 (0.58%) AutoIt
8 1 (0.29%) Mocha
General
1 104 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.79%) Finance
3 50 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.91%) Banking
5 15 (4.34%) Retail
6 14 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (3.76%) Legal
7 13 (3.76%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.18%) Law
9 10 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.60%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.73%) Games
12 6 (1.73%) Military
13 4 (1.16%) Electronics
14 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (21.68%) Analyst
2 44 (12.72%) Consultant
3 34 (9.83%) Security Specialist
4 30 (8.67%) Security Manager
5 29 (8.38%) Security Analyst
6 28 (8.09%) Information Security Specialist
6 28 (8.09%) Information Specialist
7 23 (6.65%) Security Engineer
8 17 (4.91%) Information Manager
9 16 (4.62%) Architect
9 16 (4.62%) Information Security Manager
10 15 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 15 (4.34%) Security Operations Specialist
11 14 (4.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant
11 14 (4.05%) Cyberthreat Consultant
11 14 (4.05%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.05%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
12 13 (3.76%) Security Consultant
13 12 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 12 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.01%) Middleware
2 10 (2.89%) 802.1X
3 8 (2.31%) LDAP
4 7 (2.02%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (2.02%) Regular Expression
4 7 (2.02%) STL
5 5 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.16%) Gherkin
6 4 (1.16%) Node.js
6 4 (1.16%) Web Services
7 3 (0.87%) JSON
8 2 (0.58%) Loki
8 2 (0.58%) React
9 1 (0.29%) Django
9 1 (0.29%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.29%) Jest
9 1 (0.29%) RESTful
9 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.29%) ServiceStack
9 1 (0.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 87 (25.14%) Management Information System
2 37 (10.69%) Cyberattack
3 25 (7.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 20 (5.78%) Cyber Defence
5 16 (4.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 14 (4.05%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.18%) Cybercrime
7 11 (3.18%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.45%) SCADA
10 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.16%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 4 (1.16%) PMI
11 3 (0.87%) Life Science
11 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (21.39%) Linux
2 48 (13.87%) Windows
3 26 (7.51%) Unix
4 8 (2.31%) Kali Linux
4 8 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.73%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (60.12%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (46.82%) Information Security
3 119 (34.39%) Threat Intelligence
4 112 (32.37%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 99 (28.61%) Risk Management
6 96 (27.75%) Security Operations
7 78 (22.54%) Cyber Intelligence
8 76 (21.97%) SIEM
9 60 (17.34%) Vulnerability Management
10 45 (13.01%) Penetration Testing
11 41 (11.85%) ITIL
12 40 (11.56%) Agile Software Development
13 39 (11.27%) Mentoring
14 35 (10.12%) Security Architecture
15 32 (9.25%) Remediation Plan
16 31 (8.96%) Patch Management
16 31 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (8.96%) Threat Detection
16 31 (8.96%) Use Case
17 29 (8.38%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (16.18%) Python
2 24 (6.94%) PowerShell
3 22 (6.36%) Java
4 20 (5.78%) Bash Shell
4 20 (5.78%) C++
5 17 (4.91%) C
6 15 (4.34%) Ruby
7 12 (3.47%) C#
8 10 (2.89%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.60%) Go
10 8 (2.31%) Lua
11 5 (1.45%) PHP
12 4 (1.16%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 2 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 64 (18.50%) CISSP
3 51 (14.74%) Degree
4 33 (9.54%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.25%) CISM
6 28 (8.09%) SC Cleared
7 21 (6.07%) SANS
8 16 (4.62%) CISA
9 14 (4.05%) CEH
10 13 (3.76%) OSCP
11 12 (3.47%) GIAC
12 8 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (2.31%) CISMP
12 8 (2.31%) IISP
13 7 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.02%) CREST Certified
13 7 (2.02%) CRISC
14 6 (1.73%) GCFE
14 6 (1.73%) Master's Degree
15 5 (1.45%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (19.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (10.69%) PCI DSS
3 28 (8.09%) COBIT
4 24 (6.94%) NIST
5 22 (6.36%) GRC
6 15 (4.34%) GDPR
7 13 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (3.76%) NCSC
8 10 (2.89%) QA
9 9 (2.60%) SLA
10 8 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (1.16%) Def Stans
13 4 (1.16%) HIPAA
13 4 (1.16%) JSP 440
13 4 (1.16%) RMADS
14 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.47%) Docker
2 12 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.16%) Firmware
3 4 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.87%) HDFS
4 3 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.87%) NFS
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (5.20%) Nessus
2 15 (4.34%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 10 (2.89%) Nmap
5 9 (2.60%) CSIRT
6 8 (2.31%) Ansible
7 7 (2.02%) EnCase
8 5 (1.45%) Terraform
9 3 (0.87%) Puppet
10 2 (0.58%) FTK
10 2 (0.58%) QRadar
11 1 (0.29%) CASB
11 1 (0.29%) Demisto
11 1 (0.29%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 65 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.38%) ServiceNow
3 25 (7.23%) CheckPoint
3 25 (7.23%) Cisco
4 20 (5.78%) Splunk
5 17 (4.91%) Google
6 16 (4.62%) F5
7 15 (4.34%) Apple
7 15 (4.34%) Zscaler
8 12 (3.47%) VMware
9 10 (2.89%) LogRhythm
10 9 (2.60%) Qualys
11 6 (1.73%) Blue Coat
11 6 (1.73%) Darktrace
11 6 (1.73%) FireEye
12 5 (1.45%) McAfee
12 5 (1.45%) Meraki
12 5 (1.45%) Oracle
13 4 (1.16%) Agilent
13 4 (1.16%) Intel
64 Cyberthreat job vacancies Nationwide