Cybercrime (Computer Crime)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cybercrime in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybercrime over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 515 938
Rank change year-on-year -340 +423 -124
Permanent jobs citing Cybercrime 36 611 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.57% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% 1.32% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 32 20 42
10th Percentile £35,559 £40,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,188 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £44,053
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +53.22% -11.89%
75th Percentile £113,750 £78,750 £67,813
90th Percentile £119,750 £81,250 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,241 £65,000 £40,208
% change year-on-year -22.71% +61.66% -21.16%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cybercrime is in the General and Transferable 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,581 46,397 71,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.59% 43.03% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 23,031 24,689 34,186
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,050 £83,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Cybercrime
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybercrime in the UK

Cybercrime
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybercrime in the UK

Cybercrime
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybercrime over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybercrime in the UK

Cybercrime
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybercrime within the UK over the 6 months to 16 April 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 -309 35 £65,000 -3.70% 33
London +21 23 £81,250 +54.76% 2
Work from Home +2 14 £60,000 -11.11% 1
UK excluding London -342 13 £50,241 -22.71% 30
North of England +30 5 £35,092 -48.01% 29
Midlands +8 3 £75,000 +27.66%
North West +1 3 £35,092 -48.01% 23
South West -42 3 £40,482 -
West Midlands +40 2 £82,500 +32.00%
North East -5 2 £35,092 - 1
East Midlands -21 1 £60,000 -
Scotland -74 1 £70,000 -12.50%
South East -183 1 £65,000 -16.13%

Cybercrime
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 15 (41.67%) SAS
2 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (41.67%) SPSS
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Relativity
2 2 (5.56%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 1 (2.78%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Dropbox
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.33%) Rubrik
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (5.56%) AWS
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 3 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (8.33%) Internet
2 3 (8.33%) iSCSI
2 3 (8.33%) LAN
2 3 (8.33%) Network Security
2 3 (8.33%) SAN
2 3 (8.33%) VoIP
2 3 (8.33%) WAN
2 3 (8.33%) WebEx
3 2 (5.56%) Wireless
4 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.78%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) Big Data
1 15 (41.67%) EDRMS
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL
General
1 20 (55.56%) Finance
2 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (44.44%) Legal
4 12 (33.33%) Law
5 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (13.89%) Banking
6 5 (13.89%) Police
7 4 (11.11%) Digital Economy
7 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
8 3 (8.33%) Marketing
8 3 (8.33%) Military
8 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (8.33%) Retail
9 2 (5.56%) Local Government
10 1 (2.78%) Back Office
10 1 (2.78%) Electronics
10 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Senior
2 6 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Business Manager
4 3 (8.33%) IT Support
4 3 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Resilience Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.56%) E-Discovery Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Forensic Investigator
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (2.78%) Compliance Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Senior IT Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 4 (11.11%) Taxonomies
3 3 (8.33%) Blog
3 3 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.56%) FPGA
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
1 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Information Security
2 17 (47.22%) Digital Forensics
3 16 (44.44%) Analytics
4 15 (41.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 15 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (41.67%) Data Analytics
4 15 (41.67%) E-Discovery
4 15 (41.67%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
4 15 (41.67%) Fintech
4 15 (41.67%) SDLC
5 11 (30.56%) Forensic Accounting
6 9 (25.00%) Project Management
7 7 (19.44%) Data Analysis
7 7 (19.44%) Security Operations
8 6 (16.67%) Agile
8 6 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (55.56%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) CCIE
4 2 (5.56%) CCNP
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.56%) CISSP
4 2 (5.56%) CREST Certified
4 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.78%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (2.78%) CISMP
5 1 (2.78%) GIAC
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (8.33%) vSphere
2 1 (2.78%) Firmware
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Intapp
3 3 (8.33%) 3PAR
3 3 (8.33%) Mitel
3 3 (8.33%) ShoreTel
3 3 (8.33%) VMware
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Nuix
4 2 (5.56%) Recommind
4 2 (5.56%) Sage
5 1 (2.78%) EMC
5 1 (2.78%) Intel