Host Intrusion Detection System Job Trends

Host-Based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Host Intrusion Detection System skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 716 651 882
Rank change year-on-year -65 +231 +86
Permanent jobs citing Host Intrusion Detection System 1 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% 0.007% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.022% 0.062% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £51,904 -
90th Percentile - £53,797 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 -
% change year-on-year +47.37% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Host Intrusion Detection System falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,494 4,873 9,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.98% 11.34% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,120 3,310 7,174
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,950 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,228 £48,355 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +15.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Host Intrusion Detection System
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Host Intrusion Detection System relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Host Intrusion Detection System job vacancy trend in the UK

Host Intrusion Detection System
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Host Intrusion Detection System.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Host Intrusion Detection System

Host Intrusion Detection System
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Host Intrusion Detection System within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2026. 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
Work from Home -5 1 £70,000 +47.37% 1
South West -50 1 £70,000 +47.37%
England -52 1 £70,000 +47.37% 1
UK excluding London -56 1 £70,000 +47.37%

Host Intrusion Detection System
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS