Insider Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Insider Threat over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 966 1177
Rank change year-on-year +81 +211 -294
Permanent jobs citing Insider Threat 13 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.014% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.037% 0.032% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 3
10th Percentile £45,250 - £49,000
25th Percentile £48,813 £37,463 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,313 £81,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,875 £93,050 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,460 £40,975 -
% change year-on-year +18.27% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Insider Threat 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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £86,250 £83,750
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%

Insider Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Insider Threat.

Salary trend for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Insider Threat over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Insider Threat within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +94 10 £55,000 -12.00% 4
London +114 7 £75,000 -3.23% 2
UK excluding London -12 3 £48,460 +18.27% 2
Work from Home - 3 £80,000 - 1
South East +6 2 £41,920 +2.31% 1
South West - 1 £55,000 - 1

Insider Threat
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) HTTP
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 1 (7.69%) Anycast
4 1 (7.69%) BGP
4 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Security Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Senior
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Security Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Provisioning Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 4 (30.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (15.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (15.38%) Cyberattack
3 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (46.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Information Security
3 4 (30.77%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
3 4 (30.77%) SIEM
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Security Management
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 2 (15.38%) Key Management
5 2 (15.38%) Open Source
5 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Use Case
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (7.69%) CISA
3 1 (7.69%) CISM
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Pingdom
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Intel
2 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 2 (15.38%) BT
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow