Intrusion Detection Jobs

Intrusion Detection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Intrusion Detection over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 679 604 907
Rank change year-on-year -75 +303 -81
Permanent jobs citing Intrusion Detection 163 297 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.37% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.46% 2.29% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 118 210 261
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,625 £39,510
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £89,174 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,750 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -8.70% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Intrusion Detection.

Salary trend for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Intrusion Detection within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -56 152 £51,500 -20.77% 35
UK excluding London -77 107 £50,750 -3.33% 31
Work from Home +3 72 £62,500 +4.17% 12
London +15 53 £52,500 -28.81% 12
South East +6 41 £55,000 -26.67% 10
North of England +25 37 £62,500 - 4
Yorkshire +77 24 £70,000 -6.67% 1
North West -6 16 £46,250 -26.00% 2
Midlands -50 15 £44,000 +1.73% 7
South West -12 12 £46,250 -38.33% 3
West Midlands -23 12 £42,000 -2.89% 6
Isle of Man -12 4 £46,500 +3.33%
Scotland -44 4 £75,000 +41.52% 4
East of England -6 3 £62,500 +28.21% 3
North East -10 3 £62,500 +40.45% 1
East Midlands -36 3 £46,000 +41.54% 1

Intrusion Detection
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 9 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (49.69%) Azure
2 49 (30.06%) AWS
3 35 (21.47%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.59%) Azure Sentinel
4 14 (8.59%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (7.36%) Entra ID
6 11 (6.75%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.07%) GCP
8 4 (2.45%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.23%) Datadog
9 2 (1.23%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.23%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.23%) SaaS
10 1 (0.61%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.61%) IaaS
10 1 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (84.66%) Firewall
2 46 (28.22%) Network Security
3 28 (17.18%) VPN
4 26 (15.95%) WAN
5 22 (13.50%) LAN
6 14 (8.59%) SSL
7 13 (7.98%) TCP/IP
8 12 (7.36%) IPsec
9 11 (6.75%) SD-WAN
9 11 (6.75%) VoIP
9 11 (6.75%) Wireless
10 10 (6.13%) BGP
10 10 (6.13%) OSPF
10 10 (6.13%) VLAN
11 8 (4.91%) DNS
12 6 (3.68%) MPLS
12 6 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (3.07%) Internet
13 5 (3.07%) OpenLDAP
14 4 (2.45%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) Power BI
2 4 (2.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.84%) MySQL
3 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.23%) Big Data
4 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.07%) GitLab
1 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.45%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 63 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.99%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.72%) Finance
4 19 (11.66%) Law
5 17 (10.43%) Legal
6 8 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.07%) Advertising
8 5 (3.07%) Retail
9 4 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Marketing
10 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.61%) Aviation
12 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (33.13%) Analyst
2 33 (20.25%) Security Analyst
3 26 (15.95%) Senior
4 24 (14.72%) Lead
5 17 (10.43%) Team Leader
6 16 (9.82%) Senior Analyst
6 16 (9.82%) SOC Analyst
7 15 (9.20%) Security Engineer
8 13 (7.98%) Operations Analyst
8 13 (7.98%) Security Operations Analyst
9 12 (7.36%) Architect
10 11 (6.75%) Senior Operations Analyst
10 11 (6.75%) Senior Security Analyst
11 10 (6.13%) Security Architect
12 9 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.52%) IT Engineer
12 9 (5.52%) Security Manager
13 8 (4.91%) Administrator
14 6 (3.68%) Information Security Analyst
14 6 (3.68%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.07%) Keycloak
1 5 (3.07%) Web Services
2 2 (1.23%) LDAP
2 2 (1.23%) SAML
2 2 (1.23%) ServiceStack
3 1 (0.61%) Kafka
3 1 (0.61%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 50 (30.67%) Management Information System
2 35 (21.47%) Cyber Threat
3 27 (16.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 24 (14.72%) Security Posture
5 15 (9.20%) Data Centre
6 11 (6.75%) Client/Server
6 11 (6.75%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (6.13%) Cyberattack
8 9 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (4.91%) Wiki
10 6 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (3.07%) Operational Technology
12 4 (2.45%) Algorithms
12 4 (2.45%) Data Structures
12 4 (2.45%) PKI
13 3 (1.84%) BYOD
13 3 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.63%) Windows
2 9 (5.52%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.29%) Kali Linux
4 6 (3.68%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.68%) Linux
5 5 (3.07%) Android
5 5 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.84%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.84%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.61%) Unix
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (61.96%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (53.37%) SIEM
3 74 (45.40%) Incident Response
4 57 (34.97%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (34.36%) Information Security
6 52 (31.90%) Security Operations
7 34 (20.86%) Computer Science
8 33 (20.25%) Kalman Filter
9 23 (14.11%) Incident Management
10 22 (13.50%) Cryptography
10 22 (13.50%) Mentoring
10 22 (13.50%) Migration
11 21 (12.88%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (11.66%) Penetration Testing
12 19 (11.66%) Security Architecture
13 18 (11.04%) Data Loss Prevention
13 18 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (11.04%) ISMS
13 18 (11.04%) ITIL
13 18 (11.04%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.18%) Python
2 27 (16.56%) PowerShell
3 9 (5.52%) Perl
4 3 (1.84%) Bash
4 3 (1.84%) SQL
5 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 52 (31.90%) CISSP
2 41 (25.15%) Degree
3 23 (14.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (13.50%) CISM
5 19 (11.66%) CompTIA CySA+
6 17 (10.43%) CompTIA Security+
6 17 (10.43%) Security Cleared
7 16 (9.82%) CISA
8 12 (7.36%) SC Cleared
9 11 (6.75%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (6.13%) GIAC
11 5 (3.07%) AWS Certification
11 5 (3.07%) Azure Certification
11 5 (3.07%) CCSP
11 5 (3.07%) MCSA
11 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (2.45%) CCIE
12 4 (2.45%) GSEC
12 4 (2.45%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (23.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (11.66%) NIST
3 18 (11.04%) GDPR
4 15 (9.20%) PCI DSS
5 12 (7.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (5.52%) SOC 2
7 8 (4.91%) NCSC
8 6 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.61%) COBIT
12 1 (0.61%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (12.88%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.84%) vSphere
5 2 (1.23%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.61%) Docker
6 1 (0.61%) NFS
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.07%) Suricata
4 4 (2.45%) Ansible
4 4 (2.45%) Nessus
5 2 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.23%) SELinux
6 1 (0.61%) cPanel
6 1 (0.61%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.66%) Cisco
3 17 (10.43%) VMware
4 12 (7.36%) Splunk
5 10 (6.13%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.91%) Juniper
7 7 (4.29%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.29%) Meraki
8 5 (3.07%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.07%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.45%) Aruba
10 3 (1.84%) Apple
10 3 (1.84%) Sun
10 3 (1.84%) Veeam
11 2 (1.23%) F5
11 2 (1.23%) HP
11 2 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.23%) NetApp
12 1 (0.61%) Spotify