Intrusion Detection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Intrusion Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Intrusion Detection over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 491 813 908
Rank change year-on-year +322 +95 -403
Permanent jobs citing Intrusion Detection 252 262 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.11% 1.70% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 148 180 164
10th Percentile £40,500 £43,175 £38,725
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £46,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.93% +2.61%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £100,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Intrusion Detection is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,092 15,389 16,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 12.39% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,353 10,386 11,386
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,887 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

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 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Intrusion Detection in the UK

Intrusion Detection
Top 17 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 5 December 2023. 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 +303 189 £60,000 -4.00% 58
UK excluding London +284 171 £55,000 - 40
Work from Home +316 159 £60,000 -7.69% 26
London +207 66 £62,500 -7.41% 18
Midlands +163 42 £50,000 +5.26% 10
South East +145 34 £60,250 -7.31% 10
North of England +141 28 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Wales +41 28 - -
West Midlands +149 27 £43,500 -8.42% 9
Scotland +65 16 £46,305 -36.13% 2
North West +113 15 £57,500 +21.05% 1
East Midlands +52 15 £56,250 - 1
South West +86 11 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire +106 10 £65,000 +18.18% 4
East of England +122 8 £60,000 +45.90% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
North East +46 3 £40,000 -38.46% 2

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 10 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.38%) Confluence
3 5 (1.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 62 (24.60%) Azure
2 44 (17.46%) AWS
3 27 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (6.35%) GCP
6 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.97%) SaaS
7 8 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.38%) PaaS
9 5 (1.98%) IaaS
9 5 (1.98%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.59%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.40%) Datadog
12 1 (0.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.40%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 156 (61.90%) Firewall
2 113 (44.84%) Network Security
3 99 (39.29%) LAN
4 98 (38.89%) WAN
5 55 (21.83%) VPN
6 48 (19.05%) TCP/IP
7 30 (11.90%) HTTP
8 27 (10.71%) Internet
9 25 (9.92%) SMTP
10 23 (9.13%) FTP
10 23 (9.13%) Sourcefire
11 16 (6.35%) DNS
11 16 (6.35%) VLAN
12 12 (4.76%) DHCP
13 10 (3.97%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (3.97%) Wireless
14 9 (3.57%) BGP
14 9 (3.57%) OSPF
15 8 (3.17%) SD-WAN
15 8 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.16%) GIS
2 12 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.17%) MySQL
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.79%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.79%) Metadata
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.97%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.57%) JIRA
3 8 (3.17%) Git
General
1 115 (45.63%) Social Skills
2 84 (33.33%) Games
3 50 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.14%) Finance
5 16 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.97%) Law
7 7 (2.78%) Legal
8 4 (1.59%) Back Office
8 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Banking
9 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
10 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Automotive
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (37.70%) Senior
2 80 (31.75%) Security Manager
3 66 (26.19%) Security Engineer
4 60 (23.81%) Analyst
4 60 (23.81%) Business Manager
4 60 (23.81%) Senior Business Manager
4 60 (23.81%) Senior Manager
5 33 (13.10%) Security Analyst
6 28 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
7 24 (9.52%) Network Engineer
8 19 (7.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 19 (7.54%) Lead
9 17 (6.75%) IT Engineer
10 16 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 16 (6.35%) IT Security Engineer
11 15 (5.95%) Network Security Engineer
12 14 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
13 13 (5.16%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (3.97%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.13%) LDAP
2 11 (4.37%) JSON
2 11 (4.37%) YAML
3 6 (2.38%) RESTful
4 4 (1.59%) Middleware
5 3 (1.19%) CSS
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.40%) HTML
7 1 (0.40%) Kafka
7 1 (0.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 98 (38.89%) Security Operations Centre
2 47 (18.65%) Cyber Threat
2 47 (18.65%) Management Information System
3 28 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (10.71%) PKI
5 16 (6.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 16 (6.35%) Security Posture
6 13 (5.16%) Cyberattack
6 13 (5.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (3.57%) Cybercrime
7 9 (3.57%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.57%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.19%) NHS
12 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 103 (40.87%) Windows
2 77 (30.56%) Unix
3 30 (11.90%) Linux
4 9 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.79%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (73.81%) Cybersecurity
2 169 (67.06%) SIEM
3 133 (52.78%) Security Operations
4 96 (38.10%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 91 (36.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 78 (30.95%) Information Security
7 76 (30.16%) Security Management
8 71 (28.17%) Incident Management
8 71 (28.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 68 (26.98%) Business Continuity
10 65 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
12 62 (24.60%) Incident Response
12 62 (24.60%) Service Management
13 61 (24.21%) Impact Assessments
14 44 (17.46%) Data Loss Prevention
15 42 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
16 36 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
17 31 (12.30%) Computer Science
18 29 (11.51%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.49%) Python
2 28 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.95%) Bash
4 6 (2.38%) Go
5 5 (1.98%) SQL
6 4 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.59%) Perl
7 3 (1.19%) C#
8 2 (0.79%) DataFlex
8 2 (0.79%) Java
9 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.40%) Ruby
9 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (42.06%) CISSP
2 80 (31.75%) CISM
3 63 (25.00%) SSCP
4 46 (18.25%) Security Cleared
5 37 (14.68%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (10.71%) Degree
7 26 (10.32%) CompTIA Security+
8 21 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 21 (8.33%) CCSP
9 17 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (6.75%) SC Cleared
10 12 (4.76%) CCNA
10 12 (4.76%) CCNP
11 10 (3.97%) CompTIA CySA+
11 10 (3.97%) CTC Cleared
12 9 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (3.17%) CEH
14 7 (2.78%) CISA
15 6 (2.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (42.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 87 (34.52%) GDPR
3 40 (15.87%) NIST
4 19 (7.54%) PCI DSS
5 13 (5.16%) NCSC
6 11 (4.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (4.37%) SOC 2
7 6 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (2.38%) PMO
8 4 (1.59%) COBIT
8 4 (1.59%) QA
9 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.19%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.79%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) FISMA
11 1 (0.40%) HITRUST
11 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.59%) pfSense
4 4 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.19%) Docker
5 3 (1.19%) KVM
6 2 (0.79%) Ceph
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.79%) vSphere
7 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.40%) Snort
7 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (9.52%) FortiGate
2 15 (5.95%) Terraform
3 14 (5.56%) Ansible
4 9 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 9 (3.57%) Puppet
5 5 (1.98%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.59%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.79%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.79%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.40%) CASB
9 1 (0.40%) Istio
9 1 (0.40%) linkerd
9 1 (0.40%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 63 (25.00%) Cisco
2 36 (14.29%) Juniper
3 35 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 30 (11.90%) F5
5 28 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 24 (9.52%) ArcSight
6 24 (9.52%) Splunk
6 24 (9.52%) VMware
7 23 (9.13%) IBM
7 23 (9.13%) TippingPoint
7 23 (9.13%) Trend Micro
8 10 (3.97%) Meraki
9 8 (3.17%) Aruba
9 8 (3.17%) Google
10 6 (2.38%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.38%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.98%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.98%) Veeam
12 4 (1.59%) Citrix
12 4 (1.59%) SolarWinds