Threat Detection Jobs

Threat Detection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 772 825
Rank change year-on-year +191 +53 +136
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 103 113 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 78 80 108
10th Percentile £44,250 £38,400 £39,870
25th Percentile £52,250 £41,250 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £55,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +31.36% -20.08% +19.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £67,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £115,750 £74,125 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -25.93% +28.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in the UK

Threat Detection
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +187 96 £72,500 +31.82% 106
UK excluding London +193 52 £55,000 +10.00% 73
London +106 44 £87,500 +34.62% 45
Work from Home +173 30 £70,000 +21.74% 71
South East +108 18 £72,000 +69.41% 22
North of England +76 8 £58,500 +17.00% 18
East of England +60 8 £46,250 +5.71% 7
South West +115 7 £51,058 -2.75% 6
North West +28 7 £64,250 +28.50% 12
Midlands +66 6 £51,250 -33.87% 8
West Midlands +55 5 £52,500 -32.26% 8
Scotland +120 4 £50,250 -30.21% 14
Yorkshire +67 1 £54,000 -19.35% 5
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Threat 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 3 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) AWS
1 42 (40.78%) Azure
2 17 (16.50%) GCP
3 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (7.77%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (6.80%) Azure AKS
6 6 (5.83%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.88%) PaaS
8 3 (2.91%) SaaS
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.94%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.94%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.94%) Serverless
9 2 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (21.36%) Network Security
2 21 (20.39%) Firewall
3 18 (17.48%) DNS
4 15 (14.56%) TCP/IP
5 11 (10.68%) HTTP
5 11 (10.68%) VPN
6 9 (8.74%) SMTP
7 6 (5.83%) DHCP
8 5 (4.85%) VLAN
9 2 (1.94%) FTP
9 2 (1.94%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.94%) SAN
9 2 (1.94%) SSH
9 2 (1.94%) SSL
10 1 (0.97%) ADSL
10 1 (0.97%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.97%) Fast Ethernet
10 1 (0.97%) Internet
10 1 (0.97%) LAN
10 1 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) MySQL
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.94%) Power BI
2 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) Tableau
3 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (4.85%) GitLab
2 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
General
1 39 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (26.21%) Finance
3 15 (14.56%) Telecoms
4 13 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (11.65%) Law
6 11 (10.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (8.74%) Legal
8 6 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.88%) Retail
10 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.94%) Advertising
11 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.97%) Automotive
12 1 (0.97%) Banking
12 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (30.10%) Security Engineer
2 22 (21.36%) Senior
3 14 (13.59%) Analyst
4 13 (12.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Development Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Information Security Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Security Manager
7 7 (6.80%) Security Analyst
8 6 (5.83%) SOC Analyst
8 6 (5.83%) SOC Manager
9 5 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) Incident Manager
10 4 (3.88%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (1.94%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.94%) EDI
2 2 (1.94%) LAMP
2 2 (1.94%) Loki
2 2 (1.94%) XML
2 2 (1.94%) YAML
3 1 (0.97%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 39 (37.86%) Security Posture
2 23 (22.33%) Cyber Threat
3 22 (21.36%) Security Operations Centre
4 14 (13.59%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.88%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.88%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.91%) Replication
8 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.94%) Life Science
8 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.94%) PKI
8 2 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.94%) YARA
9 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.97%) BYOD
9 1 (0.97%) CSOC
9 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
2 8 (7.77%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) VMS
4 2 (1.94%) AIX
4 2 (1.94%) CentOS
4 2 (1.94%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.94%) Unix
4 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (70.87%) Incident Response
2 64 (62.14%) Cybersecurity
3 47 (45.63%) Security Operations
4 37 (35.92%) Cloud Security
5 35 (33.98%) SIEM
6 34 (33.01%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (31.07%) Vulnerability Management
8 30 (29.13%) Information Security
9 27 (26.21%) Risk Management
10 24 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (22.33%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (21.36%) Security Architecture
13 21 (20.39%) Penetration Testing
14 20 (19.42%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
15 18 (17.48%) Threat Intelligence
16 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (15.53%) Data Protection
17 16 (15.53%) DevOps
17 16 (15.53%) DevSecOps
17 16 (15.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.83%) Python
2 23 (22.33%) PowerShell
3 18 (17.48%) Bash
4 10 (9.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (3.88%) C++
5 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.91%) Perl
7 2 (1.94%) AWK
7 2 (1.94%) C
7 2 (1.94%) Java
7 2 (1.94%) Korn
7 2 (1.94%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.94%) PHP
7 2 (1.94%) Rust
7 2 (1.94%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 22 (21.36%) CISSP
2 21 (20.39%) Degree
3 13 (12.62%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.74%) CISM
6 7 (6.80%) CEH
6 7 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (6.80%) GCIH
6 7 (6.80%) OSCP
7 6 (5.83%) GCIA
8 5 (4.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (4.85%) AWS Certification
8 5 (4.85%) CCSP
8 5 (4.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (4.85%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.88%) OSCE
9 4 (3.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 4 (3.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (26.21%) NIST
2 26 (25.24%) GDPR
3 19 (18.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (15.53%) PCI DSS
5 11 (10.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.91%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.94%) GRC
7 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.94%) SLA
7 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.97%) Basel III
8 1 (0.97%) MiFID
8 1 (0.97%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (9.71%) Docker
2 7 (6.80%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.94%) KVM
5 2 (1.94%) Postfix
5 2 (1.94%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.97%) Snort
6 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.97%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.56%) Terraform
3 11 (10.68%) CASB
4 8 (7.77%) QRadar
5 5 (4.85%) Istio
5 5 (4.85%) linkerd
6 4 (3.88%) Ansible
6 4 (3.88%) CSIRT
7 3 (2.91%) Grafana
7 3 (2.91%) Nessus
8 2 (1.94%) Nagios
9 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.97%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.97%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 26 (25.24%) Google
3 14 (13.59%) Splunk
4 5 (4.85%) Cisco
4 5 (4.85%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.91%) ArcSight
5 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.91%) Oracle
5 3 (2.91%) VMware
6 2 (1.94%) Alibaba
6 2 (1.94%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.94%) IBM
6 2 (1.94%) LogRhythm
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.94%) SAP
6 2 (1.94%) Tenable
7 1 (0.97%) FIS
7 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.97%) Sophos
7 1 (0.97%) Temenos