Threat Modelling Jobs

Threat Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Threat Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 752 547
Rank change year-on-year +145 -205 +199
Permanent jobs citing Threat Modelling 95 155 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.15% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 63 112 254
10th Percentile £61,500 £46,875 £44,192
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,969 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £82,214
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -11.82% +6.08%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £101,250 £120,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £62,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +45.16% -11.43% -0.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat Modelling 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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Threat Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Modelling over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +137 85 £75,000 +7.14% 282
UK excluding London +155 50 £90,000 +45.16% 161
London +97 39 £75,000 -14.29% 145
Work from Home +104 18 £76,500 +2.00% 233
South East +80 16 £62,500 +0.81% 19
South West +111 13 £90,000 +24.14% 31
Scotland +126 10 £95,000 - 4
North of England +19 8 £65,000 +30.00% 60
North West -15 4 £92,500 +105.56% 49
North East - 4 £65,000 - 4
Midlands +52 3 - - 22
West Midlands +42 2 - - 16
East Midlands - 1 - - 6

Threat Modelling
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 1 (1.05%) Apache
1 1 (1.05%) Drupal
1 1 (1.05%) nginx
1 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.00%) AWS
2 37 (38.95%) Azure
3 20 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (21.05%) PaaS
4 7 (7.37%) GCP
5 4 (4.21%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.11%) Serverless
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.05%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.05%) GitHub
8 1 (1.05%) SaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.05%) Firewall
2 18 (18.95%) VPN
3 17 (17.89%) Network Security
4 7 (7.37%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.05%) MariaDB
1 1 (1.05%) MySQL
1 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.05%) Power BI
1 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Burp Suite
2 2 (2.11%) Git
3 1 (1.05%) GitLab
3 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.05%) MLflow
3 1 (1.05%) Postman
3 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.05%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (47.37%) Finance
2 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.74%) Banking
4 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.21%) Law
6 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Military
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
7 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.05%) Automotive
8 1 (1.05%) Back Office
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (52.63%) Security Engineer
2 37 (38.95%) Lead
3 15 (15.79%) Architect
3 15 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) Cloud Security Lead
4 14 (14.74%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 13 (13.68%) Security Architect
6 9 (9.47%) Analyst
7 8 (8.42%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Information Analyst
7 8 (8.42%) Information Security Analyst
7 8 (8.42%) Security Analyst
7 8 (8.42%) Senior
8 7 (7.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 6 (6.32%) Senior Security Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Consultant
10 5 (5.26%) Security Consultant
11 3 (3.16%) Applications Consultant
11 3 (3.16%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) YAML
2 5 (5.26%) .NET
3 3 (3.16%) JSON
3 3 (3.16%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.16%) REST
3 3 (3.16%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.11%) HTML
4 2 (2.11%) Middleware
4 2 (2.11%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.05%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.05%) CSS
5 1 (1.05%) JWT
5 1 (1.05%) Laravel
5 1 (1.05%) Next.js
5 1 (1.05%) Node.js
5 1 (1.05%) OAuth
5 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.05%) RESTful
5 1 (1.05%) Smarty
5 1 (1.05%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.16%) Security Posture
2 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.32%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.11%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.11%) PKI
7 2 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.68%) Linux
2 12 (12.63%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Debian
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.53%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (40.00%) Application Security
2 38 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 37 (38.95%) CI/CD
4 35 (36.84%) DevOps
4 35 (36.84%) Vulnerability Management
5 34 (35.79%) DevSecOps
6 33 (34.74%) Mentoring
7 32 (33.68%) SDLC
8 31 (32.63%) Security Testing
9 28 (29.47%) Agile
9 28 (29.47%) Roadmaps
10 26 (27.37%) Incident Response
11 24 (25.26%) OWASP
12 22 (23.16%) Information Security
12 22 (23.16%) SIEM
12 22 (23.16%) Strategic Roadmap
13 21 (22.11%) Computer Science
13 21 (22.11%) Test Automation
14 19 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.16%) PowerShell
2 15 (15.79%) Python
3 10 (10.53%) Java
4 4 (4.21%) Bash
5 3 (3.16%) C++
5 3 (3.16%) Go
5 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.16%) Kotlin
5 3 (3.16%) Rust
6 1 (1.05%) C#
6 1 (1.05%) PHP
6 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (27.37%) CISSP
1 26 (27.37%) Degree
2 21 (22.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (21.05%) Master's Degree
4 18 (18.95%) CISM
5 9 (9.47%) GCFA
5 9 (9.47%) GCIA
5 9 (9.47%) GCIH
6 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.32%) SANS
7 5 (5.26%) CREST Certified
7 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
8 4 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.21%) GIAC
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.11%) CCIE
10 2 (2.11%) CCNP
10 2 (2.11%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (41.05%) NIST
2 37 (38.95%) NCSC
3 33 (34.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (16.84%) Accessibility
5 12 (12.63%) GDPR
6 6 (6.32%) PCI DSS
7 4 (4.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (3.16%) HIPAA
9 2 (2.11%) COBIT
9 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (2.11%) NIST 800
9 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
10 1 (1.05%) EU AI Act
10 1 (1.05%) PMO
10 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.21%) Terraform
3 2 (2.11%) QRadar
4 1 (1.05%) Istio
4 1 (1.05%) Nessus
4 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) VMware
3 6 (6.32%) Splunk
4 4 (4.21%) Google
5 3 (3.16%) Alibaba
6 2 (2.11%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.05%) Graphcore
7 1 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.05%) Qualys
7 1 (1.05%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Sophos