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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 762 532
Rank change year-on-year +156 -230 +222
Permanent jobs citing Threat Modelling 94 140 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 70 101 272
10th Percentile £53,625 £46,875 £46,454
25th Percentile £63,375 £57,000 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £75,000 £81,928
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -8.46% +9.24%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £103,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £58,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +44.68% -16.07% +14.75%

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 51,147 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,984 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £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 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 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Threat Modelling in the UK

Threat Modelling
Top 12 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 10 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 +126 80 £75,000 +7.14% 210
UK excluding London +159 52 £85,000 +44.68% 115
London +105 35 £76,500 -21.54% 116
Work from Home +133 23 £71,991 -12.74% 129
South West +110 13 £90,000 +24.14% 27
South East +99 13 - - 38
Scotland +137 11 £95,000 - 5
Midlands +67 8 £52,500 -27.59% 17
West Midlands +54 8 £52,500 -27.59% 5
North of England +39 7 £70,996 +41.99% 26
North West -3 4 £92,500 +85.00% 15
North East - 3 £65,000 - 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 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.06%) Apache
2 1 (1.06%) Drupal
2 1 (1.06%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 39 (41.49%) AWS
2 38 (40.43%) Azure
3 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (17.02%) PaaS
4 8 (8.51%) GCP
5 3 (3.19%) AWS KMS
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.19%) Prefect
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.06%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.06%) SaaS
7 1 (1.06%) Serverless
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.28%) Firewall
2 17 (18.09%) Network Security
2 17 (18.09%) VPN
3 7 (7.45%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.06%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Burp Suite
2 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.26%) MLflow
3 3 (3.19%) Git
4 1 (1.06%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.06%) Postman
4 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (41.49%) Finance
2 12 (12.77%) Banking
3 9 (9.57%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Military
5 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Retail
5 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.06%) Automotive
6 1 (1.06%) Law
6 1 (1.06%) Legal
6 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (47.87%) Security Engineer
2 31 (32.98%) Lead
3 14 (14.89%) Architect
3 14 (14.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security Lead
4 12 (12.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Security Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Senior
6 7 (7.45%) Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Consultant
6 7 (7.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Information Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Information Security Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Security Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Security Consultant
7 6 (6.38%) Security Manager
8 4 (4.26%) IT Security Manager
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.02%) YAML
2 6 (6.38%) PyTorch
2 6 (6.38%) TensorFlow
3 5 (5.32%) scikit-learn
4 4 (4.26%) .NET
5 3 (3.19%) Metaflow
6 2 (2.13%) REST
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.06%) HTML
7 1 (1.06%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.06%) JSON
7 1 (1.06%) JWT
7 1 (1.06%) LangChain
7 1 (1.06%) Laravel
7 1 (1.06%) Middleware
7 1 (1.06%) Next.js
7 1 (1.06%) OAuth
7 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.28%) Security Posture
2 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.19%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.13%) PKI
4 2 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.83%) Linux
2 12 (12.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Debian
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.68%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (39.36%) Cloud Security
3 34 (36.17%) Vulnerability Management
4 33 (35.11%) Application Security
5 32 (34.04%) CI/CD
6 30 (31.91%) DevSecOps
6 30 (31.91%) Roadmaps
7 29 (30.85%) DevOps
8 28 (29.79%) SDLC
9 27 (28.72%) Agile
10 26 (27.66%) Mentoring
11 25 (26.60%) Incident Response
12 24 (25.53%) Information Security
12 24 (25.53%) Security Testing
13 21 (22.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (22.34%) SIEM
13 21 (22.34%) Strategic Roadmap
14 20 (21.28%) OWASP
15 19 (20.21%) Test Automation
16 18 (19.15%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.09%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.83%) Python
3 8 (8.51%) Java
4 3 (3.19%) Bash
4 3 (3.19%) C++
4 3 (3.19%) Kotlin
4 3 (3.19%) Rust
5 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) CISSP
2 25 (26.60%) Degree
3 20 (21.28%) Master's Degree
4 18 (19.15%) CISM
4 18 (19.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.57%) GCFA
5 9 (9.57%) GCIA
5 9 (9.57%) GCIH
6 6 (6.38%) SANS
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.32%) CREST Certified
7 5 (5.32%) Security Cleared
8 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.19%) CEH
9 3 (3.19%) GIAC
10 2 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.13%) CSSLP
10 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (39.36%) NIST
2 32 (34.04%) NCSC
3 31 (32.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (17.02%) Accessibility
5 10 (10.64%) GDPR
6 9 (9.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (6.38%) PCI DSS
8 4 (4.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (3.19%) COBIT
9 3 (3.19%) HIPAA
10 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (2.13%) NIST 800
10 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (1.06%) EU AI Act
11 1 (1.06%) PMO
11 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.38%) Terraform
3 2 (2.13%) QRadar
4 1 (1.06%) Istio
4 1 (1.06%) Nessus
Vendors
1 23 (24.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.45%) VMware
3 4 (4.26%) Google
4 3 (3.19%) Alibaba
4 3 (3.19%) Splunk
5 2 (2.13%) Intel
6 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.06%) Graphcore
6 1 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.06%) Qualys
6 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.06%) Sophos