Cyber Defence Job Trends in Wokingham

Cyber Defence
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies in Wokingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wokingham 3.50% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.24% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67,875 - -
25th Percentile £68,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 - -
75th Percentile £83,438 - -
90th Percentile £83,625 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £63,750 - £71,820

All Generic Skills
Wokingham

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Wokingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29 8 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wokingham 20.28% 24.24% 35.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26 7 21
10th Percentile £45,250 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £47,648 £47,500 £22,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £50,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +66.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,000 £72,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 5 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 5 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 5 (100.00%) Red Team
1 5 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Tradecraft
1 5 (100.00%) Use Case
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 5 (100.00%) GCED
1 5 (100.00%) GCIA
1 5 (100.00%) GCIH
1 5 (100.00%) GIAC
1 5 (100.00%) OSCP
1 5 (100.00%) SANS
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 5 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk