Cyberattack Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cyberattack
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 464 434
Rank change year-on-year +342 -30 -132
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 392 125 258
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.62% 0.37% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.70% 1.04% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 7 91 83
10th Percentile £40,500 - £36,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,000 £50,737
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.31% +20.83% -
75th Percentile £81,375 £91,991 £73,025
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £82,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.41% +14.17% +8.01%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyberattack 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,850 12,021 16,469
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.09% 35.52% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 9,245 11,863
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cyberattack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cyberattack trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cyberattack
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cyberattack.

Cyberattack salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cyberattack over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Cyberattack salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 23 (5.87%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.01%) Azure
2 49 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 49 (12.50%) AWS
2 49 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.51%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (11.73%) Big Data
General
1 380 (96.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 289 (73.72%) Legal
3 285 (72.70%) Law
4 50 (12.76%) Finance
5 49 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
6 3 (0.77%) Games
6 3 (0.77%) Social Skills
7 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.51%) Marketing
7 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (12.50%) Developer
1 49 (12.50%) Software Developer
2 46 (11.73%) Data Scientist
3 25 (6.38%) Senior
4 23 (5.87%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (0.51%) Commercial Lawyer
5 2 (0.51%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (0.51%) IT Security Officer
5 2 (0.51%) Programme Manager
5 2 (0.51%) Security Officer
5 2 (0.51%) Senior Manager
5 2 (0.51%) Senior Programme Manager
5 2 (0.51%) Senior Transformation Manager
5 2 (0.51%) Transformation Manager
5 2 (0.51%) Transformation Programme Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Analyst
6 1 (0.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Security Analyst
6 1 (0.26%) Security Engineer
6 1 (0.26%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.50%) .NET
1 49 (12.50%) Node.js
1 49 (12.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.73%) Algorithms
2 3 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (0.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.50%) Android
1 49 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (85.20%) Line Management
2 293 (74.74%) Cybersecurity
3 283 (72.19%) Creative Thinking
4 95 (24.23%) Mathematics
4 95 (24.23%) Statistics
5 72 (18.37%) Software Engineering
6 51 (13.01%) Agile
7 49 (12.50%) Android Development
7 49 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 49 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 49 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 49 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 49 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 49 (12.50%) Kanban
7 49 (12.50%) OO
7 49 (12.50%) OOP
7 49 (12.50%) OWASP
7 49 (12.50%) Secure Coding
8 48 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (11.73%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.37%) Java
1 72 (18.37%) JavaScript
1 72 (18.37%) Python
2 49 (12.50%) C++
2 49 (12.50%) Go
2 49 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 95 (24.23%) DV Cleared
1 95 (24.23%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.73%) Degree
3 23 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (5.87%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (1.02%) CISM
5 2 (0.51%) CIPFA
5 2 (0.51%) CISSP
5 2 (0.51%) ISEB
5 2 (0.51%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (73.47%) NCSC
2 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
5 2 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (18.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 49 (12.50%) Ansible
2 49 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.51%) TippingPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Splunk