Cyberattack Jobs in England

Cyberattack
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 475 503
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 +191
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 376 500 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.59% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 1.36% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 220 82 173
10th Percentile £40,950 £32,383 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £40,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,959 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £76,250 £74,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,991 £86,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £66,959 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% +2.61% -14.81%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyberattack is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,484 36,695 66,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.50% 43.61% 47.39%
Number of salaries quoted 20,995 20,279 30,587
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,761 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,686 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in England.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in England

Cyberattack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
North of England +85 159 £50,000 -26.85% 16
North West +85 127 £50,000 -27.75% 10
London +107 103 £73,750 +58.61% 16
South West -138 58 £68,500 +2.78% 2
Yorkshire +21 26 £50,000 -9.09% 5
South East -46 25 £49,250 -6.19% 11
Midlands -7 17 £32,000 -54.29% 5
West Midlands -13 9 £32,000 -55.86% 4
East Midlands -13 8 £52,500 -19.23% 1
North East -6 6 - - 1
East of England -1 4 £95,000 +68.89% 4
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.36%) Azure
2 45 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (3.19%) GCP
4 11 (2.93%) AWS
5 4 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (1.06%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.80%) IaaS
6 3 (0.80%) PaaS
6 3 (0.80%) SaaS
7 2 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.53%) dbt
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.27%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.04%) Firewall
2 29 (7.71%) Internet
3 25 (6.65%) DNS
4 22 (5.85%) TCP/IP
5 17 (4.52%) DKIM
5 17 (4.52%) DMARC
6 13 (3.46%) LAN
6 13 (3.46%) WAN
7 12 (3.19%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (2.13%) DHCP
9 7 (1.86%) Broadband
9 7 (1.86%) VLAN
10 6 (1.60%) HTTP
10 6 (1.60%) SAN
10 6 (1.60%) SMTP
11 4 (1.06%) SSL
12 2 (0.53%) Network Security
13 1 (0.27%) tcpdump
13 1 (0.27%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.19%) BigQuery
2 12 (3.19%) Data Hub
2 12 (3.19%) DB2
2 12 (3.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.19%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.53%) Metabase
3 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.53%) Redis
4 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.27%) Git
2 1 (0.27%) Subversion
2 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 147 (39.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 59 (15.69%) Finance
3 39 (10.37%) Social Skills
4 28 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.85%) Banking
6 21 (5.59%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.66%) Legal
8 10 (2.66%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.39%) Law
10 6 (1.60%) Retail
11 5 (1.33%) Military
12 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.80%) Marketing
14 2 (0.53%) Publishing
15 1 (0.27%) Games
15 1 (0.27%) Local Government
15 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (23.67%) Analyst
2 67 (17.82%) Lead
3 65 (17.29%) Security Analyst
4 57 (15.16%) Architect
5 53 (14.10%) Senior
6 41 (10.90%) Software Architect
7 40 (10.64%) Security Manager
8 39 (10.37%) Software Engineer
9 38 (10.11%) Programmer
9 38 (10.11%) Software Programmer
10 35 (9.31%) Lead Software Engineer
11 33 (8.78%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 31 (8.24%) Security Assurance Manager
13 30 (7.98%) Information Assurance Manager
13 30 (7.98%) Information Manager
13 30 (7.98%) Information Security Manager
14 29 (7.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 26 (6.91%) Senior Analyst
16 18 (4.79%) Information Analyst
16 18 (4.79%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.26%) HTML
2 8 (2.13%) Kafka
2 8 (2.13%) Middleware
3 2 (0.53%) CSS
3 2 (0.53%) D3.js
3 2 (0.53%) Node.js
3 2 (0.53%) React
3 2 (0.53%) Vue
4 1 (0.27%) Anaconda
4 1 (0.27%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.43%) Cyber Threat
2 20 (5.32%) Cyber Defence
2 20 (5.32%) Data Fabric
3 15 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.99%) Security Posture
4 14 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 12 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.13%) Replication
8 5 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (1.33%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.33%) PKI
8 5 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.80%) CSOC
10 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.53%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.15%) Windows
2 44 (11.70%) Linux
3 20 (5.32%) zOS
4 17 (4.52%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.13%) CentOS
5 8 (2.13%) Solaris
5 8 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.13%) Unix
6 6 (1.60%) Mac OS X
6 6 (1.60%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (42.82%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (41.22%) Cybersecurity
3 142 (37.77%) Agile
4 138 (36.70%) Mentoring
5 124 (32.98%) Software Engineering
6 118 (31.38%) Machine Learning
7 116 (30.85%) Creative Thinking
7 116 (30.85%) Data Engineering
7 116 (30.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 116 (30.85%) User Experience
8 95 (25.27%) Incident Response
9 70 (18.62%) SIEM
10 60 (15.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 60 (15.96%) Threat Intelligence
11 54 (14.36%) Security Operations
12 52 (13.83%) Information Security
13 44 (11.70%) Analytics
13 44 (11.70%) Security Management
14 39 (10.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 38 (10.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.79%) SQL
2 17 (4.52%) PowerShell
2 17 (4.52%) Python
3 9 (2.39%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.13%) Go
5 6 (1.60%) C++
5 6 (1.60%) Ruby
6 3 (0.80%) Java
7 2 (0.53%) Lisp
8 1 (0.27%) C#
8 1 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.70%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.78%) CISSP
4 24 (6.38%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.38%) GIAC
5 22 (5.85%) CREST Certified
6 21 (5.59%) Degree
7 10 (2.66%) CISM
8 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.86%) OSCP
9 6 (1.60%) CEH
10 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.06%) CCSAM
10 4 (1.06%) CISA
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.80%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.80%) CRISC
11 3 (0.80%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (11.70%) NCSC
3 25 (6.65%) NIST
4 7 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 6 (1.60%) GDPR
6 5 (1.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.53%) GRC
9 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.53%) Docker
4 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (4.52%) CASB
2 4 (1.06%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.06%) Nessus
2 4 (1.06%) QRadar
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.27%) Puppet
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.27%) SCCM
4 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.19%) Databricks
2 12 (3.19%) F5
2 12 (3.19%) Oracle
3 10 (2.66%) Splunk
4 9 (2.39%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (2.13%) IBM
6 7 (1.86%) Veeam
7 6 (1.60%) Epicor
8 4 (1.06%) BT
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco
9 3 (0.80%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.80%) VMware
10 2 (0.53%) Facebook
10 2 (0.53%) Intel
11 1 (0.27%) AlienVault
11 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.27%) HP
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.27%) Spotify