Cyber Defence Jobs in England

Cyber Defence
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence 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 753 646 626
Rank change year-on-year -107 -20 +210
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 112 258 673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.31% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.70% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 61 42 86
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,025 £31,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,063 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% +8.70% -14.81%
75th Percentile £107,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £97,290 £88,125
UK median annual salary £90,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% +4.35% -11.54%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyber Defence 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%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in England

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in England

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in England

Cyber Defence
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence 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
South West -23 48 £105,000 +13.92% 6
London +49 36 £90,000 +56.52% 14
North of England +2 13 £62,500 +2.04% 4
South East -50 10 £66,410 +0.24% 6
North West -6 8 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Yorkshire +34 5 £32,500 -53.24% 2
Midlands -16 3 £52,500 -25.00% 1
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 -
Cyber Defence
UK

Cyber Defence
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (8.93%) AWS
2 7 (6.25%) Azure
3 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.89%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.89%) IaaS
6 1 (0.89%) PaaS
6 1 (0.89%) SaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (32.14%) Network Security
2 29 (25.89%) Firewall
3 11 (9.82%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (5.36%) VoIP
5 2 (1.79%) Wireless
6 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) Big Data
2 6 (5.36%) Power BI
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Git
1 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.89%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.89%) Jasmine
2 1 (0.89%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) Mercurial
2 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.89%) Subversion
2 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (29.46%) Military
2 30 (26.79%) Aerospace
3 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
4 21 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (17.86%) Finance
6 7 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.36%) Law
8 4 (3.57%) Legal
9 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.89%) Electronics
10 1 (0.89%) Games
10 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (30.36%) Consultant
2 33 (29.46%) Security Consultant
3 28 (25.00%) Analyst
4 26 (23.21%) Senior
5 20 (17.86%) Security Analyst
6 15 (13.39%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 14 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.36%) Head of Compliance
10 6 (5.36%) Head of Information
10 6 (5.36%) Head of Information Assurance
10 6 (5.36%) Lead
10 6 (5.36%) Operations Analyst
10 6 (5.36%) Security Operations Analyst
10 6 (5.36%) Senior Operations Analyst
10 6 (5.36%) Senior Security Analyst
11 3 (2.68%) Security Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.68%) Senior Architect
11 3 (2.68%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.89%) .NET
2 1 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.89%) JMS
2 1 (0.89%) Kafka
2 1 (0.89%) POSIX
2 1 (0.89%) Spring
2 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (35.71%) Security Operations Centre
2 32 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 20 (17.86%) Cyberattack
4 19 (16.96%) Management Information System
5 13 (11.61%) Operational Technology
6 6 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.57%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.68%) CSOC
9 2 (1.79%) FPGA
9 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.89%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.89%) IoT
10 1 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.00%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Windows
3 2 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.89%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.89%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (73.21%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (55.36%) SIEM
3 59 (52.68%) Security Operations
4 58 (51.79%) Information Security
5 49 (43.75%) Agile
6 37 (33.04%) Security Architecture
7 31 (27.68%) Incident Response
7 31 (27.68%) Mentoring
8 29 (25.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 29 (25.89%) Threat Intelligence
9 24 (21.43%) Incident Management
9 24 (21.43%) Resource Management
10 22 (19.64%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 20 (17.86%) Coaching
11 20 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (16.07%) Malware Analysis
12 18 (16.07%) Programme Management
12 18 (16.07%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 18 (16.07%) Vulnerability Management
13 17 (15.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.07%) Python
2 14 (12.50%) Bash
3 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.68%) Java
5 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.89%) C
6 1 (0.89%) C#
6 1 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (58.93%) Security Cleared
2 39 (34.82%) DV Cleared
3 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.93%) CISSP
5 9 (8.04%) CISA
6 6 (5.36%) CISM
6 6 (5.36%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (3.57%) Degree
8 3 (2.68%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.79%) CRISC
9 2 (1.79%) FFIEC
9 2 (1.79%) GCIA
9 2 (1.79%) GCIH
9 2 (1.79%) GIAC
9 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.79%) SANS
10 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.89%) GCFA
10 1 (0.89%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (50.89%) NIST
2 27 (24.11%) NIST 800
3 17 (15.18%) NCSC
4 10 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (6.25%) GRC
6 6 (5.36%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.68%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (2.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.68%) JSP 440
7 3 (2.68%) RMADS
8 2 (1.79%) COBIT
8 2 (1.79%) GLBA
8 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.89%) GDPR
9 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (13.39%) vSphere
2 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.79%) Docker
4 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (13.39%) Ansible
2 1 (0.89%) Kibana
2 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.89%) logstash
2 1 (0.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.29%) Tanium
3 15 (13.39%) SolarWinds
3 15 (13.39%) Tripwire
4 3 (2.68%) Splunk
5 1 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.89%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.89%) Google
5 1 (0.89%) IBM
5 1 (0.89%) Perforce
5 1 (0.89%) Qualys