Cyber Threat Jobs in England

Cyber Threats
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 517 671
Rank change year-on-year +35 +154 -66
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 383 459 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 1.21% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 306 283 329
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £73,495
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.36% +17.59%
75th Percentile £79,688 £81,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,290 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £59,526 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% -14.96% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
England

Cyber Threat 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 29,822 38,083 63,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.48% 43.17% 46.91%
Number of salaries quoted 20,875 20,890 30,322
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £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 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in England

Cyber Threat
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 Threat within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +41 136 £75,000 +8.98% 46
North of England +15 75 £50,000 -9.09% 27
South East +21 67 £58,750 -21.67% 18
North West -22 49 £50,000 -16.00% 17
East of England +40 46 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Midlands -3 25 £65,000 +18.18% 9
South West -62 24 £62,500 +5.00% 11
Yorkshire +65 18 £60,000 +16.81% 8
East Midlands +4 15 £65,000 +85.71% 5
West Midlands +7 10 £70,000 +27.27% 4
North East +1 8 £39,500 -28.18% 2
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
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 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.52%) Apache
2 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.52%) Confluence
2 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.26%) IIS
3 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.87%) Simulink
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 89 (23.24%) Azure
2 66 (17.23%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (13.84%) AWS
4 17 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.09%) Cloudflare
5 8 (2.09%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.31%) GCP
7 4 (1.04%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.52%) Google Docs
9 2 (0.52%) Serverless
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.26%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 81 (21.15%) Firewall
2 43 (11.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 32 (8.36%) Network Security
4 15 (3.92%) Internet
5 14 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.61%) DNS
6 10 (2.61%) LAN
7 8 (2.09%) Wireless
7 8 (2.09%) Wireshark
8 7 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.31%) HTTP
9 5 (1.31%) MPLS
9 5 (1.31%) SMTP
9 5 (1.31%) SNMP
9 5 (1.31%) SSL
9 5 (1.31%) WAN
10 4 (1.04%) DHCP
11 3 (0.78%) Broadband
12 2 (0.52%) VoIP
13 1 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.04%) Power BI
3 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.52%) Big Data
3 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.52%) GitLab
1 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.26%) GDB
2 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 113 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 83 (21.67%) Finance
3 79 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.79%) Banking
5 22 (5.74%) Games
5 22 (5.74%) Legal
5 22 (5.74%) Retail
6 19 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.18%) Electronics
8 15 (3.92%) Law
9 9 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.57%) Automotive
12 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.52%) Local Government
14 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (25.33%) Analyst
2 54 (14.10%) Senior
3 49 (12.79%) Lead
3 49 (12.79%) Security Analyst
4 40 (10.44%) Security Manager
5 29 (7.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 27 (7.05%) Architect
7 26 (6.79%) SOC Analyst
8 20 (5.22%) IT Manager
9 18 (4.70%) Security Architect
9 18 (4.70%) Security Engineer
10 17 (4.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
10 17 (4.44%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 17 (4.44%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
11 16 (4.18%) IT Security Manager
11 16 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.18%) Technical Leader
12 15 (3.92%) Data Manager
12 15 (3.92%) Embedded Engineer
12 15 (3.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.74%) Middleware
2 8 (2.09%) Kafka
2 8 (2.09%) Laravel
3 5 (1.31%) NETCONF
4 3 (0.78%) .NET
4 3 (0.78%) React
4 3 (0.78%) Sass
5 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.52%) Flask
5 2 (0.52%) RESTful
6 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.26%) EDI
6 1 (0.26%) HTML
6 1 (0.26%) HTML5
6 1 (0.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.97%) Management Information System
2 58 (15.14%) Cyberattack
3 41 (10.70%) Security Posture
4 39 (10.18%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (4.96%) Client/Server
6 17 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 17 (4.44%) Operational Technology
7 11 (2.87%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.61%) Cyber Security Posture
9 9 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.35%) SCADA
10 8 (2.09%) Data Fabric
10 8 (2.09%) Replication
11 7 (1.83%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (17.23%) Windows
2 28 (7.31%) Linux
3 14 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.87%) Unix
6 8 (2.09%) CentOS
6 8 (2.09%) Solaris
6 8 (2.09%) zOS
7 5 (1.31%) Kali Linux
7 5 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.52%) Android
8 2 (0.52%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (65.01%) Cybersecurity
2 148 (38.64%) Incident Response
3 111 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (25.85%) SIEM
5 98 (25.59%) Security Operations
6 83 (21.67%) Information Security
7 76 (19.84%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 76 (19.84%) Threat Intelligence
8 54 (14.10%) Computer Science
9 51 (13.32%) Penetration Testing
10 50 (13.05%) Cyber Intelligence
11 46 (12.01%) Risk Management
12 42 (10.97%) Vulnerability Management
13 38 (9.92%) Cloud Security
13 38 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
14 37 (9.66%) Agile
15 35 (9.14%) ITIL
15 35 (9.14%) Roadmaps
15 35 (9.14%) Security Architecture
16 33 (8.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.31%) Python
2 19 (4.96%) PHP
3 14 (3.66%) C
3 14 (3.66%) C#
4 11 (2.87%) MATLAB
4 11 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.35%) SQL
6 8 (2.09%) Rust
7 7 (1.83%) C++
8 4 (1.04%) Bash
9 3 (0.78%) Java
9 3 (0.78%) R
10 2 (0.52%) Go
10 2 (0.52%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.26%) Perl
11 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (25.85%) Degree
2 98 (25.59%) CISSP
3 61 (15.93%) Security Cleared
4 41 (10.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (10.18%) CISM
6 38 (9.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 28 (7.31%) SC Cleared
8 26 (6.79%) GIAC
9 23 (6.01%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (5.74%) CREST Certified
11 21 (5.48%) CISA
12 17 (4.44%) DV Cleared
13 16 (4.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (4.18%) CCSP
13 16 (4.18%) CEH
14 13 (3.39%) CRISC
15 10 (2.61%) Master's Degree
16 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
16 9 (2.35%) SANS
17 8 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (21.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (17.75%) NIST
3 40 (10.44%) GDPR
4 31 (8.09%) GRC
5 21 (5.48%) PCI DSS
6 20 (5.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (3.13%) HIPAA
7 12 (3.13%) NCSC
8 11 (2.87%) SOC 2
9 8 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (2.09%) NIST 800
10 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (1.57%) Data Quality
12 5 (1.31%) SLA
13 4 (1.04%) COBIT
13 4 (1.04%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.78%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 3 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) Docker
3 4 (1.04%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) LXC
5 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (2.35%) QRadar
2 8 (2.09%) CSIRT
3 6 (1.57%) Nessus
4 5 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (1.04%) Terraform
6 3 (0.78%) Ansible
6 3 (0.78%) SELinux
7 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.26%) Nmap
Vendors
1 79 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.92%) Qualys
3 14 (3.66%) Cisco
4 13 (3.39%) Splunk
5 12 (3.13%) Darktrace
6 10 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.35%) VMware
8 8 (2.09%) Google
8 8 (2.09%) IBM
9 6 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.57%) Sage
9 6 (1.57%) Workday
10 4 (1.04%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.04%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.78%) Apple
11 3 (0.78%) Intel
12 2 (0.52%) Alibaba
12 2 (0.52%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.52%) Oracle
12 2 (0.52%) SonicWALL