Cyber Defence Jobs in London

Cyber Defence
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 502 779
Rank change year-on-year +36 +277 -169
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 37 101 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.69% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 24
10th Percentile £67,500 £49,525 £50,356
25th Percentile £70,000 £52,188 £60,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -20.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,813
90th Percentile - £97,750 £92,275
England median annual salary £90,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +44.00% +8.70% -14.81%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,677 14,728 37,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.06% 46.05% 51.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,770 10,198 15,607
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,295
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £120,000
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in London

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in London

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Defence in London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in London

Cyber Defence
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +46 3 £67,500 +35.00% 5
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.81%) Azure
4 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) Network Security
2 10 (27.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (18.92%) Firewall
4 5 (13.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.70%) Mercurial
1 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (45.95%) Finance
2 15 (40.54%) Military
3 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Law
4 3 (8.11%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Analyst
1 15 (40.54%) Consultant
1 15 (40.54%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 15 (40.54%) Security Analyst
1 15 (40.54%) Security Consultant
2 10 (27.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 8 (21.62%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Operations Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Security Operations Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Security Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Incident Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Incident Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Governance Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Lead
6 1 (2.70%) Operations Team Leader
6 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (67.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 20 (54.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (37.84%) Cyberattack
4 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (91.89%) Security Operations
2 32 (86.49%) SIEM
3 30 (81.08%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (56.76%) Information Security
5 20 (54.05%) Incident Management
6 19 (51.35%) Incident Response
7 17 (45.95%) Agile
8 15 (40.54%) Analytics
8 15 (40.54%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 15 (40.54%) Data Analytics
8 15 (40.54%) Security Architecture
8 15 (40.54%) Threat Intelligence
8 15 (40.54%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (35.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 10 (27.03%) Attack Monitoring
11 9 (24.32%) Mentoring
12 6 (16.22%) Malware Analysis
13 5 (13.51%) Data Loss Prevention
13 5 (13.51%) Kalman Filter
13 5 (13.51%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) Java
2 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 15 (40.54%) DV Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) CISA
3 6 (16.22%) CISSP
4 5 (13.51%) CISM
4 5 (13.51%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.70%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.70%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (67.57%) NIST
2 10 (27.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) vSphere
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) SolarWinds
1 15 (40.54%) Tanium
1 15 (40.54%) Tripwire
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) IBM
3 1 (2.70%) Perforce
3 1 (2.70%) Qualys