Cyber Threat Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threats
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 512 447 539
Rank change year-on-year -65 +92 -39
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 263 308 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 1.28% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 205 184 164
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £34,650
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £84,625 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £59,526 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% -14.96% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,053 24,125 31,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.59% 40.91% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 15,212 11,085 15,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK excluding London

Cyber Threat
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -83 21 £67,500 +22.73% 1
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
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.76%) Apache
1 2 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (0.76%) Confluence
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.38%) IIS
2 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.18%) Simulink
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 52 (19.77%) Azure
2 37 (14.07%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (11.03%) AWS
4 15 (5.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (3.04%) Cloudflare
6 5 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.76%) GCP
7 2 (0.76%) Google Docs
7 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.76%) Serverless
8 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.38%) IaaS
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.38%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (17.11%) Firewall
2 37 (14.07%) Intrusion Detection
3 19 (7.22%) Network Security
4 15 (5.70%) Internet
5 7 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.66%) Wireless
6 6 (2.28%) DNS
6 6 (2.28%) LAN
7 5 (1.90%) MPLS
7 5 (1.90%) SNMP
7 5 (1.90%) SSL
7 5 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.90%) WAN
8 4 (1.52%) HTTP
8 4 (1.52%) SMTP
9 2 (0.76%) DHCP
9 2 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.38%) OSPF
10 1 (0.38%) VLAN
10 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.76%) Big Data
1 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.76%) Power BI
1 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.76%) GitLab
1 2 (0.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) GDB
General
1 79 (30.04%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (29.66%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.35%) Finance
4 17 (6.46%) Retail
5 16 (6.08%) Electronics
5 16 (6.08%) Law
6 15 (5.70%) Legal
7 14 (5.32%) Games
7 14 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.80%) Banking
9 6 (2.28%) Automotive
9 6 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.76%) Local Government
12 2 (0.76%) Police
12 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.38%) Marketing
13 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (26.24%) Analyst
2 35 (13.31%) Security Manager
3 33 (12.55%) Senior
4 31 (11.79%) Lead
5 26 (9.89%) SOC Analyst
6 19 (7.22%) Security Analyst
7 18 (6.84%) Architect
8 16 (6.08%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.70%) Embedded Engineer
9 15 (5.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 14 (5.32%) IT Manager
11 13 (4.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
11 13 (4.94%) Cyber Threat Specialist
11 13 (4.94%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
12 12 (4.56%) Security Architect
13 11 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 10 (3.80%) IT Security Manager
14 10 (3.80%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
15 9 (3.42%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.04%) Laravel
2 6 (2.28%) Middleware
3 5 (1.90%) NETCONF
4 3 (1.14%) React
5 2 (0.76%) .NET
5 2 (0.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.76%) Flask
5 2 (0.76%) RESTful
6 1 (0.38%) EDI
6 1 (0.38%) HTML
6 1 (0.38%) HTML5
6 1 (0.38%) Redux
6 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.73%) Management Information System
2 40 (15.21%) Security Operations Centre
3 34 (12.93%) Cyberattack
4 30 (11.41%) Security Posture
5 19 (7.22%) Client/Server
6 11 (4.18%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.18%) Operational Technology
7 10 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.28%) Cyber Security Posture
8 6 (2.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.14%) Smart Energy
11 2 (0.76%) Cybercrime
11 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.76%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.76%) EPoS
11 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.79%) Windows
2 9 (3.42%) Linux
3 5 (1.90%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.52%) Kali Linux
4 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.76%) Android
5 2 (0.76%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (69.58%) Cybersecurity
2 109 (41.44%) Incident Response
3 82 (31.18%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (23.57%) Security Operations
5 60 (22.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 60 (22.81%) SIEM
5 60 (22.81%) Threat Intelligence
6 45 (17.11%) Information Security
7 39 (14.83%) Cyber Intelligence
8 38 (14.45%) Computer Science
9 33 (12.55%) Project Management
10 32 (12.17%) Penetration Testing
11 29 (11.03%) Cloud Security
11 29 (11.03%) Risk Management
12 27 (10.27%) Vulnerability Management
13 25 (9.51%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 23 (8.75%) Agile
15 21 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.98%) Risk Assessment
15 21 (7.98%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.75%) Python
2 19 (7.22%) PHP
3 14 (5.32%) C
4 13 (4.94%) C#
5 11 (4.18%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.80%) SQL
7 8 (3.04%) Rust
8 7 (2.66%) C++
9 4 (1.52%) Bash
10 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.14%) R
11 2 (0.76%) Java
11 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.38%) Perl
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (30.04%) Degree
2 64 (24.33%) CISSP
3 56 (21.29%) Security Cleared
4 31 (11.79%) CompTIA Security+
5 28 (10.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (9.89%) SC Cleared
7 24 (9.13%) CISM
8 19 (7.22%) GIAC
9 17 (6.46%) CREST Certified
10 14 (5.32%) DV Cleared
11 13 (4.94%) CEH
12 9 (3.42%) CISA
12 9 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (2.66%) CCIE
13 7 (2.66%) CCNP
13 7 (2.66%) Master's Degree
14 6 (2.28%) GCFA
15 5 (1.90%) GCIH
16 4 (1.52%) CCNA
16 4 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (20.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (14.45%) NIST
3 24 (9.13%) GDPR
4 12 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (4.56%) GRC
5 9 (3.42%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 7 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (1.90%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.90%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.90%) SLA
8 4 (1.52%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.52%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.14%) NCSC
9 3 (1.14%) PMO
10 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.76%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
10 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (3.04%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.52%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.76%) Docker
4 1 (0.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.52%) Nessus
3 3 (1.14%) SELinux
4 2 (0.76%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.76%) Terraform
5 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.18%) Cisco
2 11 (4.18%) Splunk
3 9 (3.42%) VMware
4 6 (2.28%) Sage
4 6 (2.28%) Workday
5 3 (1.14%) Apple
5 3 (1.14%) Darktrace
6 2 (0.76%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) Citrix
7 1 (0.38%) Qualys
7 1 (0.38%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.38%) Sophos
7 1 (0.38%) Tripwire