Cyber Defence Jobs

Cyber Defence
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies. 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 788 679 594
Rank change year-on-year -109 -85 +276
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 119 273 885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.29% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.67% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 65 54 102
10th Percentile £53,087 £50,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £107,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £97,290 £88,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £102,500 £70,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +46.43% +47.37% -17.03%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,820 40,772 81,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.08% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,199 22,412 34,284
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Defence in the UK

Cyber Defence
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the UK 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
England -107 112 £90,000 +44.00% 37
UK excluding London -118 76 £102,500 +46.43% 18
South West -23 48 £105,000 +13.92% 6
London +49 36 £90,000 +56.52% 15
Work from Home -151 20 £67,500 +8.00% 14
North of England +2 13 £62,500 +2.04% 4
South East -50 10 £66,410 +0.24% 7
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 -
Scotland -69 2 £74,000 +30.53%

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (10.08%) AWS
2 9 (7.56%) Azure
3 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.52%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.52%) IaaS
5 3 (2.52%) PaaS
6 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.84%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.84%) SaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (30.25%) Network Security
2 31 (26.05%) Firewall
3 11 (9.24%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (5.04%) VoIP
5 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.68%) Wireless
6 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.61%) Big Data
2 6 (5.04%) Power BI
3 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Git
1 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.84%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.84%) Jasmine
2 1 (0.84%) JIRA
2 1 (0.84%) Mercurial
2 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.84%) Subversion
2 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.73%) Military
3 30 (25.21%) Aerospace
4 21 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (16.81%) Finance
6 9 (7.56%) Legal
7 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.04%) Law
9 5 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.84%) Electronics
11 1 (0.84%) Games
11 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (28.57%) Consultant
2 33 (27.73%) Security Consultant
3 28 (23.53%) Analyst
4 26 (21.85%) Senior
5 20 (16.81%) Security Analyst
6 15 (12.61%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 14 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.04%) Head of Compliance
10 6 (5.04%) Head of Information
10 6 (5.04%) Head of Information Assurance
10 6 (5.04%) Lead
10 6 (5.04%) Operations Analyst
10 6 (5.04%) Security Operations Analyst
10 6 (5.04%) Senior Operations Analyst
10 6 (5.04%) Senior Security Analyst
11 5 (4.20%) Architect
12 3 (2.52%) Senior Manager
12 3 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.84%) .NET
2 1 (0.84%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.84%) JMS
2 1 (0.84%) Kafka
2 1 (0.84%) POSIX
2 1 (0.84%) Spring
2 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (33.61%) Security Operations Centre
2 32 (26.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 21 (17.65%) Management Information System
4 20 (16.81%) Cyberattack
5 18 (15.13%) Operational Technology
6 11 (9.24%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (4.20%) Driving Licence
9 4 (3.36%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.52%) CSOC
10 3 (2.52%) IoT
11 2 (1.68%) FPGA
11 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.84%) Cybercrime
12 1 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.21%) Linux
2 13 (10.92%) Windows
3 2 (1.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.84%) Android
4 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.84%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.84%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (74.79%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (54.62%) Information Security
3 62 (52.10%) SIEM
4 59 (49.58%) Security Operations
5 51 (42.86%) Agile
6 37 (31.09%) Mentoring
6 37 (31.09%) Security Architecture
7 31 (26.05%) Incident Response
8 29 (24.37%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 29 (24.37%) Threat Intelligence
9 24 (20.17%) Incident Management
9 24 (20.17%) Resource Management
10 22 (18.49%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 20 (16.81%) Coaching
11 20 (16.81%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (16.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 18 (15.13%) Malware Analysis
12 18 (15.13%) Programme Management
12 18 (15.13%) Vulnerability Management
13 17 (14.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.13%) Python
2 14 (11.76%) Bash
3 5 (4.20%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.52%) Java
5 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.84%) C
6 1 (0.84%) C#
6 1 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (59.66%) Security Cleared
2 39 (32.77%) DV Cleared
3 21 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.08%) CISSP
5 9 (7.56%) CISA
5 9 (7.56%) Degree
6 6 (5.04%) CISM
6 6 (5.04%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (4.20%) MBCS
8 3 (2.52%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.68%) CRISC
9 2 (1.68%) GCIA
9 2 (1.68%) GCIH
9 2 (1.68%) GIAC
9 2 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.68%) PMP
9 2 (1.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (47.90%) NIST
2 27 (22.69%) NIST 800
3 22 (18.49%) NCSC
4 10 (8.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (5.88%) GRC
6 6 (5.04%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.52%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (2.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.52%) JSP 440
7 3 (2.52%) RMADS
8 2 (1.68%) COBIT
8 2 (1.68%) GLBA
8 2 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.84%) GDPR
9 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (12.61%) vSphere
2 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) Docker
4 1 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (12.61%) Ansible
2 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.68%) Terraform
4 1 (0.84%) Kibana
4 1 (0.84%) logstash
4 1 (0.84%) QRadar
Vendors
1 20 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.45%) Tanium
3 15 (12.61%) SolarWinds
3 15 (12.61%) Tripwire
4 3 (2.52%) Splunk
5 2 (1.68%) Cisco
6 1 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.84%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.84%) Google
6 1 (0.84%) IBM
6 1 (0.84%) Perforce
6 1 (0.84%) Qualys