Cyber Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 516 695
Rank change year-on-year -5 +179 -69
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 428 529 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.54% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 1.27% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 333 328 364
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -14.96% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,290 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,507 41,619 80,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.38% 42.84% 48.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,113 22,631 34,154
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,607
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 £86,250 £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 Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in the UK

Cyber Threat
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England +23 387 £65,000 +8.76% 91
UK excluding London -37 266 £60,000 +9.09% 59
Work from Home +7 139 £67,000 +12.56% 37
London +36 137 £75,000 +15.38% 35
North of England -1 77 £50,000 -9.09% 23
South East +19 68 £55,000 -26.67% 7
North West -24 51 £50,000 -16.00% 14
East of England +34 45 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Midlands -5 26 £65,000 +18.18% 8
South West -51 24 £62,500 +5.00% 14
Scotland -78 21 £67,500 +16.38% 3
Yorkshire +61 18 £60,000 +16.81% 8
East Midlands -13 15 £65,000 +85.71% 5
West Midlands -1 11 £70,000 +27.27% 3
North East +5 8 £39,500 -28.18% 1
Isle of Man - 4 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

Cyber Threat
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.47%) Apache
2 2 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.47%) Confluence
2 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.23%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.57%) Simulink
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 100 (23.36%) Azure
2 71 (16.59%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (11.92%) AWS
4 17 (3.97%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (2.34%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (1.87%) Cloudflare
7 6 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.93%) GCP
8 4 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.70%) Serverless
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.47%) Google Docs
11 1 (0.23%) IaaS
11 1 (0.23%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 84 (19.63%) Firewall
2 47 (10.98%) Intrusion Detection
3 35 (8.18%) Network Security
4 15 (3.50%) Internet
4 15 (3.50%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.04%) LAN
6 11 (2.57%) DNS
7 10 (2.34%) WAN
7 10 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.87%) MPLS
8 8 (1.87%) Wireless
8 8 (1.87%) Wireshark
9 5 (1.17%) DHCP
9 5 (1.17%) HTTP
9 5 (1.17%) OSPF
9 5 (1.17%) SMTP
9 5 (1.17%) SNMP
9 5 (1.17%) SSL
10 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.93%) Power BI
3 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.47%) Big Data
3 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.23%) MySQL
4 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.47%) GitLab
2 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 131 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 101 (23.60%) Finance
3 94 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.01%) Legal
5 28 (6.54%) Banking
6 22 (5.14%) Games
6 22 (5.14%) Retail
7 20 (4.67%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.44%) Law
9 16 (3.74%) Electronics
10 9 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.40%) Automotive
13 5 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 104 (24.30%) Analyst
2 61 (14.25%) Senior
3 53 (12.38%) Lead
4 48 (11.21%) Security Manager
5 47 (10.98%) Security Analyst
6 31 (7.24%) Architect
7 28 (6.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 26 (6.07%) SOC Analyst
9 23 (5.37%) IT Manager
9 23 (5.37%) Security Architect
10 20 (4.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
10 20 (4.67%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 20 (4.67%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
11 19 (4.44%) IT Security Manager
11 19 (4.44%) Security Engineer
12 16 (3.74%) Technical Leader
13 15 (3.50%) Data Manager
13 15 (3.50%) Embedded Engineer
13 15 (3.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 15 (3.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.14%) Middleware
2 8 (1.87%) Kafka
2 8 (1.87%) Laravel
3 5 (1.17%) NETCONF
4 3 (0.70%) Sass
5 2 (0.47%) .NET
5 2 (0.47%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.47%) Flask
5 2 (0.47%) React
5 2 (0.47%) RESTful
6 1 (0.23%) EDI
6 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.23%) Node.js
6 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.42%) Management Information System
2 59 (13.79%) Cyberattack
3 45 (10.51%) Security Posture
4 42 (9.81%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (6.07%) Operational Technology
6 19 (4.44%) Client/Server
7 16 (3.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 13 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (3.04%) Cyber Security Posture
9 11 (2.57%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.57%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (2.34%) Cloud Native
11 9 (2.10%) SCADA
12 8 (1.87%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.87%) Replication
13 7 (1.64%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
15 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.65%) Windows
2 26 (6.07%) Linux
3 14 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.80%) Unix
5 11 (2.57%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.87%) CentOS
6 8 (1.87%) Solaris
6 8 (1.87%) zOS
7 4 (0.93%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.47%) Android
8 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (64.72%) Cybersecurity
2 170 (39.72%) Incident Response
3 120 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 101 (23.60%) SIEM
6 87 (20.33%) Information Security
7 85 (19.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 85 (19.86%) Threat Intelligence
8 61 (14.25%) Risk Management
9 58 (13.55%) Cyber Intelligence
10 57 (13.32%) Computer Science
11 47 (10.98%) Penetration Testing
12 45 (10.51%) Disaster Recovery
13 43 (10.05%) Roadmaps
14 41 (9.58%) Agile
15 40 (9.35%) Vulnerability Management
16 39 (9.11%) Cloud Security
16 39 (9.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
17 38 (8.88%) Security Architecture
18 37 (8.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.78%) Python
2 19 (4.44%) PHP
2 19 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 13 (3.04%) C
3 13 (3.04%) C#
4 11 (2.57%) MATLAB
5 9 (2.10%) SQL
6 8 (1.87%) Rust
7 6 (1.40%) C++
8 3 (0.70%) Bash
8 3 (0.70%) Java
8 3 (0.70%) R
9 2 (0.47%) Go
9 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.47%) Perl
9 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.23%) Ruby
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 114 (26.64%) Degree
2 104 (24.30%) CISSP
3 75 (17.52%) Security Cleared
4 47 (10.98%) CISM
5 42 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (8.64%) SC Cleared
7 35 (8.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 26 (6.07%) GIAC
9 22 (5.14%) CREST Certified
10 21 (4.91%) CISA
10 21 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (4.44%) DV Cleared
12 18 (4.21%) CEH
13 14 (3.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (3.27%) CCSP
13 14 (3.27%) CRISC
14 12 (2.80%) Master's Degree
15 9 (2.10%) Azure Certification
15 9 (2.10%) SANS
16 8 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (21.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (15.65%) NIST
3 42 (9.81%) GDPR
4 35 (8.18%) GRC
5 27 (6.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (6.07%) PCI DSS
7 17 (3.97%) NCSC
8 12 (2.80%) HIPAA
9 9 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (2.10%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.87%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (1.40%) Data Quality
13 5 (1.17%) SLA
14 4 (0.93%) COBIT
14 4 (0.93%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.70%) ISO 31000
15 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (6.07%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.17%) Docker
4 3 (0.70%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) LXC
Systems Management
1 11 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.10%) QRadar
3 8 (1.87%) Ansible
3 8 (1.87%) CSIRT
3 8 (1.87%) Terraform
4 6 (1.40%) Nessus
5 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.93%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.70%) SELinux
8 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.23%) CASB
9 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.23%) Kibana
9 1 (0.23%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 88 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.50%) Qualys
3 14 (3.27%) Cisco
4 13 (3.04%) Splunk
5 12 (2.80%) Darktrace
6 10 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (1.87%) Google
7 8 (1.87%) IBM
7 8 (1.87%) VMware
8 6 (1.40%) Sage
8 6 (1.40%) Workday
9 5 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.93%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.70%) Apple
11 3 (0.70%) Intel
11 3 (0.70%) Juniper
11 3 (0.70%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.47%) Oracle
12 2 (0.47%) SonicWALL