Cyber Threat Jobs

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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 510 688
Rank change year-on-year -13 +178 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 429 515 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.54% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% 1.26% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 331 324 368
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 £82,500 £79,000 £90,625
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 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £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 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 2 June 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 2 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 +50 388 £65,000 +9.20% 117
UK excluding London -51 267 £60,000 +9.09% 65
Work from Home -4 138 £67,000 +12.56% 44
London +53 137 £76,250 +17.31% 52
North of England +9 80 £50,000 -9.09% 28
South East +12 67 £55,000 -26.67% 13
North West -27 53 £50,000 -16.00% 22
East of England +30 45 £65,000 +36.84% 2
Midlands -3 25 £65,000 +18.18% 7
South West -58 24 £62,500 +5.00% 13
Scotland -83 21 £67,500 +19.47% 3
Yorkshire +45 19 £60,000 +16.81% 6
East Midlands -5 14 £65,000 +40.54% 5
West Midlands -11 11 £70,000 +27.27% 2
North East -4 8 £39,500 -28.18%
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 (1.63%) 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 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.56%) 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 99 (23.08%) Azure
2 70 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (11.42%) AWS
4 17 (3.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (1.86%) Cloudflare
7 7 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
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%) PaaS
11 1 (0.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (18.88%) Firewall
2 47 (10.96%) Intrusion Detection
3 35 (8.16%) Network Security
4 15 (3.50%) Internet
4 15 (3.50%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.03%) LAN
6 12 (2.80%) DNS
7 11 (2.56%) WAN
8 10 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.86%) MPLS
9 8 (1.86%) Wireless
9 8 (1.86%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.40%) HTTP
10 6 (1.40%) SMTP
11 5 (1.17%) DHCP
11 5 (1.17%) OSPF
11 5 (1.17%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.17%) SNMP
11 5 (1.17%) SSL
12 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
1 132 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 99 (23.08%) Finance
3 95 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.76%) Legal
5 28 (6.53%) Banking
6 22 (5.13%) Games
6 22 (5.13%) Retail
7 20 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.96%) Law
9 16 (3.73%) Electronics
10 9 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.63%) 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%) Police
Job Titles
1 103 (24.01%) Analyst
2 63 (14.69%) Senior
3 53 (12.35%) Lead
4 47 (10.96%) Security Manager
5 46 (10.72%) Security Analyst
6 31 (7.23%) Architect
7 28 (6.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 26 (6.06%) SOC Analyst
9 23 (5.36%) IT Manager
9 23 (5.36%) Security Architect
10 21 (4.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
10 21 (4.90%) Cyber Threat Specialist
10 21 (4.90%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
11 19 (4.43%) IT Security Manager
12 18 (4.20%) Security Engineer
13 16 (3.73%) Technical Leader
14 15 (3.50%) Data Manager
14 15 (3.50%) Embedded Engineer
14 15 (3.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 15 (3.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.13%) Middleware
2 8 (1.86%) Kafka
2 8 (1.86%) 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 65 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 59 (13.75%) Cyberattack
3 43 (10.02%) Security Posture
4 42 (9.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (6.06%) Operational Technology
6 19 (4.43%) Client/Server
7 17 (3.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 14 (3.26%) Cyber Security Posture
9 13 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.56%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (2.33%) Cloud Native
12 9 (2.10%) SCADA
13 8 (1.86%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.86%) Replication
14 7 (1.63%) Driving Licence
15 6 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
16 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
16 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.62%) Windows
2 25 (5.83%) Linux
3 15 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.56%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.56%) Unix
5 8 (1.86%) CentOS
5 8 (1.86%) Solaris
5 8 (1.86%) zOS
6 4 (0.93%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (64.57%) Cybersecurity
2 169 (39.39%) Incident Response
3 121 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (24.48%) Security Operations
5 99 (23.08%) SIEM
6 87 (20.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 87 (20.28%) Information Security
6 87 (20.28%) Threat Intelligence
7 61 (14.22%) Risk Management
8 59 (13.75%) Cyber Intelligence
9 57 (13.29%) Computer Science
10 46 (10.72%) Disaster Recovery
11 44 (10.26%) Penetration Testing
12 43 (10.02%) Roadmaps
13 41 (9.56%) Agile
14 39 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
15 38 (8.86%) Cloud Security
15 38 (8.86%) Project Management
15 38 (8.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 37 (8.62%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.99%) Python
2 20 (4.66%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.43%) PHP
4 13 (3.03%) C
4 13 (3.03%) C#
5 11 (2.56%) MATLAB
6 9 (2.10%) SQL
7 8 (1.86%) Rust
8 6 (1.40%) C++
9 3 (0.70%) Bash
9 3 (0.70%) Java
9 3 (0.70%) R
10 2 (0.47%) Go
10 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.47%) Perl
10 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 113 (26.34%) Degree
2 102 (23.78%) CISSP
3 75 (17.48%) Security Cleared
4 47 (10.96%) CISM
5 42 (9.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (8.62%) SC Cleared
7 35 (8.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 27 (6.29%) GIAC
9 22 (5.13%) CREST Certified
10 20 (4.66%) CISA
11 19 (4.43%) DV Cleared
12 18 (4.20%) CEH
12 18 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (3.26%) CRISC
14 12 (2.80%) Master's Degree
15 11 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (2.56%) CCSP
16 9 (2.10%) Azure Certification
17 8 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (1.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (21.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (14.69%) NIST
3 44 (10.26%) GDPR
4 35 (8.16%) GRC
5 28 (6.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (6.06%) PCI DSS
7 17 (3.96%) NCSC
8 13 (3.03%) HIPAA
9 9 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (2.10%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 7 (1.63%) SOC 2
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 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.63%) 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 12 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.10%) Ansible
2 9 (2.10%) QRadar
2 9 (2.10%) Terraform
3 8 (1.86%) CSIRT
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
8 2 (0.47%) 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 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.50%) Qualys
3 14 (3.26%) Cisco
4 13 (3.03%) Splunk
5 12 (2.80%) Darktrace
6 10 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (1.86%) Google
7 8 (1.86%) IBM
7 8 (1.86%) 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