Cyberattack Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 385 320
Rank change year-on-year -37 -65 +253
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 399 392 831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.70% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.69% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 148 80 108
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,750 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £55,888
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +3.78% +11.78%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,763 £65,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,979 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.76% +0.87% -14.81%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Cyberattack 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 25,319 23,208 33,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.05% 41.70% 44.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15,468 10,824 16,109
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £85,000 £82,550
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the UK excluding London

Cyberattack
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 Cyberattack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +154 267 £50,000 -25.93% 13
North West +145 222 £50,000 -26.85% 5
South West -129 68 £68,500 +9.60% 2
Yorkshire +29 32 £50,000 -9.09% 7
South East -36 26 £50,000 -4.76% 5
Midlands -24 19 £32,000 -54.29% 6
North East -4 13 - - 2
West Midlands -8 11 £32,000 -54.29% 5
Scotland -62 11 £47,000 -18.97% 2
East Midlands -28 8 £52,500 -19.23% 1
Wales +13 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
East of England -11 4 £95,000 +68.89% 6
Cyberattack
UK

Cyberattack
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 7 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) Confluence
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.03%) Azure
2 33 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (1.75%) AWS
4 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (0.75%) IaaS
5 3 (0.75%) PaaS
5 3 (0.75%) SaaS
6 2 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.50%) dbt
6 2 (0.50%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.77%) Internet
2 28 (7.02%) DNS
3 24 (6.02%) Firewall
4 22 (5.51%) DKIM
4 22 (5.51%) DMARC
5 20 (5.01%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.26%) LAN
6 13 (3.26%) WAN
7 6 (1.50%) DHCP
7 6 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (1.50%) SAN
7 6 (1.50%) VLAN
8 4 (1.00%) HTTP
8 4 (1.00%) SMTP
8 4 (1.00%) SSL
9 2 (0.50%) Broadband
9 2 (0.50%) Network Security
10 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.25%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.50%) Metabase
1 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.50%) Redis
2 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.25%) Git
2 1 (0.25%) Subversion
2 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 240 (60.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (5.26%) Social Skills
4 8 (2.01%) Finance
5 6 (1.50%) Legal
5 6 (1.50%) Military
6 5 (1.25%) Law
7 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.50%) Marketing
8 2 (0.50%) Publishing
8 2 (0.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.25%) Games
9 1 (0.25%) Local Government
9 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (21.05%) Lead
2 80 (20.05%) Architect
3 78 (19.55%) Software Engineer
4 75 (18.80%) Software Architect
5 74 (18.55%) Programmer
5 74 (18.55%) Software Programmer
6 70 (17.54%) Lead Software Engineer
7 58 (14.54%) Analyst
8 43 (10.78%) Security Analyst
9 40 (10.03%) Security Manager
10 34 (8.52%) Senior
11 33 (8.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 31 (7.77%) Security Assurance Manager
13 30 (7.52%) Information Assurance Manager
13 30 (7.52%) Information Manager
13 30 (7.52%) Information Security Manager
14 24 (6.02%) Information Analyst
14 24 (6.02%) Information Security Analyst
15 14 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.50%) CSS
1 2 (0.50%) D3.js
1 2 (0.50%) HTML
1 2 (0.50%) Node.js
1 2 (0.50%) React
1 2 (0.50%) Vue
2 1 (0.25%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.02%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (3.76%) Security Posture
3 12 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (0.75%) CSOC
5 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.25%) CESG
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.25%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.25%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.25%) IoT
6 1 (0.25%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.02%) Windows
2 17 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 16 (4.01%) Linux
4 6 (1.50%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.00%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.25%) Android
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (63.91%) Problem-Solving
2 233 (58.40%) Software Engineering
3 230 (57.64%) Mentoring
4 229 (57.39%) Agile
4 229 (57.39%) Machine Learning
5 227 (56.89%) Creative Thinking
5 227 (56.89%) Data Engineering
5 227 (56.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 227 (56.89%) User Experience
6 108 (27.07%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (14.04%) Information Security
8 51 (12.78%) Incident Response
9 49 (12.28%) SIEM
10 45 (11.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 45 (11.28%) Threat Intelligence
11 42 (10.53%) Security Management
12 39 (9.77%) Risk Management
13 36 (9.02%) Cloud Security
14 32 (8.02%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 32 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.76%) Python
2 8 (2.01%) JavaScript
3 7 (1.75%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.50%) SQL
5 5 (1.25%) C++
5 5 (1.25%) Go
5 5 (1.25%) Ruby
6 3 (0.75%) Java
7 2 (0.50%) Lisp
8 1 (0.25%) C#
8 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.52%) GIAC
4 20 (5.01%) CREST Certified
5 14 (3.51%) CISSP
6 11 (2.76%) Degree
7 8 (2.01%) OSCP
8 7 (1.75%) CISM
9 6 (1.50%) CEH
10 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.00%) CISA
12 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.50%) CASP
13 2 (0.50%) CHECK Team Member
13 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.50%) FFIEC
13 2 (0.50%) GCIA
13 2 (0.50%) GCIH
13 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (8.77%) NCSC
3 18 (4.51%) NIST
4 7 (1.75%) GDPR
4 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.50%) Docker
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (5.51%) CASB
2 4 (1.00%) Nessus
3 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (3.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.75%) Veeam
3 6 (1.50%) Epicor
3 6 (1.50%) Splunk
4 2 (0.50%) BT
4 2 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (0.50%) Facebook
4 2 (0.50%) VMware
5 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.25%) Cisco
5 1 (0.25%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.25%) HP
5 1 (0.25%) Spotify