Cyber Threat Intelligence Jobs

Cyber Threat Intelligence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cyber Threat Intelligence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat Intelligence over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 647 616 444
Rank change year-on-year -31 -172 +261
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 270 354 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.37% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.39% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 170 140 230
10th Percentile £44,875 £39,294 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,750 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +16.81% -3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,313 £79,313
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,200 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat Intelligence in the UK

Cyber Threat Intelligence
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat Intelligence 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 -62 217 £60,000 -11.76% 56
UK excluding London -41 170 £52,500 -4.55% 37
Work from Home -59 99 £67,000 +7.20% 19
London +36 74 £67,500 -6.90% 23
North of England +60 65 £50,000 -26.47% 14
North West +15 40 £50,000 -26.47% 6
Scotland -41 31 £47,557 -0.21% 1
South East -60 24 £59,000 -1.67% 7
Yorkshire +70 23 £52,500 - 8
South West -55 23 £52,500 -28.81% 8
Midlands +1 22 £52,500 -22.79% 5
West Midlands -8 11 £36,300 -46.62% 4
East Midlands -9 11 £52,500 - 1
Wales +9 3 £52,500 -4.55% 1
East of England 0 2 £57,500 +27.78% 1
North East -9 2 £40,000 -9.09%

Cyber Threat Intelligence
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 14 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.74%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.04%) SaaS
2 44 (16.30%) Azure
3 40 (14.81%) AWS
4 30 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (7.78%) GCP
6 14 (5.19%) Amazon S3
6 14 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (5.19%) Google Docs
6 14 (5.19%) Lucidchart
6 14 (5.19%) Miro
6 14 (5.19%) Slack
7 13 (4.81%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.85%) IaaS
9 5 (1.85%) PaaS
10 2 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 51 (18.89%) Firewall
2 23 (8.52%) Network Security
3 21 (7.78%) Internet
4 20 (7.41%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.04%) Intrusion Detection
6 12 (4.44%) DNS
7 9 (3.33%) WAN
8 8 (2.96%) LAN
8 8 (2.96%) SSL
9 6 (2.22%) HTTP
9 6 (2.22%) SMTP
9 6 (2.22%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.48%) 5G
10 4 (1.48%) GSM
10 4 (1.48%) Radio Access Network
11 3 (1.11%) VPN
12 2 (0.74%) DMZ
12 2 (0.74%) tcpdump
13 1 (0.37%) DHCP
13 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.93%) Big Data
2 14 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (5.19%) Hadoop
2 14 (5.19%) Redis
2 14 (5.19%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Subversion
2 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 80 (29.63%) Finance
3 46 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.63%) Legal
5 21 (7.78%) Banking
6 19 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (7.04%) Military
7 13 (4.81%) Law
7 13 (4.81%) Marketing
8 8 (2.96%) Retail
9 6 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.85%) Games
10 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.48%) International Banking
11 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.48%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 109 (40.37%) Analyst
2 60 (22.22%) Senior
3 47 (17.41%) Security Analyst
4 26 (9.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 26 (9.63%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 21 (7.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 21 (7.78%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 21 (7.78%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
6 20 (7.41%) Lead
7 19 (7.04%) Senior Analyst
7 19 (7.04%) SOC Analyst
8 18 (6.67%) Consultant
9 17 (6.30%) Security Consultant
10 15 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 14 (5.19%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (5.19%) Principal Software Engineer
11 14 (5.19%) Risk Manager
11 14 (5.19%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.19%) Support Analyst
12 13 (4.81%) Information Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.19%) GraphQL
1 14 (5.19%) Kafka
2 3 (1.11%) EDI
2 3 (1.11%) Sass
3 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.37%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 87 (32.22%) Cyber Threat
2 60 (22.22%) Cyberattack
3 29 (10.74%) Cyber Defence
3 29 (10.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 25 (9.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (8.52%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.19%) Algorithms
6 14 (5.19%) Data Structures
6 14 (5.19%) Security Posture
7 13 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.85%) Insider Threat
10 4 (1.48%) CSOC
10 4 (1.48%) PKI
10 4 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.11%) Smart Energy
12 2 (0.74%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.74%) IoT
12 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 64 (23.70%) Windows
2 45 (16.67%) Linux
3 24 (8.89%) Unix
4 21 (7.78%) Windows Server
5 19 (7.04%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.48%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.48%) Windows XP
7 3 (1.11%) Kali Linux
7 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.37%) Android
9 1 (0.37%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 211 (78.15%) Cybersecurity
3 170 (62.96%) Incident Response
4 110 (40.74%) Security Operations
5 82 (30.37%) SIEM
6 81 (30.00%) Information Security
7 68 (25.19%) Vulnerability Management
8 57 (21.11%) Cyber Intelligence
9 49 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 41 (15.19%) Incident Management
12 39 (14.44%) Risk Management
13 34 (12.59%) Penetration Testing
13 34 (12.59%) Roadmaps
14 32 (11.85%) Actionable Insight
15 31 (11.48%) Threat Modelling
16 30 (11.11%) Threat Detection
17 26 (9.63%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 25 (9.26%) Security Monitoring
18 25 (9.26%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.11%) Python
2 19 (7.04%) Java
3 16 (5.93%) Bash
4 14 (5.19%) Go
4 14 (5.19%) Scala
5 12 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.37%) C#
6 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (16.30%) Degree
2 43 (15.93%) CISSP
3 37 (13.70%) Security Cleared
4 36 (13.33%) CISM
5 33 (12.22%) GIAC
6 21 (7.78%) CREST Certified
7 20 (7.41%) SC Cleared
8 19 (7.04%) GCIA
8 19 (7.04%) GCIH
9 18 (6.67%) CRISC
10 14 (5.19%) DV Cleared
10 14 (5.19%) GREM
11 8 (2.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (2.59%) ISACA
13 6 (2.22%) CISA
13 6 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (2.22%) OSCP
14 5 (1.85%) CCSP
14 5 (1.85%) CEH
14 5 (1.85%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (23.70%) NIST
2 58 (21.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (9.63%) GDPR
4 23 (8.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (6.30%) PCI DSS
6 13 (4.81%) COBIT
6 13 (4.81%) NCSC
7 11 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 9 (3.33%) GRC
9 7 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.85%) ISO 9001
11 4 (1.48%) QA
12 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
12 3 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.11%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.96%) QRadar
3 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.48%) Ansible
4 4 (1.48%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.11%) SELinux
6 2 (0.74%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.37%) logstash
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.19%) Dell
3 16 (5.93%) Google
3 16 (5.93%) Splunk
4 12 (4.44%) IBM
5 10 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (3.33%) Qualys
7 8 (2.96%) Cisco
7 8 (2.96%) VMware
8 7 (2.59%) Intel
9 4 (1.48%) Alibaba
10 2 (0.74%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.74%) Facebook
10 2 (0.74%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.37%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.37%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.37%) iManage
11 1 (0.37%) Meraki
11 1 (0.37%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.37%) Tanium