Insider Threat Jobs

Insider Threats
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Insider Threat in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Insider Threat 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 893 931 1232
Rank change year-on-year +38 +301 -335
Permanent jobs citing Insider Threat 14 16 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.017% 0.017%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.039% 0.039% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 5
10th Percentile £38,880 - £48,489
25th Percentile £43,658 £37,463 £49,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £76,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.62% +27.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,625 £100,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,920 £40,975 -
% change year-on-year +2.31% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Insider 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 35,820 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%

Insider Threat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Insider Threat in the UK

Insider Threat
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Insider Threat 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 +32 12 £48,500 -36.60% 4
London +111 6 £49,250 -36.45%
UK excluding London -33 6 £41,920 +2.31% 4
South East -7 5 £41,920 +2.31% 1
Work from Home +44 1 £110,000 +10.00% 1
South West - 1 £55,000 - 2

Insider 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (7.14%) Anycast
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
2 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 8 (57.14%) Security Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Provisioning Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Management Information System
2 5 (35.71%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 5 (35.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) Data Interpretation
3 5 (35.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
3 5 (35.71%) Information Security
3 5 (35.71%) Security Operations
3 5 (35.71%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) Use Case
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Case Management
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) Key Management
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (21.43%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (7.14%) CISA
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (7.14%) ISACA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (7.14%) Pingdom
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) BT
1 5 (35.71%) Intel
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) SaltStack
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow