Threat Modelling Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Threat Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 484 635
Rank change year-on-year +22 +151 -81
Permanent jobs citing Threat Modelling 153 57 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 84 35 60
10th Percentile £51,925 £48,165 £35,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +23.08% -5.13%
75th Percentile £89,250 £95,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 - £76,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% -11.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Threat Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,105 29,940 53,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.47% 88.23% 79.59%
Number of salaries quoted 35,978 16,122 36,226
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,735 £27,817
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,230 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

Threat Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Threat Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Threat Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Threat Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Threat Modelling

Threat Modelling
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Threat Modelling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Threat Modelling in the UK excluding London

Threat Modelling
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 Threat Modelling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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 +6 39 £72,500 +11.54% 25
North West +22 29 £71,250 - 20
South West -45 29 £85,000 +6.25% 13
South East -25 26 £62,000 -0.80% 12
West Midlands -1 21 £82,500 +3.13% 1
Midlands -15 21 £82,500 +3.13% 1
Scotland +22 19 £90,000 -5.26% 6
Wales - 11 £80,000 - 1
East of England - 8 £87,500 - 3
Yorkshire -31 7 £87,500 +52.17% 4
North East -48 3 £48,500 -25.38% 1
Threat Modelling
UK

Threat Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.31%) nginx
Business Applications
1 11 (7.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.41%) AWS
2 42 (27.45%) Azure
3 30 (19.61%) Serverless
4 22 (14.38%) GitHub
5 15 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.23%) GCP
7 6 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.92%) CloudFront
8 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.31%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.31%) npm
9 2 (1.31%) SaaS
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.65%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) Broadband
2 10 (6.54%) Firewall
3 8 (5.23%) Network Security
4 4 (2.61%) DMZ
5 1 (0.65%) LTE
5 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.31%) MySQL
2 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (14.38%) Snyk
2 15 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.58%) Yeoman
4 3 (1.96%) Git
4 3 (1.96%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) GDB
5 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.65%) JUnit
5 1 (0.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.65%) Spock
5 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.65%) WinDbg
General
1 37 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.88%) Finance
3 30 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (16.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (13.73%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.50%) Games
7 8 (5.23%) Aerospace
7 8 (5.23%) Legal
8 6 (3.92%) Italian Language
8 6 (3.92%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.65%) Back Office
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (40.52%) Architect
2 52 (33.99%) Security Architect
3 37 (24.18%) Senior
4 26 (16.99%) Consultant
5 23 (15.03%) Cloud Architect
5 23 (15.03%) Cloud Security Architect
6 22 (14.38%) Security Engineer
6 22 (14.38%) Senior Architect
6 22 (14.38%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 22 (14.38%) Senior Security Architect
7 18 (11.76%) Security Consultant
8 17 (11.11%) Analyst
9 15 (9.80%) Lead
10 14 (9.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 11 (7.19%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 10 (6.54%) Security Manager
13 9 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 7 (4.58%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.84%) Node.js
2 8 (5.23%) REST
3 7 (4.58%) .NET
4 6 (3.92%) AWS CDK
4 6 (3.92%) GraphQL
4 6 (3.92%) React
4 6 (3.92%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.61%) Backbone.js
6 2 (1.31%) LAMP
6 2 (1.31%) Laravel
6 2 (1.31%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (1.31%) LESS
6 2 (1.31%) Sass
6 2 (1.31%) Vue
7 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 22 (14.38%) Data Centre
2 22 (14.38%) Security Posture
3 18 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (7.84%) AI Agents
4 12 (7.84%) Cyberattack
5 11 (7.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 7 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.58%) PKI
7 6 (3.92%) Cyber Security Posture
7 6 (3.92%) Digital Wallet
7 6 (3.92%) Mainframe
7 6 (3.92%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.92%) Social Media
8 5 (3.27%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.27%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.61%) Blog
10 3 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (73.20%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (45.10%) Cloud Security
3 60 (39.22%) Security Architecture
4 55 (35.95%) AI
5 49 (32.03%) CI/CD
6 48 (31.37%) SDLC
7 45 (29.41%) Application Security
8 39 (25.49%) Security Testing
9 34 (22.22%) Validation
10 33 (21.57%) DevSecOps
11 30 (19.61%) Identity Access Management
12 28 (18.30%) Risk Management
13 27 (17.65%) TOGAF
14 26 (16.99%) Information Security
14 26 (16.99%) Vulnerability Management
15 24 (15.69%) Incident Response
16 22 (14.38%) IT Strategy
16 22 (14.38%) Technology Strategy
17 21 (13.73%) Data Loss Prevention
17 21 (13.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.84%) Python
2 8 (5.23%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.58%) Bash
3 7 (4.58%) C#
3 7 (4.58%) Java
4 6 (3.92%) COBOL
4 6 (3.92%) Ruby
5 2 (1.31%) C
5 2 (1.31%) Go
5 2 (1.31%) PHP
5 2 (1.31%) SQL
6 1 (0.65%) C++
6 1 (0.65%) Groovy
6 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (26.80%) CISSP
2 31 (20.26%) Security Cleared
3 30 (19.61%) CISM
4 22 (14.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 20 (13.07%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (9.80%) SC Cleared
7 14 (9.15%) CCSP
7 14 (9.15%) DV Cleared
8 11 (7.19%) AWS Certification
9 9 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (4.58%) CREST Certified
10 7 (4.58%) SANS
11 6 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (2.61%) CISA
12 4 (2.61%) Degree
12 4 (2.61%) OSCP
13 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
14 2 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.29%) GDPR
2 53 (34.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (32.03%) NIST
4 42 (27.45%) GRC
5 27 (17.65%) PCI DSS
6 18 (11.76%) NCSC
7 14 (9.15%) Accessibility
8 10 (6.54%) JSP 440
9 6 (3.92%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (3.92%) NIST 800
9 6 (3.92%) SOC 2
10 4 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.61%) Def Stans
10 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.65%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 22 (14.38%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.96%) Docker
3 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (5.88%) Terraform
2 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.31%) Argo
3 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) CASB
4 1 (0.65%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (0.65%) Nessus
4 1 (0.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (17.65%) CrowdStrike
2 22 (14.38%) Palo Alto
2 22 (14.38%) Tenable
3 11 (7.19%) SAP
4 9 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.96%) Meraki
5 3 (1.96%) Splunk
6 2 (1.31%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.65%) Google