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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 509 587
Rank change year-on-year +16 +78 -35
Permanent jobs citing Threat Modelling 160 48 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 75 31 64
10th Percentile £53,900 £48,165 £35,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +4.25%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £94,500 £95,000 £85,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £76,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +9.29% -14.56%

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 55,106 30,247 46,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.35% 87.21% 78.33%
Number of salaries quoted 38,768 16,468 28,994
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +1 43 £72,500 +11.54% 25
North West +13 30 £71,250 - 9
South East -20 30 £62,000 +1.64% 32
South West -59 24 £85,000 +21.43% 30
Scotland +12 21 £90,000 - 9
Midlands -7 21 £82,500 +3.13% 15
West Midlands -8 21 £82,500 +3.13% 12
Wales - 11 £80,000 - 1
East of England - 10 £91,250 - 10
Yorkshire -25 8 £87,500 +52.17% 9
North East -58 5 £48,500 -25.38% 7
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 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.25%) nginx
Business Applications
1 11 (6.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.13%) AWS
2 43 (26.88%) Azure
3 30 (18.75%) Serverless
4 16 (10.00%) GitHub
5 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.38%) GCP
7 6 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.75%) CloudFront
8 4 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.25%) npm
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (0.63%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.38%) Broadband
2 12 (7.50%) Network Security
3 11 (6.88%) Firewall
4 4 (2.50%) DMZ
5 1 (0.63%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.25%) MySQL
2 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (13.75%) Snyk
2 9 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.38%) Yeoman
4 4 (2.50%) Git
4 4 (2.50%) GitLab
5 2 (1.25%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.25%) JUnit
5 2 (1.25%) Maven
5 2 (1.25%) Spock
6 1 (0.63%) GDB
6 1 (0.63%) JIRA
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.63%) WinDbg
General
1 43 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (20.00%) Finance
4 31 (19.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 20 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.13%) Games
7 8 (5.00%) Legal
8 6 (3.75%) Italian Language
8 6 (3.75%) Japanese Language
9 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.88%) Military
11 1 (0.63%) Aviation
11 1 (0.63%) Back Office
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (38.75%) Architect
2 52 (32.50%) Security Architect
3 44 (27.50%) Senior
4 33 (20.63%) Consultant
5 26 (16.25%) Security Consultant
6 23 (14.38%) Cloud Architect
6 23 (14.38%) Cloud Security Architect
7 22 (13.75%) Senior Architect
7 22 (13.75%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 22 (13.75%) Senior Security Architect
8 19 (11.88%) Analyst
9 17 (10.63%) Security Engineer
10 15 (9.38%) Lead
11 11 (6.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 10 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 10 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 10 (6.25%) Security Manager
12 10 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
12 10 (6.25%) Senior Security Consultant
13 9 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.50%) Node.js
2 10 (6.25%) REST
3 8 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 8 (5.00%) Terraform
4 7 (4.38%) .NET
5 6 (3.75%) AWS CDK
5 6 (3.75%) ModSecurity
5 6 (3.75%) React
5 6 (3.75%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (3.75%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.50%) Backbone.js
7 2 (1.25%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.25%) LAMP
7 2 (1.25%) Laravel
7 2 (1.25%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (1.25%) LESS
7 2 (1.25%) Sass
7 2 (1.25%) SOAP
7 2 (1.25%) Spring
7 2 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.75%) Data Centre
3 21 (13.13%) Cyber Threat
3 21 (13.13%) Security Posture
4 15 (9.38%) Management Information System
5 12 (7.50%) AI Agents
5 12 (7.50%) Cyberattack
6 11 (6.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 9 (5.63%) Social Media
8 8 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (4.38%) Operational Technology
10 6 (3.75%) Cyber Security Posture
10 6 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (3.75%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (3.75%) Mainframe
10 6 (3.75%) PKI
11 5 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (2.50%) Blog
12 4 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (1.25%) VMS
2 2 (1.25%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (73.75%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (45.00%) Cloud Security
3 59 (36.88%) Security Architecture
4 57 (35.63%) AI
5 51 (31.88%) SDLC
6 50 (31.25%) CI/CD
7 39 (24.38%) Application Security
7 39 (24.38%) Validation
8 38 (23.75%) Risk Management
9 37 (23.13%) Information Security
10 36 (22.50%) DevSecOps
11 33 (20.63%) Security Testing
12 29 (18.13%) Identity Access Management
13 28 (17.50%) Vulnerability Management
14 27 (16.88%) Risk Assessment
15 26 (16.25%) Incident Response
16 24 (15.00%) Decision-Making
16 24 (15.00%) TOGAF
17 23 (14.38%) Data Loss Prevention
18 22 (13.75%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.00%) Java
2 7 (4.38%) C#
3 6 (3.75%) COBOL
3 6 (3.75%) Ruby
4 5 (3.13%) Python
5 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.25%) Bash
6 2 (1.25%) C
6 2 (1.25%) Go
6 2 (1.25%) Groovy
6 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.25%) PHP
6 2 (1.25%) SQL
6 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 42 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.13%) CISSP
3 33 (20.63%) CISM
4 22 (13.75%) DV Cleared
5 19 (11.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 19 (11.88%) SC Cleared
6 17 (10.63%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (7.50%) AWS Certification
8 12 (7.50%) CCSP
9 11 (6.88%) Degree
10 8 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
13 4 (2.50%) CISA
14 3 (1.88%) CRISC
14 3 (1.88%) OSCP
15 2 (1.25%) CREST Certified
15 2 (1.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (35.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 56 (35.00%) NIST
2 50 (31.25%) GDPR
3 41 (25.63%) GRC
4 24 (15.00%) PCI DSS
5 21 (13.13%) NCSC
6 11 (6.88%) Accessibility
7 10 (6.25%) JSP 440
8 9 (5.63%) NIST 800
9 6 (3.75%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (3.13%) SOC 2
11 4 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (2.50%) Def Stans
11 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.63%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 22 (13.75%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (5.00%) Firmware
3 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.50%) Docker
4 1 (0.63%) IAG
Systems Management
1 5 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.25%) Argo
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 26 (16.25%) CrowdStrike
2 22 (13.75%) Palo Alto
2 22 (13.75%) Tenable
3 11 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.88%) SAP
4 4 (2.50%) Splunk
5 3 (1.88%) Meraki
6 2 (1.25%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.63%) Google
7 1 (0.63%) New Relic
7 1 (0.63%) Qualys
7 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.63%) Zerto