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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 478 673
Rank change year-on-year +26 +195 -116
Permanent jobs citing Threat Modelling 150 53 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 80 32 59
10th Percentile £50,892 £49,474 £35,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 - £76,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% +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 47,467 27,409 63,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.93% 90.91% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 33,286 13,983 44,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 June 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 39 £72,500 +11.54% 17
South West -42 32 £85,000 +6.25% 14
North West +28 29 £71,250 -13.37% 9
South East -20 22 £68,750 +10.00% 14
Midlands -1 21 £82,500 +3.13% 3
West Midlands -3 21 £82,500 +3.13% 3
Scotland +12 19 £85,000 -10.53% 3
East of England - 10 £87,500 - 3
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 7 £87,500 - 4
North East -48 3 £48,500 -25.38% 4
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 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 11 (7.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.33%) Azure
2 45 (30.00%) AWS
3 26 (17.33%) Serverless
4 20 (13.33%) GitHub
5 13 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.33%) GCP
7 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.00%) SaaS
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.33%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.33%) npm
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.67%) Broadband
1 13 (8.67%) Firewall
2 10 (6.67%) Network Security
3 6 (4.00%) DMZ
4 1 (0.67%) LTE
4 1 (0.67%) Modbus
4 1 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.33%) MySQL
1 2 (1.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (14.67%) Snyk
2 12 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.67%) Yeoman
4 2 (1.33%) Git
5 1 (0.67%) GDB
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.67%) WinDbg
General
1 36 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (21.33%) Finance
4 23 (15.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (14.00%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.67%) Games
7 6 (4.00%) Legal
8 4 (2.67%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.67%) Italian Language
8 4 (2.67%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.67%) Back Office
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (42.00%) Architect
2 56 (37.33%) Security Architect
3 35 (23.33%) Senior
4 25 (16.67%) Consultant
5 23 (15.33%) Cloud Architect
5 23 (15.33%) Cloud Security Architect
6 22 (14.67%) Security Engineer
6 22 (14.67%) Senior Architect
6 22 (14.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 22 (14.67%) Senior Security Architect
7 17 (11.33%) Security Consultant
8 15 (10.00%) Analyst
8 15 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 15 (10.00%) Lead
9 13 (8.67%) Applications Engineer
10 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 11 (7.33%) Security Manager
11 9 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 8 (5.33%) Principal Architect
13 6 (4.00%) Lead Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.33%) Node.js
2 7 (4.67%) .NET
3 6 (4.00%) React
4 4 (2.67%) Backbone.js
4 4 (2.67%) REST
5 2 (1.33%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.33%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.33%) LAMP
5 2 (1.33%) Laravel
5 2 (1.33%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.33%) LESS
5 2 (1.33%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.33%) Sass
5 2 (1.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.33%) Vue
6 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Data Centre
1 22 (14.67%) Security Posture
2 21 (14.00%) Cloud Native
3 18 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (8.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 13 (8.67%) PKI
5 12 (8.00%) AI Agents
5 12 (8.00%) Cyberattack
6 7 (4.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.00%) Blog
7 6 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
7 6 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.00%) Social Media
8 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.00%) Operational Technology
10 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.33%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (72.67%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (46.67%) Cloud Security
3 66 (44.00%) Security Architecture
4 52 (34.67%) AI
5 49 (32.67%) SDLC
6 48 (32.00%) Application Security
7 43 (28.67%) CI/CD
8 42 (28.00%) Security Testing
9 32 (21.33%) DevSecOps
10 31 (20.67%) Validation
11 30 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
12 29 (19.33%) Risk Management
13 27 (18.00%) TOGAF
14 25 (16.67%) Incident Response
14 25 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
15 24 (16.00%) Roadmaps
16 22 (14.67%) Data Loss Prevention
16 22 (14.67%) Information Security
16 22 (14.67%) IT Strategy
16 22 (14.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.67%) Python
2 10 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.00%) Bash
4 7 (4.67%) C#
5 2 (1.33%) COBOL
5 2 (1.33%) Java
5 2 (1.33%) PHP
5 2 (1.33%) Ruby
5 2 (1.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.67%) C
6 1 (0.67%) C++
6 1 (0.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (30.00%) CISSP
2 34 (22.67%) Security Cleared
3 33 (22.00%) CISM
4 22 (14.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 21 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (11.33%) SC Cleared
7 16 (10.67%) DV Cleared
8 15 (10.00%) CCSP
9 9 (6.00%) AWS Certification
9 9 (6.00%) CREST Certified
9 9 (6.00%) SANS
10 8 (5.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Certification
11 6 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (2.00%) CISA
12 3 (2.00%) OSCP
13 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.33%) Degree
14 1 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (39.33%) GDPR
1 59 (39.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (36.00%) NIST
3 44 (29.33%) GRC
4 32 (21.33%) PCI DSS
5 17 (11.33%) NCSC
6 15 (10.00%) Accessibility
7 12 (8.00%) JSP 440
8 6 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 6 (4.00%) SOC 2
9 5 (3.33%) NIST 800
10 4 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.67%) Def Stans
11 3 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (1.33%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.67%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 22 (14.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.33%) Terraform
2 4 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.33%) CASB
3 2 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.67%) Argo
4 1 (0.67%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (0.67%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.67%) Nessus
4 1 (0.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (18.00%) CrowdStrike
2 22 (14.67%) Palo Alto
2 22 (14.67%) Tenable
3 11 (7.33%) SAP
4 8 (5.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.33%) Meraki
5 2 (1.33%) Splunk
6 1 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.67%) Google