Information Security Job Trends in County Down

Information Security (InfoSec)
Northern Ireland > County Down

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Down requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 20 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Down 11.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.08% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary - £76,092 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +79.04% -15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Down

Information Security 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 County Down.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 17 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Down 82.08% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £54,250 - £27,000
25th Percentile - £32,851 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,426 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +63.80% -21.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - - £54,375
Northern Ireland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

Information Security
Job Locations in County Down

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the County Down region over the 6 months to 3 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
Donaghadee - 3 - -
Newtownards - 3 - -
Holywood - 2 - - 2
Banbridge - 1 - -
Information Security
Northern Ireland

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Down 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (25.00%) SaaS
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) LAN
1 4 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 20 (100.00%) Law
2 11 (55.00%) Legal
3 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (30.00%) Legal Technology
5 4 (20.00%) Finance
5 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 5 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
3 5 (25.00%) Resilience Manager
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Manager
3 5 (25.00%) Service Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (55.00%) Strategic Planning
3 10 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 10 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 10 (50.00%) ITIL
3 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 9 (45.00%) Project Delivery
5 6 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (30.00%) API Development
5 6 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Microservices
5 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Software Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 6 (30.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) CISM
1 10 (50.00%) CISSP
2 5 (25.00%) A+ Certification
2 5 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 5 (25.00%) ISO 22301
2 5 (25.00%) NIST
3 4 (20.00%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) CyberArk