Cybersecurity Jobs in the North East

Cybersecurity
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 35 86
Rank change year-on-year -15 +51 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 17 95 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.92% 4.80% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 5.61% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 70 23
10th Percentile £32,159 £34,850 £33,548
25th Percentile £52,312 £38,750 £38,067
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -3.95% -6.84%
75th Percentile £74,004 £55,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,300 £75,000 £71,850
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Cybersecurity 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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 1,694 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.22% 85.51% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 392 1,377 594
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.44% +12.26%
75th Percentile £64,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North East

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North East.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the North East

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the North East

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -4 12 £65,000 +55.69% 94
Durham -9 5 £72,750 +41.76% 10
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
1 3 (17.65%) Network Security
2 2 (11.76%) Internet
2 2 (11.76%) Unified Communications
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) Wireless
3 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) EDMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Security Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Security Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Governance Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Information Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
1 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Housing Association
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.88%) Learning Management System
2 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Information Security
2 7 (41.18%) Risk Management
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
4 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity
4 4 (23.53%) Cyber Assurance
4 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
4 4 (23.53%) Rapid Prototyping
4 4 (23.53%) SDLC
4 4 (23.53%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) Change Control
6 2 (11.76%) Energy Management
6 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (11.76%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Progress 4GL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) CISSP
2 5 (29.41%) CISA
3 4 (23.53%) CISM
3 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CEH
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) GIAC
5 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (35.29%) GDPR
2 6 (35.29%) NCSC
2 6 (35.29%) NIST
3 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (5.88%) GRC
5 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
5 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Capita
1 2 (11.76%) Progress
1 2 (11.76%) Sun
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft