Cybersecurity Job Trends in the North East

Cybersecurity
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 41 56
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -20
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 126 42 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.54% 4.27% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 5.19% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 62 30 21
10th Percentile £26,913 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,313 £34,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +50.00% +13.08%
75th Percentile £66,250 £80,938 £57,500
90th Percentile £86,875 £87,224 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.71% -6.59%

All Process & 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 2,537 810 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.28% 82.32% 79.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,879 492 556
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,087 £25,004
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,235 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -6.08% -9.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,976 £64,063
90th Percentile £93,634 £75,000 £79,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the North East

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North East over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 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
Tyne and Wear -14 92 £50,000 -23.08% 71
Durham +12 34 £42,417 -43.44% 13
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 9 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.25%) Azure
2 14 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.32%) AWS
4 7 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 4 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.35%) Firewall
2 7 (5.56%) DHCP
3 6 (4.76%) DNS
4 4 (3.17%) Network Security
5 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.79%) Broadband
6 1 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.79%) SAN
6 1 (0.79%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.79%) VLAN
6 1 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.59%) GIS
1 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.79%) Big Data
2 1 (0.79%) Power BI
2 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) GitLab
2 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 35 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
2 10 (7.94%) Telecoms
3 7 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.97%) Local Government
5 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (2.38%) Retail
6 2 (1.59%) Billing
6 2 (1.59%) Law
6 2 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Aviation
7 1 (0.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) Consultant
2 34 (26.98%) Security Consultant
3 18 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 10 (7.94%) Analyst
4 10 (7.94%) Business Development Manager
4 10 (7.94%) Business Manager
4 10 (7.94%) Development Manager
4 10 (7.94%) Senior
5 9 (7.14%) Junior
5 9 (7.14%) Junior Analyst
6 8 (6.35%) Architect
7 7 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Security Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) Ethical Hacker
8 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Junior Security Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Security Manager
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.17%) Terraform
2 2 (1.59%) .NET
2 2 (1.59%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.59%) Ajax
2 2 (1.59%) boto
2 2 (1.59%) CSS
2 2 (1.59%) Flask
2 2 (1.59%) HTML
2 2 (1.59%) Jinja
2 2 (1.59%) jQuery
2 2 (1.59%) Node.js
2 2 (1.59%) OpenLayers
2 2 (1.59%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (0.79%) JSON
3 1 (0.79%) Middleware
3 1 (0.79%) RAML
3 1 (0.79%) REST
3 1 (0.79%) SOAP
3 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 6 (4.76%) Cyberattack
4 5 (3.97%) Cyber Security Posture
4 5 (3.97%) IoT
4 5 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.59%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.59%) SCADA
6 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Windows
2 10 (7.94%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.79%) Android
4 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) VMS
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (17.46%) Business Development
2 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 12 (9.52%) Cloud Security
4 12 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 8 (6.35%) Business Continuity
5 8 (6.35%) Data Protection
5 8 (6.35%) Incident Response
5 8 (6.35%) Migration
6 7 (5.56%) Customer Service
6 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (5.56%) IT Strategy
6 7 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (4.76%) DevOps
7 6 (4.76%) Ethical Hacking
7 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (4.76%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (4.76%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (4.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.97%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.59%) Python
2 2 (1.59%) SQL
3 1 (0.79%) C#
3 1 (0.79%) C++
3 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
3 1 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.35%) Degree
5 6 (4.76%) CEH
5 6 (4.76%) CompTIA CySA+
5 6 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.97%) DBS Check
7 4 (3.17%) CISM
7 4 (3.17%) CISSP
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.59%) CISA
9 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (3.97%) NIST
4 3 (2.38%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) QA
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.97%) vSphere
4 2 (1.59%) Docker
5 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.97%) SCCM
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.79%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) ForeScout
3 9 (7.14%) VMware
4 5 (3.97%) Aruba
5 4 (3.17%) Veeam
6 2 (1.59%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.59%) Citrix
6 2 (1.59%) F5
6 2 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.59%) Siemens
7 1 (0.79%) Infor
7 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft