Information Assurance Job Trends in the North East

Information Assurance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 88 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Information Assurance 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.19% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £54,200 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £56,700 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £59,200 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £64,627 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.45% +5.08% -12.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

Information Assurance 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 810 827 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 78.64% 88.92% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 547 337 572
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £29,525
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £61,445
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in the North East

Information Assurance
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Information Assurance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Information Assurance

Information Assurance
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 Information Assurance within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 - 2 £72,500 -
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) SQL