Blue Team Jobs in the North of England

Blue Teaming
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 381 436
Rank change year-on-year +46 +55 +23
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 1 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.009% 0.040% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.048% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £54,250 £55,800
25th Percentile - £55,000 £58,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £72,000
90th Percentile - £65,750 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £61,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year +26.53% -20.97% +82.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Blue Team 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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,925 14,586 16,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.43% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 11,195 8,014
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,658 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the North of England

Blue Team
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in the North of England.

Salary trend for Blue Team in the North of England

Blue Team
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Team within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire +70 1 £45,000 -28.00% 1
Blue Team
England

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys