Cyber Resilience Job Trends in the North of England

Cyber Resilience
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cyber Resilience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 264 278
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +139
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Resilience 9 13 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.084% 0.14% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.16% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 1
10th Percentile £44,775 - -
25th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,250 £68,113 £50,000
90th Percentile £122,300 - -
England median annual salary £63,478 £62,879 £77,500
% change year-on-year +0.95% -18.87% +3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Cyber Resilience 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 8,644 8,336 7,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.60% 90.27% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,602 3,745 5,620
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,425 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,585 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% -1.74% -1.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Resilience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Cyber Resilience job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cyber Resilience
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cyber Resilience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Resilience in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Resilience in the North of England

Cyber Resilience
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 Cyber Resilience within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +27 5 £80,000 +35.97% 4
Yorkshire -15 4 £50,000 -2.44% 1
Cyber Resilience
England

Cyber Resilience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) DMZ
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Development Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Development Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Operations
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Security
2 1 (11.11%) Information Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JWT
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 3 (33.33%) Server Patching
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
5 1 (11.11%) Information Security
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) CRISC
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) GRC
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk