Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the North of England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 375 413
Rank change year-on-year +65 +38 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 19 16 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.16% 0.091% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.096% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 19 15 16
10th Percentile - £35,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,375 £54,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -27.69% +2.28%
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £67,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -17.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 10,619 16,613 15,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 94.91% 89.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,868 12,861 8,184
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,075 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +4 14 £55,000 +2.33% 7
Yorkshire +70 4 £37,935 -1.47% 4
North East - 1 £37,935 - 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (57.89%) Security Posture
3 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
4 8 (42.11%) Coaching
4 8 (42.11%) DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
4 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (42.11%) Legal
4 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (42.11%) NIST
4 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 8 (42.11%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (42.11%) Software Delivery
4 8 (42.11%) SDLC
4 8 (42.11%) GDPR
4 8 (42.11%) Cyber Security Posture
5 7 (36.84%) AWS
6 6 (31.58%) Security Architecture
7 5 (26.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
7 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
7 5 (26.32%) Ping Identity
7 5 (26.32%) Node.js
7 5 (26.32%) REST
7 5 (26.32%) Investment Management
7 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
7 5 (26.32%) Identity Access Management

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Legal
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Retail
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Node.js
1 5 (26.32%) REST
1 5 (26.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Security Posture
2 8 (42.11%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Coaching
3 8 (42.11%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (42.11%) SDLC
3 8 (42.11%) Software Delivery
3 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
3 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 6 (31.58%) Security Architecture
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
5 5 (26.32%) Investment Management
5 5 (26.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
1 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
2 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) CEH
2 2 (10.53%) CISA
2 2 (10.53%) CISM
2 2 (10.53%) CISSP
2 2 (10.53%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (10.53%) CRISC
2 2 (10.53%) GCIH
2 2 (10.53%) GIAC
2 2 (10.53%) GISF
2 2 (10.53%) ISACA
2 2 (10.53%) SANS
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) GDPR
1 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (42.11%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Ping Identity
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) AlienVault
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Juniper
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto