Cybersecurity Job Trends in the North of England

Cybersecurity
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 37 35
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,361 649 764
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.46% 6.87% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 7.63% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 728 294 571
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,125 £78,025 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -7.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,799 8,508 13,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.20% 90.06% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 4,241 9,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 July 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 +27 644 £55,000 - 202
Yorkshire +13 551 £43,750 +32.58% 138
North East +27 166 £50,000 -27.94% 38
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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 49 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.22%) Apache
3 3 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.073%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 609 (44.75%) Azure
2 179 (13.15%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (5.95%) AWS
4 70 (5.14%) Entra ID
5 27 (1.98%) OneDrive
6 26 (1.91%) GCP
7 21 (1.54%) SaaS
8 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 19 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (1.40%) Power Platform
10 15 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (0.96%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.96%) Serverless
12 9 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
13 8 (0.59%) IaaS
14 7 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.51%) PaaS
15 6 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.14%) Firewall
2 41 (3.01%) DNS
3 34 (2.50%) DHCP
4 32 (2.35%) Network Security
5 26 (1.91%) WAN
6 24 (1.76%) LAN
6 24 (1.76%) VPN
7 21 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.54%) Unified Communications
7 21 (1.54%) VLAN
8 20 (1.47%) VoIP
9 14 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.88%) Internet
11 7 (0.51%) NGFW
12 5 (0.37%) Broadband
12 5 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.22%) 4G
13 3 (0.22%) 5G
13 3 (0.22%) PBX
13 3 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.59%) Power BI
2 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (0.29%) MySQL
2 4 (0.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.15%) GIS
4 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.073%) Big Data
5 1 (0.073%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.073%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.073%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.073%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.073%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.073%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Snyk
2 7 (0.51%) Git
3 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.22%) GitLab
4 3 (0.22%) JIRA
5 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.073%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.073%) GDB
6 1 (0.073%) JMeter
6 1 (0.073%) Locust
6 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.073%) WinDbg
General
1 606 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 57 (4.19%) Finance
3 51 (3.75%) Public Sector
4 47 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (3.38%) Telecoms
6 37 (2.72%) Marketing
7 34 (2.50%) Law
8 30 (2.20%) Multimedia
9 26 (1.91%) Legal
10 25 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.47%) Advertising
11 20 (1.47%) Retail
12 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.81%) Local Government
14 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.44%) Police
16 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 334 (24.54%) Analyst
2 299 (21.97%) Security Analyst
3 270 (19.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 243 (17.85%) Junior
5 232 (17.05%) Junior Analyst
6 227 (16.68%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.53%) Ethical Hacker
8 152 (11.17%) Senior
9 74 (5.44%) Security Manager
10 70 (5.14%) IT Support
11 69 (5.07%) Consultant
12 67 (4.92%) Architect
13 62 (4.56%) Sales Representative
14 60 (4.41%) Security Architect
14 60 (4.41%) Security Consultant
15 59 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 58 (4.26%) Lead
17 47 (3.45%) IT Manager
18 45 (3.31%) Trainee
19 42 (3.09%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (0.81%) HTML
2 7 (0.51%) CSS
2 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (0.44%) Regular Expression
4 5 (0.37%) JSON
4 5 (0.37%) React
4 5 (0.37%) REST
5 4 (0.29%) .NET
6 3 (0.22%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.22%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.22%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.22%) FHIR
6 3 (0.22%) Node.js
6 3 (0.22%) Vue
7 2 (0.15%) Ajax
7 2 (0.15%) jQuery
7 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
7 2 (0.15%) SAML
7 2 (0.15%) Spring
7 2 (0.15%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 287 (21.09%) Cyberattack
2 59 (4.34%) Security Posture
3 52 (3.82%) Driving Licence
4 39 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 19 (1.40%) Data Centre
6 18 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 18 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 16 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
8 15 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.73%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (0.51%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.51%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.51%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (0.44%) IoT
13 6 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 123 (9.04%) Windows
2 75 (5.51%) Windows Server
3 18 (1.32%) Linux
4 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.37%) Android
9 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (23.81%) Mentoring
2 251 (18.44%) Ethical Hacking
3 122 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (7.05%) AI
5 87 (6.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 86 (6.32%) Incident Response
7 77 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (5.51%) SIEM
9 64 (4.70%) Customer Service
10 57 (4.19%) Cloud Security
11 56 (4.11%) Decision-Making
11 56 (4.11%) Risk Management
12 54 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 54 (3.97%) Security Architecture
13 53 (3.89%) Information Security
14 51 (3.75%) IT Strategy
14 51 (3.75%) Service Delivery
14 51 (3.75%) Vulnerability Management
15 45 (3.31%) Roadmaps
16 44 (3.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (3.89%) PowerShell
2 37 (2.72%) Python
3 19 (1.40%) JavaScript
4 15 (1.10%) Bash
5 13 (0.96%) SQL
6 10 (0.73%) C#
7 7 (0.51%) C++
8 4 (0.29%) Java
8 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.15%) C
10 2 (0.15%) XAML
11 1 (0.073%) Ada
11 1 (0.073%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.073%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.073%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.073%) Swift
Qualifications
1 465 (34.17%) Azure Certification
2 261 (19.18%) CompTIA Security+
3 254 (18.66%) CEH
4 231 (16.97%) CompTIA CySA+
5 69 (5.07%) Degree
6 42 (3.09%) Security Cleared
7 41 (3.01%) CISSP
8 40 (2.94%) SC Cleared
9 39 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
10 37 (2.72%) A+ Certification
11 27 (1.98%) CISM
12 20 (1.47%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (1.03%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (0.66%) CCNA
18 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 7 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (7.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (5.14%) NIST
3 68 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 54 (3.97%) GDPR
5 27 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 25 (1.84%) GRC
7 13 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.66%) QA
9 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.37%) NCSC
11 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.15%) SLA
13 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.073%) GxP
13 1 (0.073%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.073%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.073%) PMO
System Software
1 71 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.51%) Docker
6 5 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.88%) Terraform
3 10 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.51%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.37%) SCCM
7 4 (0.29%) Grafana
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Nessus
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) WSUS
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
10 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 718 (52.76%) Microsoft
2 451 (33.14%) ForeScout
3 29 (2.13%) VMware
4 23 (1.69%) Cisco
5 20 (1.47%) Apple
6 19 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
6 19 (1.40%) Palo Alto
7 14 (1.03%) Adobe
7 14 (1.03%) Veeam
8 12 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 12 (0.88%) Tenable
9 8 (0.59%) Aruba
9 8 (0.59%) Tanium
10 7 (0.51%) HP
11 6 (0.44%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.44%) SonicWALL
12 5 (0.37%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.29%) Draytek
13 4 (0.29%) Meraki
13 4 (0.29%) Splunk