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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 44 37
Rank change year-on-year +42 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,947 429 829
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 16.70% 6.17% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.81% 6.53% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 639 288 678
10th Percentile - £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £52,250 £51,321
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% +1.81% -14.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,400 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 12,917 6,565 13,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 73.20% 94.43% 83.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7,904 3,740 10,945
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,225 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +40 2,034 £45,000 -18.18% 386
Yorkshire +36 761 £40,000 -11.11% 130
North East +32 152 £40,000 +5.44% 42
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 21 (0.71%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.17%) Drupal
3 5 (0.17%) nginx
3 5 (0.17%) WordPress
4 1 (0.034%) Apache
4 1 (0.034%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.034%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.20%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,624 (55.11%) Cloud Computing
2 755 (25.62%) Azure
3 159 (5.40%) AWS
4 96 (3.26%) GitHub
5 90 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (2.31%) Entra ID
7 26 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (0.58%) SaaS
9 14 (0.48%) GCP
10 10 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (0.31%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.27%) PaaS
13 7 (0.24%) Serverless
14 6 (0.20%) Datadog
14 6 (0.20%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.17%) IaaS
16 4 (0.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1,715 (58.19%) Internet
2 68 (2.31%) Firewall
3 28 (0.95%) DNS
4 27 (0.92%) Network Security
5 25 (0.85%) DHCP
6 19 (0.64%) VLAN
6 19 (0.64%) VPN
7 18 (0.61%) LAN
7 18 (0.61%) WAN
8 8 (0.27%) VoIP
9 6 (0.20%) DMZ
10 5 (0.17%) Broadband
10 5 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.17%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.14%) Modbus
11 4 (0.14%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.10%) 4G
12 3 (0.10%) 5G
13 2 (0.068%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.068%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.17%) MariaDB
2 4 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.14%) Neo4j
2 4 (0.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.10%) Power BI
4 2 (0.068%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.068%) Tableau
5 1 (0.034%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.034%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.034%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.034%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.034%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.034%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.034%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 89 (3.02%) Git
2 6 (0.20%) Snyk
3 5 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.14%) JIRA
5 3 (0.10%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.10%) JMeter
5 3 (0.10%) Locust
6 1 (0.034%) GDB
6 1 (0.034%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.034%) WinDbg
General
1 2,289 (77.67%) Social Skills
2 1,662 (56.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,616 (54.84%) Banking
4 165 (5.60%) Multimedia
5 49 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (1.63%) Finance
7 34 (1.15%) Public Sector
8 29 (0.98%) Law
9 27 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 14 (0.48%) Marketing
11 13 (0.44%) Legal
12 12 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (0.41%) Retail
13 11 (0.37%) Police
14 8 (0.27%) Local Government
14 8 (0.27%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.20%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,224 (41.53%) Lecturer
2 382 (12.96%) Analyst
3 360 (12.22%) Security Analyst
4 336 (11.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 320 (10.86%) Junior
6 316 (10.72%) Junior Analyst
6 316 (10.72%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (7.63%) Ethical Hacker
8 167 (5.67%) Trainee
9 129 (4.38%) Senior
10 57 (1.93%) Lead
11 53 (1.80%) Security Manager
12 50 (1.70%) Developer
12 50 (1.70%) Trainee Developer
13 49 (1.66%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 48 (1.63%) Software Developer
14 48 (1.63%) Trainee Software Developer
15 45 (1.53%) Architect
15 45 (1.53%) IT Support
16 41 (1.39%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (3.26%) CSS
1 96 (3.26%) HTML
2 7 (0.24%) AngularJS
2 7 (0.24%) React
3 6 (0.20%) Regular Expression
4 5 (0.17%) .NET
4 5 (0.17%) Node.js
5 4 (0.14%) MERN Stack
6 3 (0.10%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.10%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.10%) Gherkin
6 3 (0.10%) NestJS
6 3 (0.10%) REST
7 2 (0.068%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.068%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.068%) CSS3
7 2 (0.068%) HTML5
7 2 (0.068%) Middleware
7 2 (0.068%) Sass
7 2 (0.068%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1,617 (54.87%) IoT
2 263 (8.92%) Cyberattack
3 38 (1.29%) Driving Licence
4 37 (1.26%) Onboarding
5 26 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (0.88%) Operational Technology
6 23 (0.78%) Security Posture
7 21 (0.71%) Management Information System
8 16 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (0.51%) Data Centre
10 12 (0.41%) Blog
11 11 (0.37%) Cloud Native
12 10 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (0.31%) Cyber Security Posture
13 9 (0.31%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (0.31%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.24%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.24%) Product Ownership
14 7 (0.24%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (0.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 57 (1.93%) Windows
2 40 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.31%) Linux
3 9 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.17%) Android
5 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,674 (56.80%) AI
2 1,624 (55.11%) User Experience
3 1,619 (54.94%) Machine Learning
4 1,617 (54.87%) Web Development
5 519 (17.61%) Mentoring
6 299 (10.15%) Ethical Hacking
7 100 (3.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (2.68%) Incident Response
8 79 (2.68%) Line Management
9 75 (2.54%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (2.34%) SIEM
11 64 (2.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 52 (1.76%) Risk Management
12 52 (1.76%) Security Architecture
13 47 (1.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 45 (1.53%) Data Protection
15 43 (1.46%) Decision-Making
15 43 (1.46%) Information Security
16 42 (1.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (1.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 119 (4.04%) Python
2 106 (3.60%) JavaScript
3 41 (1.39%) R
4 33 (1.12%) PowerShell
5 17 (0.58%) SQL
6 15 (0.51%) Bash
7 8 (0.27%) Java
8 7 (0.24%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.14%) C
9 4 (0.14%) C#
9 4 (0.14%) C++
9 4 (0.14%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.068%) Bicep
11 1 (0.034%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1,666 (56.53%) Degree
2 1,622 (55.04%) Master's Degree
3 1,618 (54.90%) PhD
4 1,616 (54.84%) Postgraduate
5 637 (21.62%) Azure Certification
6 399 (13.54%) CompTIA Security+
7 321 (10.89%) CompTIA CySA+
8 304 (10.32%) CEH
9 115 (3.90%) AWS Certification
10 98 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 91 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 85 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
13 78 (2.65%) A+ Certification
14 32 (1.09%) Security Cleared
15 31 (1.05%) CISSP
16 27 (0.92%) SC Cleared
17 26 (0.88%) CISM
18 20 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.61%) DBS Check
20 13 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 55 (1.87%) NIST
4 51 (1.73%) GDPR
5 28 (0.95%) GRC
6 18 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.24%) SLA
8 7 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.20%) QA
10 5 (0.17%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.14%) NCSC
12 3 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.10%) WCAG
13 2 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.068%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.068%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.068%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.068%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.58%) Docker
3 10 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.068%) Firmware
5 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.37%) Terraform
3 6 (0.20%) Grafana
4 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.10%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.068%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.034%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.034%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 777 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 541 (18.36%) ForeScout
3 21 (0.71%) Apple
4 15 (0.51%) Adobe
5 14 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (0.44%) Cisco
7 9 (0.31%) VMware
8 7 (0.24%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.20%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.20%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.20%) Tenable
10 5 (0.17%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.17%) Meraki
11 4 (0.14%) PayPal
11 4 (0.14%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (0.10%) Citrix
12 3 (0.10%) Draytek
12 3 (0.10%) Sparx
12 3 (0.10%) Veeam
13 2 (0.068%) WatchGuard