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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 42 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 511 532 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.38% 4.26% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 5.30% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 306 255 365
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,692 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.20% +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £64,292 £66,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,241 £78,250 £84,622
England median annual salary £51,625 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.40% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 8,122 10,035 7,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 80.41% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,387 4,759 5,651
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 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 +16 272 £33,000 -45.00% 131
North West -47 191 £45,000 -18.18% 206
North East +22 48 £65,000 +29.20% 34
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 11 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.17%) CMS
3 5 (0.98%) Confluence
3 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.98%) WordPress
4 3 (0.59%) Apache
4 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.39%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.20%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.78%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 140 (27.40%) Azure
2 85 (16.63%) AWS
3 78 (15.26%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (10.96%) GitHub
5 15 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 15 (2.94%) SaaS
6 14 (2.74%) Power Platform
7 9 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.57%) IaaS
9 7 (1.37%) PaaS
10 6 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.17%) dbt
10 6 (1.17%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.98%) OCI
11 5 (0.98%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (0.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 93 (18.20%) Firewall
2 50 (9.78%) Internet
3 27 (5.28%) VPN
4 24 (4.70%) TCP/IP
4 24 (4.70%) VoIP
5 23 (4.50%) DNS
6 20 (3.91%) VLAN
7 14 (2.74%) DHCP
7 14 (2.74%) Network Security
7 14 (2.74%) Wireless
8 12 (2.35%) LAN
8 12 (2.35%) WAN
9 9 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.98%) DMZ
10 5 (0.98%) Modbus
10 5 (0.98%) STUN
11 3 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.39%) MQTT
13 1 (0.20%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.96%) Power BI
3 4 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.59%) Data Vault
4 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.39%) MySQL
6 1 (0.20%) GIS
6 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 51 (9.98%) Git
2 6 (1.17%) JIRA
3 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.39%) JMeter
3 2 (0.39%) Locust
4 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.20%) Snyk
General
1 184 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 77 (15.07%) Multimedia
3 67 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (6.85%) Finance
5 30 (5.87%) Legal
6 26 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (4.11%) Law
8 19 (3.72%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.74%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.15%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.76%) German Language
11 9 (1.76%) Marketing
12 7 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.98%) Retail
15 4 (0.78%) Banking
15 4 (0.78%) Billing
16 2 (0.39%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 77 (15.07%) Trainee
2 47 (9.20%) IT Engineer
3 39 (7.63%) PLC Engineer
4 33 (6.46%) Architect
5 29 (5.68%) Developer
5 29 (5.68%) Lead
6 28 (5.48%) IT Manager
6 28 (5.48%) Senior
7 26 (5.09%) Software Developer
7 26 (5.09%) Trainee Developer
7 26 (5.09%) Trainee Software Developer
8 24 (4.70%) Support Engineer
9 21 (4.11%) Analyst
10 20 (3.91%) IT Support
11 19 (3.72%) Instrumentation Engineer
12 15 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (2.94%) Security Engineer
13 14 (2.74%) Technical Engineer
14 13 (2.54%) Security Architect
14 13 (2.54%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.35%) HTML
2 53 (10.37%) CSS
3 8 (1.57%) .NET
4 5 (0.98%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.98%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.78%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.78%) Node.js
6 3 (0.59%) CSS3
6 3 (0.59%) HTML5
6 3 (0.59%) Pandas
6 3 (0.59%) REST
6 3 (0.59%) Sass
7 2 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.39%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.39%) Node-RED
7 2 (0.39%) React
7 2 (0.39%) Web Services
7 2 (0.39%) YAML
8 1 (0.20%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 45 (8.81%) Cyberattack
3 44 (8.61%) Renewable Energy
4 14 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 13 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (2.54%) Driving Licence
5 13 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.57%) LIMS
9 8 (1.57%) SCADA
9 8 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.17%) IoT
11 5 (0.98%) Blog
11 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 118 (23.09%) Windows
2 28 (5.48%) Linux
2 28 (5.48%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.96%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.98%) Debian
6 2 (0.39%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (18.20%) Mentoring
3 66 (12.92%) Network Management
4 63 (12.33%) Network Design
5 55 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (10.18%) Project Delivery
7 50 (9.78%) Software Engineering
8 45 (8.81%) Information Security
9 37 (7.24%) Line Management
10 34 (6.65%) Incident Response
11 30 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (5.68%) DevOps
12 29 (5.68%) Ethical Hacking
13 28 (5.48%) SIEM
13 28 (5.48%) Vulnerability Management
14 27 (5.28%) AI
14 27 (5.28%) Internal Audit
14 27 (5.28%) IT Strategy
15 26 (5.09%) Agile
16 25 (4.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 69 (13.50%) Python
2 54 (10.57%) JavaScript
3 27 (5.28%) SQL
4 23 (4.50%) R
5 11 (2.15%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.37%) C#
7 5 (0.98%) Bash
7 5 (0.98%) Java
8 3 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.39%) Bicep
10 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 57 (11.15%) Degree
2 56 (10.96%) Azure Certification
3 55 (10.76%) AWS Certification
4 53 (10.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 51 (9.98%) HND
6 49 (9.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 34 (6.65%) CompTIA Security+
8 33 (6.46%) A+ Certification
9 30 (5.87%) CEH
10 28 (5.48%) Network+ Certification
11 23 (4.50%) Security Cleared
12 19 (3.72%) CISSP
13 17 (3.33%) SC Cleared
14 12 (2.35%) HNC
15 11 (2.15%) CISM
16 8 (1.57%) DBS Check
17 7 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (1.37%) PMP
18 6 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (4.11%) NIST
4 20 (3.91%) GDPR
5 11 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 11 (2.15%) NCSC
6 8 (1.57%) GRC
6 8 (1.57%) ISO 9001
6 8 (1.57%) QA
7 5 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.98%) GLBA
7 5 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.98%) SLA
8 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.39%) COBIT
10 2 (0.39%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.39%) PMO
10 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (18.59%) Active Directory
2 57 (11.15%) Virtual Servers
3 14 (2.74%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.57%) Docker
5 5 (0.98%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.98%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.78%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.78%) Terraform
4 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) Nessus
5 1 (0.20%) Nmap
5 1 (0.20%) QRadar
5 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 164 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.91%) Apple
3 18 (3.52%) Sage
4 11 (2.15%) Adobe
4 11 (2.15%) Palo Alto
5 9 (1.76%) SonicWALL
6 7 (1.37%) Oracle
7 6 (1.17%) Cisco
7 6 (1.17%) iManage
7 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.17%) Splunk
8 5 (0.98%) Qualys
9 4 (0.78%) ConnectWise
9 4 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.78%) ESET
9 4 (0.78%) PayPal
9 4 (0.78%) Rapid7
9 4 (0.78%) Sophos
9 4 (0.78%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (0.78%) Veeam