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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +37 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,785 346 815
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 17.15% 5.42% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.17% 5.75% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 585 295 670
10th Percentile - £25,313 £33,950
25th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -11.80%
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,886 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £82,100 £88,650
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 12,022 6,014 13,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 74.02% 94.22% 83.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,294 3,685 10,651
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,009 £37,750 £37,500
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 £70,834 £65,603
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 7 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 7 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 +31 1,964 £45,000 -18.18% 147
Yorkshire +41 686 £40,000 -11.11% 112
North East +37 135 £38,750 +4.82% 40
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 19 (0.68%) SharePoint
2 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.18%) Drupal
3 5 (0.18%) nginx
3 5 (0.18%) WordPress
4 2 (0.072%) Confluence
5 1 (0.036%) Apache
5 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.11%) Cloudability
1 3 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,624 (58.31%) Cloud Computing
2 666 (23.91%) Azure
3 153 (5.49%) AWS
4 99 (3.55%) GitHub
5 87 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
6 70 (2.51%) Entra ID
7 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 18 (0.65%) SaaS
9 15 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (0.36%) GCP
11 9 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (0.32%) Power Platform
12 8 (0.29%) PaaS
13 6 (0.22%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.18%) Datadog
14 5 (0.18%) IaaS
15 4 (0.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.14%) dbt
15 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1,717 (61.65%) Internet
2 69 (2.48%) Firewall
3 27 (0.97%) DNS
4 24 (0.86%) DHCP
4 24 (0.86%) Network Security
5 21 (0.75%) VLAN
5 21 (0.75%) VPN
6 17 (0.61%) LAN
6 17 (0.61%) WAN
7 10 (0.36%) VoIP
8 8 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.22%) DMZ
10 5 (0.18%) Broadband
11 4 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.14%) Modbus
12 3 (0.11%) 4G
12 3 (0.11%) 5G
12 3 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.072%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.072%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.18%) MariaDB
3 4 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.14%) Neo4j
4 3 (0.11%) Power BI
5 2 (0.072%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.072%) Tableau
6 1 (0.036%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.036%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.036%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.036%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.036%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.036%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.036%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 93 (3.34%) Git
2 5 (0.18%) JIRA
3 4 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.11%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.11%) JMeter
4 3 (0.11%) Locust
5 2 (0.072%) Snyk
6 1 (0.036%) GDB
6 1 (0.036%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.036%) WinDbg
General
1 2,198 (78.92%) Social Skills
2 1,654 (59.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,617 (58.06%) Banking
4 172 (6.18%) Multimedia
5 50 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (1.26%) Finance
7 34 (1.22%) Public Sector
8 27 (0.97%) Law
9 22 (0.79%) Telecoms
10 13 (0.47%) Legal
11 11 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.36%) Retail
13 9 (0.32%) Police
14 8 (0.29%) Local Government
15 7 (0.25%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.18%) Marketing
18 4 (0.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,224 (43.95%) Lecturer
2 321 (11.53%) Analyst
3 302 (10.84%) Security Analyst
4 284 (10.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 275 (9.87%) Junior
6 271 (9.73%) Junior Analyst
6 271 (9.73%) Junior Security Analyst
7 180 (6.46%) Ethical Hacker
8 172 (6.18%) Trainee
9 91 (3.27%) Senior
10 58 (2.08%) Lead
11 52 (1.87%) Developer
11 52 (1.87%) Trainee Developer
12 50 (1.80%) Software Developer
12 50 (1.80%) Trainee Software Developer
13 43 (1.54%) IT Support
14 39 (1.40%) Architect
15 38 (1.36%) IT Manager
16 35 (1.26%) Security Architect
17 32 (1.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (3.59%) CSS
1 100 (3.59%) HTML
2 7 (0.25%) AngularJS
2 7 (0.25%) React
3 5 (0.18%) .NET
3 5 (0.18%) Node.js
4 4 (0.14%) MERN Stack
4 4 (0.14%) Regular Expression
5 3 (0.11%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.11%) Gherkin
5 3 (0.11%) NestJS
5 3 (0.11%) REST
6 2 (0.072%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.072%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.072%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.072%) CSS3
6 2 (0.072%) HTML5
6 2 (0.072%) Middleware
6 2 (0.072%) Sass
6 2 (0.072%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1,619 (58.13%) IoT
2 211 (7.58%) Cyberattack
3 30 (1.08%) Onboarding
4 29 (1.04%) Driving Licence
5 27 (0.97%) Operational Technology
6 24 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (0.68%) Management Information System
7 19 (0.68%) Security Posture
8 14 (0.50%) Blog
8 14 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (0.36%) Cloud Native
10 9 (0.32%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.29%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.25%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (0.25%) Cyber Security Posture
12 7 (0.25%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.18%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.18%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.18%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.97%) Windows
2 38 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.36%) Linux
4 9 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.18%) Android
6 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,668 (59.89%) AI
2 1,625 (58.35%) User Experience
3 1,619 (58.13%) Machine Learning
4 1,617 (58.06%) Web Development
5 474 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 257 (9.23%) Ethical Hacking
7 98 (3.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (2.94%) Line Management
9 76 (2.73%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (2.59%) Incident Response
11 60 (2.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 58 (2.08%) SIEM
13 48 (1.72%) Risk Management
14 47 (1.69%) Security Architecture
15 43 (1.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 41 (1.47%) Data Protection
16 41 (1.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (1.44%) Service Delivery
18 39 (1.40%) Information Security
19 38 (1.36%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (4.17%) Python
2 108 (3.88%) JavaScript
3 43 (1.54%) R
4 30 (1.08%) PowerShell
5 19 (0.68%) SQL
6 12 (0.43%) Bash
7 8 (0.29%) Java
8 7 (0.25%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.14%) C
9 4 (0.14%) C++
10 2 (0.072%) Bicep
10 2 (0.072%) C#
10 2 (0.072%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.036%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1,673 (60.07%) Degree
2 1,622 (58.24%) Master's Degree
3 1,618 (58.10%) PhD
4 1,616 (58.03%) Postgraduate
5 552 (19.82%) Azure Certification
6 356 (12.78%) CompTIA Security+
7 276 (9.91%) CompTIA CySA+
8 262 (9.41%) CEH
9 116 (4.17%) AWS Certification
10 102 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 95 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 85 (3.05%) Network+ Certification
13 78 (2.80%) A+ Certification
14 30 (1.08%) CISSP
15 28 (1.01%) Security Cleared
16 25 (0.90%) CISM
17 23 (0.83%) SC Cleared
18 20 (0.72%) DBS Check
19 17 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
20 16 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 52 (1.87%) NIST
4 45 (1.62%) GDPR
5 24 (0.86%) GRC
6 17 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 12 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.25%) SLA
9 6 (0.22%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.22%) QA
10 5 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.18%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.11%) WCAG
13 2 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.072%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.072%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.072%) NCSC
13 2 (0.072%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.57%) Docker
3 12 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.072%) Firmware
5 2 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.36%) Terraform
3 6 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (0.18%) Grafana
5 2 (0.072%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.072%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.036%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.036%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 674 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 451 (16.19%) ForeScout
3 20 (0.72%) Apple
4 12 (0.43%) Adobe
4 12 (0.43%) Cisco
5 9 (0.32%) VMware
6 8 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (0.18%) Fortinet
7 5 (0.18%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.18%) Meraki
8 4 (0.14%) PayPal
8 4 (0.14%) SonicWALL
8 4 (0.14%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (0.11%) Citrix
9 3 (0.11%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.11%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.11%) Sparx
9 3 (0.11%) Veeam
10 2 (0.072%) Datto
10 2 (0.072%) Tenable