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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 38 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,050 627 548
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.38% 6.65% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.16% 7.58% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 725 255 263
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £36,900
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 17,055 8,277 10,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.13% 87.81% 80.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,644 4,085 5,076
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -3.52% -8.18%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +17 589 £60,000 +31.15% 335
Yorkshire +2 341 £40,000 +21.21% 213
North East -11 120 £50,000 -25.93% 75
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 54 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (4.86%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.95%) IIS
4 8 (0.76%) Apache
5 3 (0.29%) Confluence
6 1 (0.095%) Anypoint
Applications
1 24 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.095%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.095%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.38%) SystmOne
3 3 (0.29%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.29%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 230 (21.90%) Azure
2 215 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 77 (7.33%) AWS
5 31 (2.95%) OneDrive
5 31 (2.95%) SaaS
6 27 (2.57%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.48%) GCP
8 23 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
9 18 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (1.33%) Mimecast
11 12 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (1.05%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.86%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (0.86%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.76%) IaaS
14 8 (0.76%) NetDocuments
14 8 (0.76%) Serverless
15 5 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.90%) Firewall
2 58 (5.52%) DNS
3 48 (4.57%) DHCP
4 42 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 41 (3.90%) VPN
6 31 (2.95%) WAN
7 29 (2.76%) Network Security
8 28 (2.67%) LAN
9 27 (2.57%) VoIP
10 26 (2.48%) VLAN
10 26 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (2.29%) Unified Communications
12 21 (2.00%) Internet
13 12 (1.14%) Wireless
14 9 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.67%) NGFW
15 7 (0.67%) SNMP
15 7 (0.67%) SSL
16 5 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
16 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.43%) Power BI
2 14 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.86%) MySQL
5 4 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.19%) Big Data
7 2 (0.19%) GIS
7 2 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.095%) Chroma
8 1 (0.095%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.095%) Db2
8 1 (0.095%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.095%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.095%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.095%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Git
1 7 (0.67%) GitLab
1 7 (0.67%) Snyk
2 5 (0.48%) JIRA
3 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.19%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.095%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.095%) Maven
5 1 (0.095%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 283 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.14%) Finance
3 62 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 47 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 39 (3.71%) Manufacturing
8 38 (3.62%) Legal
9 37 (3.52%) Marketing
10 31 (2.95%) Retail
11 30 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (2.38%) Law
13 20 (1.90%) Advertising
14 15 (1.43%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.86%) Local Government
16 7 (0.67%) Banking
16 7 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 160 (15.24%) Analyst
2 117 (11.14%) Senior
3 111 (10.57%) Consultant
4 99 (9.43%) Security Analyst
5 89 (8.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 89 (8.48%) Security Consultant
6 83 (7.90%) IT Support
7 67 (6.38%) Architect
8 66 (6.29%) Sales Representative
9 65 (6.19%) Lead
10 60 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 59 (5.62%) Security Architect
12 57 (5.43%) Junior
12 57 (5.43%) Security Manager
13 54 (5.14%) IT Engineer
14 47 (4.48%) IT Manager
15 43 (4.10%) Security Engineer
16 42 (4.00%) Junior Analyst
16 42 (4.00%) Operations Manager
17 41 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.43%) Terraform
2 9 (0.86%) JSON
2 9 (0.86%) SAML
3 8 (0.76%) HTML
4 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (0.67%) React
5 6 (0.57%) .NET
5 6 (0.57%) Node.js
5 6 (0.57%) REST
6 4 (0.38%) CSS
7 3 (0.29%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.29%) FHIR
7 3 (0.29%) LDAP
7 3 (0.29%) pgvector
7 3 (0.29%) PostGIS
8 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.19%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.19%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.33%) Cyberattack
2 67 (6.38%) Security Posture
3 54 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 50 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 46 (4.38%) Operational Technology
6 41 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
7 29 (2.76%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.14%) SCADA
11 9 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 9 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
12 8 (0.76%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.76%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (0.57%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 170 (16.19%) Windows
2 94 (8.95%) Windows Server
3 33 (3.14%) Linux
4 21 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (1.33%) macOS
7 11 (1.05%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.86%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.29%) VMS
11 2 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 128 (12.19%) AI
3 124 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (10.38%) Mentoring
5 104 (9.90%) Incident Response
6 92 (8.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 80 (7.62%) Customer Service
8 78 (7.43%) Information Security
8 78 (7.43%) Risk Management
9 76 (7.24%) Decision-Making
10 74 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 73 (6.95%) SIEM
12 71 (6.76%) Cloud Security
13 70 (6.67%) ITIL
14 68 (6.48%) Vulnerability Management
15 62 (5.90%) Service Delivery
15 62 (5.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 59 (5.62%) IT Strategy
17 58 (5.52%) Security Operations
18 55 (5.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (4.29%) PowerShell
2 35 (3.33%) Python
3 23 (2.19%) SQL
4 16 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.05%) Bash
5 11 (1.05%) C#
6 6 (0.57%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.48%) Go
8 4 (0.38%) C
8 4 (0.38%) C++
8 4 (0.38%) Java
8 4 (0.38%) XAML
9 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.095%) Ada
10 1 (0.095%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.095%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.095%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.095%) Swift
10 1 (0.095%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (8.19%) Degree
2 78 (7.43%) Azure Certification
3 72 (6.86%) Security Cleared
4 60 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 43 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
6 42 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 38 (3.62%) CISSP
8 32 (3.05%) CEH
9 27 (2.57%) CISM
10 26 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.24%) Postgraduate
12 11 (1.05%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.05%) CISA
12 11 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.76%) CREST Certified
14 8 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (7.05%) NIST
3 70 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 42 (4.00%) GDPR
5 39 (3.71%) GRC
6 32 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (1.71%) QA
8 12 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.95%) NCSC
10 6 (0.57%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.48%) SLA
11 5 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.29%) HL7
13 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.29%) PMO
14 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.19%) COBIT
System Software
1 97 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.05%) Docker
6 8 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.57%) vSphere
8 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
3 9 (0.86%) SCCM
4 8 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (0.76%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.76%) WSUS
5 5 (0.48%) Nessus
6 4 (0.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 3 (0.29%) Ansible
7 3 (0.29%) cPanel
7 3 (0.29%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.29%) Plesk
7 3 (0.29%) Podman
8 2 (0.19%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.19%) QRadar
9 1 (0.095%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 375 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.71%) ForeScout
3 38 (3.62%) VMware
4 30 (2.86%) Cisco
5 21 (2.00%) Palo Alto
5 21 (2.00%) Veeam
6 18 (1.71%) Aruba
7 14 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (1.33%) SonicWALL
8 13 (1.24%) Google
9 12 (1.14%) HP
10 11 (1.05%) Apple
11 9 (0.86%) Adobe
11 9 (0.86%) Tenable
12 8 (0.76%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.76%) Dell
12 8 (0.76%) NetApp
12 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.76%) Tanium
12 8 (0.76%) YouTube