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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 37 40
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,307 638 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.83% 6.65% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 7.48% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 758 275 447
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -11.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £78,992
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%

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 15,753 8,527 11,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.31% 88.87% 78.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,782 4,264 7,670
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +26 637 £57,500 +9.52% 265
Yorkshire +12 514 £43,500 +31.82% 200
North East +16 156 £50,000 -26.95% 72
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 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.31%) IIS
4 3 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.077%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.077%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.92%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.31%) SystmOne
3 3 (0.23%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 511 (39.10%) Azure
2 193 (14.77%) Microsoft 365
3 88 (6.73%) AWS
4 69 (5.28%) Entra ID
5 30 (2.30%) OneDrive
6 27 (2.07%) GCP
6 27 (2.07%) Power Platform
7 26 (1.99%) SaaS
8 22 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
9 18 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (0.99%) Serverless
12 12 (0.92%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.69%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (0.69%) IaaS
13 9 (0.69%) Mimecast
14 8 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.54%) GitHub
15 7 (0.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.28%) Firewall
2 44 (3.37%) Network Security
3 42 (3.21%) DNS
4 35 (2.68%) DHCP
5 31 (2.37%) WAN
6 28 (2.14%) LAN
7 25 (1.91%) VPN
8 24 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.84%) Unified Communications
8 24 (1.84%) VoIP
9 21 (1.61%) VLAN
10 16 (1.22%) Internet
11 13 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.54%) NGFW
14 6 (0.46%) Wireless
15 3 (0.23%) FTP
15 3 (0.23%) HTTP
15 3 (0.23%) PBX
15 3 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.07%) Power BI
2 7 (0.54%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.31%) MySQL
5 3 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.15%) GIS
7 1 (0.077%) Big Data
7 1 (0.077%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.077%) Db2
7 1 (0.077%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.077%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.077%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.077%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.077%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (0.92%) Snyk
2 8 (0.61%) Git
3 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.31%) GitLab
5 3 (0.23%) JIRA
6 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.077%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.077%) GDB
7 1 (0.077%) JMeter
7 1 (0.077%) Locust
7 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.077%) WinDbg
General
1 519 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 66 (5.05%) Finance
3 59 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 45 (3.44%) Telecoms
6 37 (2.83%) Marketing
7 35 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 32 (2.45%) Law
8 32 (2.45%) Legal
9 26 (1.99%) Retail
10 24 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (1.61%) Advertising
12 20 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.99%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.84%) Local Government
15 10 (0.77%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.54%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.46%) Police
18 5 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (21.96%) Analyst
2 251 (19.20%) Security Analyst
3 219 (16.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 183 (14.00%) Junior
5 180 (13.77%) Ethical Hacker
6 172 (13.16%) Junior Analyst
7 167 (12.78%) Junior Security Analyst
8 149 (11.40%) Senior
9 88 (6.73%) Consultant
10 76 (5.81%) Security Consultant
11 75 (5.74%) IT Support
11 75 (5.74%) Security Manager
12 74 (5.66%) Architect
13 66 (5.05%) Security Architect
14 65 (4.97%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 64 (4.90%) Sales Representative
16 56 (4.28%) Lead
17 50 (3.83%) IT Manager
18 49 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 42 (3.21%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.77%) HTML
2 8 (0.61%) JSON
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.46%) CSS
4 6 (0.46%) React
4 6 (0.46%) Regular Expression
4 6 (0.46%) REST
5 4 (0.31%) .NET
5 4 (0.31%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.23%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.23%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.23%) FHIR
6 3 (0.23%) Node.js
6 3 (0.23%) pgvector
6 3 (0.23%) PostGIS
6 3 (0.23%) SAML
6 3 (0.23%) Vue
7 2 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
7 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 246 (18.82%) Cyberattack
2 63 (4.82%) Security Posture
3 53 (4.06%) Driving Licence
4 45 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
6 31 (2.37%) Operational Technology
7 28 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 25 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.30%) Cyber Security Posture
10 16 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.77%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
13 8 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.54%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.54%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 141 (10.79%) Windows
2 79 (6.04%) Windows Server
3 22 (1.68%) Linux
4 16 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.23%) Android
9 3 (0.23%) VMS
10 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (18.82%) Mentoring
2 186 (14.23%) Ethical Hacking
3 118 (9.03%) AI
4 117 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
6 89 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (6.50%) Incident Response
8 78 (5.97%) SIEM
9 67 (5.13%) Customer Service
9 67 (5.13%) Information Security
10 65 (4.97%) IT Strategy
11 64 (4.90%) Cloud Security
12 61 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 61 (4.67%) Risk Management
13 60 (4.59%) Vulnerability Management
14 57 (4.36%) Decision-Making
15 56 (4.28%) Service Delivery
16 55 (4.21%) ITIL
17 50 (3.83%) Security Architecture
18 48 (3.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (3.83%) PowerShell
2 37 (2.83%) Python
3 18 (1.38%) SQL
4 17 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 11 (0.84%) Bash
5 11 (0.84%) C#
6 8 (0.61%) C++
7 5 (0.38%) Java
8 4 (0.31%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.23%) C
9 3 (0.23%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.23%) XAML
10 1 (0.077%) Ada
10 1 (0.077%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.077%) Ladder Logic
10 1 (0.077%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.077%) Swift
Qualifications
1 360 (27.54%) Azure Certification
2 190 (14.54%) CEH
3 182 (13.93%) CompTIA Security+
4 172 (13.16%) CompTIA CySA+
5 73 (5.59%) Degree
6 55 (4.21%) Security Cleared
7 49 (3.75%) SC Cleared
8 41 (3.14%) CISSP
9 28 (2.14%) CISM
10 20 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.38%) A+ Certification
11 18 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (0.69%) CCNA
18 7 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.90%) NIST
3 63 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 50 (3.83%) GDPR
5 32 (2.45%) GRC
6 28 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.99%) QA
9 7 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.38%) NCSC
11 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.23%) HL7
11 3 (0.23%) SLA
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.15%) PMO
13 1 (0.077%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.077%) GxP
13 1 (0.077%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.077%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.61%) Docker
6 6 (0.46%) vSphere
7 3 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.077%) Firmware
8 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.99%) Terraform
3 12 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.54%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.38%) Nessus
6 5 (0.38%) SCCM
7 4 (0.31%) Grafana
7 4 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 3 (0.23%) cPanel
8 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.23%) Plesk
8 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.23%) WSUS
9 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
10 1 (0.077%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 632 (48.36%) Microsoft
2 345 (26.40%) ForeScout
3 31 (2.37%) VMware
4 25 (1.91%) Cisco
5 21 (1.61%) Palo Alto
6 20 (1.53%) Apple
6 20 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (1.15%) Veeam
8 14 (1.07%) Adobe
9 13 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.92%) Tenable
11 8 (0.61%) Aruba
11 8 (0.61%) SonicWALL
11 8 (0.61%) Tanium
12 7 (0.54%) HP
13 6 (0.46%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.38%) Meraki
14 5 (0.38%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.38%) Splunk
15 4 (0.31%) iManage