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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +31 -2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,341 591 868
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 11.90% 7.64% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.79% 8.07% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 666 263 691
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £59,500
% change year-on-year +2.13% -1.26% -8.46%

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 13,943 7,324 14,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.85% 94.72% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,378 3,425 11,269
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +45 1,508 £55,000 -2.65% 220
Yorkshire +14 683 £47,500 +11.76% 116
North East +35 150 £45,000 -30.77% 36
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 35 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.043%) Drupal
3 1 (0.043%) nginx
3 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.51%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (42.76%) Cloud Computing
2 703 (30.03%) Azure
3 128 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (5.25%) AWS
5 76 (3.25%) Entra ID
6 49 (2.09%) GitHub
7 26 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (0.98%) GCP
9 17 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (0.73%) OneDrive
10 13 (0.56%) Power Platform
10 13 (0.56%) SaaS
11 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (0.51%) Serverless
12 11 (0.47%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (0.30%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,043 (44.55%) Internet
2 79 (3.37%) Firewall
3 35 (1.50%) DNS
4 34 (1.45%) Network Security
5 30 (1.28%) DHCP
5 30 (1.28%) VPN
6 22 (0.94%) WAN
7 21 (0.90%) LAN
7 21 (0.90%) VLAN
8 12 (0.51%) Unified Communications
9 11 (0.47%) VoIP
10 7 (0.30%) NGFW
11 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.21%) Broadband
12 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.17%) DMZ
14 3 (0.13%) 4G
14 3 (0.13%) 5G
15 2 (0.085%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.13%) Power BI
3 2 (0.085%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.085%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.085%) GIS
3 2 (0.085%) Neo4j
3 2 (0.085%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.043%) Big Data
4 1 (0.043%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.043%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (2.01%) Git
2 12 (0.51%) Snyk
3 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.13%) GitLab
4 3 (0.13%) JIRA
5 1 (0.043%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.043%) GDB
5 1 (0.043%) JMeter
5 1 (0.043%) Locust
5 1 (0.043%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.043%) WinDbg
General
1 1,638 (69.97%) Social Skills
2 1,039 (44.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 994 (42.46%) Banking
4 92 (3.93%) Multimedia
5 58 (2.48%) Finance
6 43 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (1.62%) Public Sector
8 30 (1.28%) Law
9 28 (1.20%) Marketing
10 26 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 19 (0.81%) Retail
12 17 (0.73%) Legal
13 14 (0.60%) Advertising
14 13 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.38%) Local Government
16 8 (0.34%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.34%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 728 (31.10%) Lecturer
2 370 (15.81%) Analyst
3 343 (14.65%) Security Analyst
4 314 (13.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 291 (12.43%) Junior
6 287 (12.26%) Junior Analyst
7 286 (12.22%) Junior Security Analyst
8 225 (9.61%) Ethical Hacker
9 148 (6.32%) Senior
10 101 (4.31%) Trainee
11 71 (3.03%) Architect
11 71 (3.03%) Security Manager
12 67 (2.86%) Lead
12 67 (2.86%) Security Architect
13 62 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 49 (2.09%) IT Support
15 46 (1.96%) Sales Representative
16 38 (1.62%) IT Manager
17 37 (1.58%) IT Engineer
17 37 (1.58%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.31%) HTML
2 52 (2.22%) CSS
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.26%) React
4 6 (0.26%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.21%) .NET
5 5 (0.21%) Node.js
6 4 (0.17%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.13%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.13%) NestJS
7 3 (0.13%) REST
8 2 (0.085%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.085%) Flask
8 2 (0.085%) jQuery
8 2 (0.085%) MERN Stack
8 2 (0.085%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.085%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (0.085%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.085%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 994 (42.46%) IoT
2 273 (11.66%) Cyberattack
3 43 (1.84%) Driving Licence
4 42 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 30 (1.28%) Security Posture
6 28 (1.20%) Operational Technology
7 27 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 20 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 14 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 14 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.56%) Cyber Security Posture
11 13 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.38%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (0.38%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.30%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.42%) Windows
2 54 (2.31%) Windows Server
3 12 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (0.43%) Linux
6 8 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.26%) Android
8 5 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.085%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,071 (45.75%) AI
2 1,003 (42.84%) User Experience
3 995 (42.50%) Machine Learning
4 992 (42.38%) Web Development
5 432 (18.45%) Mentoring
6 270 (11.53%) Ethical Hacking
7 109 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 90 (3.84%) Incident Response
9 85 (3.63%) Disaster Recovery
10 68 (2.90%) Security Architecture
10 68 (2.90%) SIEM
11 62 (2.65%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (2.35%) Risk Management
13 54 (2.31%) Decision-Making
14 51 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 49 (2.09%) Information Security
16 48 (2.05%) Line Management
17 47 (2.01%) Service Delivery
18 46 (1.96%) Data Protection
18 46 (1.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (3.20%) Python
2 66 (2.82%) JavaScript
3 51 (2.18%) PowerShell
4 21 (0.90%) R
5 19 (0.81%) Bash
6 13 (0.56%) SQL
7 8 (0.34%) C#
8 5 (0.21%) C++
8 5 (0.21%) Java
8 5 (0.21%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.085%) C
11 1 (0.043%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.043%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.043%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,035 (44.21%) Degree
2 999 (42.67%) Master's Degree
3 993 (42.42%) PhD
4 991 (42.33%) Postgraduate
5 566 (24.18%) Azure Certification
6 338 (14.44%) CompTIA Security+
7 291 (12.43%) CompTIA CySA+
8 274 (11.70%) CEH
9 76 (3.25%) AWS Certification
10 58 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
11 57 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 51 (2.18%) A+ Certification
13 47 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 38 (1.62%) CISSP
15 32 (1.37%) Security Cleared
16 28 (1.20%) SC Cleared
17 25 (1.07%) CISM
18 17 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
18 17 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
19 14 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 71 (3.03%) NIST
4 58 (2.48%) GDPR
5 31 (1.32%) GRC
6 21 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.30%) SLA
9 6 (0.26%) QA
9 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.13%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.13%) NCSC
11 2 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.085%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.085%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.085%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.043%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.043%) GxP
12 1 (0.043%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.043%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.43%) Docker
4 10 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.21%) vSphere
6 2 (0.085%) Firmware
6 2 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.56%) Terraform
3 9 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.17%) Grafana
5 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.13%) SCCM
7 2 (0.085%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.043%) cPanel
8 1 (0.043%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.043%) Plesk
8 1 (0.043%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 763 (32.59%) Microsoft
2 511 (21.83%) ForeScout
3 27 (1.15%) Apple
4 22 (0.94%) Adobe
5 20 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (0.68%) Cisco
7 14 (0.60%) VMware
8 12 (0.51%) Palo Alto
8 12 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 12 (0.51%) Tenable
9 8 (0.34%) Veeam
10 6 (0.26%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.17%) Draytek
11 4 (0.17%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.17%) HP
11 4 (0.17%) Meraki
11 4 (0.17%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.13%) Citrix
12 3 (0.13%) SonicWALL
12 3 (0.13%) WatchGuard