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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 43 39
Rank change year-on-year +39 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,896 473 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 18.94% 4.35% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.13% 5.09% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 387 244 351
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £63,100 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.76% +0.96% -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 8,568 9,294 6,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.60% 85.43% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,448 4,447 5,165
10th Percentile £26,885 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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
North West +33 1,472 £42,500 -22.73% 223
Yorkshire +32 363 £30,500 -46.21% 119
North East +30 61 £30,500 -39.37% 52
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 14 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.53%) WordPress
3 6 (0.32%) CMS
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.26%) Confluence
4 5 (0.26%) Drupal
4 5 (0.26%) nginx
5 3 (0.16%) Apache
5 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.053%) FileNet
Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.32%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.21%) Magento
3 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,332 (70.25%) Cloud Computing
2 244 (12.87%) Azure
3 126 (6.65%) AWS
4 97 (5.12%) GitHub
5 69 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (1.21%) Entra ID
7 19 (1.00%) SaaS
8 16 (0.84%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.42%) IaaS
11 7 (0.37%) PaaS
12 6 (0.32%) dbt
12 6 (0.32%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.26%) OCI
13 5 (0.26%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (0.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.21%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1,422 (75.00%) Internet
2 31 (1.64%) Firewall
3 27 (1.42%) VPN
4 24 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.27%) VoIP
5 21 (1.11%) DNS
6 19 (1.00%) VLAN
7 16 (0.84%) Network Security
8 12 (0.63%) DHCP
8 12 (0.63%) LAN
8 12 (0.63%) WAN
8 12 (0.63%) Wireless
9 9 (0.47%) DMZ
9 9 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.32%) Modbus
11 5 (0.26%) STUN
12 3 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (0.11%) Broadband
14 1 (0.053%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (0.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.53%) Power BI
3 5 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.26%) MariaDB
4 4 (0.21%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.16%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.16%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.11%) MySQL
6 2 (0.11%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (4.85%) Git
2 6 (0.32%) JIRA
3 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.11%) JMeter
3 2 (0.11%) Locust
4 1 (0.053%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.053%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.053%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.053%) Snyk
General
1 1,539 (81.17%) Social Skills
2 1,360 (71.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,331 (70.20%) Banking
4 140 (7.38%) Multimedia
5 52 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (1.79%) Finance
7 27 (1.42%) Legal
8 20 (1.05%) Public Sector
8 20 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 16 (0.84%) Law
10 10 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (0.53%) Marketing
11 9 (0.47%) German Language
11 9 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.26%) Local Government
14 5 (0.26%) Police
15 4 (0.21%) Billing
15 4 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 988 (52.11%) Lecturer
2 140 (7.38%) Trainee
3 83 (4.38%) Analyst
4 71 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 71 (3.74%) Security Analyst
5 60 (3.16%) Junior
5 60 (3.16%) Junior Analyst
5 60 (3.16%) Junior Security Analyst
6 50 (2.64%) Developer
6 50 (2.64%) Senior
7 48 (2.53%) Software Developer
7 48 (2.53%) Trainee Developer
7 48 (2.53%) Trainee Software Developer
8 34 (1.79%) IT Manager
9 33 (1.74%) Lead
10 26 (1.37%) Architect
11 24 (1.27%) IT Support
11 24 (1.27%) Support Engineer
12 18 (0.95%) PLC Engineer
12 18 (0.95%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (5.17%) HTML
2 93 (4.91%) CSS
3 8 (0.42%) .NET
4 5 (0.26%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.26%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.21%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.21%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.16%) CSS3
6 3 (0.16%) HTML5
6 3 (0.16%) Node.js
6 3 (0.16%) Pandas
6 3 (0.16%) Sass
7 2 (0.11%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.11%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.11%) MERN Stack
7 2 (0.11%) React
7 2 (0.11%) YAML
8 1 (0.053%) JWT
8 1 (0.053%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.053%) Node-RED
Miscellaneous
1 1,332 (70.25%) IoT
2 26 (1.37%) Cyberattack
3 22 (1.16%) Operational Technology
4 21 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
5 17 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 15 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (0.79%) Security Posture
7 14 (0.74%) Blog
7 14 (0.74%) Driving Licence
8 13 (0.69%) Management Information System
9 12 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 11 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.47%) SCADA
12 8 (0.42%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.42%) LIMS
12 8 (0.42%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.32%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (0.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.26%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.01%) Windows
2 30 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 28 (1.48%) Linux
4 8 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.26%) Debian
7 2 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
8 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,367 (72.10%) AI
2 1,333 (70.31%) User Experience
3 1,328 (70.04%) Machine Learning
4 1,327 (69.99%) Web Development
5 213 (11.23%) Mentoring
6 97 (5.12%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (3.22%) Line Management
8 51 (2.69%) Ethical Hacking
9 40 (2.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (2.11%) Information Security
10 36 (1.90%) Project Delivery
10 36 (1.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (1.79%) Project Management
12 29 (1.53%) Incident Response
13 28 (1.48%) DevOps
13 28 (1.48%) IT Strategy
13 28 (1.48%) Software Engineering
14 27 (1.42%) Computer Science
15 26 (1.37%) ITIL
16 25 (1.32%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 108 (5.70%) Python
2 95 (5.01%) JavaScript
3 42 (2.22%) R
4 30 (1.58%) SQL
5 11 (0.58%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.37%) C#
7 6 (0.32%) Java
8 5 (0.26%) Bash
9 4 (0.21%) Bicep
10 3 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.11%) C
11 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,392 (73.42%) Degree
2 1,329 (70.09%) Master's Degree
3 1,328 (70.04%) Postgraduate
4 1,327 (69.99%) PhD
5 156 (8.23%) Azure Certification
6 116 (6.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 102 (5.38%) AWS Certification
8 94 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 90 (4.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 61 (3.22%) CompTIA CySA+
11 55 (2.90%) A+ Certification
12 53 (2.80%) CEH
13 51 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
14 33 (1.74%) HND
15 22 (1.16%) Security Cleared
16 19 (1.00%) CISSP
17 17 (0.90%) PMP
18 16 (0.84%) SC Cleared
19 13 (0.69%) DBS Check
20 12 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (1.32%) NIST
4 18 (0.95%) GDPR
5 16 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (0.63%) GRC
6 12 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.32%) QA
9 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.26%) GLBA
10 4 (0.21%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.21%) NCSC
10 4 (0.21%) SLA
10 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.16%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.16%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.11%) PMO
12 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.74%) Docker
3 13 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.26%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.32%) Terraform
3 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.11%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.11%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.053%) Nessus
5 1 (0.053%) Nmap
5 1 (0.053%) QRadar
5 1 (0.053%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.053%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 251 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.16%) ForeScout
3 23 (1.21%) Apple
4 18 (0.95%) Sage
5 13 (0.69%) Adobe
6 12 (0.63%) Palo Alto
7 9 (0.47%) SonicWALL
8 7 (0.37%) Cisco
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle
9 6 (0.32%) iManage
9 6 (0.32%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.26%) Qualys
11 4 (0.21%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.21%) PayPal
11 4 (0.21%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.21%) Splunk
12 3 (0.16%) Ubiquiti
13 2 (0.11%) Datto
13 2 (0.11%) Xero