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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,951 516 842
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 16.18% 7.26% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.25% 7.68% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 636 289 685
10th Percentile - £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £51,321
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +1.32% -17.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,350 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,900 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.83% +0.00% -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 13,260 6,715 13,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 72.68% 94.51% 83.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8,176 3,748 11,041
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,625 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,138 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +4.28% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 1 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 1 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 +32 2,046 £50,000 -9.09% 154
Yorkshire +37 755 £42,500 -5.56% 102
North East +33 150 £42,417 +11.81% 37
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 23 (0.78%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.17%) Drupal
3 5 (0.17%) nginx
3 5 (0.17%) WordPress
4 1 (0.034%) Apache
4 1 (0.034%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.27%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,625 (55.07%) Cloud Computing
2 739 (25.04%) Azure
3 145 (4.91%) AWS
4 92 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
5 78 (2.64%) GitHub
6 67 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 26 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
9 16 (0.54%) GCP
10 15 (0.51%) SaaS
11 10 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.30%) Serverless
13 8 (0.27%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.20%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.20%) OneDrive
14 6 (0.20%) PaaS
15 5 (0.17%) IaaS
16 4 (0.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1,700 (57.61%) Internet
2 70 (2.37%) Firewall
3 31 (1.05%) DNS
4 28 (0.95%) Network Security
5 27 (0.91%) DHCP
6 26 (0.88%) VPN
7 20 (0.68%) LAN
7 20 (0.68%) VLAN
7 20 (0.68%) WAN
8 8 (0.27%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.24%) VoIP
10 6 (0.20%) DMZ
11 5 (0.17%) Broadband
11 5 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.14%) Modbus
13 3 (0.10%) 4G
13 3 (0.10%) 5G
14 2 (0.068%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.068%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.17%) MariaDB
2 4 (0.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.10%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.068%) Power BI
4 2 (0.068%) Tableau
5 1 (0.034%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.034%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.034%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.034%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.034%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.034%) Big Data
5 1 (0.034%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.034%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.034%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.034%) GIS
5 1 (0.034%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 74 (2.51%) Git
2 8 (0.27%) Snyk
3 4 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.10%) JIRA
5 2 (0.068%) GitLab
6 1 (0.034%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.034%) GDB
6 1 (0.034%) JMeter
6 1 (0.034%) Locust
6 1 (0.034%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.034%) WinDbg
General
1 2,289 (77.57%) Social Skills
2 1,665 (56.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,616 (54.76%) Banking
4 138 (4.68%) Multimedia
5 48 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (1.56%) Finance
7 34 (1.15%) Public Sector
8 27 (0.91%) Law
8 27 (0.91%) Telecoms
9 21 (0.71%) Marketing
10 14 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (0.44%) Retail
12 11 (0.37%) Police
13 9 (0.30%) Legal
14 8 (0.27%) Local Government
14 8 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.24%) Advertising
15 7 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.24%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,224 (41.48%) Lecturer
2 386 (13.08%) Analyst
3 362 (12.27%) Security Analyst
4 338 (11.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 320 (10.84%) Junior
6 316 (10.71%) Junior Analyst
6 316 (10.71%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (7.62%) Ethical Hacker
8 143 (4.85%) Senior
8 143 (4.85%) Trainee
9 62 (2.10%) Security Manager
10 57 (1.93%) Lead
11 55 (1.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 52 (1.76%) Architect
13 48 (1.63%) Security Architect
14 43 (1.46%) Developer
14 43 (1.46%) IT Support
15 42 (1.42%) Trainee Developer
16 40 (1.36%) Software Developer
16 40 (1.36%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.68%) CSS
1 79 (2.68%) HTML
2 7 (0.24%) React
3 6 (0.20%) Regular Expression
4 5 (0.17%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.14%) .NET
5 4 (0.14%) Node.js
6 3 (0.10%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.10%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.10%) MERN Stack
6 3 (0.10%) NestJS
6 3 (0.10%) REST
7 2 (0.068%) Middleware
7 2 (0.068%) Spring
7 2 (0.068%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.068%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (0.068%) Vue
8 1 (0.034%) Ajax
8 1 (0.034%) Flask
8 1 (0.034%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1,616 (54.76%) IoT
2 267 (9.05%) Cyberattack
3 41 (1.39%) Driving Licence
4 37 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 28 (0.95%) Operational Technology
6 27 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 22 (0.75%) Management Information System
9 17 (0.58%) Data Centre
10 16 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.34%) Blog
13 10 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
13 10 (0.34%) Cyber Security Posture
14 9 (0.30%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.27%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.24%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.24%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.86%) Windows
2 42 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (0.27%) Linux
4 8 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.17%) Android
5 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.034%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,680 (56.93%) AI
2 1,624 (55.03%) User Experience
3 1,620 (54.90%) Machine Learning
4 1,617 (54.79%) Web Development
5 499 (16.91%) Mentoring
6 288 (9.76%) Ethical Hacking
7 99 (3.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (2.88%) Incident Response
9 71 (2.41%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (2.41%) SIEM
10 68 (2.30%) Line Management
11 64 (2.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 57 (1.93%) Security Architecture
13 51 (1.73%) Risk Management
14 47 (1.59%) Decision-Making
14 47 (1.59%) Information Security
15 46 (1.56%) Data Protection
15 46 (1.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 43 (1.46%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (1.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 102 (3.46%) Python
2 91 (3.08%) JavaScript
3 33 (1.12%) PowerShell
3 33 (1.12%) R
4 16 (0.54%) Bash
5 15 (0.51%) SQL
6 6 (0.20%) Java
6 6 (0.20%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.14%) C#
7 4 (0.14%) C++
7 4 (0.14%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.10%) C
9 2 (0.068%) Bicep
10 1 (0.034%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1,665 (56.42%) Degree
2 1,624 (55.03%) Master's Degree
3 1,618 (54.83%) PhD
4 1,615 (54.73%) Postgraduate
5 619 (20.98%) Azure Certification
6 387 (13.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 321 (10.88%) CompTIA CySA+
8 293 (9.93%) CEH
9 102 (3.46%) AWS Certification
10 82 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 75 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 75 (2.54%) Network+ Certification
12 68 (2.30%) A+ Certification
13 34 (1.15%) CISSP
14 32 (1.08%) Security Cleared
15 28 (0.95%) SC Cleared
16 27 (0.91%) CISM
17 18 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.54%) DBS Check
19 11 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 61 (2.07%) NIST
4 54 (1.83%) GDPR
5 31 (1.05%) GRC
6 19 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.24%) SLA
10 6 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.14%) NCSC
12 3 (0.10%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.10%) QA
13 2 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.068%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.068%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.068%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.034%) IEC 61508
14 1 (0.034%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.51%) Docker
3 12 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.068%) Firmware
6 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.41%) Terraform
3 9 (0.30%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.14%) Grafana
7 3 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.068%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.034%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 773 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 541 (18.33%) ForeScout
3 23 (0.78%) Apple
4 17 (0.58%) Adobe
4 17 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
5 15 (0.51%) Cisco
6 9 (0.30%) Palo Alto
6 9 (0.30%) VMware
7 8 (0.27%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.27%) Tenable
8 6 (0.20%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.17%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.17%) Meraki
10 4 (0.14%) Draytek
10 4 (0.14%) Ubiquiti
11 3 (0.10%) Citrix
11 3 (0.10%) Sparx
11 3 (0.10%) Veeam
12 2 (0.068%) HP
12 2 (0.068%) Red Hat