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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 33 36
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,335 591 888
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 11.71% 7.53% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.56% 7.96% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 676 263 699
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £26,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,861 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,880 £86,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,670 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -3.08% -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 14,098 7,426 14,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.73% 94.65% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,539 3,504 11,365
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,939 £36,565
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 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +44 1,511 £55,000 - 212
Yorkshire +15 673 £47,500 +61.02% 107
North East +28 151 £45,000 -30.77% 40
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 39 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.51%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (42.87%) Cloud Computing
2 694 (29.72%) Azure
3 136 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (5.27%) AWS
5 76 (3.25%) Entra ID
6 46 (1.97%) GitHub
7 26 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (1.03%) GCP
9 19 (0.81%) OneDrive
10 17 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (0.60%) Power Platform
12 13 (0.56%) SaaS
13 12 (0.51%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.51%) Serverless
14 11 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (0.30%) Copilot Studio
17 6 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (0.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,041 (44.58%) Internet
2 82 (3.51%) Firewall
3 38 (1.63%) DNS
4 33 (1.41%) Network Security
5 32 (1.37%) DHCP
6 31 (1.33%) VPN
7 23 (0.99%) VLAN
8 22 (0.94%) WAN
9 21 (0.90%) LAN
10 14 (0.60%) Unified Communications
11 12 (0.51%) VoIP
12 7 (0.30%) NGFW
12 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.21%) Broadband
14 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (0.17%) DMZ
16 3 (0.13%) 4G
16 3 (0.13%) 5G
17 2 (0.086%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.17%) Power BI
1 4 (0.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.086%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.086%) GIS
2 2 (0.086%) Neo4j
2 2 (0.086%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.043%) Big Data
3 1 (0.043%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.043%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (1.88%) 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 1,626 (69.64%) Social Skills
2 1,040 (44.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 994 (42.57%) Banking
4 88 (3.77%) Multimedia
5 59 (2.53%) Finance
6 41 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (1.63%) Public Sector
8 31 (1.33%) Law
9 30 (1.28%) Marketing
10 29 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 20 (0.86%) Retail
12 19 (0.81%) Legal
13 17 (0.73%) Advertising
14 14 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.39%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.34%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.34%) Local Government
16 8 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 728 (31.18%) Lecturer
2 356 (15.25%) Analyst
3 327 (14.00%) Security Analyst
4 298 (12.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 276 (11.82%) Junior
6 272 (11.65%) Junior Analyst
7 271 (11.61%) Junior Security Analyst
8 225 (9.64%) Ethical Hacker
9 144 (6.17%) Senior
10 98 (4.20%) Trainee
11 73 (3.13%) Architect
12 72 (3.08%) Security Manager
13 69 (2.96%) Security Architect
14 67 (2.87%) Lead
15 63 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 52 (2.23%) IT Support
17 46 (1.97%) Sales Representative
18 41 (1.76%) IT Manager
19 39 (1.67%) IT Engineer
20 38 (1.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.27%) HTML
2 49 (2.10%) 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
6 4 (0.17%) JSON
6 4 (0.17%) REST
7 3 (0.13%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.13%) NestJS
8 2 (0.086%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.086%) jQuery
8 2 (0.086%) MERN Stack
8 2 (0.086%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.086%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.086%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.086%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 994 (42.57%) IoT
2 273 (11.69%) Cyberattack
3 46 (1.97%) Driving Licence
4 45 (1.93%) Onboarding
5 33 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 27 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (1.16%) Operational Technology
7 22 (0.94%) Management Information System
8 21 (0.90%) Data Centre
9 15 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.56%) Cyber Security Posture
12 12 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (0.39%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (0.39%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.30%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
15 5 (0.21%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.73%) Windows
2 59 (2.53%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (0.51%) Linux
4 12 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.30%) Android
7 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,074 (46.00%) AI
2 1,005 (43.04%) User Experience
3 995 (42.61%) Machine Learning
4 992 (42.48%) Web Development
5 417 (17.86%) Mentoring
6 269 (11.52%) Ethical Hacking
7 113 (4.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 90 (3.85%) Incident Response
9 87 (3.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 69 (2.96%) Security Architecture
10 69 (2.96%) SIEM
11 62 (2.66%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (2.44%) Risk Management
13 55 (2.36%) Decision-Making
14 53 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 49 (2.10%) Information Security
15 49 (2.10%) Service Delivery
16 48 (2.06%) Customer Service
17 47 (2.01%) Line Management
17 47 (2.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (3.13%) Python
2 63 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 54 (2.31%) PowerShell
4 19 (0.81%) Bash
4 19 (0.81%) R
5 15 (0.64%) SQL
6 9 (0.39%) C#
7 6 (0.26%) Java
8 5 (0.21%) C++
8 5 (0.21%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.086%) C
11 1 (0.043%) Ada
11 1 (0.043%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.043%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.043%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,035 (44.33%) Degree
2 999 (42.78%) Master's Degree
3 993 (42.53%) PhD
4 991 (42.44%) Postgraduate
5 549 (23.51%) Azure Certification
6 322 (13.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 276 (11.82%) CompTIA CySA+
8 273 (11.69%) CEH
9 72 (3.08%) AWS Certification
10 58 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
11 54 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 51 (2.18%) A+ Certification
13 44 (1.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 38 (1.63%) CISSP
15 32 (1.37%) Security Cleared
16 28 (1.20%) SC Cleared
17 24 (1.03%) CISM
18 16 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
19 14 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 70 (3.00%) NIST
4 59 (2.53%) GDPR
5 31 (1.33%) 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 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.086%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.043%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.043%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.043%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.043%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.043%) PMO
12 1 (0.043%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.39%) Docker
6 5 (0.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.086%) Firmware
7 2 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.60%) Terraform
3 9 (0.39%) 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 (0.086%) cPanel
7 2 (0.086%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.086%) Plesk
8 1 (0.043%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.043%) Nessus
8 1 (0.043%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 756 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 496 (21.24%) ForeScout
3 27 (1.16%) Apple
4 22 (0.94%) Adobe
5 20 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (0.69%) Cisco
6 16 (0.69%) VMware
7 12 (0.51%) Palo Alto
7 12 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 12 (0.51%) Tenable
8 9 (0.39%) Veeam
9 6 (0.26%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.17%) Datto
10 4 (0.17%) Draytek
10 4 (0.17%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.17%) HP
10 4 (0.17%) Meraki
10 4 (0.17%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.17%) SonicWALL
10 4 (0.17%) WatchGuard