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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 37 35
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,322 594 913
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.67% 7.32% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 7.82% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 684 264 704
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,763 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.53% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,025 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%

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 13,647 7,594 15,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.85% 93.55% 79.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,117 3,646 11,830
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,960 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +31 619 £55,000 - 210
Yorkshire +11 553 £47,500 +43.94% 131
North East +28 150 £45,750 -29.62% 53
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 45 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.076%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.076%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 640 (48.41%) Azure
2 140 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (7.56%) AWS
4 75 (5.67%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.19%) GitHub
6 26 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (1.89%) GCP
8 23 (1.74%) OneDrive
9 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 15 (1.13%) SaaS
10 14 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (0.98%) Power Platform
12 12 (0.91%) Serverless
13 11 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.83%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.53%) Copilot Studio
15 7 (0.53%) PaaS
16 6 (0.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.05%) Firewall
2 38 (2.87%) DNS
3 35 (2.65%) Internet
4 32 (2.42%) DHCP
5 29 (2.19%) Network Security
6 28 (2.12%) VPN
7 22 (1.66%) LAN
7 22 (1.66%) WAN
8 21 (1.59%) VLAN
9 17 (1.29%) Unified Communications
10 14 (1.06%) VoIP
11 8 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.53%) NGFW
12 7 (0.53%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.38%) Broadband
13 5 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.23%) 4G
14 3 (0.23%) 5G
15 2 (0.15%) DKIM
15 2 (0.15%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.38%) Power BI
2 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.15%) GIS
2 2 (0.15%) Neo4j
2 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.076%) Big Data
3 1 (0.076%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.076%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.076%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.076%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (2.12%) Git
2 12 (0.91%) Snyk
3 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.23%) GitLab
4 3 (0.23%) JIRA
5 1 (0.076%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.076%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.076%) GDB
5 1 (0.076%) JMeter
5 1 (0.076%) Locust
5 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.076%) WinDbg
General
1 603 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 66 (4.99%) Multimedia
3 58 (4.39%) Finance
4 45 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 38 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (2.57%) Telecoms
8 33 (2.50%) Marketing
9 32 (2.42%) Law
10 19 (1.44%) Legal
10 19 (1.44%) Retail
11 18 (1.36%) Advertising
12 12 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 12 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.68%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.68%) Local Government
14 7 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.45%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.45%) Police
16 5 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 334 (25.26%) Analyst
2 304 (23.00%) Security Analyst
3 275 (20.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 249 (18.84%) Junior
5 245 (18.53%) Junior Analyst
6 241 (18.23%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (17.02%) Ethical Hacker
8 145 (10.97%) Senior
9 78 (5.90%) Trainee
10 73 (5.52%) Architect
10 73 (5.52%) Security Manager
11 72 (5.45%) Security Architect
12 71 (5.37%) Lead
13 64 (4.84%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 55 (4.16%) IT Support
15 47 (3.56%) Sales Representative
16 41 (3.10%) IT Engineer
17 39 (2.95%) IT Manager
17 39 (2.95%) Security Engineer
18 38 (2.87%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.72%) HTML
2 32 (2.42%) CSS
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.45%) React
4 6 (0.45%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.38%) .NET
5 5 (0.38%) Node.js
5 5 (0.38%) REST
6 4 (0.30%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.30%) JSON
7 3 (0.23%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.23%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.23%) NestJS
8 2 (0.15%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.15%) Flask
8 2 (0.15%) MERN Stack
8 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 272 (20.57%) Cyberattack
2 46 (3.48%) Driving Licence
3 41 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 39 (2.95%) Security Posture
5 27 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (2.04%) Operational Technology
6 21 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
8 14 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (0.53%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.45%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.38%) IoT
13 5 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (7.11%) Windows
2 62 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 15 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (0.91%) Linux
6 8 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.53%) Android
8 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (27.53%) Mentoring
2 264 (19.97%) Ethical Hacking
3 112 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 88 (6.66%) Incident Response
5 86 (6.51%) Disaster Recovery
6 85 (6.43%) AI
7 70 (5.30%) SIEM
8 69 (5.22%) Security Architecture
9 64 (4.84%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (4.46%) Decision-Making
11 56 (4.24%) Risk Management
12 53 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 51 (3.86%) Customer Service
14 50 (3.78%) Information Security
15 49 (3.71%) Cloud Security
16 48 (3.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (3.56%) Service Delivery
18 45 (3.40%) Business Continuity
18 45 (3.40%) Data Protection
19 43 (3.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (4.39%) Python
2 54 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 47 (3.56%) JavaScript
4 19 (1.44%) Bash
5 11 (0.83%) SQL
6 10 (0.76%) R
7 9 (0.68%) C#
8 6 (0.45%) Java
8 6 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.38%) C++
10 4 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.15%) C
12 1 (0.076%) Ada
12 1 (0.076%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.076%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.076%) Swift
12 1 (0.076%) XAML
Qualifications
1 501 (37.90%) Azure Certification
2 287 (21.71%) CompTIA Security+
3 268 (20.27%) CEH
4 246 (18.61%) CompTIA CySA+
5 51 (3.86%) Network+ Certification
6 49 (3.71%) AWS Certification
7 48 (3.63%) Degree
8 46 (3.48%) A+ Certification
9 39 (2.95%) CISSP
10 36 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 31 (2.34%) Security Cleared
12 27 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 26 (1.97%) SC Cleared
14 25 (1.89%) CISM
15 17 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.13%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 9 (0.68%) CCNA
19 9 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (5.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 69 (5.22%) NIST
4 62 (4.69%) GDPR
5 27 (2.04%) GRC
6 21 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 15 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.38%) QA
8 5 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.30%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.076%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.076%) GxP
12 1 (0.076%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.076%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.076%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.076%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (4.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.21%) Hyper-V
3 15 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.68%) Docker
6 6 (0.45%) vSphere
7 1 (0.076%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.06%) Terraform
3 9 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.30%) Grafana
5 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.30%) SCCM
6 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) cPanel
7 2 (0.15%) Plesk
8 1 (0.076%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.076%) Nessus
8 1 (0.076%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.076%) QRadar
Vendors
1 717 (54.24%) Microsoft
2 466 (35.25%) ForeScout
3 24 (1.82%) Apple
4 19 (1.44%) Adobe
4 19 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
5 17 (1.29%) VMware
6 14 (1.06%) Cisco
7 12 (0.91%) Palo Alto
7 12 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 12 (0.91%) Tenable
8 9 (0.68%) Veeam
9 6 (0.45%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.30%) Aruba
10 4 (0.30%) Datto
10 4 (0.30%) Draytek
10 4 (0.30%) HP
10 4 (0.30%) Meraki
10 4 (0.30%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.30%) SonicWALL
10 4 (0.30%) WatchGuard