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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,345 589 869
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 11.86% 7.60% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.75% 8.03% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 672 261 692
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,625 £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 £58,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -1.68% -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 14,002 7,337 14,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.84% 94.66% 81.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,423 3,439 11,285
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 28 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 28 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 +43 1,512 £55,000 -1.35% 208
Yorkshire +14 683 £47,500 +29.25% 113
North East +29 150 £45,000 -30.77% 35
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 37 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.19%) 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 (42.69%) Cloud Computing
2 706 (30.11%) Azure
3 130 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
4 124 (5.29%) AWS
5 76 (3.24%) Entra ID
6 49 (2.09%) GitHub
7 26 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (1.02%) GCP
9 18 (0.77%) OneDrive
10 17 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (0.60%) Power Platform
12 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (0.55%) SaaS
13 12 (0.51%) Serverless
14 11 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (0.47%) Power Automate
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 1,043 (44.48%) Internet
2 80 (3.41%) Firewall
3 36 (1.54%) DNS
4 34 (1.45%) Network Security
5 30 (1.28%) DHCP
5 30 (1.28%) VPN
6 22 (0.94%) VLAN
6 22 (0.94%) WAN
7 21 (0.90%) LAN
8 14 (0.60%) Unified Communications
9 12 (0.51%) VoIP
10 7 (0.30%) NGFW
10 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
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%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.17%) Power BI
1 4 (0.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.085%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.085%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.085%) GIS
2 2 (0.085%) Neo4j
2 2 (0.085%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.043%) Big Data
3 1 (0.043%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 47 (2.00%) 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 1,640 (69.94%) Social Skills
2 1,039 (44.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 994 (42.39%) Banking
4 92 (3.92%) Multimedia
5 58 (2.47%) Finance
6 43 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (1.66%) Public Sector
8 30 (1.28%) Law
9 28 (1.19%) Marketing
9 28 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 19 (0.81%) Retail
11 17 (0.72%) Legal
12 14 (0.60%) Advertising
13 13 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.38%) Local Government
15 8 (0.34%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 728 (31.04%) Lecturer
2 370 (15.78%) Analyst
3 343 (14.63%) Security Analyst
4 314 (13.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 291 (12.41%) Junior
6 287 (12.24%) Junior Analyst
7 286 (12.20%) Junior Security Analyst
8 225 (9.59%) Ethical Hacker
9 145 (6.18%) Senior
10 101 (4.31%) Trainee
11 72 (3.07%) Security Manager
12 71 (3.03%) Architect
13 67 (2.86%) Lead
13 67 (2.86%) Security Architect
14 63 (2.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 49 (2.09%) IT Support
16 46 (1.96%) Sales Representative
17 40 (1.71%) IT Manager
18 37 (1.58%) IT Engineer
18 37 (1.58%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.30%) 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
6 4 (0.17%) REST
7 3 (0.13%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.13%) NestJS
8 2 (0.085%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.085%) boto
8 2 (0.085%) Flask
8 2 (0.085%) Jinja
8 2 (0.085%) MERN Stack
8 2 (0.085%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.085%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.085%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 994 (42.39%) IoT
2 273 (11.64%) Cyberattack
3 43 (1.83%) Driving Licence
3 43 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 31 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 28 (1.19%) Operational Technology
6 27 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (0.94%) Management Information System
8 20 (0.85%) Data Centre
9 15 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.55%) Cyber Security Posture
11 13 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (0.43%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (0.38%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.38%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.30%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
15 5 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.45%) Windows
2 55 (2.35%) 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 1,073 (45.76%) AI
2 1,004 (42.81%) User Experience
3 995 (42.43%) Machine Learning
4 992 (42.30%) Web Development
5 433 (18.46%) Mentoring
6 270 (11.51%) Ethical Hacking
7 112 (4.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 91 (3.88%) Incident Response
9 86 (3.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 69 (2.94%) SIEM
11 68 (2.90%) Security Architecture
12 62 (2.64%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (2.39%) Risk Management
14 55 (2.35%) Decision-Making
15 51 (2.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 49 (2.09%) Information Security
16 49 (2.09%) Service Delivery
17 48 (2.05%) Line Management
17 48 (2.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 46 (1.96%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 76 (3.24%) Python
2 66 (2.81%) JavaScript
3 51 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 21 (0.90%) R
5 19 (0.81%) Bash
6 13 (0.55%) SQL
7 9 (0.38%) C#
8 6 (0.26%) Java
9 5 (0.21%) C++
9 5 (0.21%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.085%) C
12 1 (0.043%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.043%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.043%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,034 (44.09%) Degree
2 999 (42.60%) Master's Degree
3 993 (42.35%) PhD
4 991 (42.26%) Postgraduate
5 566 (24.14%) Azure Certification
6 338 (14.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 291 (12.41%) CompTIA CySA+
8 274 (11.68%) CEH
9 76 (3.24%) AWS Certification
10 58 (2.47%) Network+ Certification
11 57 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 51 (2.17%) A+ Certification
13 47 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 38 (1.62%) CISSP
15 32 (1.36%) Security Cleared
16 28 (1.19%) SC Cleared
17 24 (1.02%) CISM
18 17 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
19 16 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
20 14 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 71 (3.03%) NIST
4 58 (2.47%) 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
12 1 (0.043%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.043%) GxP
12 1 (0.043%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.043%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.043%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.43%) Docker
6 5 (0.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.085%) Firmware
7 2 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.55%) 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%) cPanel
7 2 (0.085%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.085%) Plesk
8 1 (0.043%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.043%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 766 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 511 (21.79%) ForeScout
3 27 (1.15%) Apple
4 22 (0.94%) Adobe
5 20 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (0.68%) Cisco
7 15 (0.64%) VMware
8 12 (0.51%) Palo Alto
8 12 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 12 (0.51%) Tenable
9 9 (0.38%) Veeam
10 6 (0.26%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.17%) Datto
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
11 4 (0.17%) SonicWALL
11 4 (0.17%) WatchGuard