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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 42 38
Rank change year-on-year +35 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,154 534 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.11% 4.28% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.36% 5.22% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 364 270 354
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,225 £26,325
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,125 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £59,063 £66,000 £72,325
90th Percentile £79,250 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -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 8,036 10,229 7,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.35% 81.98% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 4,884 5,341
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £50,909 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -7.44% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,017 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +29 802 £42,500 -22.73% 223
Yorkshire +22 298 £30,500 -47.55% 102
North East +34 54 £30,500 -32.22% 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 14 (1.21%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.69%) WordPress
3 6 (0.52%) CMS
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.26%) Apache
5 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.26%) Drupal
5 3 (0.26%) nginx
6 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.087%) FileNet
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 630 (54.59%) Cloud Computing
2 175 (15.16%) Azure
3 104 (9.01%) AWS
4 80 (6.93%) GitHub
5 66 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (1.73%) Entra ID
7 19 (1.65%) SaaS
8 14 (1.21%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.69%) IaaS
11 7 (0.61%) PaaS
12 6 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.52%) dbt
12 6 (0.52%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.43%) OCI
13 5 (0.43%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (0.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 703 (60.92%) Internet
2 61 (5.29%) Firewall
3 26 (2.25%) VPN
4 25 (2.17%) VoIP
5 24 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.73%) DNS
7 18 (1.56%) VLAN
8 13 (1.13%) Network Security
8 13 (1.13%) Wireless
9 12 (1.04%) LAN
9 12 (1.04%) WAN
10 11 (0.95%) DHCP
11 9 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.61%) DMZ
12 7 (0.61%) Modbus
13 5 (0.43%) STUN
14 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
15 2 (0.17%) Broadband
15 2 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.87%) Power BI
3 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.26%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.26%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.26%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.17%) MySQL
6 2 (0.17%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.087%) GIS
Development Applications
1 75 (6.50%) Git
2 6 (0.52%) JIRA
3 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.17%) JMeter
3 2 (0.17%) Locust
4 1 (0.087%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.087%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.087%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.087%) Snyk
General
1 795 (68.89%) Social Skills
2 654 (56.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 629 (54.51%) Banking
4 119 (10.31%) Multimedia
5 63 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (2.86%) Finance
7 27 (2.34%) Legal
8 20 (1.73%) Telecoms
9 19 (1.65%) Law
10 17 (1.47%) Public Sector
11 11 (0.95%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.87%) Marketing
13 9 (0.78%) German Language
14 8 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.35%) Billing
16 4 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.35%) Local Government
16 4 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 496 (42.98%) Lecturer
2 119 (10.31%) Trainee
3 44 (3.81%) Senior
4 41 (3.55%) Developer
5 38 (3.29%) Analyst
5 38 (3.29%) Software Developer
5 38 (3.29%) Trainee Developer
5 38 (3.29%) Trainee Software Developer
6 32 (2.77%) Lead
7 31 (2.69%) IT Manager
8 30 (2.60%) PLC Engineer
9 28 (2.43%) IT Engineer
10 27 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 26 (2.25%) Architect
11 26 (2.25%) Security Analyst
12 23 (1.99%) IT Support
12 23 (1.99%) Support Engineer
13 16 (1.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (1.39%) Security Engineer
14 15 (1.30%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.11%) HTML
2 77 (6.67%) CSS
3 8 (0.69%) .NET
4 5 (0.43%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.43%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.35%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.35%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.26%) CSS3
6 3 (0.26%) HTML5
6 3 (0.26%) Node.js
6 3 (0.26%) Pandas
6 3 (0.26%) Sass
7 2 (0.17%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.17%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.17%) MERN Stack
7 2 (0.17%) Node-RED
7 2 (0.17%) React
7 2 (0.17%) YAML
8 1 (0.087%) JWT
8 1 (0.087%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 631 (54.68%) IoT
2 50 (4.33%) Operational Technology
3 38 (3.29%) Cyberattack
4 35 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
5 15 (1.30%) Security Posture
6 14 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (1.13%) Driving Licence
7 13 (1.13%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.04%) Blog
8 12 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 11 (0.95%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.87%) SCADA
11 8 (0.69%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.69%) LIMS
11 8 (0.69%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.37%) Windows
2 30 (2.60%) Windows Server
3 28 (2.43%) Linux
4 8 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.43%) Debian
6 2 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.087%) VMS
7 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (57.28%) AI
2 631 (54.68%) User Experience
3 626 (54.25%) Machine Learning
3 626 (54.25%) Web Development
4 147 (12.74%) Mentoring
5 102 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (4.94%) Line Management
7 47 (4.07%) Ethical Hacking
8 45 (3.90%) Project Delivery
9 41 (3.55%) Software Engineering
10 39 (3.38%) Information Security
10 39 (3.38%) Network Management
11 36 (3.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (3.12%) Network Design
12 32 (2.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (2.69%) Project Management
14 29 (2.51%) DevOps
15 28 (2.43%) Computer Science
16 27 (2.34%) Incident Response
16 27 (2.34%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 92 (7.97%) Python
2 79 (6.85%) JavaScript
3 35 (3.03%) R
4 27 (2.34%) SQL
5 10 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.61%) C#
7 6 (0.52%) Java
8 5 (0.43%) Bash
9 4 (0.35%) Bicep
10 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.17%) C
11 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 689 (59.71%) Degree
2 628 (54.42%) Master's Degree
3 626 (54.25%) Postgraduate
4 625 (54.16%) PhD
5 95 (8.23%) Azure Certification
6 82 (7.11%) AWS Certification
7 78 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 73 (6.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 68 (5.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (4.42%) A+ Certification
11 49 (4.25%) CEH
12 46 (3.99%) Network+ Certification
13 45 (3.90%) HND
14 22 (1.91%) Security Cleared
15 19 (1.65%) CISSP
16 18 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
17 15 (1.30%) PMP
17 15 (1.30%) SC Cleared
18 13 (1.13%) HNC
19 12 (1.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (1.65%) GDPR
4 18 (1.56%) NIST
5 14 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (0.95%) ISO 9001
7 10 (0.87%) GRC
8 5 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.43%) GLBA
8 5 (0.43%) NCSC
8 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.43%) QA
9 4 (0.35%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.26%) SLA
11 2 (0.17%) COBIT
11 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.17%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
3 14 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.04%) Docker
5 5 (0.43%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.52%) Terraform
3 4 (0.35%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.17%) Grafana
4 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.087%) Nessus
5 1 (0.087%) Nmap
5 1 (0.087%) QRadar
5 1 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.087%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 189 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 21 (1.82%) Apple
3 18 (1.56%) Sage
4 15 (1.30%) ForeScout
5 12 (1.04%) Palo Alto
6 11 (0.95%) Adobe
7 9 (0.78%) SonicWALL
8 7 (0.61%) Cisco
8 7 (0.61%) Oracle
9 6 (0.52%) iManage
9 6 (0.52%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.43%) Qualys
11 4 (0.35%) PayPal
11 4 (0.35%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.35%) Splunk
11 4 (0.35%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (0.26%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.26%) Sophos
12 3 (0.26%) Veeam