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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,363 632 883
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.64% 7.09% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 7.73% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 708 288 679
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £34,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £51,763 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -0.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,725 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.38%

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 14,356 8,171 15,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.90% 91.68% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10,737 3,968 11,455
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,094 £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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +28 640 £55,000 - 253
Yorkshire +12 562 £50,000 +33.33% 127
North East +24 161 £48,500 -27.82% 51
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 52 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.073%) Apache
3 1 (0.073%) Confluence
3 1 (0.073%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 620 (45.49%) Azure
2 167 (12.25%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (5.87%) Entra ID
4 79 (5.80%) AWS
5 29 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 26 (1.91%) OneDrive
7 25 (1.83%) GCP
8 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (1.39%) SaaS
9 17 (1.25%) Power Platform
10 13 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 13 (0.95%) Serverless
11 11 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (0.81%) GitHub
12 9 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
13 8 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.51%) PaaS
15 6 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (6.46%) Firewall
2 42 (3.08%) DNS
3 35 (2.57%) DHCP
4 32 (2.35%) Network Security
5 28 (2.05%) VPN
6 25 (1.83%) LAN
6 25 (1.83%) WAN
7 24 (1.76%) VLAN
8 20 (1.47%) Unified Communications
9 19 (1.39%) VoIP
10 17 (1.25%) Internet
10 17 (1.25%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.51%) NGFW
13 5 (0.37%) Broadband
13 5 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.22%) 4G
14 3 (0.22%) 5G
14 3 (0.22%) DKIM
14 3 (0.22%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.51%) Power BI
2 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.15%) GIS
4 2 (0.15%) MySQL
4 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.15%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.073%) Big Data
5 1 (0.073%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.073%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.073%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.073%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.073%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.073%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.073%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.073%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Git
1 12 (0.88%) Snyk
2 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.29%) JIRA
3 3 (0.22%) GitLab
4 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.073%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.073%) GDB
5 1 (0.073%) JMeter
5 1 (0.073%) Locust
5 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.073%) WinDbg
General
1 619 (45.41%) Social Skills
2 58 (4.26%) Finance
3 51 (3.74%) Public Sector
4 42 (3.08%) Telecoms
5 40 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (2.93%) Multimedia
6 39 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (2.71%) Marketing
8 33 (2.42%) Law
9 23 (1.69%) Legal
10 22 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.47%) Advertising
11 20 (1.47%) Retail
12 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.81%) Local Government
14 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.44%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.44%) Police
15 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 339 (24.87%) Analyst
2 308 (22.60%) Security Analyst
3 279 (20.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 251 (18.42%) Junior
5 246 (18.05%) Junior Analyst
6 241 (17.68%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.51%) Ethical Hacker
8 149 (10.93%) Senior
9 74 (5.43%) Security Manager
10 70 (5.14%) Lead
11 68 (4.99%) Architect
12 67 (4.92%) IT Support
12 67 (4.92%) Security Architect
13 60 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 55 (4.04%) Trainee
15 53 (3.89%) Sales Representative
16 48 (3.52%) Consultant
17 46 (3.37%) IT Engineer
18 43 (3.15%) Security Consultant
19 41 (3.01%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.32%) HTML
2 14 (1.03%) CSS
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (0.51%) REST
4 6 (0.44%) .NET
4 6 (0.44%) React
4 6 (0.44%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.37%) JSON
5 5 (0.37%) Node.js
6 4 (0.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.22%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.22%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.22%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.22%) NestJS
7 3 (0.22%) Vue
8 2 (0.15%) boto
8 2 (0.15%) Flask
8 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 278 (20.40%) Cyberattack
2 51 (3.74%) Driving Licence
3 49 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 43 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (1.98%) Operational Technology
7 21 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
10 14 (1.03%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.66%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.51%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (0.51%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
14 6 (0.44%) IoT
14 6 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 113 (8.29%) Windows
2 72 (5.28%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (1.03%) Linux
4 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.51%) Android
7 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.15%) VMS
11 1 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (25.53%) Mentoring
2 256 (18.78%) Ethical Hacking
3 128 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 94 (6.90%) Incident Response
5 92 (6.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 91 (6.68%) AI
7 75 (5.50%) SIEM
8 74 (5.43%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (4.92%) Security Architecture
10 64 (4.70%) Decision-Making
11 63 (4.62%) Risk Management
12 60 (4.40%) Customer Service
13 55 (4.04%) Cloud Security
14 54 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 54 (3.96%) Service Delivery
15 52 (3.82%) Information Security
16 51 (3.74%) Business Continuity
17 50 (3.67%) IT Strategy
18 48 (3.52%) Stakeholder Management
19 47 (3.45%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (3.96%) PowerShell
2 43 (3.15%) Python
3 29 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.25%) Bash
5 15 (1.10%) SQL
6 10 (0.73%) C#
7 6 (0.44%) C++
7 6 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.37%) Java
9 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.15%) C
10 2 (0.15%) R
10 2 (0.15%) XAML
11 1 (0.073%) Ada
11 1 (0.073%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.073%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.073%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.073%) Swift
Qualifications
1 483 (35.44%) Azure Certification
2 278 (20.40%) CompTIA Security+
3 259 (19.00%) CEH
4 247 (18.12%) CompTIA CySA+
5 61 (4.48%) Degree
6 41 (3.01%) CISSP
6 41 (3.01%) Network+ Certification
7 37 (2.71%) A+ Certification
8 36 (2.64%) Security Cleared
9 32 (2.35%) SC Cleared
10 27 (1.98%) CISM
11 25 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.17%) DBS Check
15 15 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.66%) CCNA
18 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 77 (5.65%) NIST
3 67 (4.92%) GDPR
4 26 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 22 (1.61%) GRC
6 13 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.51%) QA
8 5 (0.37%) NCSC
8 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.15%) SLA
11 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.073%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.073%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.073%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) Docker
6 7 (0.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.073%) Firmware
7 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.03%) Terraform
3 8 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (0.37%) SCCM
5 4 (0.29%) Grafana
6 3 (0.22%) cPanel
6 3 (0.22%) Plesk
6 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.073%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.073%) Nessus
8 1 (0.073%) QRadar
8 1 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 727 (53.34%) Microsoft
2 466 (34.19%) ForeScout
3 26 (1.91%) VMware
4 20 (1.47%) Apple
5 19 (1.39%) Cisco
5 19 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
6 14 (1.03%) Adobe
6 14 (1.03%) Veeam
7 13 (0.95%) Palo Alto
8 12 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 12 (0.88%) Tenable
9 6 (0.44%) Aruba
9 6 (0.44%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.44%) SonicWALL
10 5 (0.37%) Datto
10 5 (0.37%) HP
10 5 (0.37%) WatchGuard
11 4 (0.29%) Draytek
11 4 (0.29%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.29%) Tanium