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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,169 601 584
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.90% 6.43% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 7.35% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 746 235 309
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,950 £36,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -13.64% -5.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 16,873 8,174 10,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.74% 87.41% 78.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,547 4,065 5,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 September 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 22 September 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 +28 603 £59,250 +22.16% 380
Yorkshire +12 430 £44,000 +15.79% 220
North East +4 136 £50,000 -24.53% 88
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 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.60%) IIS
4 6 (0.51%) Apache
5 2 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.086%) Anypoint
Applications
1 20 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.086%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.34%) SystmOne
3 3 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 344 (29.43%) Azure
2 200 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (7.44%) AWS
4 74 (6.33%) Entra ID
5 31 (2.65%) OneDrive
6 29 (2.48%) GCP
7 26 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 25 (2.14%) SaaS
9 24 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
10 20 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (1.11%) Serverless
12 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (0.94%) Mimecast
12 11 (0.94%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.77%) Copilot Studio
14 8 (0.68%) NetDocuments
15 7 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.60%) IaaS
16 5 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (0.34%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.56%) Firewall
2 53 (4.53%) DNS
3 43 (3.68%) DHCP
4 37 (3.17%) Network Security
5 35 (2.99%) VPN
6 34 (2.91%) TCP/IP
7 29 (2.48%) WAN
8 26 (2.22%) VoIP
9 25 (2.14%) LAN
10 24 (2.05%) Unified Communications
11 22 (1.88%) VLAN
12 18 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (1.37%) Internet
14 10 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.60%) NGFW
15 7 (0.60%) Wireless
16 5 (0.43%) SSL
17 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
17 4 (0.34%) SNMP
18 3 (0.26%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.20%) Power BI
2 11 (0.94%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.60%) MySQL
5 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.17%) Big Data
7 2 (0.17%) GIS
7 2 (0.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.086%) Chroma
8 1 (0.086%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.086%) Db2
8 1 (0.086%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.086%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.086%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.086%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (1.03%) Snyk
2 6 (0.51%) Git
3 4 (0.34%) GitLab
3 4 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.26%) JIRA
5 2 (0.17%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.086%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.086%) JMeter
6 1 (0.086%) Locust
General
1 378 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 73 (6.24%) Finance
3 69 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (4.79%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.19%) Telecoms
6 38 (3.25%) Marketing
7 37 (3.17%) Legal
8 36 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
10 31 (2.65%) Retail
11 26 (2.22%) Law
12 21 (1.80%) Advertising
12 21 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.28%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.68%) Local Government
15 7 (0.60%) Banking
15 7 (0.60%) Police
16 6 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.43%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (18.91%) Analyst
2 172 (14.71%) Security Analyst
3 158 (13.52%) Senior
4 148 (12.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 110 (9.41%) Junior
6 104 (8.90%) Consultant
7 99 (8.47%) Junior Analyst
8 94 (8.04%) Junior Security Analyst
9 90 (7.70%) Ethical Hacker
10 87 (7.44%) Security Consultant
11 80 (6.84%) Security Manager
12 79 (6.76%) IT Support
13 75 (6.42%) Architect
14 67 (5.73%) Sales Representative
14 67 (5.73%) Security Architect
15 65 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 60 (5.13%) Lead
17 59 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 46 (3.93%) IT Engineer
19 45 (3.85%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.03%) Terraform
2 8 (0.68%) JSON
3 7 (0.60%) HTML
3 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.51%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.43%) .NET
5 5 (0.43%) REST
6 4 (0.34%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.34%) React
6 4 (0.34%) SAML
7 3 (0.26%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.26%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.26%) CSS
7 3 (0.26%) FHIR
7 3 (0.26%) LDAP
7 3 (0.26%) pgvector
7 3 (0.26%) PostGIS
7 3 (0.26%) Vue
8 2 (0.17%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.86%) Cyberattack
2 67 (5.73%) Security Posture
3 55 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 52 (4.45%) Driving Licence
5 41 (3.51%) Operational Technology
6 37 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
7 28 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.28%) Cyber Security Posture
9 12 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
13 8 (0.68%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.68%) SCADA
14 7 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (0.60%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 155 (13.26%) Windows
2 85 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 27 (2.31%) Linux
4 17 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.26%) VMS
11 2 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (14.46%) Mentoring
2 127 (10.86%) AI
2 127 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 100 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (7.87%) Disaster Recovery
5 90 (7.70%) Ethical Hacking
5 90 (7.70%) Incident Response
6 83 (7.10%) SIEM
7 76 (6.50%) Customer Service
8 71 (6.07%) Risk Management
9 70 (5.99%) Information Security
10 66 (5.65%) Vulnerability Management
11 65 (5.56%) Cloud Security
11 65 (5.56%) IT Strategy
12 64 (5.47%) ITIL
13 63 (5.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 61 (5.22%) Decision-Making
15 55 (4.70%) Service Delivery
16 54 (4.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 53 (4.53%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (4.19%) PowerShell
2 34 (2.91%) Python
3 20 (1.71%) SQL
4 12 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 11 (0.94%) Bash
5 11 (0.94%) C#
6 5 (0.43%) C++
6 5 (0.43%) Java
7 4 (0.34%) XAML
8 3 (0.26%) C
9 2 (0.17%) Go
9 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.17%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.17%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.086%) Ada
10 1 (0.086%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.086%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.086%) Swift
10 1 (0.086%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 192 (16.42%) Azure Certification
2 105 (8.98%) CompTIA Security+
3 102 (8.73%) CompTIA CySA+
4 93 (7.96%) CEH
5 76 (6.50%) Degree
6 69 (5.90%) Security Cleared
7 60 (5.13%) SC Cleared
8 43 (3.68%) CISSP
9 33 (2.82%) CISM
10 19 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.94%) A+ Certification
14 11 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (0.86%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.77%) CREST Certified
17 8 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (6.50%) NIST
3 68 (5.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 53 (4.53%) GDPR
5 34 (2.91%) GRC
6 31 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (1.45%) QA
8 15 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.68%) NCSC
10 7 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.43%) SLA
12 4 (0.34%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.34%) PMO
13 3 (0.26%) HL7
13 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.086%) JSP 440
System Software
1 83 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 18 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.86%) Docker
6 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (6.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.60%) SCCM
4 6 (0.51%) WSUS
5 5 (0.43%) Nessus
6 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.34%) Grafana
6 4 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 3 (0.26%) cPanel
7 3 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.17%) Ansible
8 2 (0.17%) Podman
8 2 (0.17%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.17%) QRadar
9 1 (0.086%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.086%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 479 (40.98%) Microsoft
2 180 (15.40%) ForeScout
3 33 (2.82%) VMware
4 24 (2.05%) Palo Alto
5 23 (1.97%) Cisco
6 18 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
6 18 (1.54%) Veeam
7 16 (1.37%) Apple
8 14 (1.20%) Adobe
8 14 (1.20%) Tenable
9 13 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.03%) SonicWALL
11 11 (0.94%) Aruba
12 10 (0.86%) HP
13 8 (0.68%) Tanium
14 6 (0.51%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.51%) Dell
14 6 (0.51%) NetApp
14 6 (0.51%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.43%) Splunk