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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 40 38
Rank change year-on-year +36 -2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,527 393 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 18.33% 5.45% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.07% 5.74% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 523 262 611
10th Percentile - £25,331 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,716 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +1.85% -9.28%
75th Percentile £57,239 £74,786 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,042 £86,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £51,563 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.50% +4.17% -7.69%

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 10,499 6,842 12,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 76.17% 94.95% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,037 3,545 9,942
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,067
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 8 March 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 8 March 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 1,870 £42,500 -22.73% 134
Yorkshire +36 552 £31,000 -41.78% 104
North East +38 105 £30,500 -23.81% 34
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 23 (0.91%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.28%) WordPress
4 5 (0.20%) Drupal
4 5 (0.20%) nginx
5 4 (0.16%) Confluence
6 2 (0.079%) Apache
6 2 (0.079%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.040%) FileNet
Applications
1 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,621 (64.15%) Cloud Computing
2 493 (19.51%) Azure
3 155 (6.13%) AWS
4 114 (4.51%) GitHub
5 85 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 23 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (0.67%) SaaS
9 12 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (0.40%) Power Platform
11 9 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.28%) PaaS
13 5 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.20%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.20%) Power Automate
14 4 (0.16%) dbt
15 3 (0.12%) IaaS
15 3 (0.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1,730 (68.46%) Internet
2 59 (2.33%) Firewall
3 28 (1.11%) DNS
4 25 (0.99%) VPN
5 23 (0.91%) DHCP
6 21 (0.83%) VLAN
7 15 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.44%) LAN
8 11 (0.44%) Network Security
8 11 (0.44%) WAN
9 10 (0.40%) VoIP
10 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.24%) DMZ
12 5 (0.20%) Broadband
12 5 (0.20%) Modbus
13 4 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.16%) Wireless
14 3 (0.12%) 4G
14 3 (0.12%) 5G
15 2 (0.079%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.20%) MariaDB
3 4 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.16%) Neo4j
3 4 (0.16%) Power BI
4 3 (0.12%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.079%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.079%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.079%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (0.079%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.079%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.079%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.079%) Tableau
6 1 (0.040%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 109 (4.31%) Git
2 6 (0.24%) JIRA
3 2 (0.079%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.079%) JMeter
3 2 (0.079%) Locust
4 1 (0.040%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.040%) Snyk
General
1 2,022 (80.02%) Social Skills
2 1,648 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,618 (64.03%) Banking
4 194 (7.68%) Multimedia
5 54 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (1.35%) Finance
7 28 (1.11%) Public Sector
8 20 (0.79%) Law
9 17 (0.67%) Legal
10 13 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 9 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.28%) Local Government
13 7 (0.28%) Marketing
14 6 (0.24%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.20%) Avionics
15 5 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.20%) Police
15 5 (0.20%) Retail
16 4 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,224 (48.44%) Lecturer
2 211 (8.35%) Analyst
3 195 (7.72%) Security Analyst
4 194 (7.68%) Trainee
5 193 (7.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 184 (7.28%) Junior
7 181 (7.16%) Junior Analyst
7 181 (7.16%) Junior Security Analyst
8 90 (3.56%) Ethical Hacker
9 65 (2.57%) Senior
10 58 (2.30%) Developer
10 58 (2.30%) Software Developer
10 58 (2.30%) Trainee Developer
10 58 (2.30%) Trainee Software Developer
11 56 (2.22%) Lead
12 37 (1.46%) IT Support
13 33 (1.31%) IT Manager
14 30 (1.19%) Architect
15 26 (1.03%) Head of Security
15 26 (1.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (4.63%) HTML
2 115 (4.55%) CSS
3 7 (0.28%) .NET
3 7 (0.28%) AngularJS
4 6 (0.24%) Node.js
5 4 (0.16%) MERN Stack
5 4 (0.16%) React
6 3 (0.12%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.12%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.12%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.12%) CSS3
6 3 (0.12%) HTML5
6 3 (0.12%) NestJS
6 3 (0.12%) REST
6 3 (0.12%) Sass
7 2 (0.079%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.079%) Middleware
7 2 (0.079%) Pandas
8 1 (0.040%) OAuth
8 1 (0.040%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1,620 (64.11%) IoT
2 111 (4.39%) Cyberattack
3 26 (1.03%) Onboarding
4 25 (0.99%) Driving Licence
5 22 (0.87%) Operational Technology
6 21 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (0.71%) Management Information System
8 14 (0.55%) Blog
9 12 (0.47%) Security Posture
10 11 (0.44%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.36%) Product Ownership
11 9 (0.36%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.24%) Cyber Defence
12 6 (0.24%) SCADA
12 6 (0.24%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.20%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.20%) LIMS
14 4 (0.16%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.10%) Windows
2 32 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 12 (0.47%) Linux
4 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.20%) Android
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,654 (65.45%) AI
2 1,623 (64.23%) User Experience
3 1,618 (64.03%) Machine Learning
4 1,615 (63.91%) Web Development
5 395 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 176 (6.96%) Ethical Hacking
7 90 (3.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 90 (3.56%) Line Management
8 81 (3.21%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (2.49%) Incident Response
10 51 (2.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 45 (1.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 43 (1.70%) Risk Management
13 40 (1.58%) Data Protection
14 39 (1.54%) SIEM
15 38 (1.50%) Security Architecture
16 37 (1.46%) Project Management
17 35 (1.39%) Decision-Making
17 35 (1.39%) Information Security
17 35 (1.39%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 123 (4.87%) Python
2 122 (4.83%) JavaScript
3 51 (2.02%) R
4 26 (1.03%) SQL
5 21 (0.83%) PowerShell
6 9 (0.36%) Bash
7 7 (0.28%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.24%) Java
9 4 (0.16%) C
10 3 (0.12%) C#
11 2 (0.079%) Bicep
12 1 (0.040%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.040%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.040%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,678 (66.40%) Degree
2 1,623 (64.23%) Master's Degree
3 1,618 (64.03%) PhD
4 1,616 (63.95%) Postgraduate
5 388 (15.35%) Azure Certification
6 272 (10.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 186 (7.36%) CompTIA CySA+
8 178 (7.04%) CEH
9 129 (5.10%) AWS Certification
10 116 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 109 (4.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 90 (3.56%) Network+ Certification
13 85 (3.36%) A+ Certification
14 20 (0.79%) Security Cleared
15 18 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (0.71%) CISSP
16 17 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 16 (0.63%) PMP
18 15 (0.59%) SC Cleared
19 14 (0.55%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 58 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.78%) NIST
4 36 (1.42%) GDPR
5 21 (0.83%) GRC
6 19 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.32%) SLA
8 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.20%) QA
10 4 (0.16%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.12%) GLBA
11 3 (0.12%) NCSC
11 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.079%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.079%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.55%) Docker
3 9 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.079%) Firmware
6 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.28%) Terraform
3 4 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.079%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.079%) Grafana
5 1 (0.040%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.040%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 499 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 271 (10.72%) ForeScout
3 17 (0.67%) Apple
4 9 (0.36%) Adobe
5 7 (0.28%) Cisco
6 6 (0.24%) SonicWALL
7 5 (0.20%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.16%) iManage
8 4 (0.16%) PayPal
8 4 (0.16%) Sage
8 4 (0.16%) VMware
9 3 (0.12%) Citrix
9 3 (0.12%) Meraki
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle
9 3 (0.12%) Sparx
9 3 (0.12%) Splunk
9 3 (0.12%) Veeam
10 2 (0.079%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.079%) WatchGuard
10 2 (0.079%) Xero