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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +23 -3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,331 593 906
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.66% 7.25% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 7.76% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 692 264 697
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,763 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.53% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,025 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -9.30%

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 13,779 7,644 15,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.00% 93.47% 79.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,233 3,653 11,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £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 £83,750 £79,250
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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +34 623 £55,000 - 311
Yorkshire +12 555 £47,500 +43.94% 192
North East +30 153 £45,750 -29.62% 101
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 47 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.90%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.075%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.075%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 643 (48.31%) Azure
2 145 (10.89%) Microsoft 365
3 98 (7.36%) AWS
4 79 (5.94%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.18%) GitHub
6 26 (1.95%) GCP
6 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (1.88%) OneDrive
8 15 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 15 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 15 (1.13%) SaaS
9 14 (1.05%) Power Platform
10 12 (0.90%) Serverless
11 11 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (0.83%) Power Automate
12 10 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.53%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (0.53%) PaaS
14 6 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 83 (6.24%) Firewall
2 39 (2.93%) DNS
3 35 (2.63%) Internet
4 33 (2.48%) DHCP
5 30 (2.25%) Network Security
6 29 (2.18%) VPN
7 23 (1.73%) LAN
7 23 (1.73%) WAN
8 21 (1.58%) VLAN
9 17 (1.28%) Unified Communications
10 15 (1.13%) VoIP
11 9 (0.68%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.53%) NGFW
14 5 (0.38%) Broadband
14 5 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.23%) 4G
15 3 (0.23%) 5G
16 2 (0.15%) DKIM
16 2 (0.15%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.45%) Power BI
2 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.15%) GIS
2 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.075%) Big Data
3 1 (0.075%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.075%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.075%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.075%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.075%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.075%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.075%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (2.10%) Git
2 12 (0.90%) Snyk
3 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.23%) GitLab
4 3 (0.23%) JIRA
5 1 (0.075%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.075%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.075%) GDB
5 1 (0.075%) JMeter
5 1 (0.075%) Locust
5 1 (0.075%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.075%) WinDbg
General
1 604 (45.38%) Social Skills
2 66 (4.96%) Multimedia
3 56 (4.21%) Finance
4 43 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 38 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 34 (2.55%) Marketing
8 32 (2.40%) Law
9 20 (1.50%) Legal
10 19 (1.43%) Retail
11 18 (1.35%) Advertising
12 13 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.75%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.68%) Local Government
16 7 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.45%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.45%) Police
18 5 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 335 (25.17%) Analyst
2 305 (22.92%) Security Analyst
3 276 (20.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 250 (18.78%) Junior
5 246 (18.48%) Junior Analyst
6 241 (18.11%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.90%) Ethical Hacker
8 144 (10.82%) Senior
9 79 (5.94%) Trainee
10 73 (5.48%) Security Manager
11 71 (5.33%) Architect
12 70 (5.26%) Security Architect
13 69 (5.18%) Lead
14 64 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 57 (4.28%) IT Support
16 48 (3.61%) Sales Representative
17 43 (3.23%) IT Engineer
18 40 (3.01%) Security Engineer
19 39 (2.93%) IT Manager
19 39 (2.93%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.70%) HTML
2 32 (2.40%) CSS
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.45%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.38%) .NET
5 5 (0.38%) Node.js
5 5 (0.38%) React
5 5 (0.38%) REST
6 4 (0.30%) JSON
7 3 (0.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.23%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.23%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.23%) NestJS
8 2 (0.15%) boto
8 2 (0.15%) Flask
8 2 (0.15%) Jinja
8 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 273 (20.51%) Cyberattack
2 47 (3.53%) Driving Licence
3 42 (3.16%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (2.03%) Operational Technology
6 21 (1.58%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.05%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
8 14 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (0.53%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (0.45%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.38%) IoT
13 5 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.30%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.44%) Windows
2 65 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (0.90%) Linux
6 8 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.53%) Android
8 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (27.42%) Mentoring
2 264 (19.83%) Ethical Hacking
3 116 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 92 (6.91%) Incident Response
5 88 (6.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 84 (6.31%) AI
7 73 (5.48%) SIEM
8 69 (5.18%) Security Architecture
9 68 (5.11%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (4.51%) Decision-Making
11 58 (4.36%) Risk Management
12 54 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 53 (3.98%) Customer Service
14 51 (3.83%) Cloud Security
15 49 (3.68%) Information Security
16 48 (3.61%) Service Delivery
16 48 (3.61%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (3.46%) Business Continuity
18 45 (3.38%) Data Protection
18 45 (3.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (4.36%) Python
2 55 (4.13%) PowerShell
3 46 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 19 (1.43%) Bash
5 12 (0.90%) SQL
6 10 (0.75%) R
7 9 (0.68%) C#
8 5 (0.38%) C++
8 5 (0.38%) Java
8 5 (0.38%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.30%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.075%) Ada
10 1 (0.075%) C
10 1 (0.075%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.075%) Ladder Logic
10 1 (0.075%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.075%) Swift
10 1 (0.075%) XAML
Qualifications
1 502 (37.72%) Azure Certification
2 286 (21.49%) CompTIA Security+
3 268 (20.14%) CEH
4 247 (18.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 51 (3.83%) Network+ Certification
6 50 (3.76%) Degree
7 47 (3.53%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.46%) A+ Certification
9 38 (2.85%) CISSP
10 36 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (2.25%) Security Cleared
12 27 (2.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 26 (1.95%) SC Cleared
14 24 (1.80%) CISM
15 17 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.13%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 9 (0.68%) CCNA
19 9 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (5.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 69 (5.18%) NIST
4 63 (4.73%) GDPR
5 26 (1.95%) GRC
6 23 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 15 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.38%) QA
8 5 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.30%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.075%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.075%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.075%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.075%) PMO
12 1 (0.075%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 15 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.60%) Docker
6 6 (0.45%) vSphere
7 1 (0.075%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.05%) Terraform
3 8 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.30%) Grafana
4 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.30%) SCCM
5 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.15%) cPanel
6 2 (0.15%) Plesk
7 1 (0.075%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.075%) Nessus
7 1 (0.075%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.075%) QRadar
Vendors
1 722 (54.24%) Microsoft
2 466 (35.01%) ForeScout
3 22 (1.65%) Apple
4 19 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
5 18 (1.35%) VMware
6 17 (1.28%) Adobe
7 14 (1.05%) Cisco
8 12 (0.90%) Palo Alto
8 12 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 12 (0.90%) Tenable
9 10 (0.75%) Veeam
10 6 (0.45%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.30%) Aruba
11 4 (0.30%) Datto
11 4 (0.30%) Draytek
11 4 (0.30%) HP
11 4 (0.30%) Meraki
11 4 (0.30%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.30%) SonicWALL
11 4 (0.30%) WatchGuard