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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 44 35
Rank change year-on-year +39 -9 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,339 502 848
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.41% 6.47% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.52% 6.81% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 636 285 689
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,760 £87,500
England median annual salary £59,490 £58,950 £59,526
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.97% -8.42%

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 13,354 7,376 13,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.83% 95.06% 82.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,797 3,713 11,147
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +47 1,495 £55,000 - 176
Yorkshire +37 697 £45,000 +5.88% 109
North East +35 147 £45,000 -30.77% 35
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 30 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 23 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.13%) Drupal
3 3 (0.13%) nginx
3 3 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (0.51%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (42.75%) Cloud Computing
2 728 (31.12%) Azure
3 126 (5.39%) AWS
4 108 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 55 (2.35%) GitHub
7 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (0.94%) GCP
9 17 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (0.56%) OneDrive
11 12 (0.51%) SaaS
11 12 (0.51%) Serverless
12 10 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (0.43%) Power Platform
13 9 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.26%) PaaS
15 6 (0.26%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,050 (44.89%) Internet
2 70 (2.99%) Firewall
3 33 (1.41%) DNS
4 30 (1.28%) Network Security
4 30 (1.28%) VPN
5 29 (1.24%) DHCP
6 20 (0.86%) VLAN
6 20 (0.86%) WAN
7 19 (0.81%) LAN
8 10 (0.43%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.30%) VoIP
10 6 (0.26%) DMZ
10 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.17%) Modbus
12 4 (0.17%) NGFW
13 3 (0.13%) 4G
13 3 (0.13%) 5G
13 3 (0.13%) Broadband
13 3 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (0.13%) MariaDB
2 3 (0.13%) Neo4j
3 2 (0.086%) Power BI
3 2 (0.086%) Tableau
4 1 (0.043%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.043%) Big Data
4 1 (0.043%) GIS
4 1 (0.043%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (2.22%) Git
2 12 (0.51%) Snyk
3 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.13%) GitLab
4 3 (0.13%) JIRA
5 1 (0.043%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.043%) GDB
5 1 (0.043%) JMeter
5 1 (0.043%) Locust
5 1 (0.043%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.043%) WinDbg
General
1 1,664 (71.14%) Social Skills
2 1,040 (44.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 993 (42.45%) Banking
4 103 (4.40%) Multimedia
5 55 (2.35%) Finance
6 41 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 29 (1.24%) Law
9 26 (1.11%) Marketing
9 26 (1.11%) Telecoms
10 17 (0.73%) Retail
11 14 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (0.56%) Legal
13 11 (0.47%) Advertising
14 9 (0.38%) Police
15 8 (0.34%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.34%) Local Government
15 8 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 728 (31.12%) Lecturer
2 397 (16.97%) Analyst
3 370 (15.82%) Security Analyst
4 344 (14.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 320 (13.68%) Junior
6 316 (13.51%) Junior Analyst
6 316 (13.51%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (9.62%) Ethical Hacker
8 148 (6.33%) Senior
9 110 (4.70%) Trainee
10 66 (2.82%) Security Manager
11 65 (2.78%) Architect
12 61 (2.61%) Lead
12 61 (2.61%) Security Architect
13 58 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 43 (1.84%) IT Support
14 43 (1.84%) Sales Representative
15 37 (1.58%) Security Engineer
16 32 (1.37%) IT Manager
16 32 (1.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.48%) HTML
2 57 (2.44%) CSS
3 7 (0.30%) React
4 6 (0.26%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.21%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.17%) .NET
6 4 (0.17%) Node.js
7 3 (0.13%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.13%) MERN Stack
7 3 (0.13%) NestJS
7 3 (0.13%) REST
8 2 (0.086%) Middleware
8 2 (0.086%) Spring
8 2 (0.086%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.086%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.086%) Vue
9 1 (0.043%) Ajax
9 1 (0.043%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 993 (42.45%) IoT
2 271 (11.59%) Cyberattack
3 41 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 40 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 30 (1.28%) Operational Technology
6 27 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (1.15%) Security Posture
7 21 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 20 (0.86%) Management Information System
9 15 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (0.56%) Cloud Native
11 12 (0.51%) Cyber Security Posture
11 12 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (0.38%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.34%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.30%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (0.26%) SCADA
16 5 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (2.74%) Windows
2 45 (1.92%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (0.38%) Linux
5 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.21%) Android
8 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,065 (45.53%) AI
2 999 (42.71%) User Experience
3 995 (42.54%) Machine Learning
4 992 (42.41%) Web Development
5 470 (20.09%) Mentoring
6 275 (11.76%) Ethical Hacking
7 101 (4.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (3.76%) Incident Response
9 74 (3.16%) Disaster Recovery
10 69 (2.95%) SIEM
11 66 (2.82%) Security Architecture
12 62 (2.65%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (2.31%) Line Management
14 53 (2.27%) Risk Management
15 52 (2.22%) Decision-Making
16 49 (2.09%) Information Security
16 49 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 44 (1.88%) Data Protection
18 43 (1.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (1.75%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (3.46%) Python
2 71 (3.04%) JavaScript
3 44 (1.88%) PowerShell
4 23 (0.98%) R
5 19 (0.81%) Bash
6 13 (0.56%) SQL
7 6 (0.26%) C#
7 6 (0.26%) Java
7 6 (0.26%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.17%) C++
8 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.13%) C
10 1 (0.043%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1,036 (44.29%) Degree
2 999 (42.71%) Master's Degree
3 993 (42.45%) PhD
4 990 (42.33%) Postgraduate
5 599 (25.61%) Azure Certification
6 374 (15.99%) CompTIA Security+
7 321 (13.72%) CompTIA CySA+
8 279 (11.93%) CEH
9 82 (3.51%) AWS Certification
10 62 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
11 61 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 55 (2.35%) A+ Certification
13 53 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 35 (1.50%) CISSP
15 31 (1.33%) Security Cleared
16 27 (1.15%) SC Cleared
17 26 (1.11%) CISM
18 17 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
19 15 (0.64%) DBS Check
20 14 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 67 (2.86%) NIST
4 52 (2.22%) GDPR
5 32 (1.37%) GRC
6 18 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 18 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.30%) SLA
7 7 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.13%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.13%) NCSC
9 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.13%) QA
10 2 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.086%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.086%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.043%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.043%) GxP
11 1 (0.043%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 54 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (0.51%) Docker
4 10 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.086%) Firmware
7 2 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.51%) Terraform
3 9 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.17%) Grafana
5 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.086%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.086%) SCCM
8 1 (0.043%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 776 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 541 (23.13%) ForeScout
3 26 (1.11%) Apple
4 21 (0.90%) Adobe
4 21 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
5 16 (0.68%) Cisco
6 13 (0.56%) Palo Alto
7 12 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 12 (0.51%) Tenable
8 11 (0.47%) VMware
9 6 (0.26%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.21%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.21%) Veeam
11 4 (0.17%) Draytek
11 4 (0.17%) HP
11 4 (0.17%) Meraki
11 4 (0.17%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.13%) Citrix
12 3 (0.13%) Sparx
12 3 (0.13%) Ubiquiti