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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 37 35
Rank change year-on-year +22 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,359 616 898
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.72% 7.24% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.65% 7.79% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 708 273 694
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £51,763 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.84% +3.53% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -8.59%

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 14,088 7,907 15,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.67% 92.95% 79.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,509 3,760 11,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,988 £37,375
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 26 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 26 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 +33 639 £55,000 - 176
Yorkshire +14 561 £50,000 +51.52% 99
North East +31 159 £47,500 -26.92% 57
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 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.074%) Apache
3 1 (0.074%) Confluence
3 1 (0.074%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.15%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 632 (46.50%) Azure
2 162 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (6.40%) AWS
4 82 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 27 (1.99%) OneDrive
7 26 (1.91%) GCP
8 19 (1.40%) GitHub
8 19 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (1.40%) SaaS
9 17 (1.25%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (0.96%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.96%) Serverless
12 11 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
14 7 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.52%) PaaS
15 6 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 87 (6.40%) Firewall
2 43 (3.16%) DNS
3 36 (2.65%) DHCP
4 32 (2.35%) Network Security
5 29 (2.13%) VPN
6 25 (1.84%) Internet
6 25 (1.84%) LAN
6 25 (1.84%) WAN
7 24 (1.77%) VLAN
8 20 (1.47%) Unified Communications
9 18 (1.32%) VoIP
10 15 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.52%) NGFW
13 5 (0.37%) Broadband
13 5 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.22%) 5G
14 3 (0.22%) DKIM
14 3 (0.22%) DMARC
14 3 (0.22%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) Big Data
5 1 (0.074%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.074%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.074%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.074%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.074%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.074%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.074%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.074%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (1.47%) Git
2 12 (0.88%) Snyk
3 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.29%) JIRA
4 3 (0.22%) GitLab
5 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.074%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.074%) GDB
6 1 (0.074%) JMeter
6 1 (0.074%) Locust
6 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.074%) WinDbg
General
1 616 (45.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (4.19%) Finance
3 51 (3.75%) Multimedia
4 50 (3.68%) Public Sector
5 41 (3.02%) Telecoms
6 40 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (2.72%) Marketing
9 33 (2.43%) Law
10 23 (1.69%) Legal
11 20 (1.47%) Retail
12 19 (1.40%) Advertising
12 19 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.81%) Local Government
15 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.44%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.44%) Police
16 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 338 (24.87%) Analyst
2 308 (22.66%) Security Analyst
3 279 (20.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 251 (18.47%) Junior
5 246 (18.10%) Junior Analyst
6 241 (17.73%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.56%) Ethical Hacker
8 149 (10.96%) Senior
9 74 (5.45%) Security Manager
10 70 (5.15%) Lead
11 69 (5.08%) Architect
12 68 (5.00%) Security Architect
13 66 (4.86%) Trainee
14 65 (4.78%) IT Support
15 61 (4.49%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 50 (3.68%) Sales Representative
17 45 (3.31%) IT Engineer
18 41 (3.02%) IT Manager
19 40 (2.94%) Security Engineer
19 40 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.91%) HTML
2 22 (1.62%) CSS
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (0.52%) 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
1 275 (20.24%) Cyberattack
2 51 (3.75%) Driving Licence
3 47 (3.46%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (2.06%) Operational Technology
6 21 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 16 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
9 14 (1.03%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (0.66%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.52%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.52%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (0.52%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (0.44%) IoT
13 6 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 110 (8.09%) Windows
2 72 (5.30%) Windows Server
3 16 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (1.03%) Linux
4 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (26.12%) Mentoring
2 259 (19.06%) Ethical Hacking
3 128 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 95 (6.99%) Incident Response
5 93 (6.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 90 (6.62%) AI
7 76 (5.59%) SIEM
8 73 (5.37%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (5.00%) Security Architecture
10 64 (4.71%) Decision-Making
11 62 (4.56%) Risk Management
12 59 (4.34%) Customer Service
13 54 (3.97%) Cloud Security
13 54 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 54 (3.97%) Service Delivery
14 51 (3.75%) Information Security
15 50 (3.68%) Business Continuity
15 50 (3.68%) IT Strategy
16 48 (3.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (3.38%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 56 (4.12%) PowerShell
2 51 (3.75%) Python
3 37 (2.72%) JavaScript
4 18 (1.32%) Bash
5 16 (1.18%) SQL
6 10 (0.74%) C#
7 6 (0.44%) C++
7 6 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.37%) Java
8 5 (0.37%) R
9 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.15%) C
10 2 (0.15%) XAML
11 1 (0.074%) Ada
11 1 (0.074%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.074%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.074%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.074%) Swift
Qualifications
1 491 (36.13%) Azure Certification
2 281 (20.68%) CompTIA Security+
3 263 (19.35%) CEH
4 247 (18.18%) CompTIA CySA+
5 60 (4.42%) Degree
6 45 (3.31%) Network+ Certification
7 40 (2.94%) A+ Certification
7 40 (2.94%) CISSP
8 35 (2.58%) Security Cleared
9 33 (2.43%) AWS Certification
10 31 (2.28%) SC Cleared
11 28 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.91%) CISM
13 17 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 17 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.18%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.66%) CCNA
17 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (5.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 76 (5.59%) NIST
3 66 (4.86%) GDPR
4 25 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 23 (1.69%) GRC
6 14 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.52%) QA
8 5 (0.37%) NCSC
8 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.22%) SLA
10 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.074%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.074%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.074%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.074%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) Docker
6 7 (0.52%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.03%) Terraform
3 8 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.37%) SCCM
5 4 (0.29%) Grafana
5 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.22%) cPanel
6 3 (0.22%) Plesk
6 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.074%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.074%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.074%) Nessus
8 1 (0.074%) QRadar
8 1 (0.074%) WSUS
Vendors
1 730 (53.72%) Microsoft
2 466 (34.29%) ForeScout
3 25 (1.84%) VMware
4 19 (1.40%) Apple
4 19 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
5 18 (1.32%) Cisco
6 14 (1.03%) Adobe
7 13 (0.96%) Palo Alto
7 13 (0.96%) Veeam
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