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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 37 34
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,363 642 823
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.54% 6.82% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.33% 7.55% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 726 293 629
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £34,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,100 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -7.07%

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 14,608 8,501 14,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.12% 90.26% 79.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,963 4,212 10,327
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £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 17 July 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 July 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 +28 641 £55,000 - 167
Yorkshire +13 556 £47,500 +43.94% 111
North East +20 166 £50,000 -27.94% 36
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 49 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.22%) Apache
3 3 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.073%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 607 (44.53%) Azure
2 174 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (5.87%) AWS
4 77 (5.65%) Entra ID
5 27 (1.98%) OneDrive
6 26 (1.91%) GCP
7 24 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 20 (1.47%) SaaS
9 18 (1.32%) Power Platform
10 13 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 13 (0.95%) Serverless
11 11 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.51%) IaaS
13 7 (0.51%) PaaS
14 6 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.87%) Firewall
2 42 (3.08%) DNS
3 35 (2.57%) DHCP
4 32 (2.35%) Network Security
5 26 (1.91%) VPN
6 25 (1.83%) WAN
7 24 (1.76%) LAN
8 23 (1.69%) VLAN
9 21 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.54%) Unified Communications
10 20 (1.47%) VoIP
11 14 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.88%) Internet
13 7 (0.51%) NGFW
14 5 (0.37%) Broadband
14 5 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.22%) 4G
15 3 (0.22%) 5G
15 3 (0.22%) PBX
15 3 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.59%) Power BI
2 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (0.29%) MySQL
2 4 (0.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.15%) GIS
4 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.073%) Big Data
5 1 (0.073%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.073%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.073%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.073%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.073%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.073%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.073%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.073%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Snyk
2 7 (0.51%) Git
3 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.22%) GitLab
4 3 (0.22%) JIRA
5 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.073%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.073%) GDB
6 1 (0.073%) JMeter
6 1 (0.073%) Locust
6 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.073%) WinDbg
General
1 612 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 58 (4.26%) Finance
3 51 (3.74%) Public Sector
4 47 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (3.30%) Telecoms
6 37 (2.71%) Marketing
7 34 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (2.49%) Law
7 34 (2.49%) Multimedia
8 25 (1.83%) Legal
9 23 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.47%) Advertising
11 19 (1.39%) Retail
12 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.81%) Local Government
14 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.44%) Police
16 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 328 (24.06%) Analyst
2 295 (21.64%) Security Analyst
3 266 (19.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 240 (17.61%) Junior
5 231 (16.95%) Junior Analyst
6 226 (16.58%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.51%) Ethical Hacker
8 151 (11.08%) Senior
9 74 (5.43%) Security Manager
10 70 (5.14%) IT Support
11 68 (4.99%) Architect
12 65 (4.77%) Consultant
13 64 (4.70%) Lead
14 62 (4.55%) Sales Representative
15 61 (4.48%) Security Architect
16 59 (4.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 57 (4.18%) Security Consultant
18 49 (3.60%) Trainee
19 45 (3.30%) IT Manager
20 44 (3.23%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.95%) HTML
2 9 (0.66%) CSS
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.44%) .NET
4 6 (0.44%) React
4 6 (0.44%) Regular Expression
4 6 (0.44%) REST
5 5 (0.37%) JSON
6 4 (0.29%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.29%) Node.js
7 3 (0.22%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.22%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.22%) Vue
8 2 (0.15%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.15%) boto
8 2 (0.15%) FHIR
8 2 (0.15%) NestJS
8 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 286 (20.98%) Cyberattack
2 54 (3.96%) Security Posture
3 53 (3.89%) Driving Licence
4 41 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 23 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.32%) Operational Technology
8 16 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.10%) Cyber Security Posture
9 15 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
10 13 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 12 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.66%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (0.51%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.51%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (0.44%) IoT
15 6 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 119 (8.73%) Windows
2 74 (5.43%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.25%) Linux
4 15 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.51%) Android
8 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (24.21%) Mentoring
2 255 (18.71%) Ethical Hacking
3 126 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (7.04%) AI
5 91 (6.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 91 (6.68%) Incident Response
6 78 (5.72%) SIEM
7 77 (5.65%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (4.70%) Customer Service
9 62 (4.55%) Decision-Making
9 62 (4.55%) Risk Management
9 62 (4.55%) Security Architecture
10 57 (4.18%) Cloud Security
11 54 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 53 (3.89%) Service Delivery
13 51 (3.74%) IT Strategy
14 50 (3.67%) Information Security
15 49 (3.60%) Vulnerability Management
16 47 (3.45%) Business Continuity
17 45 (3.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (3.96%) PowerShell
2 40 (2.93%) Python
3 23 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 16 (1.17%) Bash
5 15 (1.10%) SQL
6 10 (0.73%) C#
7 7 (0.51%) C++
8 5 (0.37%) Java
8 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.22%) C
11 2 (0.15%) XAML
12 1 (0.073%) Ada
12 1 (0.073%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.073%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.073%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.073%) Swift
Qualifications
1 464 (34.04%) Azure Certification
2 263 (19.30%) CompTIA Security+
3 257 (18.86%) CEH
4 233 (17.09%) CompTIA CySA+
5 66 (4.84%) Degree
6 43 (3.15%) Security Cleared
7 41 (3.01%) CISSP
8 40 (2.93%) Network+ Certification
8 40 (2.93%) SC Cleared
9 37 (2.71%) A+ Certification
10 27 (1.98%) CISM
11 20 (1.47%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.17%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.66%) CCNA
16 8 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (5.58%) NIST
3 74 (5.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 61 (4.48%) GDPR
5 26 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 23 (1.69%) GRC
7 13 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.59%) QA
9 5 (0.37%) NCSC
9 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) HL7
11 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.15%) SLA
12 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.073%) GxP
12 1 (0.073%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.073%) PMO
12 1 (0.073%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) Docker
6 5 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.95%) Terraform
3 9 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.59%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.37%) SCCM
6 4 (0.29%) Grafana
7 3 (0.22%) cPanel
7 3 (0.22%) Plesk
7 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.22%) WSUS
8 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.15%) QRadar
9 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.073%) Nessus
Vendors
1 716 (52.53%) Microsoft
2 451 (33.09%) ForeScout
3 28 (2.05%) VMware
4 21 (1.54%) Cisco
5 20 (1.47%) Apple
6 19 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.17%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.03%) Adobe
8 14 (1.03%) Veeam
9 12 (0.88%) ServiceNow
9 12 (0.88%) Tenable
10 8 (0.59%) Aruba
11 7 (0.51%) HP
11 7 (0.51%) Tanium
12 6 (0.44%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.44%) SonicWALL
13 5 (0.37%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.29%) Draytek
14 4 (0.29%) Meraki
14 4 (0.29%) Red Hat