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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +34 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,461 418 662
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 18.98% 5.40% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.64% 5.80% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 521 234 537
10th Percentile - £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,155 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £55,250 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.27% +4.25% -10.96%
75th Percentile £57,239 £74,144 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,125 £89,600
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -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 9,987 7,205 10,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 77.01% 93.15% 86.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,675 3,442 8,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +30 1,844 £40,000 -27.27% 155
Yorkshire +37 522 £30,500 -48.74% 92
North East +36 95 £30,500 -27.59% 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 23 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.37%) WordPress
4 5 (0.20%) Drupal
4 5 (0.20%) nginx
5 4 (0.16%) Confluence
6 2 (0.081%) Apache
6 2 (0.081%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.041%) FileNet
Applications
1 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,622 (65.91%) Cloud Computing
2 445 (18.08%) Azure
3 168 (6.83%) AWS
4 124 (5.04%) GitHub
5 83 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
6 65 (2.64%) Entra ID
7 22 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 18 (0.73%) SaaS
9 12 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.49%) Power Platform
10 11 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (0.33%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (0.28%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.24%) PaaS
13 6 (0.24%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.20%) OCI
15 4 (0.16%) dbt
16 3 (0.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1,738 (70.62%) Internet
2 57 (2.32%) Firewall
3 27 (1.10%) DNS
4 25 (1.02%) VPN
5 22 (0.89%) DHCP
6 20 (0.81%) VLAN
7 14 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.37%) Network Security
8 9 (0.37%) VoIP
9 8 (0.33%) LAN
9 8 (0.33%) WAN
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 (0.081%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.24%) Power BI
3 5 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.20%) MariaDB
4 4 (0.16%) Neo4j
5 3 (0.12%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.081%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.081%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.081%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.081%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.081%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.081%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.081%) Tableau
7 1 (0.041%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 119 (4.84%) Git
2 5 (0.20%) JIRA
3 2 (0.081%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.081%) JMeter
3 2 (0.081%) Locust
4 1 (0.041%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.041%) Snyk
General
1 1,964 (79.80%) Social Skills
2 1,648 (66.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,618 (65.75%) Banking
4 209 (8.49%) Multimedia
5 54 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (1.42%) Finance
7 26 (1.06%) Public Sector
8 17 (0.69%) Law
8 17 (0.69%) Legal
9 12 (0.49%) Telecoms
10 9 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.28%) Marketing
12 6 (0.24%) German Language
13 5 (0.20%) Avionics
13 5 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.20%) Local Government
13 5 (0.20%) Police
13 5 (0.20%) Retail
14 4 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,224 (49.74%) Lecturer
2 209 (8.49%) Trainee
3 179 (7.27%) Analyst
4 164 (6.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 164 (6.66%) Security Analyst
5 154 (6.26%) Junior
6 151 (6.14%) Junior Analyst
6 151 (6.14%) Junior Security Analyst
7 66 (2.68%) Senior
8 63 (2.56%) Developer
8 63 (2.56%) Software Developer
8 63 (2.56%) Trainee Developer
8 63 (2.56%) Trainee Software Developer
9 60 (2.44%) Ethical Hacker
10 57 (2.32%) Lead
11 37 (1.50%) IT Support
12 33 (1.34%) IT Manager
13 31 (1.26%) Architect
14 24 (0.98%) Security Engineer
14 24 (0.98%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (5.24%) HTML
2 125 (5.08%) CSS
3 8 (0.33%) .NET
4 7 (0.28%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.24%) Node.js
6 4 (0.16%) MERN Stack
6 4 (0.16%) React
7 3 (0.12%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.12%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.12%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.12%) CSS3
7 3 (0.12%) HTML5
7 3 (0.12%) NestJS
7 3 (0.12%) REST
7 3 (0.12%) Sass
8 2 (0.081%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.081%) Middleware
8 2 (0.081%) Pandas
9 1 (0.041%) OAuth
9 1 (0.041%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1,620 (65.83%) IoT
2 80 (3.25%) Cyberattack
3 28 (1.14%) Onboarding
4 23 (0.93%) Operational Technology
5 22 (0.89%) Driving Licence
6 21 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (0.69%) Management Information System
8 14 (0.57%) Blog
9 12 (0.49%) Cloud Native
10 11 (0.45%) Security Posture
11 10 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.37%) Product Ownership
12 9 (0.37%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.24%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (0.24%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (0.24%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.20%) LIMS
14 5 (0.20%) SCADA
15 4 (0.16%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.11%) Windows
2 30 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 12 (0.49%) Linux
4 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.16%) Android
7 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,652 (67.13%) AI
2 1,623 (65.95%) User Experience
3 1,619 (65.79%) Machine Learning
4 1,615 (65.62%) Web Development
5 381 (15.48%) Mentoring
6 151 (6.14%) Ethical Hacking
7 95 (3.86%) Line Management
8 89 (3.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (2.48%) Incident Response
11 49 (1.99%) Disaster Recovery
12 48 (1.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (1.71%) Data Protection
13 42 (1.71%) Risk Management
14 38 (1.54%) Service Delivery
14 38 (1.54%) SIEM
15 36 (1.46%) Project Management
15 36 (1.46%) Security Architecture
16 34 (1.38%) Decision-Making
17 32 (1.30%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 133 (5.40%) Python
2 131 (5.32%) JavaScript
3 56 (2.28%) R
4 26 (1.06%) SQL
5 20 (0.81%) PowerShell
6 9 (0.37%) Bash
7 7 (0.28%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.24%) Java
9 4 (0.16%) C
9 4 (0.16%) C#
10 3 (0.12%) Bicep
11 1 (0.041%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,676 (68.10%) Degree
2 1,622 (65.91%) Master's Degree
3 1,618 (65.75%) PhD
4 1,616 (65.66%) Postgraduate
5 338 (13.73%) Azure Certification
6 247 (10.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 156 (6.34%) CompTIA CySA+
8 153 (6.22%) CEH
9 139 (5.65%) AWS Certification
10 125 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 119 (4.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 94 (3.82%) Network+ Certification
13 91 (3.70%) A+ Certification
14 20 (0.81%) Security Cleared
15 18 (0.73%) CISSP
16 16 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (0.65%) PMP
17 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 15 (0.61%) SC Cleared
18 14 (0.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 57 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (1.79%) NIST
4 36 (1.46%) GDPR
5 20 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 20 (0.81%) GRC
6 8 (0.33%) SLA
7 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.20%) QA
9 4 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.16%) GLBA
9 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.12%) NCSC
10 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.081%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.081%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 43 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.57%) Docker
3 8 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.081%) vSphere
7 1 (0.041%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (0.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.33%) Terraform
3 3 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.081%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.081%) Grafana
5 1 (0.041%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.041%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 449 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 211 (8.57%) ForeScout
3 15 (0.61%) Apple
4 9 (0.37%) Adobe
5 6 (0.24%) Cisco
5 6 (0.24%) SonicWALL
6 5 (0.20%) Fortinet
6 5 (0.20%) iManage
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle
7 4 (0.16%) PayPal
7 4 (0.16%) Sage
7 4 (0.16%) VMware
8 3 (0.12%) Citrix
8 3 (0.12%) Sparx
8 3 (0.12%) Veeam
9 2 (0.081%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.081%) Datto
9 2 (0.081%) Spotify
9 2 (0.081%) WatchGuard
9 2 (0.081%) Xero