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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +31 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,950 513 837
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 16.27% 7.23% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.33% 7.65% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 639 286 681
10th Percentile - £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,599 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,250 £51,321
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +1.81% -15.87%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,875 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 13,213 6,702 13,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 72.87% 94.39% 83.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,134 3,747 11,010
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,168 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +32 2,045 £49,950 -9.18% 380
Yorkshire +34 755 £41,500 -7.78% 120
North East +30 150 £41,208 +8.63% 37
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 (0.78%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.17%) Drupal
3 5 (0.17%) nginx
3 5 (0.17%) WordPress
4 1 (0.034%) Apache
4 1 (0.034%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.068%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.24%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,624 (55.05%) Cloud Computing
2 745 (25.25%) Azure
3 147 (4.98%) AWS
4 92 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
5 84 (2.85%) GitHub
6 67 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 26 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
9 15 (0.51%) GCP
9 15 (0.51%) SaaS
10 10 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (0.31%) Serverless
12 8 (0.27%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.20%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.20%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.20%) PaaS
14 5 (0.17%) IaaS
15 4 (0.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1,705 (57.80%) Internet
2 68 (2.31%) Firewall
3 30 (1.02%) DNS
4 27 (0.92%) Network Security
5 26 (0.88%) DHCP
6 25 (0.85%) VPN
7 19 (0.64%) LAN
7 19 (0.64%) VLAN
7 19 (0.64%) WAN
8 7 (0.24%) Unified Communications
8 7 (0.24%) VoIP
9 6 (0.20%) DMZ
10 5 (0.17%) Broadband
10 5 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.17%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.14%) Modbus
12 3 (0.10%) 4G
12 3 (0.10%) 5G
13 2 (0.068%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.068%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.17%) MariaDB
2 4 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.14%) Neo4j
2 4 (0.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.068%) Power BI
3 2 (0.068%) Tableau
4 1 (0.034%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.034%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.034%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.034%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.034%) Big Data
4 1 (0.034%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.034%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.034%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.034%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (2.64%) Git
2 8 (0.27%) Snyk
3 4 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.10%) JIRA
5 1 (0.034%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.034%) GDB
5 1 (0.034%) GitLab
5 1 (0.034%) JMeter
5 1 (0.034%) Locust
5 1 (0.034%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.034%) WinDbg
General
1 2,286 (77.49%) Social Skills
2 1,664 (56.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,615 (54.75%) Banking
4 147 (4.98%) Multimedia
5 48 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (1.59%) Finance
7 34 (1.15%) Public Sector
8 28 (0.95%) Law
9 27 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 19 (0.64%) Marketing
11 14 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (0.41%) Retail
13 11 (0.37%) Police
14 10 (0.34%) Legal
15 8 (0.27%) Local Government
15 8 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.24%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.20%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,224 (41.49%) Lecturer
2 384 (13.02%) Analyst
3 361 (12.24%) Security Analyst
4 337 (11.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 320 (10.85%) Junior
6 316 (10.71%) Junior Analyst
6 316 (10.71%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (7.63%) Ethical Hacker
8 150 (5.08%) Trainee
9 140 (4.75%) Senior
10 59 (2.00%) Security Manager
11 57 (1.93%) Lead
12 53 (1.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 52 (1.76%) Architect
14 48 (1.63%) Security Architect
15 45 (1.53%) Developer
15 45 (1.53%) IT Support
15 45 (1.53%) Trainee Developer
16 43 (1.46%) Software Developer
16 43 (1.46%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (2.85%) CSS
1 84 (2.85%) HTML
2 8 (0.27%) React
3 7 (0.24%) AngularJS
4 6 (0.20%) Regular Expression
5 4 (0.14%) .NET
5 4 (0.14%) MERN Stack
5 4 (0.14%) Node.js
6 3 (0.10%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.10%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.10%) NestJS
6 3 (0.10%) REST
7 2 (0.068%) Middleware
7 2 (0.068%) Spring
7 2 (0.068%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.068%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (0.068%) Vue
8 1 (0.034%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.034%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1,616 (54.78%) IoT
2 267 (9.05%) Cyberattack
3 41 (1.39%) Driving Licence
4 37 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 26 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (0.88%) Operational Technology
6 23 (0.78%) Security Posture
7 22 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 17 (0.58%) Data Centre
9 16 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.37%) Cloud Native
11 10 (0.34%) Blog
11 10 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.31%) Cyber Security Posture
12 9 (0.31%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.24%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.24%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.24%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (1.90%) Windows
2 42 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.31%) Linux
3 9 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.17%) Android
5 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,677 (56.85%) AI
2 1,623 (55.02%) User Experience
3 1,620 (54.92%) Machine Learning
4 1,617 (54.81%) Web Development
5 505 (17.12%) Mentoring
6 292 (9.90%) Ethical Hacking
7 97 (3.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (2.75%) Incident Response
9 72 (2.44%) Line Management
9 72 (2.44%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (2.34%) SIEM
11 63 (2.14%) Disaster Recovery
12 57 (1.93%) Security Architecture
13 52 (1.76%) Risk Management
14 47 (1.59%) Decision-Making
15 46 (1.56%) Information Security
16 45 (1.53%) Data Protection
16 45 (1.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 41 (1.39%) Stakeholder Management
18 39 (1.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 106 (3.59%) Python
2 95 (3.22%) JavaScript
3 35 (1.19%) R
4 32 (1.08%) PowerShell
5 16 (0.54%) SQL
6 15 (0.51%) Bash
7 7 (0.24%) Java
7 7 (0.24%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.14%) C
8 4 (0.14%) C#
8 4 (0.14%) C++
8 4 (0.14%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.068%) Bicep
10 1 (0.034%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1,663 (56.37%) Degree
2 1,624 (55.05%) Master's Degree
3 1,618 (54.85%) PhD
4 1,616 (54.78%) Postgraduate
5 625 (21.19%) Azure Certification
6 392 (13.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 321 (10.88%) CompTIA CySA+
8 297 (10.07%) CEH
9 105 (3.56%) AWS Certification
10 87 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 80 (2.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 79 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
13 72 (2.44%) A+ Certification
14 35 (1.19%) CISSP
15 32 (1.08%) Security Cleared
16 27 (0.92%) CISM
16 27 (0.92%) SC Cleared
17 18 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.54%) DBS Check
19 11 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 61 (2.07%) NIST
4 52 (1.76%) GDPR
5 31 (1.05%) GRC
6 18 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 18 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.24%) SLA
9 6 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.10%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.10%) NCSC
10 3 (0.10%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.10%) QA
11 2 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.068%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.068%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.068%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.034%) GxP
12 1 (0.034%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 48 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.51%) Docker
3 12 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.068%) Firmware
6 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.34%) Terraform
3 9 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.14%) Grafana
7 3 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.068%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.034%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 778 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 541 (18.34%) ForeScout
3 22 (0.75%) Apple
4 17 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
5 16 (0.54%) Adobe
6 15 (0.51%) Cisco
7 9 (0.31%) Palo Alto
7 9 (0.31%) VMware
8 8 (0.27%) Tenable
9 7 (0.24%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.20%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.17%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.17%) Meraki
12 4 (0.14%) Draytek
12 4 (0.14%) Ubiquiti
13 3 (0.10%) Citrix
13 3 (0.10%) Sparx
13 3 (0.10%) Veeam
14 2 (0.068%) HP
14 2 (0.068%) Red Hat