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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 36 36
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,376 642 869
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.67% 6.99% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 7.67% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 719 293 666
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £34,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £51,763 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -1.40% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -8.88%

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 14,496 8,375 14,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.28% 91.20% 79.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,851 4,112 11,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,525 £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 8 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 8 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 +29 646 £55,000 - 203
Yorkshire +12 566 £48,750 +30.00% 128
North East +30 164 £50,000 -23.08% 52
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 (3.78%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.15%) Apache
3 2 (0.15%) IIS
4 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.073%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (0.87%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 621 (45.13%) Azure
2 171 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (5.89%) Entra ID
4 79 (5.74%) AWS
5 29 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 27 (1.96%) OneDrive
7 26 (1.89%) GCP
8 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
9 19 (1.38%) SaaS
10 18 (1.31%) Power Platform
11 13 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (0.94%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.94%) Serverless
12 11 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
14 8 (0.58%) GitHub
15 7 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (0.51%) PaaS
16 6 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 89 (6.47%) Firewall
2 44 (3.20%) DNS
3 37 (2.69%) DHCP
4 32 (2.33%) Network Security
5 29 (2.11%) VPN
6 26 (1.89%) LAN
6 26 (1.89%) VLAN
6 26 (1.89%) WAN
7 21 (1.53%) Unified Communications
8 20 (1.45%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.45%) VoIP
9 14 (1.02%) Internet
10 13 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.51%) NGFW
12 5 (0.36%) Broadband
12 5 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.22%) 4G
13 3 (0.22%) DKIM
13 3 (0.22%) PBX
13 3 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.58%) Power BI
2 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.22%) MySQL
3 3 (0.22%) SQL Server
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 (0.87%) Snyk
2 9 (0.65%) 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
1 627 (45.57%) Social Skills
2 60 (4.36%) Finance
3 52 (3.78%) Public Sector
4 44 (3.20%) Telecoms
5 43 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (2.69%) Marketing
8 36 (2.62%) Multimedia
9 34 (2.47%) Law
10 23 (1.67%) Legal
11 22 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.45%) Advertising
13 19 (1.38%) Retail
14 12 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.80%) Local Government
15 11 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.44%) Police
17 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (24.78%) Analyst
2 309 (22.46%) Security Analyst
3 280 (20.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 252 (18.31%) Junior
5 246 (17.88%) Junior Analyst
6 241 (17.51%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.35%) Ethical Hacker
8 149 (10.83%) Senior
9 74 (5.38%) Security Manager
10 72 (5.23%) Lead
11 70 (5.09%) IT Support
12 68 (4.94%) Architect
13 64 (4.65%) Security Architect
14 60 (4.36%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 57 (4.14%) Consultant
15 57 (4.14%) Sales Representative
16 52 (3.78%) Security Consultant
17 51 (3.71%) Trainee
18 47 (3.42%) IT Engineer
19 43 (3.13%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.09%) HTML
2 11 (0.80%) CSS
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (0.51%) REST
4 6 (0.44%) .NET
4 6 (0.44%) React
4 6 (0.44%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.36%) JSON
5 5 (0.36%) 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%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.15%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 281 (20.42%) Cyberattack
2 53 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 51 (3.71%) Security Posture
4 42 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (1.60%) Operational Technology
7 21 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
10 14 (1.02%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.65%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.58%) 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
1 118 (8.58%) Windows
2 75 (5.45%) Windows Server
3 17 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (1.16%) Linux
5 15 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.51%) Android
8 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (25.07%) Mentoring
2 255 (18.53%) Ethical Hacking
3 128 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (6.98%) Incident Response
5 93 (6.76%) AI
6 92 (6.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 78 (5.67%) SIEM
8 76 (5.52%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (4.87%) Security Architecture
10 66 (4.80%) Risk Management
11 65 (4.72%) Decision-Making
12 63 (4.58%) Customer Service
13 57 (4.14%) Cloud Security
14 54 (3.92%) Service Delivery
15 53 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 51 (3.71%) Business Continuity
16 51 (3.71%) Information Security
17 49 (3.56%) IT Strategy
17 49 (3.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 48 (3.49%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (3.92%) PowerShell
2 42 (3.05%) Python
3 26 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 16 (1.16%) Bash
5 15 (1.09%) SQL
6 10 (0.73%) C#
7 7 (0.51%) C++
8 6 (0.44%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.36%) Java
10 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.22%) C
12 2 (0.15%) XAML
13 1 (0.073%) Ada
13 1 (0.073%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.073%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.073%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.073%) Swift
Qualifications
1 480 (34.88%) Azure Certification
2 277 (20.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 258 (18.75%) CEH
4 247 (17.95%) CompTIA CySA+
5 64 (4.65%) Degree
6 42 (3.05%) Security Cleared
7 41 (2.98%) CISSP
8 40 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
9 38 (2.76%) SC Cleared
10 36 (2.62%) A+ Certification
11 27 (1.96%) CISM
12 22 (1.60%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.16%) DBS Check
16 15 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.65%) CCNA
19 8 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
20 7 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.74%) NIST
3 77 (5.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 66 (4.80%) GDPR
5 26 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 21 (1.53%) GRC
7 13 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.51%) QA
9 5 (0.36%) NCSC
9 5 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
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%) HL7
12 1 (0.073%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.073%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.58%) Docker
6 7 (0.51%) vSphere
7 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.02%) Terraform
3 8 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (0.36%) SCCM
5 4 (0.29%) Grafana
6 3 (0.22%) cPanel
6 3 (0.22%) Plesk
6 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.15%) QRadar
7 2 (0.15%) WSUS
8 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.073%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.073%) Nessus
Vendors
1 730 (53.05%) Microsoft
2 466 (33.87%) ForeScout
3 28 (2.03%) VMware
4 20 (1.45%) Apple
4 20 (1.45%) Cisco
5 19 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
6 15 (1.09%) Veeam
7 14 (1.02%) Adobe
7 14 (1.02%) Palo Alto
8 12 (0.87%) ServiceNow
8 12 (0.87%) Tenable
9 7 (0.51%) Aruba
9 7 (0.51%) SonicWALL
10 6 (0.44%) HP
10 6 (0.44%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.36%) Datto
11 5 (0.36%) Tanium
11 5 (0.36%) WatchGuard
12 4 (0.29%) Draytek
12 4 (0.29%) OpenAI