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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 45 40
Rank change year-on-year +38 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,134 516 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 11.99% 4.24% 6.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.21% 5.08% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 369 264 345
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £26,350
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £85,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 7,983 10,159 6,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.41% 83.41% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 4,815 5,196
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +33 811 £42,500 -22.73% 187
Yorkshire +17 268 £30,500 -46.21% 85
North East +35 55 £30,500 -36.00% 30
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 14 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.79%) WordPress
3 6 (0.53%) CMS
3 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.44%) Confluence
5 4 (0.35%) Drupal
5 4 (0.35%) nginx
6 3 (0.26%) Apache
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.088%) FileNet
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.53%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.088%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 630 (55.56%) Cloud Computing
2 194 (17.11%) Azure
3 108 (9.52%) AWS
4 83 (7.32%) GitHub
5 66 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 19 (1.68%) SaaS
8 14 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.71%) IaaS
11 7 (0.62%) PaaS
12 6 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.53%) dbt
12 6 (0.53%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.44%) OCI
13 5 (0.44%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (0.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 706 (62.26%) Internet
2 31 (2.73%) Firewall
3 26 (2.29%) VPN
4 25 (2.20%) VoIP
5 24 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.76%) DNS
7 18 (1.59%) VLAN
8 13 (1.15%) Network Security
8 13 (1.15%) Wireless
9 12 (1.06%) LAN
9 12 (1.06%) WAN
10 11 (0.97%) DHCP
11 9 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.62%) DMZ
12 7 (0.62%) Modbus
13 5 (0.44%) STUN
14 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
15 2 (0.18%) Broadband
15 2 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.41%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.88%) Power BI
3 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.35%) MariaDB
4 4 (0.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.26%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.26%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.18%) MySQL
6 2 (0.18%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.088%) GIS
7 1 (0.088%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 78 (6.88%) Git
2 6 (0.53%) JIRA
3 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.18%) JMeter
3 2 (0.18%) Locust
4 1 (0.088%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.088%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.088%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.088%) Snyk
General
1 799 (70.46%) Social Skills
2 656 (57.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 629 (55.47%) Banking
4 122 (10.76%) Multimedia
5 51 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.00%) Finance
7 27 (2.38%) Legal
8 20 (1.76%) Telecoms
9 18 (1.59%) Law
9 18 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 11 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 10 (0.88%) Marketing
12 9 (0.79%) German Language
13 8 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.44%) Local Government
15 5 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.35%) Billing
16 4 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 496 (43.74%) Lecturer
2 122 (10.76%) Trainee
3 53 (4.67%) Analyst
4 45 (3.97%) Senior
5 44 (3.88%) Developer
6 42 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 41 (3.62%) Security Analyst
7 41 (3.62%) Software Developer
7 41 (3.62%) Trainee Developer
7 41 (3.62%) Trainee Software Developer
8 33 (2.91%) Lead
9 31 (2.73%) IT Manager
10 30 (2.65%) Junior
10 30 (2.65%) Junior Analyst
10 30 (2.65%) Junior Security Analyst
11 25 (2.20%) Architect
12 23 (2.03%) IT Support
12 23 (2.03%) Support Engineer
13 18 (1.59%) PLC Engineer
14 16 (1.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (7.50%) HTML
2 80 (7.05%) CSS
3 8 (0.71%) .NET
4 5 (0.44%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.44%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.35%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.35%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.26%) CSS3
6 3 (0.26%) HTML5
6 3 (0.26%) Node.js
6 3 (0.26%) Pandas
6 3 (0.26%) Sass
7 2 (0.18%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.18%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.18%) MERN Stack
7 2 (0.18%) Node-RED
7 2 (0.18%) React
7 2 (0.18%) YAML
8 1 (0.088%) JWT
8 1 (0.088%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 631 (55.64%) IoT
2 26 (2.29%) Cyberattack
3 23 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
4 20 (1.76%) Operational Technology
5 15 (1.32%) Security Posture
6 14 (1.23%) Blog
6 14 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.06%) Driving Licence
9 11 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 11 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.88%) SCADA
11 8 (0.71%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.71%) LIMS
11 8 (0.71%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.94%) Windows
2 30 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 28 (2.47%) Linux
4 8 (0.71%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.44%) Debian
6 2 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.088%) VMS
7 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (58.47%) AI
2 631 (55.64%) User Experience
3 626 (55.20%) Machine Learning
3 626 (55.20%) Web Development
4 166 (14.64%) Mentoring
5 92 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (5.03%) Line Management
7 47 (4.14%) Ethical Hacking
8 39 (3.44%) Information Security
9 36 (3.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (3.00%) Project Delivery
11 33 (2.91%) Project Management
12 32 (2.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (2.56%) Software Engineering
14 28 (2.47%) Computer Science
14 28 (2.47%) DevOps
15 27 (2.38%) Incident Response
15 27 (2.38%) IT Strategy
16 25 (2.20%) Customer Engagement
16 25 (2.20%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (8.38%) Python
2 82 (7.23%) JavaScript
3 35 (3.09%) R
4 27 (2.38%) SQL
5 10 (0.88%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.62%) C#
7 6 (0.53%) Java
8 5 (0.44%) Bash
9 4 (0.35%) Bicep
10 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.18%) C
11 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 692 (61.02%) Degree
2 628 (55.38%) Master's Degree
3 626 (55.20%) Postgraduate
4 625 (55.11%) PhD
5 113 (9.96%) Azure Certification
6 86 (7.58%) AWS Certification
7 83 (7.32%) CompTIA Security+
8 81 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 76 (6.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 51 (4.50%) A+ Certification
11 49 (4.32%) CEH
12 46 (4.06%) Network+ Certification
13 33 (2.91%) CompTIA CySA+
13 33 (2.91%) HND
14 22 (1.94%) Security Cleared
15 19 (1.68%) CISSP
16 17 (1.50%) PMP
17 15 (1.32%) SC Cleared
18 13 (1.15%) DBS Check
18 13 (1.15%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 20 (1.76%) NIST
4 18 (1.59%) GDPR
5 15 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (1.06%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.97%) GRC
8 6 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.53%) QA
9 5 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.44%) GLBA
10 4 (0.35%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.35%) NCSC
11 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.26%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.26%) SLA
11 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.18%) COBIT
12 2 (0.18%) PMO
12 2 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.23%) Hyper-V
3 13 (1.15%) Docker
4 5 (0.44%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.53%) Terraform
3 4 (0.35%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.18%) Grafana
4 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.088%) Nessus
5 1 (0.088%) Nmap
5 1 (0.088%) QRadar
5 1 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 207 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.65%) ForeScout
3 21 (1.85%) Apple
4 18 (1.59%) Sage
5 12 (1.06%) Palo Alto
6 11 (0.97%) Adobe
7 9 (0.79%) SonicWALL
8 7 (0.62%) Cisco
8 7 (0.62%) Oracle
9 6 (0.53%) iManage
9 6 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.44%) Qualys
11 4 (0.35%) PayPal
11 4 (0.35%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.35%) Splunk
11 4 (0.35%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (0.26%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.26%) Sophos
12 3 (0.26%) Veeam