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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 49 38
Rank change year-on-year +44 -11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,330 502 844
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.26% 6.36% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.33% 6.70% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 641 286 687
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,900 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,700 £87,500
England median annual salary £59,500 £58,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.71% -1.72% -8.42%

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 13,447 7,496 14,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.75% 95.04% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,910 3,754 11,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,350 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +47 1,497 £55,000 - 178
Yorkshire +40 686 £45,000 +5.88% 113
North East +38 147 £45,000 -30.77% 31
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 31 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.086%) Drupal
3 2 (0.086%) nginx
3 2 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.52%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (42.92%) Cloud Computing
2 713 (30.60%) Azure
3 125 (5.36%) AWS
4 110 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (3.00%) Entra ID
6 55 (2.36%) GitHub
7 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (0.94%) GCP
9 17 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (0.60%) OneDrive
11 12 (0.52%) SaaS
11 12 (0.52%) Serverless
12 10 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (0.43%) Power Platform
13 9 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.26%) PaaS
15 6 (0.26%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,050 (45.06%) Internet
2 71 (3.05%) Firewall
3 34 (1.46%) DNS
4 30 (1.29%) DHCP
4 30 (1.29%) Network Security
4 30 (1.29%) VPN
5 20 (0.86%) VLAN
5 20 (0.86%) WAN
6 19 (0.82%) LAN
7 11 (0.47%) Unified Communications
8 7 (0.30%) VoIP
9 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.21%) DMZ
10 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.21%) NGFW
11 3 (0.13%) 4G
11 3 (0.13%) 5G
11 3 (0.13%) Broadband
11 3 (0.13%) Modbus
11 3 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (0.13%) Neo4j
3 2 (0.086%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.086%) Power BI
3 2 (0.086%) Tableau
4 1 (0.043%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.043%) Big Data
4 1 (0.043%) GIS
4 1 (0.043%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (2.23%) Git
2 12 (0.52%) Snyk
3 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.13%) GitLab
4 3 (0.13%) JIRA
5 1 (0.043%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.043%) GDB
5 1 (0.043%) JMeter
5 1 (0.043%) Locust
5 1 (0.043%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.043%) WinDbg
General
1 1,646 (70.64%) Social Skills
2 1,040 (44.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 993 (42.62%) Banking
4 103 (4.42%) Multimedia
5 56 (2.40%) Finance
6 41 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (1.42%) Public Sector
8 29 (1.24%) Law
9 27 (1.16%) Marketing
10 26 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 17 (0.73%) Retail
12 14 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.56%) Legal
14 11 (0.47%) Advertising
15 8 (0.34%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.34%) Local Government
15 8 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.34%) Police
16 7 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 728 (31.24%) Lecturer
2 382 (16.39%) Analyst
3 356 (15.28%) Security Analyst
4 329 (14.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 305 (13.09%) Junior
6 301 (12.92%) Junior Analyst
6 301 (12.92%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (9.66%) Ethical Hacker
8 149 (6.39%) Senior
9 110 (4.72%) Trainee
10 68 (2.92%) Security Manager
11 67 (2.88%) Architect
12 63 (2.70%) Lead
12 63 (2.70%) Security Architect
13 59 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 44 (1.89%) Sales Representative
15 43 (1.85%) IT Support
16 36 (1.55%) Security Engineer
17 33 (1.42%) Cybersecurity Architect
18 32 (1.37%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.49%) HTML
2 57 (2.45%) CSS
3 7 (0.30%) React
4 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.26%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.21%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.17%) .NET
6 4 (0.17%) Node.js
7 3 (0.13%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.13%) MERN Stack
7 3 (0.13%) NestJS
7 3 (0.13%) REST
8 2 (0.086%) Middleware
8 2 (0.086%) Spring
8 2 (0.086%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.086%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.086%) Vue
9 1 (0.043%) Ajax
9 1 (0.043%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 994 (42.66%) IoT
2 271 (11.63%) Cyberattack
3 40 (1.72%) Driving Licence
3 40 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 28 (1.20%) Operational Technology
4 28 (1.20%) Security Posture
5 27 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 20 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 15 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (0.56%) Cloud Native
9 13 (0.56%) Cyber Security Posture
10 12 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (0.39%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.34%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.30%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 66 (2.83%) Windows
2 46 (1.97%) Windows Server
3 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (0.39%) Linux
5 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.21%) Android
8 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,066 (45.75%) AI
2 999 (42.88%) User Experience
3 995 (42.70%) Machine Learning
4 992 (42.58%) Web Development
5 455 (19.53%) Mentoring
6 275 (11.80%) Ethical Hacking
7 101 (4.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (3.73%) Incident Response
9 75 (3.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 68 (2.92%) SIEM
11 66 (2.83%) Security Architecture
12 60 (2.58%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (2.32%) Line Management
14 52 (2.23%) Decision-Making
14 52 (2.23%) Risk Management
15 50 (2.15%) Information Security
16 49 (2.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 44 (1.89%) Data Protection
18 43 (1.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (1.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (3.48%) Python
2 71 (3.05%) JavaScript
3 46 (1.97%) PowerShell
4 23 (0.99%) R
5 19 (0.82%) Bash
6 13 (0.56%) SQL
7 6 (0.26%) C#
7 6 (0.26%) Java
7 6 (0.26%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.17%) C++
8 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.13%) C
10 1 (0.043%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1,036 (44.46%) Degree
2 999 (42.88%) Master's Degree
3 993 (42.62%) PhD
4 990 (42.49%) Postgraduate
5 584 (25.06%) Azure Certification
6 359 (15.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 306 (13.13%) CompTIA CySA+
8 279 (11.97%) CEH
9 81 (3.48%) AWS Certification
10 62 (2.66%) Network+ Certification
11 61 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 55 (2.36%) A+ Certification
13 53 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 35 (1.50%) CISSP
15 30 (1.29%) Security Cleared
16 26 (1.12%) CISM
16 26 (1.12%) SC Cleared
17 17 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 67 (2.88%) NIST
3 52 (2.23%) GDPR
4 32 (1.37%) GRC
5 18 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 17 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.30%) SLA
7 7 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.13%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.13%) NCSC
8 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.13%) QA
9 2 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.086%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.086%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.043%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.043%) GxP
10 1 (0.043%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 56 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.47%) Docker
4 10 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.086%) Firmware
7 2 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.52%) Terraform
3 9 (0.39%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.17%) Grafana
5 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.13%) SCCM
7 2 (0.086%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.043%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 765 (32.83%) Microsoft
2 526 (22.58%) ForeScout
3 26 (1.12%) Apple
4 21 (0.90%) Adobe
5 20 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
6 15 (0.64%) Cisco
7 12 (0.52%) Palo Alto
7 12 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 12 (0.52%) Tenable
7 12 (0.52%) VMware
8 6 (0.26%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.21%) Veeam
10 4 (0.17%) Draytek
10 4 (0.17%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.17%) HP
10 4 (0.17%) Meraki
10 4 (0.17%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.13%) Aruba
11 3 (0.13%) Citrix
11 3 (0.13%) Sparx