Cybersecurity Jobs in the North of England

Cybersecurity
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 34 33
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 701 889 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.31% 4.73% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 5.90% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 341 687 516
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £40,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,084 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -13.19% +3.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.73% -3.08%

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 11,530 15,073 13,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.39% 80.12% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,778 10,813 7,705
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +9.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 -31 367 £52,500 -4.55% 296
Yorkshire +17 311 £47,683 -4.63% 195
North East -13 23 £67,192 +49.32% 60
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.28%) CMS
2 9 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.43%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.43%) Confluence
4 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (2.00%) Trello
3 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.57%) Magento
3 3 (0.43%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 91 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (11.13%) Azure
3 37 (5.28%) AWS
4 10 (1.43%) Entra ID
4 10 (1.43%) GCP
5 5 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.57%) IaaS
7 3 (0.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.43%) Cloudflare
7 3 (0.43%) Mimecast
7 3 (0.43%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.29%) GitHub
8 2 (0.29%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.29%) SaaS
9 1 (0.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.14%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 111 (15.83%) Firewall
2 35 (4.99%) VoIP
3 24 (3.42%) Network Security
4 19 (2.71%) DNS
5 18 (2.57%) WAN
6 16 (2.28%) DHCP
7 14 (2.00%) LAN
7 14 (2.00%) VPN
8 13 (1.85%) VLAN
9 10 (1.43%) Wireless
10 9 (1.28%) Internet
10 9 (1.28%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (0.57%) Modbus
12 4 (0.57%) SAN
13 3 (0.43%) Broadband
13 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.43%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.14%) MySQL
2 6 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (0.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.29%) EDMS
5 2 (0.29%) Power BI
5 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (2.71%) JIRA
2 3 (0.43%) Git
3 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
General
1 186 (26.53%) Legal
2 183 (26.11%) Law
3 181 (25.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 181 (25.82%) Social Skills
4 82 (11.70%) Finance
5 67 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (8.27%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (5.99%) Banking
8 29 (4.14%) Manufacturing
9 26 (3.71%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.71%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.43%) Retail
12 8 (1.14%) Automotive
13 7 (1.00%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.57%) Back Office
14 4 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.43%) Electronics
15 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (8.27%) Systems Engineer
2 47 (6.70%) IT Engineer
3 44 (6.28%) Analyst
4 39 (5.56%) PLC Engineer
5 29 (4.14%) Architect
6 27 (3.85%) IT Support
6 27 (3.85%) Senior
7 26 (3.71%) Security Manager
8 24 (3.42%) Security Architect
9 23 (3.28%) IT Analyst
10 21 (3.00%) Head of IT
11 19 (2.71%) Instrumentation Engineer
12 18 (2.57%) Lead
12 18 (2.57%) Technical Support
13 17 (2.43%) IT Manager
14 14 (2.00%) Head of Delivery
14 14 (2.00%) Security Engineer
14 14 (2.00%) Support Engineer
15 13 (1.85%) IT Support Analyst
15 13 (1.85%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.14%) Software Packaging
2 12 (1.71%) Node.js
3 9 (1.28%) REST
3 9 (1.28%) Web Services
4 7 (1.00%) React
5 6 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.57%) .NET
7 3 (0.43%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.43%) CSS
7 3 (0.43%) HTML
7 3 (0.43%) Vue
8 2 (0.29%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.29%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.29%) Django
8 2 (0.29%) Node-RED
9 1 (0.14%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.14%) D3.js
9 1 (0.14%) FreeSWITCH
9 1 (0.14%) RESTful
9 1 (0.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (30.67%) Cyberattack
2 77 (10.98%) Operational Technology
3 43 (6.13%) Renewable Energy
4 28 (3.99%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 21 (3.00%) Social Media
7 13 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.43%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (0.71%) Robotics
12 5 (0.71%) SCADA
13 4 (0.57%) Biopharmaceutical
14 3 (0.43%) Housing Association
14 3 (0.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 132 (18.83%) Windows
2 49 (6.99%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.57%) Linux
4 22 (3.14%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.86%) Windows Vista
6 5 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.29%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (0.29%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (30.81%) Line Management
2 174 (24.82%) Creative Thinking
3 122 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (13.69%) Agile
5 89 (12.70%) Software Engineering
6 70 (9.99%) Systems Engineering
7 67 (9.56%) Project Delivery
8 64 (9.13%) Information Security
9 63 (8.99%) Network Design
10 61 (8.70%) Network Management
11 56 (7.99%) MODAF
11 56 (7.99%) SysML
11 56 (7.99%) UML
12 49 (6.99%) Risk Management
13 47 (6.70%) Mathematics
14 46 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence
14 46 (6.56%) Incident Response
15 43 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (5.99%) Computer Science
17 41 (5.85%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.99%) MATLAB
2 23 (3.28%) Python
3 17 (2.43%) PowerShell
4 11 (1.57%) SQL
4 11 (1.57%) TypeScript
5 9 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.86%) C#
8 4 (0.57%) Bash
8 4 (0.57%) Java
9 3 (0.43%) Progress 4GL
10 2 (0.29%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 153 (21.83%) Degree
2 59 (8.42%) BPSS Clearance
3 42 (5.99%) HND
4 35 (4.99%) CISSP
5 28 (3.99%) Security Cleared
6 27 (3.85%) DBS Check
7 26 (3.71%) CISM
8 17 (2.43%) CISA
8 17 (2.43%) PMI Certification
9 16 (2.28%) CEH
9 16 (2.28%) PMP
9 16 (2.28%) SC Cleared
10 12 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
14 7 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (1.00%) CRISC
15 6 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (26.11%) NCSC
2 65 (9.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (5.99%) NIST
4 30 (4.28%) GDPR
5 26 (3.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.43%) GRC
7 9 (1.28%) SLA
8 8 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.14%) QA
9 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.71%) COBIT
10 5 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.57%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.29%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.29%) PMO
14 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 107 (15.26%) Active Directory
2 57 (8.13%) Virtual Servers
3 19 (2.71%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.86%) Docker
4 6 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.71%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.14%) pfSense
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.71%) QRadar
3 4 (0.57%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.57%) Terraform
4 3 (0.43%) Autotask
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.29%) Nessus
6 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.14%) Nmap
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.71%) Cisco
3 12 (1.71%) Fortinet
3 12 (1.71%) Sage
3 12 (1.71%) SonicWALL
4 11 (1.57%) VMware
5 10 (1.43%) Meraki
6 9 (1.28%) WatchGuard
7 7 (1.00%) Ping Identity
8 6 (0.86%) AlienVault
8 6 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.86%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.71%) Apple
9 5 (0.71%) Google
9 5 (0.71%) Veeam
10 4 (0.57%) Datto
10 4 (0.57%) Qualys
10 4 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.57%) Sophos
10 4 (0.57%) Splunk