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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 41 35
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,332 567 856
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.11% 7.16% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.12% 7.53% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 645 280 689
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £27,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £59,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -0.17% -8.46%

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 13,625 7,529 14,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.74% 95.10% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,065 3,708 11,166
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,580 £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 21 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 21 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 +46 1,498 £55,000 - 195
Yorkshire +20 686 £47,500 +18.11% 112
North East +34 148 £45,000 -30.77% 33
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 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.086%) Drupal
3 2 (0.086%) nginx
3 2 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.51%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (42.92%) Cloud Computing
2 716 (30.70%) Azure
3 125 (5.36%) AWS
4 117 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 52 (2.23%) GitHub
7 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (0.99%) GCP
9 17 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (0.60%) OneDrive
11 12 (0.51%) SaaS
11 12 (0.51%) Serverless
12 11 (0.47%) Power Platform
13 10 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (0.34%) Power Automate
16 6 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.26%) PaaS
17 5 (0.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,046 (44.85%) Internet
2 74 (3.17%) 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 (0.81%) LAN
7 11 (0.47%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.26%) NGFW
8 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.26%) VoIP
9 5 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.17%) DMZ
10 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.13%) 4G
11 3 (0.13%) 5G
11 3 (0.13%) Broadband
12 2 (0.086%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.086%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.086%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.086%) GIS
2 2 (0.086%) MariaDB
2 2 (0.086%) Neo4j
2 2 (0.086%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.086%) Power BI
2 2 (0.086%) Tableau
3 1 (0.043%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.043%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 50 (2.14%) Git
2 12 (0.51%) 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 (70.58%) Social Skills
2 1,040 (44.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 994 (42.62%) Banking
4 95 (4.07%) Multimedia
5 57 (2.44%) Finance
6 41 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (1.46%) Public Sector
8 30 (1.29%) Law
9 27 (1.16%) Marketing
10 25 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.77%) Retail
12 15 (0.64%) Legal
13 14 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.56%) Advertising
15 9 (0.39%) Local Government
16 8 (0.34%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.34%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.34%) Police
17 7 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 728 (31.22%) Lecturer
2 381 (16.34%) Analyst
3 355 (15.22%) Security Analyst
4 328 (14.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 305 (13.08%) Junior
6 301 (12.91%) Junior Analyst
6 301 (12.91%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (9.65%) Ethical Hacker
8 146 (6.26%) Senior
9 102 (4.37%) Trainee
10 69 (2.96%) Security Manager
11 68 (2.92%) Architect
12 65 (2.79%) Lead
13 64 (2.74%) Security Architect
14 60 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 45 (1.93%) IT Support
16 44 (1.89%) Sales Representative
17 36 (1.54%) Security Engineer
18 34 (1.46%) IT Engineer
18 34 (1.46%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.44%) HTML
2 55 (2.36%) CSS
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.26%) React
4 6 (0.26%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.21%) .NET
5 5 (0.21%) Node.js
6 4 (0.17%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.13%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.13%) NestJS
7 3 (0.13%) REST
8 2 (0.086%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.086%) Flask
8 2 (0.086%) jQuery
8 2 (0.086%) MERN Stack
8 2 (0.086%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.086%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.086%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (0.086%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 994 (42.62%) IoT
2 271 (11.62%) Cyberattack
3 41 (1.76%) Driving Licence
4 40 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 28 (1.20%) Security Posture
6 27 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (1.16%) Operational Technology
7 21 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 20 (0.86%) Data Centre
9 15 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.56%) Cyber Security Posture
12 12 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (0.39%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (0.39%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.30%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
15 5 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (3.04%) Windows
2 48 (2.06%) Windows Server
3 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (0.43%) Linux
4 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.21%) Android
7 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (45.88%) AI
2 1,001 (42.92%) User Experience
3 995 (42.67%) Machine Learning
4 992 (42.54%) Web Development
5 448 (19.21%) Mentoring
6 270 (11.58%) Ethical Hacking
7 100 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (3.77%) Incident Response
9 78 (3.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 67 (2.87%) Security Architecture
10 67 (2.87%) SIEM
11 59 (2.53%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (2.23%) Decision-Making
13 51 (2.19%) Risk Management
14 50 (2.14%) Information Security
14 50 (2.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 48 (2.06%) Line Management
16 44 (1.89%) Data Protection
16 44 (1.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 43 (1.84%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 78 (3.34%) Python
2 69 (2.96%) JavaScript
3 49 (2.10%) PowerShell
4 21 (0.90%) R
5 19 (0.81%) Bash
6 13 (0.56%) SQL
7 7 (0.30%) C#
8 5 (0.21%) Java
8 5 (0.21%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.17%) C++
9 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.086%) C
11 1 (0.043%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1,037 (44.47%) Degree
2 999 (42.84%) Master's Degree
3 993 (42.58%) PhD
4 990 (42.45%) Postgraduate
5 582 (24.96%) Azure Certification
6 353 (15.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 306 (13.12%) CompTIA CySA+
8 274 (11.75%) CEH
9 79 (3.39%) AWS Certification
10 59 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 58 (2.49%) Network+ Certification
12 51 (2.19%) A+ Certification
13 50 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 36 (1.54%) CISSP
15 29 (1.24%) Security Cleared
16 26 (1.11%) CISM
16 26 (1.11%) SC Cleared
17 17 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
18 15 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 69 (2.96%) NIST
4 54 (2.32%) GDPR
5 32 (1.37%) GRC
6 19 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 18 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.30%) SLA
8 7 (0.30%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.17%) QA
10 3 (0.13%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.13%) NCSC
10 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.086%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.086%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.043%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.043%) GxP
12 1 (0.043%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 58 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.47%) Docker
3 11 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.21%) vSphere
6 2 (0.086%) Firmware
6 2 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.56%) 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
1 769 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 526 (22.56%) ForeScout
3 26 (1.11%) Apple
4 21 (0.90%) Adobe
5 20 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
6 15 (0.64%) Cisco
7 12 (0.51%) Palo Alto
7 12 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 12 (0.51%) Tenable
7 12 (0.51%) VMware
8 6 (0.26%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.26%) Veeam
9 4 (0.17%) Draytek
9 4 (0.17%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.17%) HP
9 4 (0.17%) Meraki
9 4 (0.17%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.13%) Aruba
10 3 (0.13%) Citrix
10 3 (0.13%) Sparx