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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 37 38
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,368 654 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.36% 6.84% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.05% 7.64% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 740 294 507
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -11.80%
75th Percentile £73,829 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,025 £78,492
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% -6.97%

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 15,122 8,563 12,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.30% 89.54% 78.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,316 4,282 8,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +29 652 £55,000 - 262
Yorkshire +16 551 £42,500 +28.79% 168
North East +22 165 £50,000 -26.95% 38
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 51 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.29%) IIS
4 3 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.073%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 595 (43.49%) Azure
2 182 (13.30%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (6.14%) AWS
4 63 (4.61%) Entra ID
5 28 (2.05%) OneDrive
6 27 (1.97%) GCP
7 22 (1.61%) SaaS
8 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
9 20 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (0.95%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.95%) Serverless
12 9 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
13 8 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.58%) IaaS
14 7 (0.51%) GitHub
14 7 (0.51%) PaaS
15 6 (0.44%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.68%) Firewall
2 40 (2.92%) DNS
3 34 (2.49%) DHCP
4 33 (2.41%) Network Security
5 27 (1.97%) WAN
6 25 (1.83%) LAN
7 23 (1.68%) VPN
8 22 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.61%) Unified Communications
8 22 (1.61%) VoIP
9 21 (1.54%) VLAN
10 14 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.95%) Internet
12 7 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.51%) NGFW
13 4 (0.29%) Wireless
14 3 (0.22%) Broadband
14 3 (0.22%) DKIM
14 3 (0.22%) DMARC
14 3 (0.22%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.66%) Power BI
2 7 (0.51%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.29%) MySQL
5 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.15%) GIS
7 1 (0.073%) Big Data
7 1 (0.073%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.073%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.073%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.073%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.073%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.073%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Snyk
2 8 (0.58%) Git
3 5 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.29%) GitLab
5 3 (0.22%) JIRA
6 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.073%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.073%) GDB
7 1 (0.073%) JMeter
7 1 (0.073%) Locust
7 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.073%) WinDbg
General
1 591 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 61 (4.46%) Finance
3 54 (3.95%) Public Sector
4 49 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (3.36%) Telecoms
6 37 (2.70%) Marketing
7 35 (2.56%) Law
8 27 (1.97%) Legal
8 27 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 25 (1.83%) Multimedia
10 22 (1.61%) Retail
11 21 (1.54%) Advertising
12 19 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.80%) Local Government
16 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.44%) Police
17 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 328 (23.98%) Analyst
2 292 (21.35%) Security Analyst
3 262 (19.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 228 (16.67%) Junior
5 225 (16.45%) Ethical Hacker
6 218 (15.94%) Junior Analyst
7 213 (15.57%) Junior Security Analyst
8 154 (11.26%) Senior
9 75 (5.48%) Consultant
9 75 (5.48%) Security Manager
10 71 (5.19%) IT Support
11 69 (5.04%) Architect
12 66 (4.82%) Security Consultant
13 65 (4.75%) Sales Representative
14 62 (4.53%) Security Architect
15 59 (4.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 52 (3.80%) Lead
17 48 (3.51%) IT Manager
18 42 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 42 (3.07%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.73%) HTML
2 7 (0.51%) JSON
2 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (0.44%) CSS
3 6 (0.44%) React
3 6 (0.44%) Regular Expression
3 6 (0.44%) REST
4 4 (0.29%) .NET
4 4 (0.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.22%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.22%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.22%) FHIR
5 3 (0.22%) Node.js
5 3 (0.22%) Vue
6 2 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
6 2 (0.15%) pgvector
6 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.15%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 291 (21.27%) Cyberattack
2 61 (4.46%) Security Posture
3 51 (3.73%) Driving Licence
4 41 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 23 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
5 23 (1.68%) Operational Technology
6 20 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 20 (1.46%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
8 15 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (0.73%) Cloud Native
10 8 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (0.51%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.51%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (0.44%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.44%) IoT
12 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.36%) Windows
2 75 (5.48%) Windows Server
3 20 (1.46%) Linux
4 13 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.29%) Android
6 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) VMS
8 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (22.59%) Mentoring
2 246 (17.98%) Ethical Hacking
3 118 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 103 (7.53%) AI
5 82 (5.99%) Disaster Recovery
6 80 (5.85%) Incident Response
7 78 (5.70%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (5.34%) SIEM
9 65 (4.75%) Customer Service
10 59 (4.31%) Cloud Security
11 57 (4.17%) Information Security
12 55 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 54 (3.95%) Vulnerability Management
14 53 (3.87%) IT Strategy
15 52 (3.80%) Decision-Making
15 52 (3.80%) Risk Management
15 52 (3.80%) Service Delivery
16 48 (3.51%) Security Architecture
17 46 (3.36%) DevOps
18 45 (3.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 52 (3.80%) PowerShell
2 36 (2.63%) Python
3 18 (1.32%) JavaScript
4 14 (1.02%) Bash
5 12 (0.88%) SQL
6 11 (0.80%) C#
7 7 (0.51%) C++
8 4 (0.29%) Java
8 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.15%) C
10 2 (0.15%) XAML
11 1 (0.073%) Ada
11 1 (0.073%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.073%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.073%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.073%) Swift
Qualifications
1 450 (32.89%) Azure Certification
2 249 (18.20%) CEH
3 243 (17.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 216 (15.79%) CompTIA CySA+
5 71 (5.19%) Degree
6 49 (3.58%) Security Cleared
7 45 (3.29%) SC Cleared
8 41 (3.00%) CISSP
9 34 (2.49%) Network+ Certification
10 33 (2.41%) A+ Certification
11 28 (2.05%) CISM
12 20 (1.46%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.95%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.66%) CCNA
18 9 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 7 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.61%) NIST
3 60 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 48 (3.51%) GDPR
5 27 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 26 (1.90%) GRC
7 14 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.73%) QA
9 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.37%) NCSC
11 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.15%) PMO
12 2 (0.15%) SLA
13 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.073%) GxP
13 1 (0.073%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.073%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.58%) Docker
6 6 (0.44%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (4.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.95%) Terraform
3 10 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.51%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.37%) SCCM
7 4 (0.29%) Grafana
7 4 (0.29%) Nessus
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) WSUS
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
10 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 707 (51.68%) Microsoft
2 436 (31.87%) ForeScout
3 30 (2.19%) VMware
4 23 (1.68%) Cisco
5 21 (1.54%) Apple
6 20 (1.46%) Palo Alto
7 19 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (1.10%) Veeam
9 14 (1.02%) Adobe
10 13 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.88%) Tenable
12 8 (0.58%) Aruba
12 8 (0.58%) Tanium
13 7 (0.51%) HP
14 6 (0.44%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.44%) SonicWALL
15 5 (0.37%) Meraki
15 5 (0.37%) OpenAI
16 4 (0.29%) Draytek
16 4 (0.29%) Splunk