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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 37 35
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,325 593 903
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.77% 7.39% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.84% 7.90% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 677 263 697
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,650 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,670 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -1.42% -10.00%

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 13,462 7,510 15,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.74% 93.64% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,923 3,633 11,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £79,530
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +33 615 £55,000 - 192
Yorkshire +11 561 £47,500 +43.94% 122
North East +32 149 £45,000 -30.77% 50
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 42 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.075%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.075%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 656 (49.51%) Azure
2 135 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
3 102 (7.70%) AWS
4 74 (5.58%) Entra ID
5 32 (2.42%) GitHub
6 26 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (1.81%) GCP
8 21 (1.58%) OneDrive
9 15 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (1.06%) SaaS
11 13 (0.98%) Power Platform
12 12 (0.91%) Serverless
13 11 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.83%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.53%) Copilot Studio
17 6 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.04%) Firewall
2 38 (2.87%) DNS
3 37 (2.79%) Internet
4 32 (2.42%) DHCP
5 29 (2.19%) Network Security
6 28 (2.11%) VPN
7 22 (1.66%) VLAN
8 21 (1.58%) LAN
8 21 (1.58%) WAN
9 16 (1.21%) Unified Communications
10 13 (0.98%) VoIP
11 8 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.53%) NGFW
12 7 (0.53%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.38%) Broadband
13 5 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.23%) 4G
14 3 (0.23%) 5G
15 2 (0.15%) DKIM
15 2 (0.15%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.30%) Power BI
2 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.15%) GIS
2 2 (0.15%) Neo4j
2 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.075%) Big Data
3 1 (0.075%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (2.26%) Git
2 12 (0.91%) Snyk
3 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.23%) GitLab
4 3 (0.23%) JIRA
5 1 (0.075%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.075%) GDB
5 1 (0.075%) JMeter
5 1 (0.075%) Locust
5 1 (0.075%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.075%) WinDbg
General
1 615 (46.42%) Social Skills
2 69 (5.21%) Multimedia
3 58 (4.38%) Finance
4 44 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (3.02%) Public Sector
6 38 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (2.49%) Marketing
8 32 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 30 (2.26%) Law
10 20 (1.51%) Retail
11 18 (1.36%) Legal
12 17 (1.28%) Advertising
13 13 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.60%) Local Government
17 7 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.45%) Police
19 5 (0.38%) Financial Institution
19 5 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 345 (26.04%) Analyst
2 316 (23.85%) Security Analyst
3 287 (21.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 263 (19.85%) Junior
5 259 (19.55%) Junior Analyst
6 256 (19.32%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.98%) Ethical Hacker
8 145 (10.94%) Senior
9 80 (6.04%) Trainee
10 74 (5.58%) Architect
11 73 (5.51%) Security Manager
12 72 (5.43%) Security Architect
13 69 (5.21%) Lead
14 64 (4.83%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 55 (4.15%) IT Support
16 47 (3.55%) Sales Representative
17 42 (3.17%) IT Engineer
18 39 (2.94%) Support Engineer
19 38 (2.87%) IT Manager
19 38 (2.87%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.94%) HTML
2 35 (2.64%) CSS
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.45%) React
4 6 (0.45%) Regular Expression
5 5 (0.38%) .NET
5 5 (0.38%) Node.js
6 4 (0.30%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.30%) JSON
6 4 (0.30%) REST
7 3 (0.23%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.23%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.23%) NestJS
8 2 (0.15%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.15%) Flask
8 2 (0.15%) MERN Stack
8 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
8 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 272 (20.53%) Cyberattack
2 46 (3.47%) Driving Licence
3 39 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.79%) Security Posture
5 27 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (2.04%) Operational Technology
6 21 (1.58%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (0.98%) Cyber Security Posture
10 12 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (0.68%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (0.53%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.38%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.38%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.30%) Cybercrime
14 4 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (6.87%) Windows
2 62 (4.68%) Windows Server
3 14 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (0.91%) Linux
6 8 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.53%) Android
8 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (28.75%) Mentoring
2 264 (19.92%) Ethical Hacking
3 110 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 87 (6.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 87 (6.57%) Incident Response
5 82 (6.19%) AI
6 70 (5.28%) Security Architecture
6 70 (5.28%) SIEM
7 62 (4.68%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (4.30%) Decision-Making
9 54 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 54 (4.08%) Risk Management
10 51 (3.85%) Customer Service
11 48 (3.62%) Information Security
12 47 (3.55%) Service Delivery
13 46 (3.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (3.40%) Business Continuity
14 45 (3.40%) Cloud Security
14 45 (3.40%) Data Protection
15 43 (3.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (4.53%) Python
2 53 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 49 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 19 (1.43%) Bash
5 13 (0.98%) R
6 12 (0.91%) SQL
7 9 (0.68%) C#
8 6 (0.45%) Java
9 5 (0.38%) C++
9 5 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.15%) C
12 1 (0.075%) Ada
12 1 (0.075%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.075%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.075%) Swift
Qualifications
1 519 (39.17%) Azure Certification
2 302 (22.79%) CompTIA Security+
3 268 (20.23%) CEH
4 261 (19.70%) CompTIA CySA+
5 52 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 52 (3.92%) Network+ Certification
6 46 (3.47%) A+ Certification
7 44 (3.32%) Degree
8 39 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.79%) CISSP
10 31 (2.34%) Security Cleared
11 30 (2.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 26 (1.96%) SC Cleared
13 24 (1.81%) CISM
14 17 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (1.06%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.68%) CCNA
18 9 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (5.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 68 (5.13%) NIST
4 58 (4.38%) GDPR
5 27 (2.04%) GRC
6 20 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 15 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.38%) QA
8 5 (0.38%) SLA
8 5 (0.38%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.23%) NCSC
10 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.075%) GxP
11 1 (0.075%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.075%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.075%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.075%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.21%) Hyper-V
3 15 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.60%) Docker
6 5 (0.38%) vSphere
7 1 (0.075%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (1.06%) Terraform
3 8 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.30%) Grafana
4 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.23%) SCCM
6 2 (0.15%) cPanel
6 2 (0.15%) Plesk
7 1 (0.075%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.075%) Nessus
7 1 (0.075%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.075%) QRadar
Vendors
1 727 (54.87%) Microsoft
2 481 (36.30%) ForeScout
3 24 (1.81%) Apple
4 20 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
5 19 (1.43%) Adobe
6 16 (1.21%) Cisco
6 16 (1.21%) VMware
7 12 (0.91%) Palo Alto
7 12 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 12 (0.91%) Tenable
8 9 (0.68%) Veeam
9 6 (0.45%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.30%) Datto
10 4 (0.30%) Draytek
10 4 (0.30%) HP
10 4 (0.30%) Meraki
10 4 (0.30%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.30%) SonicWALL
10 4 (0.30%) WatchGuard
11 3 (0.23%) Ubiquiti