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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 34 38
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 449 885 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.49% 5.42% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 6.40% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 395 723 474
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,875 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,084 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -12.50% +3.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £71,652
90th Percentile £84,400 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -

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 9,424 13,838 17,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.22% 84.69% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,606 10,649 8,309
10th Percentile £26,936 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £59,400 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -21 285 £54,793 +5.20% 202
Yorkshire +1 148 £47,683 -9.18% 114
North East -21 16 £36,968 -13.02% 39
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 20 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.11%) Confluence
4 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.67%) CMS
5 2 (0.45%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 14 (3.12%) Microsoft Project
1 14 (3.12%) Trello
2 1 (0.22%) InDesign
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 75 (16.70%) Azure
2 53 (11.80%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (7.80%) AWS
4 13 (2.90%) GCP
5 12 (2.67%) Entra ID
6 10 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.11%) OneDrive
8 4 (0.89%) IaaS
8 4 (0.89%) SaaS
9 3 (0.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.67%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.45%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.45%) dbt
10 2 (0.45%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.45%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.45%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.22%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 54 (12.03%) Firewall
2 23 (5.12%) Network Security
3 19 (4.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 19 (4.23%) LAN
3 19 (4.23%) WAN
4 18 (4.01%) VoIP
5 16 (3.56%) DNS
6 13 (2.90%) Internet
6 13 (2.90%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.90%) VPN
7 9 (2.00%) DHCP
8 5 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (1.11%) SAN
8 5 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.89%) HTTP
9 4 (0.89%) VLAN
9 4 (0.89%) Wireless
10 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.45%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.34%) MySQL
1 6 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.89%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.67%) Big Data
4 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.45%) EDMS
5 2 (0.45%) Power BI
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (5.12%) JIRA
2 6 (1.34%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Git
General
1 119 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 91 (20.27%) Finance
3 53 (11.80%) Presentation Skills
4 52 (11.58%) Banking
5 50 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (7.35%) Legal
7 17 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.79%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.34%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.45%) Retail
12 8 (1.78%) Automotive
12 8 (1.78%) Electronics
13 7 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.11%) Marketing
15 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.45%) Back Office
17 2 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (11.58%) Systems Engineer
2 44 (9.80%) Analyst
3 39 (8.69%) Senior
4 37 (8.24%) Security Manager
5 30 (6.68%) Architect
6 29 (6.46%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 29 (6.46%) Head of IT
7 25 (5.57%) Governance Manager
8 20 (4.45%) Security Architect
8 20 (4.45%) Security Engineer
9 19 (4.23%) IT Support
10 17 (3.79%) Security Analyst
11 16 (3.56%) Lead
11 16 (3.56%) Security Specialist
12 15 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 15 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 15 (3.34%) IT Analyst
13 14 (3.12%) Head of Delivery
13 14 (3.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.02%) Software Packaging
2 11 (2.45%) React
3 10 (2.23%) Node.js
4 9 (2.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.11%) REST
5 5 (1.11%) Vue
5 5 (1.11%) Web Services
6 3 (0.67%) .NET
6 3 (0.67%) Django
6 3 (0.67%) HTML
7 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.45%) CSS
7 2 (0.45%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.45%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.45%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.45%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.22%) Kafka
8 1 (0.22%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.59%) Management Information System
2 41 (9.13%) Security Posture
3 31 (6.90%) Social Media
4 15 (3.34%) Operational Technology
4 15 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 9 (2.00%) Cyber Security Posture
6 9 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.56%) Hackathon
8 7 (1.56%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.11%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.11%) FMCG
10 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.69%) Windows
2 30 (6.68%) Windows Server
3 24 (5.35%) Linux
4 14 (3.12%) Windows Vista
5 12 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.89%) Android
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (27.39%) Information Security
2 96 (21.38%) Agile
3 80 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (16.70%) Risk Management
5 65 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (14.48%) Systems Engineering
6 63 (14.03%) Line Management
7 55 (12.25%) Computer Science
8 53 (11.80%) Software Engineering
9 52 (11.58%) Artificial Intelligence
10 51 (11.36%) MODAF
10 51 (11.36%) SysML
10 51 (11.36%) UML
11 47 (10.47%) Fintech
12 46 (10.24%) Cloud Security
13 45 (10.02%) Incident Response
14 43 (9.58%) SIEM
15 42 (9.35%) ITIL
15 42 (9.35%) Mathematics
16 39 (8.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.36%) MATLAB
2 26 (5.79%) Python
3 20 (4.45%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.12%) Java
5 13 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.45%) C#
7 10 (2.23%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.00%) SQL
9 8 (1.78%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.89%) Bash
12 3 (0.67%) Progress 4GL
13 2 (0.45%) C++
13 2 (0.45%) PHP
14 1 (0.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 216 (48.11%) Degree
2 81 (18.04%) CISM
2 81 (18.04%) CISSP
3 62 (13.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (7.80%) Security Cleared
5 30 (6.68%) CISA
5 30 (6.68%) DBS Check
6 26 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (5.57%) CEH
7 25 (5.57%) Master's Degree
8 21 (4.68%) SC Cleared
9 18 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (3.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (3.34%) CRISC
11 14 (3.12%) PMI Certification
11 14 (3.12%) PMP
12 8 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (1.56%) PhD
14 6 (1.34%) GSLC
14 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (22.27%) NIST
2 88 (19.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (10.02%) GDPR
4 36 (8.02%) GRC
5 28 (6.24%) NIST 800
6 25 (5.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (2.90%) Def Stans
8 10 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (2.00%) QA
10 8 (1.78%) COBIT
11 7 (1.56%) NCSC
12 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (1.11%) PCI DSS
13 5 (1.11%) SLA
14 3 (0.67%) IEC 62304
14 3 (0.67%) ISO 13485
14 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 35 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.90%) Hyper-V
3 9 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.78%) Docker
5 5 (1.11%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) pfSense
7 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (0.89%) QRadar
2 4 (0.89%) Terraform
3 3 (0.67%) Ansible
3 3 (0.67%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.45%) Autotask
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.22%) Nessus
5 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.22%) Puppet
5 1 (0.22%) SCCM
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.56%) Cisco
2 16 (3.56%) VMware
3 13 (2.90%) Apple
3 13 (2.90%) Google
4 12 (2.67%) Adobe
5 9 (2.00%) IBM
6 8 (1.78%) Fortinet
6 8 (1.78%) Meraki
7 7 (1.56%) SonicWALL
7 7 (1.56%) WatchGuard
8 6 (1.34%) Splunk
9 5 (1.11%) Kaseya
10 4 (0.89%) AlienVault
10 4 (0.89%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.89%) Tenable
10 4 (0.89%) Veeam
11 3 (0.67%) Acronis
11 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.67%) Tanium