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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,346 650 650
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.10% 6.76% 4.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 7.58% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 759 284 464
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -9.48%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 15,526 8,576 11,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.32% 89.19% 78.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,633 4,291 7,835
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +29 648 £56,000 +1.82% 246
Yorkshire +16 535 £42,500 +28.79% 160
North East +20 163 £50,000 -26.95% 52
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 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.30%) IIS
4 3 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.074%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 551 (40.94%) Azure
2 184 (13.67%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (6.39%) AWS
4 64 (4.75%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.15%) OneDrive
6 27 (2.01%) GCP
7 24 (1.78%) SaaS
8 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 21 (1.56%) Power Platform
9 18 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (0.97%) Serverless
12 12 (0.89%) Power Automate
13 9 (0.67%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (0.67%) IaaS
13 9 (0.67%) Mimecast
14 8 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.52%) GitHub
15 7 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.75%) Firewall
2 41 (3.05%) DNS
3 39 (2.90%) Network Security
4 35 (2.60%) DHCP
5 28 (2.08%) WAN
6 25 (1.86%) LAN
7 23 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.71%) Unified Communications
7 23 (1.71%) VoIP
7 23 (1.71%) VPN
8 21 (1.56%) VLAN
9 14 (1.04%) Internet
9 14 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.52%) NGFW
12 5 (0.37%) Wireless
13 3 (0.22%) FTP
13 3 (0.22%) PBX
13 3 (0.22%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.74%) Power BI
2 7 (0.52%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.30%) MySQL
5 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.15%) GIS
7 1 (0.074%) Big Data
7 1 (0.074%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.074%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.074%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.074%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.074%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.074%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Snyk
2 8 (0.59%) Git
3 5 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.30%) GitLab
5 3 (0.22%) JIRA
6 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.074%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.074%) GDB
7 1 (0.074%) JMeter
7 1 (0.074%) Locust
7 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.074%) WinDbg
General
1 555 (41.23%) Social Skills
2 65 (4.83%) Finance
3 56 (4.16%) Public Sector
4 55 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (3.34%) Telecoms
6 37 (2.75%) Marketing
7 32 (2.38%) Law
8 30 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.15%) Legal
10 24 (1.78%) Retail
11 23 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (1.56%) Advertising
13 20 (1.49%) Multimedia
14 18 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.97%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.82%) Local Government
17 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.45%) Police
19 5 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 316 (23.48%) Analyst
2 280 (20.80%) Security Analyst
3 249 (18.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 212 (15.75%) Junior
5 202 (15.01%) Junior Analyst
6 197 (14.64%) Junior Security Analyst
7 195 (14.49%) Ethical Hacker
8 156 (11.59%) Senior
9 82 (6.09%) Consultant
10 78 (5.79%) Security Manager
11 73 (5.42%) IT Support
12 72 (5.35%) Architect
13 71 (5.27%) Security Consultant
14 65 (4.83%) Sales Representative
14 65 (4.83%) Security Architect
15 62 (4.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 53 (3.94%) Lead
17 48 (3.57%) IT Manager
18 46 (3.42%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 42 (3.12%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.74%) HTML
2 8 (0.59%) JSON
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (0.45%) CSS
4 6 (0.45%) React
4 6 (0.45%) Regular Expression
4 6 (0.45%) REST
5 4 (0.30%) .NET
5 4 (0.30%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.22%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.22%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.22%) FHIR
6 3 (0.22%) Node.js
6 3 (0.22%) pgvector
6 3 (0.22%) PostGIS
6 3 (0.22%) SAML
6 3 (0.22%) Vue
7 2 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 262 (19.47%) Cyberattack
2 62 (4.61%) Security Posture
3 52 (3.86%) Driving Licence
4 44 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (2.01%) Operational Technology
7 24 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 22 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
9 16 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.74%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
12 8 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.52%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.52%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.45%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.45%) Cybercrime
14 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 132 (9.81%) Windows
2 76 (5.65%) Windows Server
3 20 (1.49%) Linux
4 13 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.30%) Android
7 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.22%) VMS
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (21.69%) Mentoring
2 211 (15.68%) Ethical Hacking
3 120 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 111 (8.25%) AI
5 83 (6.17%) Disaster Recovery
5 83 (6.17%) Incident Response
5 83 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (5.72%) SIEM
7 65 (4.83%) Customer Service
8 62 (4.61%) Cloud Security
8 62 (4.61%) Information Security
9 57 (4.23%) Vulnerability Management
10 56 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 56 (4.16%) Risk Management
11 55 (4.09%) Decision-Making
11 55 (4.09%) IT Strategy
12 52 (3.86%) Service Delivery
13 50 (3.71%) Security Architecture
14 49 (3.64%) ITIL
15 47 (3.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (3.86%) PowerShell
2 36 (2.67%) Python
3 17 (1.26%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.97%) Bash
5 12 (0.89%) SQL
6 11 (0.82%) C#
7 7 (0.52%) C++
8 4 (0.30%) Java
8 4 (0.30%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.22%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.15%) C
10 2 (0.15%) XAML
11 1 (0.074%) Ada
11 1 (0.074%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.074%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.074%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.074%) Swift
Qualifications
1 405 (30.09%) Azure Certification
2 223 (16.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 215 (15.97%) CEH
4 202 (15.01%) CompTIA CySA+
5 71 (5.27%) Degree
6 54 (4.01%) Security Cleared
7 48 (3.57%) SC Cleared
8 42 (3.12%) CISSP
9 29 (2.15%) A+ Certification
9 29 (2.15%) CISM
9 29 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
10 20 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.97%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (0.67%) CCNA
18 7 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.68%) NIST
3 61 (4.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 50 (3.71%) GDPR
5 29 (2.15%) GRC
6 26 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 15 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.82%) QA
9 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.074%) GxP
13 1 (0.074%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.074%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (5.57%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) Docker
6 6 (0.45%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.97%) Terraform
3 12 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.37%) Nessus
5 5 (0.37%) SCCM
6 4 (0.30%) Grafana
7 3 (0.22%) cPanel
7 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 3 (0.22%) Plesk
7 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.22%) WSUS
8 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.15%) QRadar
9 1 (0.074%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 666 (49.48%) Microsoft
2 390 (28.97%) ForeScout
3 31 (2.30%) VMware
4 23 (1.71%) Cisco
5 21 (1.56%) Apple
5 21 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 19 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (1.11%) Veeam
8 14 (1.04%) Adobe
9 13 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.89%) Tenable
11 8 (0.59%) Aruba
11 8 (0.59%) Tanium
12 7 (0.52%) HP
12 7 (0.52%) SonicWALL
13 6 (0.45%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.37%) Meraki
14 5 (0.37%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.37%) Splunk
15 4 (0.30%) iManage