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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 35 34
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,369 653 734
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.47% 6.87% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.21% 7.65% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 732 294 542
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,025 £78,707
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% -6.64%

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 14,867 8,541 12,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.26% 89.88% 78.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,125 4,265 8,955
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,240
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +27 647 £55,000 - 177
Yorkshire +12 555 £43,000 +30.30% 126
North East +28 167 £50,000 -27.94% 37
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 50 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.29%) IIS
4 3 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.073%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.073%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 612 (44.70%) Azure
2 182 (13.29%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (6.06%) AWS
4 66 (4.82%) Entra ID
5 27 (1.97%) GCP
5 27 (1.97%) OneDrive
6 22 (1.61%) SaaS
7 21 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (1.39%) Power Platform
9 15 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (1.02%) 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%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.97%) Firewall
2 41 (2.99%) DNS
3 35 (2.56%) DHCP
4 33 (2.41%) Network Security
5 27 (1.97%) WAN
6 25 (1.83%) LAN
7 24 (1.75%) VPN
8 22 (1.61%) VLAN
9 21 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.53%) Unified Communications
10 20 (1.46%) VoIP
11 14 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.88%) Internet
13 7 (0.51%) NGFW
14 6 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (0.29%) Broadband
16 3 (0.22%) DKIM
16 3 (0.22%) DMARC
16 3 (0.22%) PBX
16 3 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.58%) Power BI
2 7 (0.51%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.29%) MySQL
3 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.15%) GIS
6 1 (0.073%) Big Data
6 1 (0.073%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.073%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.073%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.073%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.073%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 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
1 604 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 59 (4.31%) Finance
3 52 (3.80%) Public Sector
4 48 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (3.36%) Telecoms
6 37 (2.70%) Marketing
7 35 (2.56%) Law
8 30 (2.19%) Multimedia
9 27 (1.97%) Legal
9 27 (1.97%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.53%) Advertising
11 20 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (1.46%) Retail
12 13 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.80%) Local Government
14 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.44%) Police
16 6 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 337 (24.62%) Analyst
2 302 (22.06%) Security Analyst
3 273 (19.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 242 (17.68%) Junior
5 232 (16.95%) Junior Analyst
6 227 (16.58%) Junior Security Analyst
7 225 (16.44%) Ethical Hacker
8 153 (11.18%) Senior
9 74 (5.41%) Security Manager
10 71 (5.19%) Consultant
10 71 (5.19%) IT Support
11 67 (4.89%) Architect
12 63 (4.60%) Sales Representative
13 62 (4.53%) Security Consultant
14 60 (4.38%) Security Architect
15 59 (4.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 53 (3.87%) Lead
17 48 (3.51%) IT Manager
18 45 (3.29%) Trainee
19 43 (3.14%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.73%) HTML
2 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (0.44%) CSS
3 6 (0.44%) JSON
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%) Flask
6 2 (0.15%) OpenLayers
6 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.15%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 288 (21.04%) Cyberattack
2 60 (4.38%) Security Posture
3 52 (3.80%) Driving Licence
4 39 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 20 (1.46%) Operational Technology
6 19 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
9 14 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.73%) Cloud Native
10 10 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (0.51%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.51%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (0.44%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.44%) IoT
13 6 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 125 (9.13%) Windows
2 77 (5.62%) Windows Server
3 19 (1.39%) Linux
4 14 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.29%) Android
7 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.29%) 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
1 327 (23.89%) Mentoring
2 251 (18.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 119 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 98 (7.16%) AI
5 85 (6.21%) Disaster Recovery
6 83 (6.06%) Incident Response
7 76 (5.55%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (5.26%) SIEM
9 63 (4.60%) Customer Service
10 58 (4.24%) Cloud Security
11 56 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 54 (3.94%) Decision-Making
12 54 (3.94%) Information Security
12 54 (3.94%) Risk Management
13 53 (3.87%) Service Delivery
14 52 (3.80%) IT Strategy
14 52 (3.80%) Vulnerability Management
15 50 (3.65%) Security Architecture
16 45 (3.29%) DevOps
16 45 (3.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (3.87%) PowerShell
2 36 (2.63%) Python
3 18 (1.31%) JavaScript
4 15 (1.10%) 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
1 465 (33.97%) Azure Certification
2 261 (19.07%) CompTIA Security+
3 254 (18.55%) CEH
4 231 (16.87%) CompTIA CySA+
5 68 (4.97%) Degree
6 45 (3.29%) Security Cleared
7 43 (3.14%) SC Cleared
8 41 (2.99%) CISSP
9 39 (2.85%) Network+ Certification
10 37 (2.70%) A+ Certification
11 28 (2.05%) CISM
12 20 (1.46%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.95%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.66%) CCNA
18 8 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 7 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (4.75%) NIST
3 64 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 49 (3.58%) GDPR
5 27 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 25 (1.83%) GRC
7 13 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.66%) 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 74 (5.41%) 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
8 3 (0.22%) cPanel
8 3 (0.22%) Nessus
8 3 (0.22%) Plesk
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) WSUS
9 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
10 1 (0.073%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.073%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 720 (52.59%) Microsoft
2 451 (32.94%) ForeScout
3 30 (2.19%) VMware
4 23 (1.68%) Cisco
5 20 (1.46%) Apple
6 19 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
6 19 (1.39%) Palo Alto
7 15 (1.10%) Veeam
8 14 (1.02%) Adobe
9 13 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.88%) Tenable
11 8 (0.58%) Aruba
11 8 (0.58%) Tanium
12 7 (0.51%) HP
13 6 (0.44%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.44%) SonicWALL
14 5 (0.37%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.29%) Draytek
15 4 (0.29%) Meraki
15 4 (0.29%) Splunk