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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,356 660 660
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.27% 6.88% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.92% 7.69% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 743 299 475
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -11.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £80,828
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%

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 15,197 8,584 11,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.32% 89.48% 78.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,372 4,293 7,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
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 4 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 4 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 +25 650 £55,000 - 286
Yorkshire +14 543 £42,500 +28.79% 182
North East +23 163 £50,000 -26.95% 48
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 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.29%) IIS
4 3 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.074%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.074%) 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
1 582 (42.92%) Azure
2 182 (13.42%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (6.27%) AWS
4 64 (4.72%) Entra ID
5 28 (2.06%) OneDrive
6 27 (1.99%) GCP
7 24 (1.77%) SaaS
8 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 20 (1.47%) Power Platform
10 18 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
12 13 (0.96%) Serverless
13 12 (0.88%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
14 9 (0.66%) IaaS
14 9 (0.66%) Mimecast
15 8 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.52%) GitHub
16 7 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.72%) Firewall
2 41 (3.02%) DNS
3 37 (2.73%) Network Security
4 35 (2.58%) DHCP
5 28 (2.06%) WAN
6 25 (1.84%) LAN
7 23 (1.70%) VPN
8 22 (1.62%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.62%) Unified Communications
8 22 (1.62%) VoIP
9 21 (1.55%) VLAN
10 14 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.96%) Internet
12 7 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.52%) NGFW
13 4 (0.29%) Wireless
14 3 (0.22%) Broadband
14 3 (0.22%) PBX
14 3 (0.22%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.66%) Power BI
2 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) 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 (0.88%) Snyk
2 8 (0.59%) Git
3 5 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.29%) GitLab
5 3 (0.22%) JIRA
6 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.074%) 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
1 581 (42.85%) Social Skills
2 62 (4.57%) Finance
3 54 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (3.98%) Public Sector
4 46 (3.39%) Telecoms
5 37 (2.73%) Marketing
6 34 (2.51%) Law
7 29 (2.14%) Legal
7 29 (2.14%) Manufacturing
8 22 (1.62%) Retail
9 21 (1.55%) Advertising
10 20 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (1.47%) Multimedia
11 13 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 13 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (0.81%) Local Government
13 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.44%) Police
15 5 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 330 (24.34%) Analyst
2 294 (21.68%) Security Analyst
3 264 (19.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 229 (16.89%) Junior
5 218 (16.08%) Junior Analyst
6 213 (15.71%) Junior Security Analyst
7 210 (15.49%) Ethical Hacker
8 155 (11.43%) Senior
9 77 (5.68%) Consultant
10 75 (5.53%) Security Manager
11 72 (5.31%) IT Support
12 70 (5.16%) Architect
13 67 (4.94%) Security Consultant
14 66 (4.87%) Sales Representative
15 63 (4.65%) Security Architect
16 59 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 53 (3.91%) Lead
18 48 (3.54%) IT Manager
19 43 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 43 (3.17%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.74%) HTML
2 7 (0.52%) JSON
2 7 (0.52%) 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%) SAML
5 3 (0.22%) Vue
6 2 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.15%) Jinja
6 2 (0.15%) pgvector
6 2 (0.15%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.15%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 278 (20.50%) Cyberattack
2 61 (4.50%) Security Posture
3 51 (3.76%) Driving Licence
4 41 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (1.77%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.77%) Operational Technology
7 19 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.18%) Cyber Security Posture
8 16 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (0.74%) Cloud Native
10 9 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (0.59%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (0.52%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.52%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.44%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.44%) IoT
13 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 131 (9.66%) Windows
2 77 (5.68%) Windows Server
3 20 (1.47%) Linux
4 13 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.59%) Windows 10
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
1 306 (22.57%) Mentoring
2 226 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
3 119 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 109 (8.04%) AI
5 82 (6.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 82 (6.05%) Incident Response
6 79 (5.83%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (5.53%) SIEM
8 65 (4.79%) Customer Service
9 59 (4.35%) Information Security
10 58 (4.28%) Cloud Security
11 56 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 55 (4.06%) Vulnerability Management
13 53 (3.91%) Decision-Making
13 53 (3.91%) IT Strategy
13 53 (3.91%) Risk Management
14 52 (3.83%) Service Delivery
15 48 (3.54%) ITIL
15 48 (3.54%) Security Architecture
16 47 (3.47%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (3.76%) PowerShell
2 36 (2.65%) Python
3 17 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 13 (0.96%) Bash
5 12 (0.88%) SQL
6 11 (0.81%) C#
7 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) 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
1 436 (32.15%) Azure Certification
2 239 (17.63%) CompTIA Security+
3 230 (16.96%) CEH
4 218 (16.08%) CompTIA CySA+
5 71 (5.24%) Degree
6 51 (3.76%) Security Cleared
7 46 (3.39%) SC Cleared
8 43 (3.17%) CISSP
9 30 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
10 29 (2.14%) A+ Certification
10 29 (2.14%) CISM
11 20 (1.47%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.96%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.66%) CCNA
17 9 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 7 (0.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.65%) NIST
3 61 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 48 (3.54%) GDPR
5 27 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 27 (1.99%) GRC
6 14 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.74%) QA
8 7 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.37%) NCSC
10 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.22%) HL7
11 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.15%) PMO
11 2 (0.15%) SLA
12 1 (0.074%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.074%) GxP
12 1 (0.074%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.074%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.59%) Docker
6 6 (0.44%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (5.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.96%) Terraform
3 11 (0.81%) 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 (0.29%) Grafana
7 3 (0.22%) cPanel
7 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.22%) Plesk
7 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.22%) WSUS
8 2 (0.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.15%) QRadar
9 1 (0.074%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 693 (51.11%) Microsoft
2 421 (31.05%) ForeScout
3 31 (2.29%) VMware
4 23 (1.70%) Cisco
5 21 (1.55%) Apple
5 21 (1.55%) Palo Alto
6 19 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (1.11%) Veeam
8 14 (1.03%) Adobe
9 13 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.88%) Tenable
11 8 (0.59%) Aruba
11 8 (0.59%) Tanium
12 7 (0.52%) HP
12 7 (0.52%) SonicWALL
13 6 (0.44%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.37%) Meraki
14 5 (0.37%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.37%) Splunk
15 4 (0.29%) Aderant