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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +33 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,194 539 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 12.23% 4.34% 6.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.41% 5.36% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 356 259 357
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,650 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,875 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.14% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

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 8,287 10,064 7,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.88% 81.06% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,612 4,726 5,439
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,917
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +30 789 £45,000 -18.03% 218
Yorkshire +27 351 £32,500 -45.83% 110
North East +23 54 £30,500 -39.37% 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 12 (1.01%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.59%) WordPress
3 6 (0.50%) CMS
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.25%) Apache
5 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.17%) Drupal
6 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.084%) FileNet
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.34%) Magento
3 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 630 (52.76%) Cloud Computing
2 165 (13.82%) Azure
3 108 (9.05%) AWS
4 77 (6.45%) GitHub
5 75 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (1.59%) Entra ID
6 19 (1.59%) SaaS
7 14 (1.17%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (0.67%) IaaS
10 7 (0.59%) PaaS
11 6 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.50%) dbt
11 6 (0.50%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.42%) OCI
12 5 (0.42%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (0.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.25%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 698 (58.46%) Internet
2 98 (8.21%) Firewall
3 27 (2.26%) VPN
4 25 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.93%) VoIP
6 21 (1.76%) DNS
7 19 (1.59%) VLAN
8 14 (1.17%) Network Security
9 13 (1.09%) LAN
9 13 (1.09%) WAN
9 13 (1.09%) Wireless
10 12 (1.01%) DHCP
11 9 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.42%) DMZ
12 5 (0.42%) Modbus
12 5 (0.42%) STUN
13 3 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
14 2 (0.17%) Broadband
14 2 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.34%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.84%) Power BI
3 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.34%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.25%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (0.25%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.25%) Data Vault
4 3 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.17%) MySQL
6 1 (0.084%) GIS
6 1 (0.084%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 72 (6.03%) Git
2 6 (0.50%) JIRA
3 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.17%) JMeter
3 2 (0.17%) Locust
4 1 (0.084%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.084%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.084%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.084%) Snyk
General
1 811 (67.92%) Social Skills
2 655 (54.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 629 (52.68%) Banking
4 111 (9.30%) Multimedia
5 72 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (2.68%) Finance
7 28 (2.35%) Legal
8 20 (1.68%) Law
9 18 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.34%) Public Sector
11 11 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.84%) Marketing
13 9 (0.75%) German Language
14 7 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.34%) Billing
17 4 (0.34%) Retail
18 3 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 496 (41.54%) Lecturer
2 111 (9.30%) Trainee
3 46 (3.85%) IT Engineer
4 40 (3.35%) Developer
4 40 (3.35%) Senior
5 39 (3.27%) PLC Engineer
6 37 (3.10%) Software Developer
6 37 (3.10%) Trainee Developer
6 37 (3.10%) Trainee Software Developer
7 33 (2.76%) Lead
8 31 (2.60%) IT Manager
9 30 (2.51%) Architect
10 23 (1.93%) IT Support
11 22 (1.84%) Support Engineer
12 21 (1.76%) Analyst
13 19 (1.59%) Instrumentation Engineer
14 17 (1.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (1.26%) Security Specialist
16 14 (1.17%) Security Engineer
17 13 (1.09%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (6.62%) HTML
2 74 (6.20%) CSS
3 8 (0.67%) .NET
4 5 (0.42%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.34%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.34%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.34%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.25%) CSS3
6 3 (0.25%) HTML5
6 3 (0.25%) Node.js
6 3 (0.25%) Pandas
6 3 (0.25%) Sass
7 2 (0.17%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.17%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.17%) Node-RED
7 2 (0.17%) YAML
8 1 (0.084%) JWT
8 1 (0.084%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.084%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.084%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 631 (52.85%) IoT
2 73 (6.11%) Operational Technology
3 47 (3.94%) Cyberattack
4 44 (3.69%) Renewable Energy
5 15 (1.26%) Security Posture
6 13 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 13 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.01%) Driving Licence
7 12 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (0.92%) Blog
8 11 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 11 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 8 (0.67%) Cloud Native
9 8 (0.67%) LIMS
9 8 (0.67%) Product Ownership
9 8 (0.67%) SCADA
10 7 (0.59%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.42%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 121 (10.13%) Windows
2 30 (2.51%) Windows Server
3 29 (2.43%) Linux
4 9 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.42%) Debian
7 2 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (55.19%) AI
2 631 (52.85%) User Experience
3 626 (52.43%) Machine Learning
3 626 (52.43%) Web Development
4 126 (10.55%) Mentoring
5 107 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (5.53%) Network Management
7 63 (5.28%) Network Design
8 58 (4.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (4.44%) Project Delivery
10 50 (4.19%) Line Management
11 49 (4.10%) Software Engineering
12 43 (3.60%) Information Security
13 42 (3.52%) Ethical Hacking
14 35 (2.93%) Incident Response
15 33 (2.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (2.51%) DevOps
17 29 (2.43%) Project Management
17 29 (2.43%) SIEM
17 29 (2.43%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (7.37%) Python
2 75 (6.28%) JavaScript
3 33 (2.76%) R
4 27 (2.26%) SQL
5 11 (0.92%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.59%) C#
7 5 (0.42%) Bash
7 5 (0.42%) Java
8 4 (0.34%) Bicep
9 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.084%) C
10 1 (0.084%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 687 (57.54%) Degree
2 628 (52.60%) Master's Degree
3 626 (52.43%) Postgraduate
4 625 (52.35%) PhD
5 78 (6.53%) AWS Certification
6 77 (6.45%) Azure Certification
7 75 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 70 (5.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 52 (4.36%) HND
10 47 (3.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 46 (3.85%) A+ Certification
12 44 (3.69%) CEH
13 41 (3.43%) Network+ Certification
14 22 (1.84%) Security Cleared
15 20 (1.68%) CISSP
16 16 (1.34%) SC Cleared
17 13 (1.09%) HNC
17 13 (1.09%) PMP
18 11 (0.92%) CISM
18 11 (0.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (1.76%) GDPR
4 20 (1.68%) NIST
5 14 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (0.84%) GRC
6 10 (0.84%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.75%) NCSC
8 6 (0.50%) QA
9 5 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.42%) GLBA
9 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.25%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.17%) COBIT
12 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.17%) PMO
12 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 57 (4.77%) Virtual Servers
3 14 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 10 (0.84%) Docker
5 5 (0.42%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.084%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.50%) Terraform
3 5 (0.42%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.34%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.17%) Grafana
5 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.084%) Nessus
6 1 (0.084%) Nmap
6 1 (0.084%) QRadar
6 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 181 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 21 (1.76%) Apple
3 18 (1.51%) Sage
4 11 (0.92%) Adobe
4 11 (0.92%) Palo Alto
5 9 (0.75%) SonicWALL
6 7 (0.59%) Oracle
7 6 (0.50%) Cisco
7 6 (0.50%) iManage
7 6 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.42%) Qualys
9 4 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.34%) PayPal
9 4 (0.34%) Rapid7
9 4 (0.34%) Splunk
9 4 (0.34%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (0.25%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.25%) Datto
10 3 (0.25%) ESET
10 3 (0.25%) Veeam