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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 44 37
Rank change year-on-year +40 -7 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 2,237 432 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 21.01% 4.74% 6.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.17% 5.23% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 441 222 384
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,050 £30,599
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £71,546
90th Percentile £82,241 £86,125 £88,200
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% -3.85%

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 8,548 8,253 7,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.28% 90.50% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,558 3,684 5,843
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 January 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 +31 1,774 £40,500 -26.09% 161
Yorkshire +32 395 £30,500 -48.20% 107
North East +38 68 £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 18 (0.80%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.45%) WordPress
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.22%) Confluence
4 5 (0.22%) Drupal
4 5 (0.22%) nginx
5 3 (0.13%) Apache
5 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.045%) FileNet
Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,620 (72.42%) Cloud Computing
2 300 (13.41%) Azure
3 165 (7.38%) AWS
4 123 (5.50%) GitHub
5 71 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (1.43%) Entra ID
7 22 (0.98%) SaaS
8 15 (0.67%) Power Platform
9 9 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (0.36%) IaaS
10 8 (0.36%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.31%) PaaS
12 6 (0.27%) dbt
12 6 (0.27%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.22%) OCI
13 5 (0.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (0.13%) Azure Stack
14 3 (0.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1,736 (77.60%) Internet
2 30 (1.34%) Firewall
3 26 (1.16%) VPN
4 22 (0.98%) DNS
5 19 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.76%) VLAN
7 16 (0.72%) VoIP
8 14 (0.63%) DHCP
9 13 (0.58%) Network Security
10 11 (0.49%) DMZ
11 9 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.36%) LAN
12 8 (0.36%) WAN
13 6 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (0.27%) Wireless
14 5 (0.22%) STUN
15 4 (0.18%) Modbus
16 2 (0.089%) Broadband
16 2 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
17 1 (0.045%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (0.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.36%) Power BI
3 5 (0.22%) MariaDB
4 4 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.13%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.13%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.13%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.13%) Neo4j
5 3 (0.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.089%) Tableau
7 1 (0.045%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 117 (5.23%) Git
2 6 (0.27%) JIRA
3 2 (0.089%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.089%) JMeter
3 2 (0.089%) Locust
4 1 (0.045%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.045%) Snyk
General
1 1,817 (81.22%) Social Skills
2 1,654 (73.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,618 (72.33%) Banking
4 178 (7.96%) Multimedia
5 38 (1.70%) Finance
6 34 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (0.94%) Legal
8 17 (0.76%) Public Sector
8 17 (0.76%) Telecoms
9 13 (0.58%) Law
10 10 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (0.45%) Marketing
11 8 (0.36%) German Language
11 8 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.22%) Local Government
13 5 (0.22%) Police
13 5 (0.22%) Retail
14 4 (0.18%) Avionics
14 4 (0.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,224 (54.72%) Lecturer
2 178 (7.96%) Trainee
3 102 (4.56%) Analyst
4 88 (3.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 88 (3.93%) Security Analyst
5 75 (3.35%) Junior
5 75 (3.35%) Junior Analyst
5 75 (3.35%) Junior Security Analyst
6 61 (2.73%) Developer
6 61 (2.73%) Software Developer
6 61 (2.73%) Trainee Developer
6 61 (2.73%) Trainee Software Developer
7 58 (2.59%) Senior
8 37 (1.65%) Architect
9 35 (1.56%) Lead
10 32 (1.43%) IT Manager
11 29 (1.30%) IT Support
12 26 (1.16%) Support Engineer
13 22 (0.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (0.80%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.59%) HTML
2 120 (5.36%) CSS
3 6 (0.27%) .NET
3 6 (0.27%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.22%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (0.13%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.13%) ASP.NET
5 3 (0.13%) CSS3
5 3 (0.13%) HTML5
5 3 (0.13%) MERN Stack
5 3 (0.13%) Node.js
5 3 (0.13%) Pandas
5 3 (0.13%) React
5 3 (0.13%) Sass
6 2 (0.089%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.089%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.089%) Middleware
6 2 (0.089%) YAML
7 1 (0.045%) Django
7 1 (0.045%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1,619 (72.37%) IoT
2 28 (1.25%) Onboarding
3 25 (1.12%) Operational Technology
4 18 (0.80%) Driving Licence
5 17 (0.76%) Management Information System
6 14 (0.63%) Blog
7 11 (0.49%) Cyberattack
7 11 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (0.45%) Data Centre
9 9 (0.40%) Public Cloud
9 9 (0.40%) Security Posture
10 8 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (0.36%) LIMS
11 7 (0.31%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.31%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.27%) SCADA
12 6 (0.27%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 5 (0.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.37%) Windows
2 27 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 23 (1.03%) Linux
4 8 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.22%) Debian
7 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,658 (74.12%) AI
2 1,622 (72.51%) User Experience
3 1,616 (72.24%) Machine Learning
4 1,615 (72.19%) Web Development
5 265 (11.85%) Mentoring
6 78 (3.49%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (3.26%) Line Management
8 62 (2.77%) Ethical Hacking
9 50 (2.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (1.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (1.56%) Incident Response
11 35 (1.56%) Information Security
12 33 (1.48%) ITIL
13 31 (1.39%) Service Delivery
14 28 (1.25%) DevOps
14 28 (1.25%) IT Strategy
14 28 (1.25%) Project Management
15 27 (1.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 26 (1.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 24 (1.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 129 (5.77%) Python
2 121 (5.41%) JavaScript
3 56 (2.50%) R
4 33 (1.48%) SQL
5 14 (0.63%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.22%) Bash
6 5 (0.22%) C#
6 5 (0.22%) Java
7 4 (0.18%) Bicep
8 3 (0.13%) C
8 3 (0.13%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.089%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,678 (75.01%) Degree
2 1,619 (72.37%) Master's Degree
3 1,616 (72.24%) Postgraduate
4 1,615 (72.19%) PhD
5 200 (8.94%) Azure Certification
6 143 (6.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 138 (6.17%) AWS Certification
8 124 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 117 (5.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 76 (3.40%) CompTIA CySA+
11 67 (3.00%) A+ Certification
12 65 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
13 63 (2.82%) CEH
14 19 (0.85%) Security Cleared
15 18 (0.80%) CISSP
16 16 (0.72%) SC Cleared
17 15 (0.67%) HND
17 15 (0.67%) PMP
18 13 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (0.58%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 28 (1.25%) NIST
4 22 (0.98%) GRC
5 18 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 17 (0.76%) GDPR
7 12 (0.54%) ISO 9001
8 9 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.27%) SLA
10 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.22%) GLBA
10 5 (0.22%) QA
11 4 (0.18%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.18%) NCSC
11 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.13%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.089%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.089%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.089%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.089%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.63%) Docker
3 8 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.22%) Kamailio
5 4 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.045%) Firmware
7 1 (0.045%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.27%) Terraform
4 2 (0.089%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.089%) Grafana
4 2 (0.089%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.045%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 292 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 75 (3.35%) ForeScout
3 25 (1.12%) Apple
4 18 (0.80%) Adobe
5 9 (0.40%) Sage
6 8 (0.36%) Palo Alto
7 6 (0.27%) Cisco
7 6 (0.27%) iManage
7 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
7 6 (0.27%) SonicWALL
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle
9 4 (0.18%) PayPal
10 3 (0.13%) Citrix
10 3 (0.13%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.13%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.13%) Sparx
11 2 (0.089%) Dell
11 2 (0.089%) Qualys
11 2 (0.089%) Spotify
11 2 (0.089%) VMware