Cybersecurity Jobs in the North of England

Cybersecurity
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 33 43
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 682 929 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.89% 5.13% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 6.26% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 340 749 535
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £34,762 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,084 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -13.19% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,418 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,300 £85,000 £89,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% -

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 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the North of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 -33 380 £54,793 +5.20% 796
Yorkshire +24 285 £47,683 -4.63% 627
North East -15 17 £65,000 +52.94% 209
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.44%) CMS
3 3 (0.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.29%) WordPress
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 14 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
1 14 (2.05%) Trello
2 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 72 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (9.09%) Azure
3 40 (5.87%) AWS
4 10 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (1.17%) Entra ID
5 8 (1.17%) GCP
6 5 (0.73%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (0.44%) IaaS
8 2 (0.29%) AWS KMS
8 2 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.29%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.29%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.29%) SaaS
9 1 (0.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.15%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.15%) GitHub
9 1 (0.15%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.15%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 102 (14.96%) Firewall
2 24 (3.52%) VoIP
3 20 (2.93%) Network Security
4 16 (2.35%) DNS
5 13 (1.91%) WAN
6 12 (1.76%) DHCP
6 12 (1.76%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (1.47%) LAN
8 9 (1.32%) Internet
9 8 (1.17%) VPN
10 6 (0.88%) VLAN
11 5 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (0.73%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.59%) HTTP
12 4 (0.59%) SAN
13 3 (0.44%) Broadband
13 3 (0.44%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.44%) Wireless
14 2 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.88%) MySQL
1 6 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (0.73%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.59%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.29%) EDMS
5 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.15%) Big Data
6 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (2.79%) JIRA
2 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.15%) Git
3 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
General
1 183 (26.83%) Legal
2 178 (26.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 178 (26.10%) Law
3 149 (21.85%) Social Skills
4 80 (11.73%) Finance
4 80 (11.73%) Presentation Skills
5 57 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (6.45%) Banking
7 22 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.47%) Retail
11 8 (1.17%) Automotive
11 8 (1.17%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.59%) Back Office
14 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.44%) Electronics
14 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (11.44%) Systems Engineer
2 41 (6.01%) IT Engineer
3 37 (5.43%) Analyst
4 34 (4.99%) Security Manager
5 26 (3.81%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 26 (3.81%) Head of IT
6 25 (3.67%) Architect
6 25 (3.67%) Senior
7 23 (3.37%) IT Support
7 23 (3.37%) Security Architect
8 21 (3.08%) PLC Engineer
9 20 (2.93%) IT Analyst
10 19 (2.79%) Instrumentation Engineer
11 18 (2.64%) Lead
12 16 (2.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 15 (2.20%) Security Specialist
14 14 (2.05%) Head of Delivery
14 14 (2.05%) Security Engineer
15 13 (1.91%) 1st Line Support
15 13 (1.91%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.28%) Software Packaging
2 13 (1.91%) Node.js
3 11 (1.61%) Web Services
4 10 (1.47%) React
4 10 (1.47%) REST
5 8 (1.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.44%) .NET
6 3 (0.44%) Vue
7 2 (0.29%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.29%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.29%) CSS
7 2 (0.29%) Django
7 2 (0.29%) HTML
7 2 (0.29%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.29%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.29%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.15%) RESTful
8 1 (0.15%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (29.03%) Cyberattack
2 69 (10.12%) Operational Technology
3 44 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.52%) Security Posture
5 23 (3.37%) Social Media
6 21 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
7 15 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.73%) Robotics
10 5 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (0.59%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.44%) FMCG
12 3 (0.44%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 122 (17.89%) Windows
2 35 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 21 (3.08%) Windows 10
4 20 (2.93%) Linux
5 8 (1.17%) Windows Vista
6 5 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (31.52%) Line Management
2 174 (25.51%) Creative Thinking
3 122 (17.89%) Agile
4 106 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (13.49%) Systems Engineering
6 78 (11.44%) MODAF
6 78 (11.44%) SysML
6 78 (11.44%) UML
7 74 (10.85%) Information Security
8 71 (10.41%) Software Engineering
9 59 (8.65%) Risk Management
10 58 (8.50%) Network Management
11 57 (8.36%) Network Design
12 47 (6.89%) Incident Response
13 46 (6.74%) Mathematics
13 46 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence
14 45 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (6.30%) Computer Science
16 42 (6.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 78 (11.44%) MATLAB
2 20 (2.93%) Python
3 14 (2.05%) PowerShell
4 13 (1.91%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 7 (1.03%) SQL
6 5 (0.73%) C#
7 4 (0.59%) Java
8 3 (0.44%) Progress 4GL
9 2 (0.29%) C++
9 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.29%) PHP
10 1 (0.15%) Bash
10 1 (0.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 188 (27.57%) Degree
2 89 (13.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 46 (6.74%) CISSP
4 39 (5.72%) CISM
5 27 (3.96%) DBS Check
6 23 (3.37%) Security Cleared
7 22 (3.23%) HND
8 19 (2.79%) CISA
9 18 (2.64%) CEH
10 17 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.05%) PMI Certification
11 14 (2.05%) PMP
11 14 (2.05%) SC Cleared
12 13 (1.91%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (1.17%) CRISC
14 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.88%) CompTIA CySA+
15 6 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (26.98%) NCSC
2 64 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (7.18%) NIST
4 26 (3.81%) GDPR
5 23 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.61%) GRC
6 11 (1.61%) QA
7 8 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (1.03%) COBIT
8 7 (1.03%) SLA
9 5 (0.73%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.44%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.29%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.15%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 91 (13.34%) Active Directory
2 57 (8.36%) Virtual Servers
3 12 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.73%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.59%) Docker
7 1 (0.15%) pfSense
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.59%) QRadar
3 4 (0.59%) Terraform
4 3 (0.44%) Autotask
5 2 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.23%) Cisco
3 11 (1.61%) VMware
4 10 (1.47%) Fortinet
4 10 (1.47%) Meraki
5 9 (1.32%) Ping Identity
5 9 (1.32%) SonicWALL
5 9 (1.32%) WatchGuard
6 6 (0.88%) AlienVault
7 5 (0.73%) Google
8 4 (0.59%) Tenable
9 3 (0.44%) Acronis
9 3 (0.44%) Capita
9 3 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.44%) Kaseya
9 3 (0.44%) Progress
9 3 (0.44%) Sage
9 3 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.44%) Splunk
9 3 (0.44%) Veeam