Information Assurance Job Trends in the North of England

Information Assurance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 265 278
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 +109
Permanent jobs citing Information Assurance 3 12 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.029% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £51,250 - £49,375
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,200 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +25.00% +25.65%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £65,875
90th Percentile - - £69,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £64,814 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.14% +4.54% -11.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Information Assurance 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 8,666 8,497 6,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.37% 89.75% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,589 3,870 5,287
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,667 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -1.59% -0.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,100 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Assurance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in the North of England

Information Assurance
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Information Assurance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Information Assurance

Information Assurance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Assurance in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Assurance in the North of England

Information Assurance
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 Information Assurance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 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 East +6 2 £72,500 +27.87%
North West +17 1 £47,500 -36.67% 11
Information Assurance
England

Information Assurance
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Assurance Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Attestation
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST