Sophos Job Trends in the North of England

Sophos
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Sophos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Sophos over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sophos PLC.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 273 296
Rank change year-on-year -81 +23 -29
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 7 21 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.029% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.47% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 19
10th Percentile - £29,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +6.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £34,850 £43,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £40,200 £51,800 £52,600
England median annual salary £40,200 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year +14.86% +2.94% -16.05%

All Vendors
North of England

Sophos falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,185 4,461 3,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.58% 46.81% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,316 1,870 1,909
10th Percentile £28,856 £25,087 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,251 £27,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -22.50% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £51,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +8.74% -9.65% -0.87%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Sophos job vacancy trend in the North of England

Sophos
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sophos

Sophos
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sophos in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Sophos in the North of England

Sophos
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 Sophos within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 October 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 5 £29,000 -9.38% 4
Yorkshire -49 2 £40,200 -3.13%
Sophos
England

Sophos
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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
1 5 (71.43%) Structured Cabling
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
1 5 (71.43%) VLAN
1 5 (71.43%) VoIP
1 5 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) IT Support
1 5 (71.43%) IT Support Technician
1 5 (71.43%) IT Technician
1 5 (71.43%) Support Technician
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) CCTV
1 5 (71.43%) Driving Licence
1 5 (71.43%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (28.57%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
1 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (71.43%) Remote Monitoring and Management
1 5 (71.43%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) SonicWALL
2 5 (71.43%) VMware