Cybersecurity Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 38 74
Rank change year-on-year -5 +36 -4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 15 61 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.30% 4.56% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 5.21% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 53 16
10th Percentile £31,739 £33,800 £31,999
25th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £38,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,029 £41,500 £49,625
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -16.37% -27.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £50,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £73,625 £63,035 £73,500
North East median annual salary £53,562 £42,500 £45,875
% change year-on-year +26.03% -7.36% -0.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 432 1,170 889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 94.95% 87.44% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 298 985 447
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,150
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,000 £38,634
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £64,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,059 £75,400
North East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year -5.26% -0.52% +12.35%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Tyne and Wear

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 9 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +3 12 £65,000 +56.63% 11
Sunderland +17 3 £36,000 -14.29% 4
Cybersecurity
North East

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (13.33%) Internet
2 2 (13.33%) Unified Communications
2 2 (13.33%) Wireless
3 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) EDMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
1 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Applications Support
2 2 (13.33%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (13.33%) Governance Manager
2 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Risk Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Information Governance Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Information Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Information Risk Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Junior
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Project Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Housing Association
2 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.67%) Learning Management System
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Information Security
2 4 (26.67%) IT Strategy
3 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (20.00%) Cyber Assurance
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Change Control
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
4 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Trend Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 3 (20.00%) CISA
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CISM
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CEH
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) GIAC
4 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (33.33%) GDPR
3 4 (26.67%) NIST
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (13.33%) NCSC
5 1 (6.67%) Def Stans
5 1 (6.67%) GRC
5 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
5 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Capita
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Progress
1 2 (13.33%) Sun
2 1 (6.67%) VMware