Cyber Threat Job Trends in Cheshire

Cyber Threats
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.32% - 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% - 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £40,925 - -
25th Percentile £47,938 - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.77%
75th Percentile £76,438 - £92,500
90th Percentile £83,975 - -
North West median annual salary £63,500 £58,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.55% +17.00% -23.08%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 749 198 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 59.44% 33.28% 36.69%
Number of salaries quoted 193 107 141
10th Percentile £28,170 £32,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,800 £78,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Threat relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cyber Threat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in Cheshire

Cyber Threat
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Threat within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 2 £86,000 -
Warrington - 1 - - 3
Chester - 1 £37,500 - 4
Cyber Threat
North West

Cyber Threat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) DPDK
1 2 (50.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) KVM
1 2 (50.00%) QEMU
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft