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 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 79 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 -21 +61
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 2 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.27% 0.088% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.35% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83,000 - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.77%
75th Percentile £89,000 - £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £66,442 £52,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +26.56% -11.80% +7.38%

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 350 287 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 47.23% 25.24% 46.85%
Number of salaries quoted 101 140 145
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £74,782 £91,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.88%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Cyber Threat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat 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
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 13 September 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 -
Cyber Threat
North West

Cyber Threat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) DPDK
1 2 (100.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
1 2 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SaltStack