Blue Team Job Trends in Manchester

Blue Teaming
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Blue Team skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 4 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.055% - 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% - 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £45,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £40,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Blue Team 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,501 2,153 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.56% 89.60% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 1,235 1,837
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,700 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Blue Team relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Blue Team job vacancy trend in Manchester

Blue Team
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Blue Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Blue Team

Blue Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 4 (100.00%) Mimecast
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Junior
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (50.00%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) SOAR
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Forensics
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) CEH
2 2 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (50.00%) GCIH
2 2 (50.00%) SANS
2 2 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Nessus
2 2 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk