Cyberattack Jobs in Manchester

Cyberattack
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 111 202
Rank change year-on-year +82 +91 +26
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 201 104 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.91% 1.89% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.88% 5.67% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £65,250 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £69,375 £49,936
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +19.22% -13.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £89,375 £75,000
90th Percentile - £89,750 -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £69,200
% change year-on-year +30.00% -27.75% +15.33%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Cyberattack 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,124 1,835 1,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 44.25% 33.40% 42.63%
Number of salaries quoted 598 1,120 995
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £38,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,968 £72,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,927 £85,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,654 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -7.90% +3.77%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in Manchester

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in Manchester.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in Manchester

Cyberattack
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Oldham +3 14 - -
Bury - 14 - -
Stockport +11 12 - -
Dukinfield 0 12 - -
Heywood - 12 - -
Altrincham - 12 - -
Sale +1 11 - -
Stalybridge - 11 - -
Cheadle - 10 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 8 - -
Bolton - 8 - -
Rochdale - 6 - -
Wigan - 6 - - 2
Littleborough - 2 - -
Cyberattack
North West

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 84 (41.79%) AWS
2 82 (40.80%) Azure
2 82 (40.80%) GCP
3 2 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 69 (34.33%) VPN
2 43 (21.39%) Cisco IOS
3 26 (12.94%) DNS
General
1 199 (99.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 69 (34.33%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (23.88%) Law
3 48 (23.88%) Legal
4 26 (12.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 84 (41.79%) Senior
2 83 (41.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 83 (41.29%) Software Engineer
3 43 (21.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (12.94%) Developer
4 26 (12.94%) Software Developer
5 1 (0.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (0.50%) Security Engineer
5 1 (0.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (0.50%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (41.29%) Node.js
2 82 (40.80%) .NET
3 43 (21.39%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.00%) React
5 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.50%) OAuth
5 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 82 (40.80%) Linux Command Line
1 82 (40.80%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 151 (75.12%) Linux
2 69 (34.33%) Android
3 43 (21.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (58.21%) Line Management
2 109 (54.23%) Agile
3 84 (41.79%) Cloud Security
3 84 (41.79%) Software Engineering
4 83 (41.29%) Microservices
5 82 (40.80%) Data Engineering
5 82 (40.80%) Machine Learning
5 82 (40.80%) Mentoring
5 82 (40.80%) Scrum
5 82 (40.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 82 (40.80%) User Experience
6 69 (34.33%) Mathematics
7 49 (24.38%) Cybersecurity
8 48 (23.88%) Creative Thinking
9 43 (21.39%) DevOps
9 43 (21.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 43 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (21.39%) Risk Management
9 43 (21.39%) Storage Management
9 43 (21.39%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (75.12%) Python
2 108 (53.73%) C++
2 108 (53.73%) Go
2 108 (53.73%) Java
3 83 (41.29%) JavaScript
4 82 (40.80%) Rust
5 43 (21.39%) Bash
5 43 (21.39%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 108 (53.73%) DV Cleared
1 108 (53.73%) Security Cleared
2 82 (40.80%) AWS Certification
2 82 (40.80%) AWS Certified Developer
2 82 (40.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (23.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (34.33%) Docker
2 43 (21.39%) Hyper-V
2 43 (21.39%) VMware NSX
2 43 (21.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (34.33%) Ansible
2 43 (21.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (21.39%) 3PAR
1 43 (21.39%) Cisco
1 43 (21.39%) Juniper
1 43 (21.39%) Splunk
2 1 (0.50%) Ping Identity