Cyberattack Job Trends 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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 70 144
Rank change year-on-year +43 +74 +103
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 199 128 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.40% 3.14% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 20.35% 9.26% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 20
10th Percentile - £65,250 -
25th Percentile - £69,375 £32,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £82,500 £56,619
Median % change year-on-year - +45.71% -29.23%
75th Percentile - £89,375 £75,000
90th Percentile - £89,750 £77,875
North West median annual salary - £50,000 £56,619
% change year-on-year - -11.69% -12.89%

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 978 1,383 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 41.30% 33.96% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 506 580 884
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £37,256
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,397 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% +4.55%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cyberattack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cyberattack

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 19 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
Oldham +3 14 - -
Bury - 14 - -
Stockport +9 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 - -
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 82 (41.21%) AWS
1 82 (41.21%) Azure
1 82 (41.21%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 69 (34.67%) VPN
2 43 (21.61%) Cisco IOS
3 26 (13.07%) DNS
General
1 199 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 69 (34.67%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (24.12%) Law
3 48 (24.12%) Legal
4 26 (13.07%) Finance
Job Titles
1 82 (41.21%) Senior
1 82 (41.21%) Senior Software Engineer
1 82 (41.21%) Software Engineer
2 43 (21.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (13.07%) Developer
3 26 (13.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (41.21%) .NET
1 82 (41.21%) Node.js
2 43 (21.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 82 (41.21%) Linux Command Line
1 82 (41.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 151 (75.88%) Linux
2 69 (34.67%) Android
3 43 (21.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (58.79%) Line Management
2 108 (54.27%) Agile
3 82 (41.21%) Cloud Security
3 82 (41.21%) Data Engineering
3 82 (41.21%) Machine Learning
3 82 (41.21%) Mentoring
3 82 (41.21%) Microservices
3 82 (41.21%) Scrum
3 82 (41.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 82 (41.21%) Software Engineering
3 82 (41.21%) User Experience
4 69 (34.67%) Mathematics
5 48 (24.12%) Creative Thinking
5 48 (24.12%) Cybersecurity
6 43 (21.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (21.61%) Platform Engineering
6 43 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (21.61%) Risk Management
6 43 (21.61%) Storage Management
6 43 (21.61%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (75.88%) Python
2 108 (54.27%) C++
2 108 (54.27%) Go
2 108 (54.27%) Java
3 82 (41.21%) JavaScript
3 82 (41.21%) Rust
4 43 (21.61%) Bash
4 43 (21.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 108 (54.27%) DV Cleared
1 108 (54.27%) Security Cleared
2 82 (41.21%) AWS Certification
2 82 (41.21%) AWS Certified Developer
2 82 (41.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (24.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (34.67%) Docker
2 43 (21.61%) Hyper-V
2 43 (21.61%) VMware NSX
2 43 (21.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (34.67%) Ansible
2 43 (21.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (21.61%) 3PAR
1 43 (21.61%) Cisco
1 43 (21.61%) Juniper
1 43 (21.61%) Splunk