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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 57 98
Rank change year-on-year +11 +41 +125
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 113 132 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.78% 3.62% 2.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.96% 10.65% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62,500 £32,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £50,737
Median % change year-on-year - +47.82% +17.63%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £80,750
North West median annual salary - £50,000 £50,737
% change year-on-year - -1.45% +13.46%

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 872 1,240 971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.92% 34.01% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 512 458 778
10th Percentile £27,075 £31,250 £37,431
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,813 £68,438 £72,483
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £56,021
% change year-on-year -5.71% -6.29% +1.86%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cyberattack job vacancy trend 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 3 November 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
Sale 0 8 - -
Oldham -1 8 - -
Cheadle - 8 - -
Stockport +1 7 - -
Bury - 7 - -
Altrincham - 7 - -
Heywood - 7 - -
Dukinfield 0 6 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -1 6 - -
Stalybridge - 6 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Bolton - 2 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Cyberattack
North West

Cyberattack
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 68 (60.18%) AWS
1 68 (60.18%) Azure
1 68 (60.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 43 (38.05%) Cisco IOS
1 43 (38.05%) VPN
General
1 111 (98.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (38.05%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (61.06%) Senior
2 68 (60.18%) Senior Software Engineer
2 68 (60.18%) Software Engineer
3 43 (38.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 2 (1.77%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (0.88%) Senior Cyber Threat Specialist
5 1 (0.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (60.18%) .NET
1 68 (60.18%) Node.js
2 43 (38.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 68 (60.18%) Linux Command Line
1 68 (60.18%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 111 (98.23%) Linux
2 43 (38.05%) Android
2 43 (38.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.18%) Agile
1 68 (60.18%) Cloud Security
1 68 (60.18%) Data Engineering
1 68 (60.18%) Machine Learning
1 68 (60.18%) Mentoring
1 68 (60.18%) Microservices
1 68 (60.18%) Scrum
1 68 (60.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 68 (60.18%) Software Engineering
1 68 (60.18%) User Experience
2 43 (38.05%) DevOps
2 43 (38.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (38.05%) Line Management
2 43 (38.05%) Mathematics
2 43 (38.05%) Platform Engineering
2 43 (38.05%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (38.05%) Risk Management
2 43 (38.05%) Storage Management
2 43 (38.05%) Task Automation
3 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 111 (98.23%) Python
2 68 (60.18%) C++
2 68 (60.18%) Go
2 68 (60.18%) Java
2 68 (60.18%) JavaScript
2 68 (60.18%) Rust
3 43 (38.05%) Bash
3 43 (38.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 68 (60.18%) AWS Certification
1 68 (60.18%) AWS Certified Developer
1 68 (60.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 68 (60.18%) DV Cleared
1 68 (60.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 43 (38.05%) Docker
1 43 (38.05%) Hyper-V
1 43 (38.05%) VMware NSX
1 43 (38.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (38.05%) Ansible
1 43 (38.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (38.05%) 3PAR
1 43 (38.05%) Cisco
1 43 (38.05%) Juniper
1 43 (38.05%) Splunk