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 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 136 170
Rank change year-on-year 0 +34 -30
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 15 9 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.37% 0.42% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 1.08% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £35,081 £61,750 £47,000
% change year-on-year -43.19% +31.38% +52.44%

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 1,284 830 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 31.39% 38.84% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 660 513 1,211
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% -4.86%
75th Percentile £74,625 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Ethical Hacker
2 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
2 6 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Cyber Threat Specialist
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (53.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 6 (40.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (6.67%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Azure Certification
1 8 (53.33%) CEH
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) ForeScout
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Spotify
2 1 (6.67%) Veeam
2 1 (6.67%) VMware