Cybersecurity Job Trends in Manchester

Cybersecurity
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 51
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 365 157 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.13% 6.31% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 7.00% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 258 89 107
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,313 £37,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £30,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £95,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £49,750 £54,897
% change year-on-year +15.58% -9.37% -8.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Cybersecurity 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 5,356 2,244 3,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.25% 90.19% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,167 1,319 2,123
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. 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
Bolton +18 20 £50,000 -33.33% 3
Salford -9 18 £27,500 -60.37% 3
Altrincham +9 5 £40,000 +45.45%
Bury +8 5 £29,000 -
Sale +5 2 £62,500 -
Stockport -2 2 £32,500 +8.33% 3
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
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 14 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.29%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.55%) Azure
2 51 (13.97%) AWS
3 43 (11.78%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (4.93%) GCP
4 18 (4.93%) SaaS
5 14 (3.84%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.56%) Serverless
7 12 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.19%) Mimecast
9 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (1.92%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.37%) GitHub
11 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.37%) IaaS
12 4 (1.10%) PaaS
12 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.82%) Datadog
13 3 (0.82%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.58%) Unified Communications
2 16 (4.38%) Firewall
3 14 (3.84%) VoIP
4 10 (2.74%) VLAN
5 8 (2.19%) DNS
5 8 (2.19%) Internet
6 5 (1.37%) DHCP
6 5 (1.37%) Network Security
6 5 (1.37%) VPN
7 4 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.10%) WAN
7 4 (1.10%) Wireless
8 3 (0.82%) DKIM
8 3 (0.82%) DMARC
8 3 (0.82%) FTP
8 3 (0.82%) HTTP
8 3 (0.82%) LAN
8 3 (0.82%) PBX
8 3 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.27%) Chroma
3 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.27%) MySQL
3 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.27%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.27%) Power BI
3 1 (0.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (3.29%) Snyk
2 5 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.82%) Git
3 3 (0.82%) GitLab
4 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.27%) GDB
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) WinDbg
General
1 89 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (4.93%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.38%) Finance
5 15 (4.11%) Law
5 15 (4.11%) Marketing
5 15 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.74%) Retail
7 7 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.64%) Legal
8 6 (1.64%) Police
9 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.82%) Advertising
10 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Local Government
10 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (18.36%) Senior
2 63 (17.26%) Analyst
3 44 (12.05%) Security Analyst
4 43 (11.78%) Consultant
5 39 (10.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 36 (9.86%) Architect
6 36 (9.86%) Security Consultant
7 32 (8.77%) Security Architect
8 30 (8.22%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (7.12%) Lead
10 21 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 20 (5.48%) Junior
12 18 (4.93%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
12 18 (4.93%) Senior Security Analyst
13 16 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 16 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 16 (4.38%) Security Engineer
13 16 (4.38%) Security Manager
14 15 (4.11%) Junior Analyst
14 15 (4.11%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.64%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.64%) Terraform
2 4 (1.10%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.10%) React
2 4 (1.10%) REST
3 3 (0.82%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.82%) JSON
3 3 (0.82%) LDAP
3 3 (0.82%) pgvector
3 3 (0.82%) PostGIS
3 3 (0.82%) Vue
4 2 (0.55%) .NET
4 2 (0.55%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (0.55%) Spring
4 2 (0.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.75%) Security Posture
2 19 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.93%) Cyberattack
4 15 (4.11%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.84%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (3.01%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.64%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.64%) Cybercrime
9 6 (1.64%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Licensing
10 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.82%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.67%) Windows
2 11 (3.01%) Mac OS
3 9 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.64%) Linux
5 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (17.26%) AI
2 39 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (8.49%) DevOps
3 31 (8.49%) Mentoring
4 30 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (7.67%) Incident Response
5 28 (7.67%) Information Security
6 27 (7.40%) IT Strategy
6 27 (7.40%) SIEM
7 25 (6.85%) Risk Management
8 24 (6.58%) Cloud Security
8 24 (6.58%) Security Architecture
9 23 (6.30%) CI/CD
10 21 (5.75%) Software Licensing
11 20 (5.48%) Security Testing
12 19 (5.21%) Threat Modelling
13 17 (4.66%) Agile
13 17 (4.66%) Data Science
13 17 (4.66%) DevSecOps
13 17 (4.66%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.93%) Python
2 17 (4.66%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.37%) Bash
4 4 (1.10%) C++
4 4 (1.10%) SQL
5 3 (0.82%) C#
5 3 (0.82%) Java
6 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.27%) Ada
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (8.49%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.95%) Degree
2 29 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.03%) Azure Certification
4 16 (4.38%) CompTIA CySA+
5 15 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (3.84%) CEH
7 13 (3.56%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.74%) CISM
9 10 (2.74%) CISSP
10 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.10%) CISA
12 4 (1.10%) CRISC
12 4 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.82%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (6.85%) NIST
3 23 (6.30%) GRC
4 16 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.11%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.84%) GDPR
7 6 (1.64%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.55%) NCSC
10 2 (0.55%) QA
11 1 (0.27%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 13 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.37%) Docker
5 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) Nessus
4 3 (0.82%) cPanel
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
4 3 (0.82%) Plesk
4 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 112 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.48%) CrowdStrike
2 20 (5.48%) ForeScout
3 17 (4.66%) Apple
4 16 (4.38%) Palo Alto
5 14 (3.84%) Adobe
6 12 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.29%) Tenable
7 8 (2.19%) Tanium
8 4 (1.10%) Cisco
8 4 (1.10%) Meraki
8 4 (1.10%) VMware
9 3 (0.82%) Acronis
9 3 (0.82%) Datto
9 3 (0.82%) Google
9 3 (0.82%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.82%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.82%) Veeam
9 3 (0.82%) WatchGuard