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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +37 +2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 652 130 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 13.44% 6.51% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.33% 6.83% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 157 101 173
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £35,986
25th Percentile £30,500 £38,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -3.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,620 £80,000 £95,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -11.29%

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 3,557 1,903 4,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.31% 95.25% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 1,252 3,326
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -9.09%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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
Stockport - 35 £32,500 - 1
Salford +4 22 £100,000 +153.16% 5
Bolton +16 21 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Bury - 16 £92,482 - 1
Cheadle +3 14 - - 4
Wigan - 14 - - 4
Stalybridge - 13 - - 2
Dukinfield - 13 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - - 4
Oldham +3 12 - - 4
Rochdale - 12 - - 1
Altrincham - 12 - - 1
Heywood - 12 - - 1
Littleborough - 12 - - 2
Sale - 11 - - 2
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 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 411 (63.04%) Cloud Computing
2 109 (16.72%) Azure
3 56 (8.59%) AWS
4 27 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (2.91%) GitHub
6 17 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (1.84%) GCP
9 11 (1.69%) SaaS
10 6 (0.92%) PaaS
11 5 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.77%) IaaS
11 5 (0.77%) Serverless
12 4 (0.61%) Datadog
12 4 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.46%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (0.31%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 419 (64.26%) Internet
2 25 (3.83%) Firewall
3 16 (2.45%) VLAN
4 14 (2.15%) DHCP
4 14 (2.15%) DNS
5 13 (1.99%) VPN
6 5 (0.77%) WAN
7 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.61%) LAN
7 4 (0.61%) VoIP
8 3 (0.46%) Network Security
9 1 (0.15%) LTE
9 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (0.61%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (2.30%) Git
2 5 (0.77%) Snyk
3 4 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.15%) GDB
4 1 (0.15%) JIRA
4 1 (0.15%) JMeter
4 1 (0.15%) Locust
4 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.15%) WinDbg
General
1 490 (75.15%) Social Skills
2 435 (66.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 404 (61.96%) Banking
4 29 (4.45%) Multimedia
5 23 (3.53%) Finance
6 19 (2.91%) Law
7 10 (1.53%) Legal
8 9 (1.38%) Retail
9 8 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.23%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.77%) Police
11 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.61%) French Language
12 3 (0.46%) Billing
12 3 (0.46%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.46%) Local Government
12 3 (0.46%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.46%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 314 (48.16%) Lecturer
2 39 (5.98%) Analyst
3 37 (5.67%) Senior
4 29 (4.45%) Trainee
5 25 (3.83%) Security Analyst
6 24 (3.68%) Architect
6 24 (3.68%) Security Architect
7 23 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 20 (3.07%) Junior
8 20 (3.07%) Junior Analyst
8 20 (3.07%) Junior Security Analyst
9 17 (2.61%) IT Support
10 15 (2.30%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.15%) Ethical Hacker
12 13 (1.99%) Head of Security
13 12 (1.84%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 12 (1.84%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 12 (1.84%) IT Engineer
13 12 (1.84%) Security Manager
13 12 (1.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.76%) CSS
1 18 (2.76%) HTML
2 5 (0.77%) AngularJS
2 5 (0.77%) React
2 5 (0.77%) Regular Expression
3 4 (0.61%) MERN Stack
4 3 (0.46%) .NET
4 3 (0.46%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.46%) AWS CDK
4 3 (0.46%) NestJS
4 3 (0.46%) Node.js
4 3 (0.46%) REST
5 2 (0.31%) Middleware
6 1 (0.15%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.15%) Spring
6 1 (0.15%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 404 (61.96%) IoT
2 21 (3.22%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.07%) Cyberattack
4 11 (1.69%) Driving Licence
5 9 (1.38%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.38%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.38%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.23%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.07%) Blog
7 7 (1.07%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.77%) Low-Code
8 5 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (0.77%) Social Media
9 4 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.61%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.46%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.68%) Windows
2 18 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.07%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.77%) Linux
5 3 (0.46%) Android
5 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (67.94%) AI
2 405 (62.12%) Machine Learning
3 402 (61.66%) User Experience
3 402 (61.66%) Web Development
4 63 (9.66%) Mentoring
5 29 (4.45%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (4.29%) Ethical Hacking
7 19 (2.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (2.76%) Cost Optimisation
9 17 (2.61%) Agile
9 17 (2.61%) Incident Response
10 15 (2.30%) FinOps
10 15 (2.30%) Information Security
10 15 (2.30%) Software Engineering
11 14 (2.15%) Line Management
11 14 (2.15%) SIEM
11 14 (2.15%) Software Licensing
12 13 (1.99%) CI/CD
12 13 (1.99%) Project Management
12 13 (1.99%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.91%) Python
2 25 (3.83%) JavaScript
3 15 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.07%) R
4 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
5 6 (0.92%) Java
6 5 (0.77%) SQL
7 4 (0.61%) C
7 4 (0.61%) C++
8 3 (0.46%) Bash
9 1 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 423 (64.88%) Degree
2 403 (61.81%) Master's Degree
2 403 (61.81%) Postgraduate
3 402 (61.66%) PhD
4 52 (7.98%) Azure Certification
5 39 (5.98%) CompTIA Security+
6 31 (4.75%) AWS Certification
7 30 (4.60%) CEH
8 21 (3.22%) CompTIA CySA+
8 21 (3.22%) Network+ Certification
9 20 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.99%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.99%) Security Cleared
12 9 (1.38%) CISSP
12 9 (1.38%) SC Cleared
13 8 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (1.23%) CISM
13 8 (1.23%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.99%) GRC
3 13 (1.99%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.84%) NIST
5 6 (0.92%) GDPR
6 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.15%) QA
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.38%) Docker
2 9 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.07%) Terraform
4 4 (0.61%) Grafana
4 4 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 99 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.21%) ForeScout
3 18 (2.76%) Apple
4 14 (2.15%) Adobe
5 11 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (0.92%) Palo Alto
7 5 (0.77%) Cisco
7 5 (0.77%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.77%) Tenable
8 4 (0.61%) Meraki
8 4 (0.61%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (0.46%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.15%) Juniper
10 1 (0.15%) PayPal
10 1 (0.15%) Splunk
10 1 (0.15%) Spotify
10 1 (0.15%) Veeam
10 1 (0.15%) VMware
10 1 (0.15%) Zscaler