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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 34 44
Rank change year-on-year +29 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 599 168 251
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 11.18% 7.64% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.46% 8.00% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 170 101 186
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £36,085
25th Percentile £36,563 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,337
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -5.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £85,000 £95,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3,875 2,101 4,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.34% 95.54% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,741 1,287 3,414
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,325 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £40,988 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,152
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +11 28 £32,500 -
Salford +4 21 £100,000 +106.19% 1
Bolton +11 18 £50,000 -33.33%
Bury +6 13 £92,482 - 2
Cheadle +2 11 - -
Wigan - 11 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne +5 10 - - 3
Heywood +4 10 - -
Dukinfield +2 10 - -
Stalybridge +2 10 - -
Oldham +5 9 - - 2
Sale +4 9 - -
Altrincham +4 9 - - 3
Rochdale -1 9 - -
Littleborough - 9 - -
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 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 327 (54.59%) Cloud Computing
2 108 (18.03%) Azure
3 59 (9.85%) AWS
4 24 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (3.17%) GCP
6 16 (2.67%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 14 (2.34%) GitHub
9 10 (1.67%) Serverless
10 9 (1.50%) SaaS
11 5 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.83%) IaaS
11 5 (0.83%) PaaS
12 4 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.50%) Datadog
13 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.50%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.33%) iPaaS
15 1 (0.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 333 (55.59%) Internet
2 24 (4.01%) Firewall
3 15 (2.50%) VLAN
4 14 (2.34%) DHCP
4 14 (2.34%) DNS
5 13 (2.17%) VPN
6 8 (1.34%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.67%) WAN
8 3 (0.50%) LAN
8 3 (0.50%) Network Security
8 3 (0.50%) VoIP
9 1 (0.17%) LTE
9 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (0.50%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Git
1 10 (1.67%) Snyk
2 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.17%) GDB
4 1 (0.17%) JIRA
4 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.17%) WinDbg
General
1 409 (68.28%) Social Skills
2 359 (59.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 318 (53.09%) Banking
4 21 (3.51%) Multimedia
5 20 (3.34%) Law
6 19 (3.17%) Finance
7 10 (1.67%) Marketing
8 9 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.34%) Retail
10 7 (1.17%) Legal
11 6 (1.00%) Police
11 6 (1.00%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.67%) French Language
12 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Billing
13 3 (0.50%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.50%) Local Government
13 3 (0.50%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 250 (41.74%) Lecturer
2 51 (8.51%) Senior
3 49 (8.18%) Analyst
4 28 (4.67%) Architect
4 28 (4.67%) Security Analyst
4 28 (4.67%) Security Architect
5 26 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 21 (3.51%) Junior
6 21 (3.51%) Junior Analyst
6 21 (3.51%) Junior Security Analyst
6 21 (3.51%) Trainee
7 18 (3.01%) Security Engineer
8 16 (2.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 16 (2.67%) IT Support
8 16 (2.67%) Security Manager
9 15 (2.50%) Ethical Hacker
9 15 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (2.17%) Head of Security
10 13 (2.17%) Senior Architect
10 13 (2.17%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.17%) CSS
1 13 (2.17%) HTML
2 6 (1.00%) Regular Expression
3 5 (0.83%) AngularJS
3 5 (0.83%) React
4 3 (0.50%) .NET
4 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.50%) AWS CDK
4 3 (0.50%) MERN Stack
4 3 (0.50%) NestJS
4 3 (0.50%) Node.js
4 3 (0.50%) REST
5 2 (0.33%) Middleware
5 2 (0.33%) Spring
5 2 (0.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.33%) Vue
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 318 (53.09%) IoT
2 22 (3.67%) Cyberattack
2 22 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 14 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.84%) Cloud Native
4 11 (1.84%) Driving Licence
5 9 (1.50%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.34%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.17%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.67%) Cybercrime
10 4 (0.67%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.67%) Social Media
11 3 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.50%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.67%) Windows
2 17 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.00%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.67%) Linux
5 3 (0.50%) Android
5 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (62.27%) AI
2 321 (53.59%) Machine Learning
3 318 (53.09%) User Experience
3 318 (53.09%) Web Development
4 62 (10.35%) Mentoring
5 26 (4.34%) Ethical Hacking
5 26 (4.34%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (4.01%) Cost Optimisation
7 21 (3.51%) FinOps
7 21 (3.51%) Software Licensing
8 20 (3.34%) Incident Response
9 19 (3.17%) CI/CD
10 18 (3.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (2.84%) Cloud Security
12 16 (2.67%) Agile
12 16 (2.67%) DevOps
12 16 (2.67%) SIEM
13 15 (2.50%) Security Testing
13 15 (2.50%) Software Engineering
13 15 (2.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (5.18%) Python
2 19 (3.17%) JavaScript
3 16 (2.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (0.83%) Bash
5 5 (0.83%) Java
5 5 (0.83%) R
5 5 (0.83%) SQL
6 4 (0.67%) C++
7 3 (0.50%) C
8 1 (0.17%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 333 (55.59%) Degree
2 319 (53.26%) Master's Degree
3 318 (53.09%) PhD
3 318 (53.09%) Postgraduate
4 47 (7.85%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.01%) CompTIA Security+
6 33 (5.51%) AWS Certification
7 28 (4.67%) CEH
8 22 (3.67%) CompTIA CySA+
9 18 (3.01%) Network+ Certification
10 14 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (2.17%) Security Cleared
12 12 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.67%) A+ Certification
13 10 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (1.67%) SC Cleared
14 7 (1.17%) CISM
14 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.83%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.34%) GRC
2 19 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.00%) NIST
6 8 (1.34%) GDPR
7 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.17%) Docker
4 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.34%) Terraform
3 7 (1.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.50%) Grafana
4 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 106 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.01%) ForeScout
3 24 (4.01%) Apple
4 21 (3.51%) Adobe
5 18 (3.01%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.84%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.67%) Tenable
9 4 (0.67%) Cisco
10 3 (0.50%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.50%) Meraki
10 3 (0.50%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.17%) Juniper
11 1 (0.17%) Splunk
11 1 (0.17%) Spotify
11 1 (0.17%) Veeam
11 1 (0.17%) VMware
11 1 (0.17%) Zscaler
81 Cybersecurity jobs in Manchester