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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -20
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 360 144 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.71% 6.06% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 6.80% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 257 73 78
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £30,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,154
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +9.66% -13.53%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £88,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £45,750 £53,607
% change year-on-year +31.15% -14.66% -7.57%

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 5,825 2,119 3,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.22% 84.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,372 1,189 1,622
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,448 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,104 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +14 16 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Salford -10 15 £27,500 -64.39% 5
Stockport -4 6 £62,500 +108.33% 13
Altrincham +4 5 £40,000 +45.45%
Bury +7 3 £29,000 - 1
Wigan - 3 £45,000 - 4
Sale +5 2 £62,500 -
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 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.50%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 56 (15.56%) Azure
2 44 (12.22%) AWS
2 44 (12.22%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (5.00%) SaaS
4 17 (4.72%) GCP
5 15 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.06%) Serverless
7 10 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (2.78%) Mimecast
8 7 (1.94%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.39%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.83%) IaaS
13 2 (0.56%) Akamai
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.67%) Unified Communications
2 11 (3.06%) VoIP
3 10 (2.78%) DNS
3 10 (2.78%) Firewall
3 10 (2.78%) Internet
4 7 (1.94%) DHCP
4 7 (1.94%) VLAN
5 5 (1.39%) VPN
5 5 (1.39%) Wireless
6 4 (1.11%) Network Security
6 4 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.83%) DKIM
7 3 (0.83%) DMARC
7 3 (0.83%) FTP
7 3 (0.83%) HTTP
7 3 (0.83%) PBX
7 3 (0.83%) SNMP
7 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.28%) Big Data
3 1 (0.28%) Chroma
3 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.28%) MySQL
3 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.28%) Power BI
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (2.78%) Snyk
2 4 (1.11%) GitLab
3 3 (0.83%) Git
3 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.28%) Maven
5 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 82 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.44%) Marketing
6 15 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.89%) Finance
7 14 (3.89%) Retail
8 7 (1.94%) Law
9 6 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Legal
10 5 (1.39%) Police
11 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Advertising
12 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 63 (17.50%) Senior
2 56 (15.56%) Analyst
3 50 (13.89%) Consultant
4 39 (10.83%) Architect
4 39 (10.83%) Security Consultant
5 35 (9.72%) Security Analyst
5 35 (9.72%) Security Architect
6 31 (8.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 26 (7.22%) Senior Analyst
8 24 (6.67%) Lead
9 23 (6.39%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 22 (6.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 17 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 17 (4.72%) Operations Manager
11 17 (4.72%) Security Manager
11 17 (4.72%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
11 17 (4.72%) Senior Security Analyst
12 15 (4.17%) Marketing Manager
13 14 (3.89%) IT Manager
13 14 (3.89%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.94%) Terraform
2 4 (1.11%) React
2 4 (1.11%) REST
3 3 (0.83%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.83%) JSON
3 3 (0.83%) LDAP
3 3 (0.83%) pgvector
3 3 (0.83%) PostGIS
3 3 (0.83%) SAML
4 2 (0.56%) .NET
4 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (0.56%) Regular Expression
4 2 (0.56%) Vue
5 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.28%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 18 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 17 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.06%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.78%) Cyberattack
8 7 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Licensing
10 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.39%) Cybercrime
10 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.83%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.50%) Windows
2 11 (3.06%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.67%) Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (18.06%) AI
2 42 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 36 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (9.44%) DevOps
6 33 (9.17%) Information Security
7 31 (8.61%) Security Architecture
8 29 (8.06%) Cloud Security
9 28 (7.78%) Risk Management
10 27 (7.50%) IT Strategy
11 25 (6.94%) CI/CD
12 23 (6.39%) Security Operations
13 22 (6.11%) Mentoring
13 22 (6.11%) SIEM
14 21 (5.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (5.28%) Data Protection
15 19 (5.28%) Decision-Making
15 19 (5.28%) Security Testing
15 19 (5.28%) Service Delivery
15 19 (5.28%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.00%) Python
2 14 (3.89%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.94%) Bash
4 4 (1.11%) Go
4 4 (1.11%) SQL
5 3 (0.83%) C#
5 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.56%) Java
7 1 (0.28%) Ada
7 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.06%) Degree
4 13 (3.61%) CISM
5 12 (3.33%) CISSP
6 10 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.39%) CEH
10 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.11%) CISA
10 4 (1.11%) CRISC
10 4 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.83%) GCIH
12 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (7.50%) NIST
3 24 (6.67%) GRC
4 17 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.17%) GDPR
6 13 (3.61%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.83%) NCSC
8 3 (0.83%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.56%) QA
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 13 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.94%) Docker
3 6 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.56%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.11%) Nessus
4 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) cPanel
4 3 (0.83%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.83%) Plesk
4 3 (0.83%) Podman
5 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.56%) SCCM
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 100 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
3 14 (3.89%) Palo Alto
4 11 (3.06%) Adobe
4 11 (3.06%) Apple
5 10 (2.78%) Tenable
6 9 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.22%) Tanium
8 6 (1.67%) ForeScout
8 6 (1.67%) VMware
9 4 (1.11%) Cisco
9 4 (1.11%) Google
9 4 (1.11%) YouTube
10 3 (0.83%) Acronis
10 3 (0.83%) Datto
10 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.83%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.83%) Splunk
10 3 (0.83%) Thales
10 3 (0.83%) WatchGuard