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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 37 47
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 364 142 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.93% 6.02% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 6.73% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 254 73 90
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,721 £30,000 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +9.33% -15.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £87,666 £90,500
North West median annual salary £58,558 £51,763 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.13% -5.89% -7.60%

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 5,577 2,111 3,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.54% 89.49% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,287 1,196 1,788
10th Percentile £32,400 £29,500 £30,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,625 £83,575
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 September 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 September 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 +12 17 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Salford -12 15 £27,500 -62.48% 12
Altrincham +4 5 £40,000 +45.45%
Bury +7 3 £29,000 -
Sale +4 2 £62,500 -
Stockport -4 2 - - 17
Wigan - 1 - - 5
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 12 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.30%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.05%) Azure
2 53 (14.56%) AWS
3 42 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (5.49%) GCP
5 15 (4.12%) SaaS
6 13 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.57%) Serverless
7 12 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.20%) Mimecast
9 7 (1.92%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.37%) GitHub
11 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.10%) IaaS
12 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.82%) Datadog
13 3 (0.82%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.59%) Unified Communications
2 16 (4.40%) Firewall
3 12 (3.30%) VoIP
4 8 (2.20%) DNS
4 8 (2.20%) Internet
4 8 (2.20%) VLAN
5 6 (1.65%) Network Security
6 5 (1.37%) DHCP
6 5 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.37%) VPN
7 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
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%) PBX
8 3 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.55%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.27%) Big Data
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 (3.30%) 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 90 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.67%) Finance
5 15 (4.12%) Marketing
5 15 (4.12%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.57%) Retail
7 12 (3.30%) Law
8 7 (1.92%) Police
9 6 (1.65%) Legal
9 6 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Advertising
10 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (20.05%) Senior
2 62 (17.03%) Analyst
3 46 (12.64%) Consultant
4 42 (11.54%) Security Analyst
5 38 (10.44%) Security Consultant
6 37 (10.16%) Architect
6 37 (10.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 33 (9.07%) Security Architect
8 30 (8.24%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (7.14%) Lead
10 23 (6.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 18 (4.95%) Junior
11 18 (4.95%) Security Engineer
11 18 (4.95%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
11 18 (4.95%) Senior Security Analyst
12 17 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 16 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 16 (4.40%) Security Manager
14 15 (4.12%) Marketing Manager
15 14 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.65%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.65%) 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%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) SAML
5 1 (0.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.04%) Security Posture
2 19 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.67%) Cyberattack
4 15 (4.12%) Driving Licence
4 15 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (3.57%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.65%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Licensing
9 5 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.37%) Cybercrime
9 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.14%) Windows
2 11 (3.02%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.20%) Linux
4 7 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (17.86%) AI
2 38 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (9.34%) DevOps
4 33 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (8.79%) Mentoring
6 30 (8.24%) Incident Response
7 29 (7.97%) SIEM
8 28 (7.69%) IT Strategy
9 27 (7.42%) Risk Management
10 26 (7.14%) CI/CD
10 26 (7.14%) Security Architecture
11 25 (6.87%) Cloud Security
11 25 (6.87%) Information Security
12 21 (5.77%) Software Licensing
13 20 (5.49%) Security Testing
13 20 (5.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (5.49%) Threat Modelling
14 18 (4.95%) Agile
15 17 (4.67%) SDLC
15 17 (4.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.22%) Python
2 17 (4.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.92%) 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%) Go
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%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.69%) Degree
4 18 (4.95%) Azure Certification
5 15 (4.12%) CISM
6 14 (3.85%) CISSP
6 14 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
6 14 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.30%) CEH
9 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.10%) CISA
10 4 (1.10%) CRISC
10 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.82%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (8.24%) NIST
3 23 (6.32%) GRC
4 18 (4.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.12%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.85%) GDPR
7 6 (1.65%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.82%) NCSC
9 3 (0.82%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.55%) QA
11 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.92%) Docker
3 6 (1.65%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.82%) Plesk
4 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.55%) Ansible
5 2 (0.55%) Podman
6 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (30.49%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.49%) CrowdStrike
3 16 (4.40%) ForeScout
3 16 (4.40%) Palo Alto
4 15 (4.12%) Apple
5 14 (3.85%) Adobe
6 12 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.30%) Tenable
7 8 (2.20%) Tanium
8 4 (1.10%) VMware
9 3 (0.82%) Acronis
9 3 (0.82%) Cisco
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%) Splunk
9 3 (0.82%) Veeam
9 3 (0.82%) WatchGuard