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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 359 145 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.70% 6.10% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 6.85% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 258 73 78
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,050 £37,125
25th Percentile £45,136 £30,000 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +9.33% -13.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £45,750 £54,793
% change year-on-year +31.15% -16.50% -5.53%

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 5,818 2,118 3,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.10% 84.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,360 1,193 1,595
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
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 9 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 9 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 +12 16 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Salford -6 15 £27,500 -64.39% 4
Stockport -4 6 £62,500 +108.33% 11
Altrincham +4 5 £40,000 +45.45%
Bury +7 3 £29,000 - 1
Wigan - 3 £45,000 - 2
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 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 57 (15.88%) Azure
2 44 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (11.98%) AWS
4 19 (5.29%) SaaS
5 17 (4.74%) GCP
6 15 (4.18%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (2.79%) Mimecast
7 10 (2.79%) Serverless
8 7 (1.95%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.39%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.84%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.84%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.84%) IaaS
13 2 (0.56%) Akamai
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.69%) Unified Communications
2 11 (3.06%) VoIP
3 10 (2.79%) DNS
3 10 (2.79%) Firewall
3 10 (2.79%) Internet
4 7 (1.95%) DHCP
4 7 (1.95%) 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 (0.84%) DKIM
7 3 (0.84%) DMARC
7 3 (0.84%) FTP
7 3 (0.84%) HTTP
7 3 (0.84%) PBX
7 3 (0.84%) SNMP
7 3 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
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 9 (2.51%) Snyk
2 4 (1.11%) GitLab
3 3 (0.84%) Git
3 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.28%) Maven
5 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.29%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.46%) Marketing
6 15 (4.18%) Finance
6 15 (4.18%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.90%) Retail
8 9 (2.51%) Law
9 6 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Legal
10 5 (1.39%) Police
11 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.84%) Advertising
12 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Aviation
13 1 (0.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (16.99%) Senior
2 58 (16.16%) Analyst
3 51 (14.21%) Consultant
4 39 (10.86%) Security Consultant
5 38 (10.58%) Architect
6 35 (9.75%) Security Analyst
7 34 (9.47%) Security Architect
8 30 (8.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 27 (7.52%) Senior Analyst
10 23 (6.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 23 (6.41%) Lead
11 22 (6.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 17 (4.74%) Operations Manager
13 16 (4.46%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
13 16 (4.46%) Senior Security Analyst
14 15 (4.18%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 15 (4.18%) Marketing Manager
14 15 (4.18%) Security Manager
15 14 (3.90%) IT Manager
15 14 (3.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.95%) Terraform
2 4 (1.11%) React
2 4 (1.11%) REST
3 3 (0.84%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.84%) JSON
3 3 (0.84%) LDAP
3 3 (0.84%) pgvector
3 3 (0.84%) PostGIS
3 3 (0.84%) 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%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.28%) Blazor
5 1 (0.28%) LangChain
5 1 (0.28%) Spring
5 1 (0.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.69%) Security Posture
2 18 (5.01%) Operational Technology
3 17 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.18%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (4.18%) Driving Licence
4 15 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.79%) Cyberattack
7 7 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Licensing
9 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.39%) Cybercrime
9 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.84%) Clustering
11 3 (0.84%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.84%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.52%) Windows
2 11 (3.06%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.67%) Linux
5 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (18.11%) AI
2 42 (11.70%) Incident Response
2 42 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (9.75%) Information Security
5 34 (9.47%) DevOps
6 30 (8.36%) Security Architecture
7 29 (8.08%) Cloud Security
8 28 (7.80%) Risk Management
9 26 (7.24%) IT Strategy
10 24 (6.69%) CI/CD
10 24 (6.69%) Security Operations
11 23 (6.41%) Mentoring
11 23 (6.41%) SIEM
12 22 (6.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (5.85%) Decision-Making
14 20 (5.57%) Data Protection
14 20 (5.57%) Service Delivery
15 18 (5.01%) ITIL
15 18 (5.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.29%) Python
2 14 (3.90%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.95%) Bash
4 4 (1.11%) Go
4 4 (1.11%) SQL
5 3 (0.84%) C#
5 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.84%) 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 (10.03%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.19%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.36%) Degree
4 13 (3.62%) CISM
5 12 (3.34%) CISSP
6 10 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.79%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (2.51%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.39%) CEH
9 5 (1.39%) CISA
10 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.11%) CRISC
10 4 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.84%) GCIH
11 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.84%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.80%) NIST
3 22 (6.13%) GRC
4 17 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.18%) GDPR
6 11 (3.06%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.39%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.84%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.84%) NCSC
8 3 (0.84%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.56%) QA
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) COBIT
10 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.28%) ITGC
System Software
1 12 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.95%) 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 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.11%) Nessus
4 3 (0.84%) Ansible
4 3 (0.84%) cPanel
4 3 (0.84%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.84%) Plesk
4 3 (0.84%) 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
1 101 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.46%) CrowdStrike
3 13 (3.62%) Palo Alto
4 11 (3.06%) Adobe
4 11 (3.06%) Apple
5 9 (2.51%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.51%) Tenable
6 8 (2.23%) Tanium
7 6 (1.67%) ForeScout
7 6 (1.67%) VMware
8 4 (1.11%) Cisco
8 4 (1.11%) Google
8 4 (1.11%) YouTube
9 3 (0.84%) Acronis
9 3 (0.84%) Datto
9 3 (0.84%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.84%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.84%) Splunk
9 3 (0.84%) Thales
9 3 (0.84%) WatchGuard