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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 38 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -26
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 350 165 216
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.34% 6.58% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 7.15% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 245 99 142
10th Percentile £31,750 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,313 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 4,828 2,307 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.71% 92.06% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,804 1,336 2,724
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,406 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £99,550 £87,625 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -7.27%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +10 22 £50,000 -33.33% 3
Salford -5 18 £100,000 +57.62% 3
Bury +8 6 £60,741 - 1
Altrincham +4 3 £40,000 - 7
Stockport 0 2 £32,500 -15.03% 3
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 9 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.43%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 82 (23.43%) Azure
2 45 (12.86%) AWS
3 36 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (4.86%) GCP
5 16 (4.57%) SaaS
6 13 (3.71%) Serverless
7 12 (3.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (2.86%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.71%) IaaS
10 5 (1.43%) GitHub
10 5 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.43%) PaaS
11 3 (0.86%) Datadog
11 3 (0.86%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.86%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.71%) Unified Communications
2 19 (5.43%) Firewall
3 9 (2.57%) VLAN
3 9 (2.57%) VoIP
4 7 (2.00%) DNS
5 5 (1.43%) Internet
5 5 (1.43%) Network Security
6 4 (1.14%) DHCP
6 4 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.14%) VPN
6 4 (1.14%) WAN
7 3 (0.86%) DKIM
7 3 (0.86%) DMARC
7 3 (0.86%) LAN
7 3 (0.86%) PBX
7 3 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.29%) FTP
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.29%) MySQL
2 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
2 1 (0.29%) Power BI
2 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (3.43%) Snyk
2 5 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.86%) Git
3 3 (0.86%) GitLab
4 2 (0.57%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.29%) GDB
5 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.29%) WinDbg
General
1 88 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (6.57%) Law
4 16 (4.57%) Marketing
4 16 (4.57%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.43%) Finance
7 9 (2.57%) Retail
8 7 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.00%) Legal
9 6 (1.71%) Police
10 5 (1.43%) Multimedia
11 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.14%) Local Government
11 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Advertising
13 2 (0.57%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (17.14%) Senior
2 58 (16.57%) Analyst
3 42 (12.00%) Security Analyst
4 39 (11.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 33 (9.43%) Consultant
6 30 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
7 29 (8.29%) Architect
8 28 (8.00%) Security Consultant
9 25 (7.14%) Security Architect
10 23 (6.57%) Junior
10 23 (6.57%) Lead
11 20 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 19 (5.43%) Junior Analyst
13 18 (5.14%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
13 18 (5.14%) Senior Security Analyst
14 17 (4.86%) Security Engineer
15 16 (4.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 16 (4.57%) Junior Security Analyst
15 16 (4.57%) Security Manager
16 15 (4.29%) Ethical Hacker
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.71%) Regular Expression
2 5 (1.43%) REST
3 4 (1.14%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.14%) React
4 3 (0.86%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.86%) Vue
5 2 (0.57%) .NET
5 2 (0.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (0.57%) JSON
5 2 (0.57%) pgvector
5 2 (0.57%) PostGIS
5 2 (0.57%) Spring
5 2 (0.57%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.29%) CrewAI
6 1 (0.29%) Faiss
6 1 (0.29%) LangGraph
6 1 (0.29%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (0.29%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.29%) Cyberattack
2 18 (5.14%) Security Posture
3 13 (3.71%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.43%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.43%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.71%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Licensing
8 6 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.43%) Cybercrime
10 4 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.14%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.14%) Social Media
11 3 (0.86%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.57%) Windows
2 12 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.43%) Linux
3 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (16.57%) AI
2 40 (11.43%) Mentoring
3 29 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (8.00%) DevOps
4 28 (8.00%) Incident Response
5 26 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (7.14%) SIEM
7 24 (6.86%) Information Security
8 23 (6.57%) Cloud Security
9 22 (6.29%) CI/CD
9 22 (6.29%) Risk Management
10 21 (6.00%) IT Strategy
11 20 (5.71%) Agile
11 20 (5.71%) Ethical Hacking
11 20 (5.71%) Security Testing
12 19 (5.43%) Software Licensing
12 19 (5.43%) Threat Modelling
13 17 (4.86%) DevSecOps
13 17 (4.86%) Roadmaps
13 17 (4.86%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.14%) Python
2 12 (3.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.43%) Bash
4 4 (1.14%) C++
5 3 (0.86%) C#
5 3 (0.86%) Java
5 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.57%) SQL
7 1 (0.29%) Ada
7 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 32 (9.14%) Azure Certification
2 26 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.57%) CEH
4 23 (6.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 22 (6.29%) Degree
6 17 (4.86%) CompTIA CySA+
7 13 (3.71%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.86%) CISSP
10 9 (2.57%) CISM
11 7 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.43%) A+ Certification
12 5 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.14%) CISA
13 4 (1.14%) CRISC
14 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (7.14%) NIST
3 21 (6.00%) GRC
4 18 (5.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (3.71%) GDPR
5 13 (3.71%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.43%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.57%) QA
9 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 13 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.43%) Docker
5 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.00%) Terraform
3 4 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.86%) cPanel
4 3 (0.86%) Grafana
4 3 (0.86%) Plesk
4 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.57%) Nessus
5 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 110 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.57%) ForeScout
3 19 (5.43%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (4.86%) Apple
5 14 (4.00%) Adobe
5 14 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.43%) Tenable
7 8 (2.29%) Tanium
8 4 (1.14%) VMware
9 3 (0.86%) Acronis
9 3 (0.86%) Cisco
9 3 (0.86%) Datto
9 3 (0.86%) Google
9 3 (0.86%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.86%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.86%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (0.86%) Veeam
9 3 (0.86%) WatchGuard