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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 34 51
Rank change year-on-year +30 +17 -19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 603 147 196
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 14.50% 6.87% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.49% 7.18% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 136 109 158
10th Percentile - £25,313 £35,920
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,250 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +13.04% -3.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,225
North West median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% - -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 3,094 2,048 3,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.38% 95.66% 87.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,053 1,248 3,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,425
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 22 March 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 22 March 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 - 35 £32,500 - 2
Salford +10 22 £100,000 +91.39% 2
Bolton +12 21 £50,000 -33.33% 4
Bury - 16 £92,482 -
Cheadle 0 14 - - 2
Wigan - 14 - - 3
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - - 1
Oldham +2 12 - -
Rochdale - 12 - - 1
Altrincham - 12 - - 1
Heywood - 12 - -
Littleborough - 12 - -
Sale - 11 - -
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 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 409 (67.83%) Cloud Computing
2 87 (14.43%) Azure
3 42 (6.97%) AWS
4 25 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.99%) GitHub
6 17 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.99%) SaaS
8 10 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (0.66%) GCP
9 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (0.66%) PaaS
10 3 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.50%) IaaS
10 3 (0.50%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.33%) iPaaS
12 1 (0.17%) Datadog
12 1 (0.17%) dbt
12 1 (0.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 421 (69.82%) Internet
2 24 (3.98%) Firewall
3 16 (2.65%) VLAN
4 14 (2.32%) DHCP
4 14 (2.32%) DNS
5 13 (2.16%) VPN
6 5 (0.83%) WAN
7 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.66%) LAN
7 4 (0.66%) VoIP
8 2 (0.33%) Network Security
9 1 (0.17%) LTE
9 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (0.66%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (2.82%) Git
2 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.17%) GDB
2 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.17%) JMeter
2 1 (0.17%) Locust
2 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.17%) WinDbg
General
1 474 (78.61%) Social Skills
2 421 (69.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 404 (67.00%) Banking
4 32 (5.31%) Multimedia
5 21 (3.48%) Finance
6 15 (2.49%) Law
7 11 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (1.66%) Legal
9 9 (1.49%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.66%) French Language
12 3 (0.50%) Billing
12 3 (0.50%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.50%) Local Government
12 3 (0.50%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.50%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 314 (52.07%) Lecturer
2 32 (5.31%) Trainee
3 26 (4.31%) Analyst
4 17 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 17 (2.82%) Security Analyst
5 16 (2.65%) Architect
5 16 (2.65%) Security Architect
6 15 (2.49%) IT Support
6 15 (2.49%) Junior
6 15 (2.49%) Junior Analyst
6 15 (2.49%) Junior Security Analyst
6 15 (2.49%) Senior
7 13 (2.16%) Head of Security
8 12 (1.99%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 12 (1.99%) Head of Cybersecurity
8 12 (1.99%) Support Engineer
9 11 (1.82%) IT Engineer
9 11 (1.82%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (1.49%) Developer
10 9 (1.49%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.32%) CSS
1 20 (3.32%) HTML
2 4 (0.66%) AngularJS
2 4 (0.66%) MERN Stack
2 4 (0.66%) React
3 3 (0.50%) .NET
3 3 (0.50%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.50%) NestJS
3 3 (0.50%) Node.js
3 3 (0.50%) REST
4 2 (0.33%) Middleware
5 1 (0.17%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 406 (67.33%) IoT
2 16 (2.65%) Onboarding
3 11 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 10 (1.66%) Cyberattack
5 9 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.33%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.16%) Blog
8 6 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.83%) Social Media
10 4 (0.66%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.66%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.50%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.50%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.50%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.33%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.33%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.17%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.65%) Windows
2 19 (3.15%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.16%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.66%) 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
1 427 (70.81%) AI
2 405 (67.16%) Machine Learning
3 402 (66.67%) User Experience
3 402 (66.67%) Web Development
4 55 (9.12%) Mentoring
5 28 (4.64%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (3.98%) Ethical Hacking
7 19 (3.15%) Information Security
8 15 (2.49%) Line Management
9 13 (2.16%) Agile
9 13 (2.16%) Customer Service
10 12 (1.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (1.99%) Service Delivery
11 11 (1.82%) Incident Response
11 11 (1.82%) Project Management
11 11 (1.82%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 11 (1.82%) Risk Management
11 11 (1.82%) Time Management
12 10 (1.66%) Cost Optimisation
12 10 (1.66%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 27 (4.48%) JavaScript
2 26 (4.31%) Python
3 9 (1.49%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.33%) R
5 7 (1.16%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.83%) Java
6 5 (0.83%) SQL
7 4 (0.66%) C
8 3 (0.50%) C++
9 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.17%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 426 (70.65%) Degree
2 403 (66.83%) Master's Degree
2 403 (66.83%) Postgraduate
3 402 (66.67%) PhD
4 44 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 33 (5.47%) CompTIA Security+
6 27 (4.48%) AWS Certification
7 25 (4.15%) CEH
8 22 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (3.65%) Network+ Certification
9 17 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (2.65%) CompTIA CySA+
11 14 (2.32%) A+ Certification
12 9 (1.49%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.33%) PMP
13 8 (1.33%) Security Cleared
14 7 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (1.16%) CISSP
15 5 (0.83%) CISM
16 4 (0.66%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.49%) NIST
4 7 (1.16%) GRC
5 6 (1.00%) GDPR
5 6 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.50%) GLBA
8 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) QA
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.00%) Docker
3 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (0.66%) Terraform
4 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 76 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.98%) ForeScout
3 13 (2.16%) Apple
4 9 (1.49%) Adobe
5 5 (0.83%) Cisco
6 4 (0.66%) Meraki
6 4 (0.66%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (0.50%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.50%) iManage
8 2 (0.33%) Splunk
8 2 (0.33%) Spotify
8 2 (0.33%) VMware
9 1 (0.17%) Juniper
9 1 (0.17%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.17%) PayPal
9 1 (0.17%) Veeam
9 1 (0.17%) Zscaler