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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 38 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 362 159 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.21% 6.41% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 7.05% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 258 91 118
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,313 £37,125
25th Percentile £45,313 £35,500 £40,313
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 £69,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £95,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -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 5,204 2,256 3,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.86% 90.97% 81.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,068 1,307 2,328
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,061 £69,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £83,238
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +17 22 £50,000 -33.33% 8
Salford -6 19 £63,750 -8.12%
Bury +8 6 £60,741 -
Altrincham +7 5 £40,000 - 6
Sale +5 2 £62,500 - 1
Stockport 0 2 £32,500 +8.33% 1
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 13 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.31%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 77 (21.27%) Azure
2 48 (13.26%) AWS
3 43 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (5.25%) SaaS
5 17 (4.70%) GCP
6 13 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.59%) Serverless
7 12 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.66%) IaaS
9 6 (1.66%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.66%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.38%) GitHub
10 5 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.38%) PaaS
11 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.83%) Datadog
12 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.35%) Unified Communications
2 16 (4.42%) Firewall
3 13 (3.59%) VoIP
4 9 (2.49%) VLAN
5 8 (2.21%) Internet
6 7 (1.93%) DNS
7 5 (1.38%) Network Security
8 4 (1.10%) DHCP
8 4 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.10%) VPN
8 4 (1.10%) WAN
9 3 (0.83%) DKIM
9 3 (0.83%) DMARC
9 3 (0.83%) FTP
9 3 (0.83%) HTTP
9 3 (0.83%) LAN
9 3 (0.83%) PBX
9 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
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 12 (3.31%) Snyk
2 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.83%) Git
3 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.28%) GDB
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.28%) WinDbg
General
1 90 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (5.52%) Law
4 18 (4.97%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.14%) Marketing
5 15 (4.14%) Telecoms
6 14 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.87%) Finance
7 10 (2.76%) Retail
8 7 (1.93%) Legal
8 7 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.66%) Police
10 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.10%) Local Government
11 3 (0.83%) Advertising
11 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (17.40%) Senior
2 61 (16.85%) Analyst
3 43 (11.88%) Security Analyst
4 39 (10.77%) Consultant
5 38 (10.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 34 (9.39%) Architect
7 32 (8.84%) Security Consultant
8 30 (8.29%) Security Architect
8 30 (8.29%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (7.18%) Lead
10 21 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 21 (5.80%) Junior
11 18 (4.97%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
11 18 (4.97%) Senior Security Analyst
12 16 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 16 (4.42%) Junior Analyst
12 16 (4.42%) Security Manager
13 15 (4.14%) Marketing Manager
13 15 (4.14%) Security Engineer
14 14 (3.87%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.66%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.66%) Terraform
2 4 (1.10%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.10%) React
2 4 (1.10%) REST
3 3 (0.83%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.83%) JSON
3 3 (0.83%) pgvector
3 3 (0.83%) PostGIS
3 3 (0.83%) 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%) LDAP
4 2 (0.55%) Spring
4 2 (0.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.52%) Cyberattack
1 20 (5.52%) Security Posture
2 17 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.87%) Driving Licence
4 12 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.93%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.66%) Cybercrime
8 6 (1.66%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Licensing
9 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.46%) Windows
2 10 (2.76%) Mac OS
3 9 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.66%) Linux
5 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (17.13%) AI
2 36 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (8.84%) Mentoring
4 30 (8.29%) DevOps
4 30 (8.29%) Information Security
5 29 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (8.01%) Incident Response
6 27 (7.46%) IT Strategy
6 27 (7.46%) SIEM
7 25 (6.91%) Cloud Security
7 25 (6.91%) Risk Management
8 22 (6.08%) CI/CD
8 22 (6.08%) Security Architecture
9 21 (5.80%) Software Licensing
10 20 (5.52%) Security Testing
11 19 (5.25%) Threat Modelling
12 18 (4.97%) Agile
13 17 (4.70%) Data Science
13 17 (4.70%) DevSecOps
13 17 (4.70%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.97%) Python
2 15 (4.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.38%) Bash
4 4 (1.10%) C++
4 4 (1.10%) SQL
5 3 (0.83%) C#
5 3 (0.83%) Java
6 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.28%) Ada
7 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.28%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 31 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.46%) Degree
4 25 (6.91%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.42%) CEH
6 15 (4.14%) CompTIA CySA+
6 15 (4.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (3.59%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.76%) CISSP
10 9 (2.49%) CISM
11 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.38%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.10%) CISA
13 4 (1.10%) CRISC
13 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.83%) CCNA
14 3 (0.83%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (6.91%) NIST
3 23 (6.35%) GRC
4 16 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.14%) PCI DSS
6 14 (3.87%) GDPR
7 6 (1.66%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.55%) NCSC
10 2 (0.55%) QA
11 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.28%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 13 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.93%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.38%) Docker
5 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) Nessus
3 4 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.83%) cPanel
4 3 (0.83%) Grafana
4 3 (0.83%) Plesk
4 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 112 (30.94%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.35%) ForeScout
3 20 (5.52%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (4.70%) Apple
5 16 (4.42%) Palo Alto
6 14 (3.87%) Adobe
7 12 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.31%) Tenable
8 8 (2.21%) Tanium
9 4 (1.10%) Cisco
9 4 (1.10%) Meraki
9 4 (1.10%) VMware
10 3 (0.83%) Acronis
10 3 (0.83%) Google
10 3 (0.83%) NETGEAR
10 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.83%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.83%) Splunk
10 3 (0.83%) Veeam
10 3 (0.83%) WatchGuard