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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 42 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 -26
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 338 154 241
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.35% 6.25% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 6.70% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 228 95 169
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,645 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £95,150
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 4,633 2,297 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.30% 93.26% 83.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,674 1,324 3,404
10th Percentile £33,575 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,830
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.11% -8.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £82,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -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 9 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 9 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 +8 20 £50,000 -33.33% 5
Salford -4 17 £100,000 +57.62% 7
Bury +8 6 £60,741 -
Altrincham +6 2 £40,000 - 6
Stockport +1 2 £32,500 -15.03% 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 10 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 12 (3.55%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 80 (23.67%) Azure
2 44 (13.02%) AWS
3 34 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.03%) GCP
5 15 (4.44%) SaaS
6 13 (3.85%) Serverless
7 12 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.48%) IaaS
10 5 (1.48%) PaaS
11 4 (1.18%) GitHub
11 4 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.89%) Datadog
12 3 (0.89%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.80%) Firewall
2 20 (5.92%) Unified Communications
3 13 (3.85%) VLAN
4 10 (2.96%) DNS
5 9 (2.66%) VoIP
6 8 (2.37%) VPN
7 7 (2.07%) DHCP
8 5 (1.48%) Internet
8 5 (1.48%) Network Security
9 4 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.89%) DKIM
10 3 (0.89%) DMARC
10 3 (0.89%) LAN
10 3 (0.89%) PBX
10 3 (0.89%) WAN
10 3 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.30%) LTE
11 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
1 1 (0.30%) MySQL
1 1 (0.30%) Neo4j
1 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.30%) Pinecone
1 1 (0.30%) Power BI
1 1 (0.30%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (3.55%) Snyk
2 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.59%) Git
3 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) GDB
4 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.30%) WinDbg
General
1 90 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 33 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (6.51%) Law
4 16 (4.73%) Marketing
5 15 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.14%) Finance
6 14 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.66%) Retail
8 8 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.78%) Legal
9 6 (1.78%) Multimedia
9 6 (1.78%) Police
10 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.18%) French Language
10 4 (1.18%) Local Government
10 4 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.89%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 58 (17.16%) Senior
2 52 (15.38%) Analyst
3 37 (10.95%) Security Analyst
4 35 (10.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 29 (8.58%) Architect
6 28 (8.28%) Senior Analyst
7 27 (7.99%) Security Architect
8 25 (7.40%) Consultant
9 24 (7.10%) Security Consultant
10 21 (6.21%) Lead
11 19 (5.62%) Junior
11 19 (5.62%) Junior Analyst
12 18 (5.33%) Security Engineer
13 16 (4.73%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 16 (4.73%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 16 (4.73%) Junior Security Analyst
13 16 (4.73%) Security Manager
13 16 (4.73%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
13 16 (4.73%) Senior Security Analyst
14 15 (4.44%) Ethical Hacker
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.78%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.78%) REST
2 4 (1.18%) .NET
2 4 (1.18%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.18%) React
3 3 (0.89%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.89%) AWS CDK
3 3 (0.89%) CSS
3 3 (0.89%) HTML
3 3 (0.89%) NestJS
3 3 (0.89%) Node.js
3 3 (0.89%) Vue
4 2 (0.59%) Spring
4 2 (0.59%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.30%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.21%) Cyberattack
2 16 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 11 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.07%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.78%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Licensing
7 6 (1.78%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.18%) Cybercrime
8 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.18%) Social Media
9 3 (0.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.80%) Windows
2 15 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.78%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.18%) Linux
5 3 (0.89%) Android
5 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (16.86%) AI
2 42 (12.43%) Mentoring
3 29 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 25 (7.40%) Cloud Security
6 24 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (7.10%) DevOps
7 23 (6.80%) CI/CD
8 21 (6.21%) Ethical Hacking
8 21 (6.21%) SIEM
9 20 (5.92%) Information Security
10 19 (5.62%) IT Strategy
10 19 (5.62%) Risk Management
10 19 (5.62%) Security Testing
10 19 (5.62%) Threat Modelling
11 18 (5.33%) Agile
11 18 (5.33%) Software Licensing
12 17 (5.03%) DevSecOps
12 17 (5.03%) Service Delivery
13 16 (4.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.51%) Python
2 12 (3.55%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.66%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.78%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.48%) Bash
5 5 (1.48%) SQL
6 4 (1.18%) C++
6 4 (1.18%) Java
7 2 (0.59%) C#
8 1 (0.30%) Ada
8 1 (0.30%) C
8 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 32 (9.47%) Azure Certification
2 24 (7.10%) CompTIA Security+
3 23 (6.80%) CEH
4 21 (6.21%) Degree
5 20 (5.92%) Security Cleared
6 18 (5.33%) CompTIA CySA+
6 18 (5.33%) SC Cleared
7 13 (3.85%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.96%) CISSP
10 9 (2.66%) CISM
10 9 (2.66%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (2.37%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.48%) A+ Certification
12 5 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.18%) CISA
13 4 (1.18%) CRISC
14 3 (0.89%) CCNA
14 3 (0.89%) MCSA
14 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (6.80%) NIST
3 17 (5.03%) GRC
4 14 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (3.55%) GDPR
5 12 (3.55%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.59%) NCSC
8 2 (0.59%) QA
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 12 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.48%) Docker
5 3 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.37%) Terraform
2 7 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.89%) cPanel
4 3 (0.89%) Grafana
4 3 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.89%) Plesk
4 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (30.18%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.17%) ForeScout
3 19 (5.62%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (5.03%) Apple
5 14 (4.14%) Adobe
6 12 (3.55%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.55%) Tenable
7 6 (1.78%) Tanium
8 3 (0.89%) Acronis
8 3 (0.89%) Cisco
8 3 (0.89%) Datto
8 3 (0.89%) Google
8 3 (0.89%) Meraki
8 3 (0.89%) NETGEAR
8 3 (0.89%) SonicWALL
8 3 (0.89%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (0.89%) Veeam
8 3 (0.89%) VMware
8 3 (0.89%) WatchGuard