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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 37 47
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 363 138 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.81% 5.88% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 6.59% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 253 69 85
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,650 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,544 £30,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +9.33% -15.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £85,667 £90,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £49,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.60% -9.55% -7.60%

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 5,743 2,095 3,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.06% 89.26% 83.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,365 1,192 1,706
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,125 £83,875
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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +11 16 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Salford -15 15 £27,500 -62.48% 6
Altrincham +5 5 £40,000 +45.45%
Bury +7 3 £29,000 -
Stockport -4 3 - - 17
Sale +5 2 £62,500 - 1
Wigan - 1 - - 6
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 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.31%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 67 (18.46%) Azure
2 50 (13.77%) AWS
3 42 (11.57%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (5.51%) GCP
5 15 (4.13%) SaaS
6 13 (3.58%) Serverless
7 12 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.20%) Mimecast
9 7 (1.93%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.10%) GitHub
11 4 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.83%) Datadog
12 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.83%) IaaS
12 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.55%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.61%) Unified Communications
2 11 (3.03%) Firewall
2 11 (3.03%) VoIP
3 8 (2.20%) DNS
3 8 (2.20%) Internet
4 7 (1.93%) VLAN
5 5 (1.38%) DHCP
5 5 (1.38%) VPN
6 4 (1.10%) Network Security
6 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.10%) Wireless
7 3 (0.83%) DKIM
7 3 (0.83%) DMARC
7 3 (0.83%) FTP
7 3 (0.83%) HTTP
7 3 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.83%) PBX
7 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.28%) 5G
8 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.55%) 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 12 (3.31%) Snyk
2 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.83%) Git
3 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
General
1 86 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (4.96%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.41%) Finance
6 15 (4.13%) Marketing
6 15 (4.13%) Retail
6 15 (4.13%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.31%) Law
8 7 (1.93%) Police
9 6 (1.65%) Legal
9 6 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Advertising
10 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (20.11%) Senior
2 60 (16.53%) Analyst
3 47 (12.95%) Consultant
4 40 (11.02%) Security Analyst
5 39 (10.74%) Architect
5 39 (10.74%) Security Consultant
6 35 (9.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 35 (9.64%) Security Architect
7 30 (8.26%) Senior Analyst
8 25 (6.89%) Lead
9 23 (6.34%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 20 (5.51%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 18 (4.96%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
11 18 (4.96%) Senior Security Analyst
12 16 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 16 (4.41%) Junior
12 16 (4.41%) Security Manager
13 15 (4.13%) Marketing Manager
13 15 (4.13%) Security Engineer
14 14 (3.86%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.65%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.65%) 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%) LDAP
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%) 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 21 (5.79%) Onboarding
1 21 (5.79%) Security Posture
2 16 (4.41%) Operational Technology
3 15 (4.13%) Cyberattack
3 15 (4.13%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.58%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.93%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.65%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Licensing
8 5 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.38%) Cybercrime
8 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.83%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.16%) Windows
2 11 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 6 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.38%) Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (17.91%) AI
2 39 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (9.09%) DevOps
5 32 (8.82%) Incident Response
6 30 (8.26%) Security Architecture
7 28 (7.71%) IT Strategy
8 27 (7.44%) Information Security
8 27 (7.44%) Mentoring
8 27 (7.44%) Risk Management
9 26 (7.16%) SIEM
10 25 (6.89%) CI/CD
10 25 (6.89%) Cloud Security
11 21 (5.79%) Software Licensing
12 20 (5.51%) Security Testing
13 19 (5.23%) Security Operations
13 19 (5.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (5.23%) Technology Strategy
13 19 (5.23%) Threat Modelling
14 18 (4.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.23%) Python
2 18 (4.96%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.93%) Bash
4 4 (1.10%) SQL
5 3 (0.83%) C#
5 3 (0.83%) Java
6 2 (0.55%) Go
6 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.28%) Ada
7 1 (0.28%) C++
7 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.89%) Degree
4 14 (3.86%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.58%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.58%) CISM
6 12 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.31%) CISSP
6 12 (3.31%) CompTIA CySA+
6 12 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (2.20%) CEH
8 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.10%) CISA
9 4 (1.10%) CRISC
9 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.83%) GCIH
11 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.71%) NIST
3 25 (6.89%) GRC
4 17 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.13%) GDPR
6 14 (3.86%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.65%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.83%) NCSC
8 3 (0.83%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.55%) QA
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 13 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.93%) Docker
3 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) Nessus
4 3 (0.83%) cPanel
4 3 (0.83%) Grafana
4 3 (0.83%) Plesk
4 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.55%) Ansible
5 2 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.55%) Podman
5 2 (0.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 108 (29.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.96%) CrowdStrike
3 16 (4.41%) Palo Alto
4 14 (3.86%) Adobe
4 14 (3.86%) Apple
5 12 (3.31%) ForeScout
5 12 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.31%) Tenable
6 8 (2.20%) Tanium
7 4 (1.10%) VMware
8 3 (0.83%) Acronis
8 3 (0.83%) Cisco
8 3 (0.83%) Datto
8 3 (0.83%) Google
8 3 (0.83%) NETGEAR
8 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.83%) SonicWALL
8 3 (0.83%) Splunk
8 3 (0.83%) Veeam
8 3 (0.83%) WatchGuard