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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 35 49
Rank change year-on-year +31 +14 -23
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 624 139 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 13.74% 6.93% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.68% 7.27% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 145 109 165
10th Percentile - £25,313 £35,920
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -3.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,180 £95,750
North West median annual salary £44,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.55% - -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 3,341 1,912 4,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.57% 95.27% 86.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,279 1,246 3,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,344 £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 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 5 April 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 5 April 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 - 1
Salford +8 22 £100,000 +106.19% 3
Bolton +15 21 £50,000 -33.33% 4
Bury - 16 £92,482 -
Cheadle +2 14 - - 3
Wigan - 14 - - 4
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - - 1
Oldham +3 12 - -
Rochdale - 12 - - 1
Altrincham - 12 - - 1
Heywood - 12 - -
Littleborough - 12 - -
Sale - 11 - - 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 11 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (1.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 411 (65.87%) Cloud Computing
2 97 (15.54%) Azure
3 49 (7.85%) AWS
4 26 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (2.88%) GitHub
6 17 (2.72%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (1.92%) SaaS
9 8 (1.28%) GCP
10 6 (0.96%) PaaS
11 5 (0.80%) IaaS
12 4 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.48%) Datadog
13 3 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.48%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.32%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (0.32%) iPaaS
15 1 (0.16%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 419 (67.15%) Internet
2 26 (4.17%) Firewall
3 16 (2.56%) VLAN
4 14 (2.24%) DHCP
4 14 (2.24%) DNS
5 13 (2.08%) VPN
6 5 (0.80%) WAN
7 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.64%) LAN
7 4 (0.64%) VoIP
8 3 (0.48%) Network Security
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
9 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (0.64%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (2.40%) Git
2 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.16%) GDB
3 1 (0.16%) JIRA
3 1 (0.16%) JMeter
3 1 (0.16%) Locust
3 1 (0.16%) Snyk
3 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.16%) WinDbg
General
1 481 (77.08%) Social Skills
2 427 (68.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 404 (64.74%) Banking
4 29 (4.65%) Multimedia
5 21 (3.37%) Finance
6 18 (2.88%) Law
7 9 (1.44%) Legal
7 9 (1.44%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.12%) Retail
9 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.64%) French Language
10 4 (0.64%) Police
11 3 (0.48%) Billing
11 3 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.48%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.48%) Local Government
11 3 (0.48%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (0.48%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.32%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 314 (50.32%) Lecturer
2 31 (4.97%) Analyst
3 29 (4.65%) Trainee
4 24 (3.85%) Senior
5 20 (3.21%) Security Analyst
6 19 (3.04%) Architect
6 19 (3.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 19 (3.04%) Security Architect
7 17 (2.72%) IT Support
7 17 (2.72%) Junior
7 17 (2.72%) Junior Analyst
7 17 (2.72%) Junior Security Analyst
8 14 (2.24%) Security Engineer
9 13 (2.08%) Head of Security
10 12 (1.92%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 12 (1.92%) Head of Cybersecurity
10 12 (1.92%) IT Engineer
10 12 (1.92%) Support Engineer
11 11 (1.76%) Ethical Hacker
11 11 (1.76%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.88%) CSS
1 18 (2.88%) HTML
2 5 (0.80%) AngularJS
2 5 (0.80%) React
3 4 (0.64%) MERN Stack
3 4 (0.64%) Regular Expression
4 3 (0.48%) .NET
4 3 (0.48%) AWS CDK
4 3 (0.48%) NestJS
4 3 (0.48%) Node.js
4 3 (0.48%) REST
5 2 (0.32%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.32%) Middleware
6 1 (0.16%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.16%) Spring
6 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 405 (64.90%) IoT
2 20 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 16 (2.56%) Cyberattack
4 11 (1.76%) Driving Licence
5 9 (1.44%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.28%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.12%) Blog
8 6 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.80%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.80%) Social Media
10 4 (0.64%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.64%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (0.64%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.48%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.32%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.85%) Windows
2 19 (3.04%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.12%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.80%) Linux
5 3 (0.48%) Android
5 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (69.39%) AI
2 405 (64.90%) Machine Learning
3 402 (64.42%) User Experience
3 402 (64.42%) Web Development
4 57 (9.13%) Mentoring
5 29 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (4.01%) Ethical Hacking
7 17 (2.72%) Agile
7 17 (2.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (2.40%) Information Security
9 14 (2.24%) Cost Optimisation
9 14 (2.24%) Incident Response
9 14 (2.24%) Line Management
9 14 (2.24%) Software Engineering
10 13 (2.08%) Customer Service
10 13 (2.08%) Project Management
10 13 (2.08%) Risk Management
10 13 (2.08%) SIEM
11 12 (1.92%) FinOps
11 12 (1.92%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (4.81%) Python
2 25 (4.01%) JavaScript
3 13 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.12%) R
4 7 (1.12%) TypeScript
5 6 (0.96%) Java
6 5 (0.80%) SQL
7 4 (0.64%) C
7 4 (0.64%) C++
8 2 (0.32%) Bash
9 1 (0.16%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 424 (67.95%) Degree
2 403 (64.58%) Master's Degree
2 403 (64.58%) Postgraduate
3 402 (64.42%) PhD
4 46 (7.37%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 28 (4.49%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.33%) CEH
8 21 (3.37%) Network+ Certification
9 20 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.88%) CompTIA CySA+
11 15 (2.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (2.08%) A+ Certification
12 13 (2.08%) Security Cleared
13 9 (1.44%) SC Cleared
14 8 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (1.28%) CISSP
14 8 (1.28%) DBS Check
14 8 (1.28%) PMP
15 7 (1.12%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.60%) NIST
4 9 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.12%) GRC
6 6 (0.96%) GDPR
7 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.16%) GLBA
9 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.16%) QA
9 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.28%) Docker
3 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.28%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.96%) Terraform
4 4 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.48%) Grafana
6 2 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 85 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.49%) ForeScout
3 15 (2.40%) Apple
4 11 (1.76%) Adobe
5 5 (0.80%) Cisco
5 5 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (0.64%) Meraki
6 4 (0.64%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (0.48%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.32%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.32%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.32%) Spotify
8 2 (0.32%) VMware
9 1 (0.16%) iManage
9 1 (0.16%) Juniper
9 1 (0.16%) PayPal
9 1 (0.16%) Splunk
9 1 (0.16%) Tenable
9 1 (0.16%) Veeam
9 1 (0.16%) Zscaler