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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 36 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 362 143 172
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.89% 6.03% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 6.74% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 253 74 88
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,775 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,544 £30,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,154
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +9.66% -15.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,813 £67,813
90th Percentile £98,000 £87,333 £91,500
North West median annual salary £59,000 £48,500 £54,793
% change year-on-year +21.65% -11.49% -7.95%

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 5,612 2,121 3,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.79% 89.46% 82.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,293 1,204 1,784
10th Percentile £32,050 £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 £85,000 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%

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 16 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 16 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 +13 16 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Salford -12 15 £27,500 -62.48% 13
Altrincham +5 5 £40,000 +45.45%
Bury +6 3 £29,000 -
Sale +4 2 £62,500 -
Stockport -4 2 - - 18
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 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.31%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 70 (19.34%) Azure
2 53 (14.64%) AWS
3 41 (11.33%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (5.52%) GCP
5 16 (4.42%) SaaS
6 13 (3.59%) Serverless
7 12 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.21%) Mimecast
9 7 (1.93%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.38%) GitHub
11 5 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.10%) IaaS
12 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.83%) Datadog
13 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.63%) Unified Communications
2 14 (3.87%) Firewall
3 11 (3.04%) VoIP
4 8 (2.21%) DNS
4 8 (2.21%) Internet
5 7 (1.93%) VLAN
6 5 (1.38%) DHCP
6 5 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.38%) Network Security
6 5 (1.38%) VPN
7 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.10%) Wireless
8 3 (0.83%) DKIM
8 3 (0.83%) DMARC
8 3 (0.83%) FTP
8 3 (0.83%) HTTP
8 3 (0.83%) PBX
8 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.28%) 5G
9 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 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 87 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (5.25%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.70%) Finance
5 15 (4.14%) Marketing
5 15 (4.14%) Telecoms
6 14 (3.87%) Retail
7 12 (3.31%) Law
8 7 (1.93%) Police
9 6 (1.66%) Legal
9 6 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Advertising
10 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
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%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 73 (20.17%) Senior
2 61 (16.85%) Analyst
3 46 (12.71%) Consultant
4 41 (11.33%) Security Analyst
5 38 (10.50%) Security Consultant
6 37 (10.22%) Architect
7 36 (9.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 33 (9.12%) Security Architect
9 30 (8.29%) Senior Analyst
10 26 (7.18%) Lead
11 23 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 18 (4.97%) Security Engineer
12 18 (4.97%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
12 18 (4.97%) Senior Security Analyst
13 17 (4.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 17 (4.70%) Junior
14 15 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 15 (4.14%) Marketing Manager
14 15 (4.14%) Security Manager
15 14 (3.87%) Cloud 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%) 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%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth
5 1 (0.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.80%) Security Posture
2 19 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.42%) Cyberattack
4 15 (4.14%) Driving Licence
4 15 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.59%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (3.59%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.31%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.66%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Licensing
9 5 (1.38%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.38%) Cybercrime
9 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.83%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.91%) Windows
2 11 (3.04%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.21%) Linux
4 6 (1.66%) Windows Server
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 (17.96%) AI
2 37 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (9.39%) DevOps
4 32 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (8.29%) Mentoring
6 29 (8.01%) Incident Response
6 29 (8.01%) SIEM
7 28 (7.73%) IT Strategy
8 27 (7.46%) Risk Management
9 26 (7.18%) CI/CD
9 26 (7.18%) Security Architecture
10 25 (6.91%) Cloud Security
10 25 (6.91%) Information Security
11 21 (5.80%) Software Licensing
12 20 (5.52%) Security Testing
12 20 (5.52%) Threat Modelling
13 19 (5.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (4.97%) Agile
14 18 (4.97%) Technology Strategy
15 17 (4.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.25%) Python
2 17 (4.70%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.93%) 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%) Go
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%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.18%) Degree
4 16 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.87%) CISM
6 13 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.59%) CISSP
6 13 (3.59%) CompTIA CySA+
6 13 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.76%) CEH
9 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.10%) CISA
10 4 (1.10%) CRISC
10 4 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.83%) GCIH
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (8.01%) NIST
3 24 (6.63%) GRC
4 17 (4.70%) 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%) NCSC
9 3 (0.83%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.55%) QA
11 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (3.59%) 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 9 (2.49%) 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
6 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.52%) CrowdStrike
3 16 (4.42%) Palo Alto
4 14 (3.87%) Adobe
4 14 (3.87%) Apple
4 14 (3.87%) ForeScout
5 12 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.31%) Tenable
6 8 (2.21%) Tanium
7 4 (1.10%) VMware
8 3 (0.83%) Acronis
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
8 3 (0.83%) YouTube