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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 44 46
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 -27
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 344 156 240
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.39% 6.28% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 6.76% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 236 95 167
10th Percentile £31,875 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,125 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +10.91% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,500 £95,300
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 4,672 2,307 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.18% 92.80% 82.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 1,324 3,317
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,300 £88,333 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 15 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 15 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 +10 21 £50,000 -33.33% 8
Salford -3 18 £100,000 +57.62% 7
Bury +8 6 £60,741 - 1
Altrincham +6 3 £40,000 - 6
Stockport 0 2 £32,500 -15.03% 5
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 9 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.49%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 81 (23.55%) Azure
2 44 (12.79%) AWS
3 35 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (4.94%) GCP
5 16 (4.65%) SaaS
6 13 (3.78%) Serverless
7 11 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.74%) IaaS
10 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.45%) PaaS
11 4 (1.16%) GitHub
11 4 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.87%) Datadog
12 3 (0.87%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.87%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.10%) Firewall
2 20 (5.81%) Unified Communications
3 11 (3.20%) VLAN
4 9 (2.62%) DNS
4 9 (2.62%) VoIP
5 6 (1.74%) DHCP
5 6 (1.74%) VPN
6 5 (1.45%) Internet
6 5 (1.45%) Network Security
7 4 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.16%) WAN
8 3 (0.87%) DKIM
8 3 (0.87%) DMARC
8 3 (0.87%) LAN
8 3 (0.87%) PBX
8 3 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.29%) FTP
9 1 (0.29%) LTE
9 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
1 1 (0.29%) MySQL
1 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
1 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
1 1 (0.29%) Power BI
1 1 (0.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (3.49%) Snyk
2 4 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.58%) Git
3 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) GDB
4 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.29%) WinDbg
General
1 92 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (6.40%) Law
4 16 (4.65%) Marketing
5 15 (4.36%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.78%) Finance
8 9 (2.62%) Retail
9 8 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.03%) Legal
11 6 (1.74%) Multimedia
11 6 (1.74%) Police
12 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.16%) French Language
12 4 (1.16%) Local Government
12 4 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Advertising
13 3 (0.87%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.87%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (0.87%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (17.15%) Senior
2 54 (15.70%) Analyst
3 38 (11.05%) Security Analyst
4 36 (10.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 30 (8.72%) Consultant
6 29 (8.43%) Architect
6 29 (8.43%) Senior Analyst
7 26 (7.56%) Security Consultant
8 25 (7.27%) Security Architect
9 22 (6.40%) Junior
9 22 (6.40%) Lead
10 19 (5.52%) Junior Analyst
11 18 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 17 (4.94%) Security Engineer
12 17 (4.94%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
12 17 (4.94%) Senior Security Analyst
13 16 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 16 (4.65%) Junior Security Analyst
13 16 (4.65%) Security Manager
14 15 (4.36%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.74%) Regular Expression
2 5 (1.45%) REST
3 4 (1.16%) .NET
3 4 (1.16%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.16%) React
4 3 (0.87%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.87%) CSS
4 3 (0.87%) HTML
4 3 (0.87%) Vue
5 2 (0.58%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.58%) NestJS
5 2 (0.58%) Node.js
5 2 (0.58%) Spring
5 2 (0.58%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.29%) OAuth
6 1 (0.29%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.10%) Cyberattack
2 16 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.65%) Security Posture
3 15 (4.36%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.07%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.74%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Licensing
9 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.16%) Cybercrime
9 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.16%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.16%) Social Media
10 3 (0.87%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.69%) Windows
2 14 (4.07%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.16%) Linux
6 3 (0.87%) Android
6 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (16.86%) AI
2 42 (12.21%) Mentoring
3 31 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (7.56%) Incident Response
5 25 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (6.98%) Cloud Security
6 24 (6.98%) DevOps
7 23 (6.69%) CI/CD
8 22 (6.40%) SIEM
9 21 (6.10%) Ethical Hacking
9 21 (6.10%) IT Strategy
10 20 (5.81%) Information Security
10 20 (5.81%) Risk Management
11 19 (5.52%) Agile
11 19 (5.52%) Security Testing
11 19 (5.52%) Software Licensing
11 19 (5.52%) Threat Modelling
12 17 (4.94%) DevSecOps
12 17 (4.94%) Roadmaps
13 16 (4.65%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.40%) Python
2 12 (3.49%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.45%) Bash
4 5 (1.45%) SQL
4 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.16%) C++
5 4 (1.16%) Java
6 2 (0.58%) C#
7 1 (0.29%) Ada
7 1 (0.29%) C
7 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 33 (9.59%) Azure Certification
2 24 (6.98%) CompTIA Security+
3 23 (6.69%) CEH
3 23 (6.69%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.40%) Degree
5 21 (6.10%) SC Cleared
6 18 (5.23%) CompTIA CySA+
7 13 (3.78%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.91%) CISSP
10 9 (2.62%) CISM
11 8 (2.33%) DBS Check
11 8 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.45%) A+ Certification
12 5 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.16%) CISA
13 4 (1.16%) CRISC
14 3 (0.87%) CCNA
14 3 (0.87%) MCSA
14 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.98%) NIST
3 20 (5.81%) GRC
4 16 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (3.49%) GDPR
5 12 (3.49%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.58%) NCSC
8 2 (0.58%) QA
9 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (2.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.03%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.45%) Docker
4 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.03%) Terraform
3 5 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.87%) cPanel
4 3 (0.87%) Grafana
4 3 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.87%) Plesk
4 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 105 (30.52%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.01%) ForeScout
3 19 (5.52%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (4.94%) Apple
5 14 (4.07%) Adobe
6 12 (3.49%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.49%) Tenable
7 7 (2.03%) Tanium
8 4 (1.16%) VMware
9 3 (0.87%) Acronis
9 3 (0.87%) Cisco
9 3 (0.87%) Datto
9 3 (0.87%) Google
9 3 (0.87%) Meraki
9 3 (0.87%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.87%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.87%) Veeam
9 3 (0.87%) WatchGuard