Data Security Jobs in Manchester

Data Security
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 171 210
Rank change year-on-year +32 +39 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 16 48 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.73% 0.94% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.08% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12 28 8
10th Percentile £49,212 £42,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £64,621 £62,813 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £73,750 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +31.11% -12.79%
75th Percentile £79,063 £85,000 £61,646
90th Percentile £87,125 £108,750 £62,833
North West median annual salary £66,367 £50,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +32.73% +8.11% -28.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Security 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 2,099 4,447 4,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.15% 86.67% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 3,393 2,562
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,700 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -4.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,692 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in Manchester.

Salary trend for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. 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 - 1 £13,520 - 3
Data Security
North West

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Banking
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Back Office
2 2 (12.50%) Games
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Manager
1 6 (37.50%) Resilience Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Head of IT
4 2 (12.50%) Head of Logistics
4 2 (12.50%) Head of Supply Chain
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) PDA
3 2 (12.50%) Sports Betting
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Analytics
1 6 (37.50%) Commercialisation
1 6 (37.50%) Data Encryption
1 6 (37.50%) Data Lineage
1 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (37.50%) Target Operating Model
1 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 2 (12.50%) Project Roadmap
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco