ISMS Job Trends in Manchester

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring ISMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 173 159
Rank change year-on-year +24 -14 +50
Permanent jobs citing ISMS 6 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.25% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £48,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.57% +43.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £42,250 £58,750 £47,956
90th Percentile - - £51,230
North West median annual salary £40,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.57% +15.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

ISMS 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 2,115 3,353 2,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.17% 84.23% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 1,652 2,060
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £43,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

ISMS job vacancy trend in Manchester

ISMS
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ISMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ISMS

ISMS
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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
1 5 (83.33%) IaaS
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) SSL
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (83.33%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 5 (83.33%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 6 (100.00%) Information Security
1 6 (100.00%) Information Security Management
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (83.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 5 (83.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 5 (83.33%) Security Management
2 5 (83.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCNA
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (83.33%) DBS Check
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISMP
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 22301
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Autotask
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft