OSINT Job Trends in Manchester

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring OSINT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - +95
Permanent jobs citing OSINT 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.087% - 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% - 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £62,500
75th Percentile £81,250 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £77,500 - £62,500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

OSINT 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 2,006 3,137 2,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 86.92% 85.15% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,222 1,457 1,920
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,063 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -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 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

OSINT
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OSINT job vacancy trend in Manchester

OSINT
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OSINT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OSINT

OSINT
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 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST