Protective Monitoring Job Trends in Manchester

Protective Monitoring
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Protective Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 - 180
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Permanent jobs citing Protective Monitoring 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.053% - 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% - 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £33,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.50%
75th Percentile £40,000 - £34,500
90th Percentile £43,000 - -
North West median annual salary £35,000 - £33,000
% change year-on-year - - -17.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Protective Monitoring 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 5,775 2,117 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.29% 83.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,383 1,209 1,714
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,991
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 £86,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Protective Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Protective Monitoring job vacancy trend in Manchester

Protective Monitoring
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Protective Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Protective Monitoring

Protective Monitoring
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Protective Monitoring within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 24 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
Wigan - 2 £45,000 -
Protective Monitoring
North West

Protective Monitoring
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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Police
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Junior
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Security Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (50.00%) Cybercrime
2 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Team
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Line Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (50.00%) SOAR
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto