Security Operations Jobs in Manchester

Security Operations (SecOps)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 182 178
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 35 55 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 1.22% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.27% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 22 36 74
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,125 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% +6.12%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £68,250 £82,500 £79,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Security Operations 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 4,996 4,329 5,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 83.55% 96.29% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,605 2,479 3,569
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,532 £32,097
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +5.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,774 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.79%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Manchester

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in Manchester

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in Manchester

Security Operations
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. 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
Stockport - 3 £60,000 -
Wigan - 1 - -
Bolton - 1 £27,500 -
Bury - 1 £62,500 -
Security Operations
North West

Security Operations
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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.57%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 2 (5.71%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (5.71%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.86%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
General
1 6 (17.14%) Finance
1 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
2 4 (11.43%) Legal
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Law
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Security Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) IT Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) IT Security Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Governance Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
6 3 (8.57%) Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Incident Response Lead
6 3 (8.57%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Security Manager
6 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Information Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Information Security Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Security Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.71%) CSS
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) SAML
2 2 (5.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (5.71%) Web Services
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.86%) React
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
1 4 (11.43%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (5.71%) CMDB
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) CSOC
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (34.29%) Information Security
3 11 (31.43%) Incident Response
3 11 (31.43%) SIEM
4 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.14%) Runbook
8 5 (14.29%) Change Management
8 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 5 (14.29%) Data Management
8 5 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
9 4 (11.43%) Analytics
9 4 (11.43%) Data Security
9 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (11.43%) RBAC
9 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Go
3 4 (11.43%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) CISSP
3 2 (5.71%) CISM
3 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) APMP
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CEH
4 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) GCIA
4 1 (2.86%) GCIH
4 1 (2.86%) GSEC
4 1 (2.86%) MBA
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (37.14%) NIST
2 12 (34.29%) PCI DSS
3 10 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (25.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (8.57%) GDPR
6 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) RACF
3 2 (5.71%) Docker
4 1 (2.86%) Firmware
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.86%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.43%) CyberArk
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.86%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) Symantec