Security Posture Job Trends in Manchester

Security Posture
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 133 134
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +111
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 3 23 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.10% 0.86% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 2.38% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 13
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,716 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +29.63% -15.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,500 - £70,000
North West median annual salary £48,500 £58,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -17.09% +8.33% -12.73%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,094 967 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.50% 36.26% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 507 448 730
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,369
90th Percentile £88,000 £86,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Manchester

Security Posture
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Security Posture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in Manchester

Security Posture
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 Posture within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Bolton +9 1 £35,000 -53.33% 1
Security Posture
North West

Security Posture
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft