Cyberattack Jobs in the North West

Cyberattack
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 263 261
Rank change year-on-year +248 -2 +30
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 979 36 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.54% 0.35% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 38.53% 1.13% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 36 8
10th Percentile £57,325 £38,375 £43,655
25th Percentile £58,188 £47,000 £60,296
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £50,000 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -27.75% +15.33%
75th Percentile £65,688 - £75,938
90th Percentile £66,775 £51,250 £82,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,229 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.03% +22.24% -3.51%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cyberattack 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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,541 3,176 3,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.56% 30.70% 41.64%
Number of salaries quoted 891 2,284 1,462
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £32,860
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cyberattack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the North West

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyberattack in the North West.

Salary trend for Cyberattack in the North West

Cyberattack
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Lancashire +69 610 - - 9
Manchester +189 203 £65,000 -27.78% 27
Cheshire +89 141 - - 20
Merseyside +46 26 £58,500 +24.47% 10
Cumbria - 2 - -
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 175 (17.88%) AWS
2 172 (17.57%) Azure
2 172 (17.57%) GCP
3 2 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.10%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 629 (64.25%) VPN
2 381 (38.92%) DNS
3 250 (25.54%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.20%) HTTP
4 2 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.20%) SMTP
4 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
5 1 (0.10%) SSH
5 1 (0.10%) SSL
General
1 973 (99.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 631 (64.45%) Analytical Skills
3 379 (38.71%) Finance
4 172 (17.57%) Law
4 172 (17.57%) Legal
5 3 (0.31%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 379 (38.71%) Developer
1 379 (38.71%) Software Developer
2 250 (25.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 174 (17.77%) Senior
4 173 (17.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 173 (17.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (0.20%) Analyst
5 2 (0.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (0.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (0.20%) Security Analyst
6 1 (0.10%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (0.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (0.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.10%) Security Engineer
6 1 (0.10%) Security Manager
6 1 (0.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (0.10%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (25.54%) Elastic Stack
2 173 (17.67%) Node.js
3 172 (17.57%) .NET
4 2 (0.20%) React
5 1 (0.10%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.10%) OAuth
5 1 (0.10%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.10%) REST
5 1 (0.10%) RESTful
5 1 (0.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 172 (17.57%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (17.57%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (0.31%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (0.31%) Management Information System
2 3 (0.31%) Security Posture
3 1 (0.10%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.10%) PKI
3 1 (0.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 801 (81.82%) Linux
2 629 (64.25%) Android
3 250 (25.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (81.82%) Line Management
2 629 (64.25%) Mathematics
3 552 (56.38%) Agile
4 379 (38.71%) Android Development
4 379 (38.71%) Design Patterns
4 379 (38.71%) OO
4 379 (38.71%) OOP
5 252 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
6 251 (25.64%) DevOps
6 251 (25.64%) Risk Management
7 250 (25.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 250 (25.54%) Platform Engineering
7 250 (25.54%) Storage Management
7 250 (25.54%) Task Automation
8 177 (18.08%) Cybersecurity
9 174 (17.77%) Cloud Security
9 174 (17.77%) Software Engineering
10 173 (17.67%) Microservices
11 172 (17.57%) Mentoring
11 172 (17.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 802 (81.92%) Python
2 551 (56.28%) C++
2 551 (56.28%) Go
2 551 (56.28%) Java
3 250 (25.54%) Bash
3 250 (25.54%) PowerShell
4 173 (17.67%) JavaScript
5 172 (17.57%) Rust
6 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 551 (56.28%) DV Cleared
1 551 (56.28%) Security Cleared
2 172 (17.57%) AWS Certification
2 172 (17.57%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (17.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.20%) CEH
3 2 (0.20%) CISM
3 2 (0.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (17.57%) NCSC
2 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.31%) NIST
4 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 629 (64.25%) Docker
2 250 (25.54%) Hyper-V
2 250 (25.54%) VMware NSX
2 250 (25.54%) vSphere
3 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 629 (64.25%) Ansible
2 251 (25.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 251 (25.64%) Splunk
2 250 (25.54%) 3PAR
2 250 (25.54%) Cisco
2 250 (25.54%) Juniper
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.10%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.10%) Thales