Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > North West

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 281 282
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 14 12 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 16
10th Percentile £37,716 - £51,000
25th Percentile £40,787 £35,000 £54,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -17.31% -23.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £67,875
90th Percentile - £67,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -17.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 7,355 9,331 7,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 94.60% 89.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,051 7,169 4,106
10th Percentile £26,943 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester +64 9 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Lancashire -64 3 £37,935 -19.29% 2
Cheshire +2 2 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 6 (42.86%) Security Posture
4 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
4 5 (35.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 5 (35.71%) Ping Identity
4 5 (35.71%) Node.js
4 5 (35.71%) REST
4 5 (35.71%) Investment Management
4 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
4 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Retail
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Web Services
4 5 (35.71%) Python
4 5 (35.71%) Finance
5 4 (28.57%) Legal
5 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (28.57%) Degree
5 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
5 4 (28.57%) Coaching
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Retail
2 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
1 5 (35.71%) REST
1 5 (35.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
3 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (35.71%) Investment Management
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 5 (35.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Coaching
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
4 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
1 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
2 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) CEH
2 2 (14.29%) CISA
2 2 (14.29%) CISM
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (14.29%) CRISC
2 2 (14.29%) GCIH
2 2 (14.29%) GIAC
2 2 (14.29%) GISF
2 2 (14.29%) ISACA
2 2 (14.29%) SANS
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Ping Identity
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) AlienVault
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto