OSINT Job Trends in the North West

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring OSINT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 - 209
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Permanent jobs citing OSINT 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.042% - 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% - 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £62,500
75th Percentile £81,250 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £59,000 £95,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -37.89% +52.00% -10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

OSINT 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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,121 5,605 3,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 86.09% 80.88% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 2,833 2,952
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

OSINT
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSINT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

OSINT job vacancy trend in the North West

OSINT
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OSINT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OSINT

OSINT
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 OSINT within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 October 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 - 2 £77,500 - 2
OSINT
England

OSINT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST