Cybersecurity Jobs in the North West

Cybersecurity
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 25 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 +27 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 553 750 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.73% 9.34% 6.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 9.76% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 443 310 270
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,700 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £62,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% -0.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £79,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,037 7,688 9,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.22% 95.76% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,125 3,977 5,396
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Manchester -18 241 £57,500 -3.40% 97
Lancashire +32 119 £52,084 +27.81% 49
Cheshire 0 111 £60,000 -29.41% 53
Merseyside -15 67 £43,750 -29.44% 11
Cumbria -8 14 £70,000 +55.56% 9
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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 11 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.72%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 81 (14.65%) Azure
2 68 (12.30%) AWS
3 67 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (6.33%) SaaS
5 14 (2.53%) PaaS
6 11 (1.99%) IaaS
7 10 (1.81%) Serverless
8 8 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.45%) GCP
9 6 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.08%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.72%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.72%) Google Workspace
10 4 (0.72%) WhatsApp
11 3 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.54%) Commercetools
11 3 (0.54%) GitHub
11 3 (0.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 64 (11.57%) Firewall
2 38 (6.87%) Network Security
3 26 (4.70%) WAN
4 22 (3.98%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.71%) DHCP
6 14 (2.53%) LAN
7 13 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 12 (2.17%) Unified Communications
9 11 (1.99%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.81%) DNS
11 7 (1.27%) SAN
12 6 (1.08%) Broadband
12 6 (1.08%) VoIP
13 5 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.90%) MQTT
13 5 (0.90%) NAS
13 5 (0.90%) Wireless
14 4 (0.72%) Multicast
14 4 (0.72%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.35%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.45%) MySQL
4 6 (1.08%) Power BI
5 5 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.36%) Tableau
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (4.34%) JIRA
2 18 (3.25%) Git
3 14 (2.53%) TeamCity
4 11 (1.99%) IntelliJ
4 11 (1.99%) JUnit
4 11 (1.99%) Mockito
5 10 (1.81%) Gradle
6 4 (0.72%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.72%) GitLab
6 4 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.72%) Subversion
7 3 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.54%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 129 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.22%) Finance
3 42 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.69%) Manufacturing
5 32 (5.79%) Law
6 29 (5.24%) Legal
7 28 (5.06%) Military
8 23 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.07%) Retail
10 16 (2.89%) Games
11 11 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.81%) Marketing
13 9 (1.63%) Banking
13 9 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.45%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.72%) Local Government
16 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
17 1 (0.18%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 68 (12.30%) Senior
2 60 (10.85%) Analyst
3 45 (8.14%) IT Manager
4 41 (7.41%) Architect
5 36 (6.51%) Lead
6 31 (5.61%) Developer
6 31 (5.61%) Security Analyst
6 31 (5.61%) Vulnerability Manager
7 27 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 26 (4.70%) Security Specialist
9 25 (4.52%) Security Engineer
10 23 (4.16%) Incident Manager
11 22 (3.98%) Project Manager
12 20 (3.62%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 19 (3.44%) Consultant
13 19 (3.44%) Security Manager
14 18 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.07%) Senior Architect
16 14 (2.53%) Head of IT
16 14 (2.53%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.71%) .NET
2 14 (2.53%) REST
2 14 (2.53%) Spring
3 13 (2.35%) Node.js
3 13 (2.35%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.81%) OpenID
4 10 (1.81%) Web Services
5 7 (1.27%) CSS
5 7 (1.27%) HTML
6 5 (0.90%) OAuth
7 4 (0.72%) Akka
7 4 (0.72%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (0.72%) LAMP
7 4 (0.72%) Swing
7 4 (0.72%) WCF
7 4 (0.72%) WinForms
8 3 (0.54%) Vue
9 2 (0.36%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.36%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.36%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.57%) Data Centre
2 63 (11.39%) Management Information System
3 51 (9.22%) Operational Technology
4 42 (7.59%) Cyber Threat
5 33 (5.97%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 27 (4.88%) Cyberattack
7 26 (4.70%) Security Posture
8 21 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (3.07%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.17%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.99%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.81%) SCADA
14 9 (1.63%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.45%) Client/Server
16 7 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 7 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
17 6 (1.08%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 74 (13.38%) Windows
2 51 (9.22%) Linux
3 32 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.44%) Unix
5 17 (3.07%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.63%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.27%) Kali Linux
7 7 (1.27%) VMS
7 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (19.35%) Incident Response
2 105 (18.99%) Information Security
3 97 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (12.30%) Risk Management
5 58 (10.49%) Project Management
6 52 (9.40%) Mentoring
7 51 (9.22%) Agile
8 48 (8.68%) Change Management
8 48 (8.68%) ITIL
8 48 (8.68%) Vulnerability Management
9 47 (8.50%) Presales
10 44 (7.96%) Software Licensing
11 41 (7.41%) Roadmaps
12 39 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 38 (6.87%) SIEM
14 36 (6.51%) Incident Management
15 34 (6.15%) Penetration Testing
16 33 (5.97%) Computer Science
17 32 (5.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.05%) Java
2 34 (6.15%) Python
3 29 (5.24%) JavaScript
4 27 (4.88%) SQL
5 12 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.63%) C#
7 8 (1.45%) Perl
7 8 (1.45%) Ruby
8 3 (0.54%) Bash
9 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 182 (32.91%) Degree
2 64 (11.57%) CISSP
3 52 (9.40%) Security Cleared
4 41 (7.41%) CISM
5 30 (5.42%) SC Cleared
6 23 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (3.25%) CCNA
7 18 (3.25%) CCNP
7 18 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.35%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.99%) CISA
10 11 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.81%) GIAC
12 9 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
12 9 (1.63%) MCP
13 8 (1.45%) CEH
13 8 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (1.27%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (11.57%) NIST
3 31 (5.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (4.34%) PCI DSS
5 19 (3.44%) GDPR
6 18 (3.25%) SLA
7 16 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (2.89%) NCSC
7 16 (2.89%) QA
8 15 (2.71%) PMO
9 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.08%) GRC
10 6 (1.08%) IEC 62304
11 5 (0.90%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.54%) ITGC
13 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
System Software
1 56 (10.13%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.52%) Docker
2 25 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.80%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.72%) Firmware
4 4 (0.72%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.18%) RACF
5 1 (0.18%) Snort
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.81%) Nessus
4 7 (1.27%) CASB
4 7 (1.27%) Terraform
5 5 (0.90%) Stealthwatch
6 4 (0.72%) Autotask
6 4 (0.72%) cPanel
6 4 (0.72%) Plesk
7 3 (0.54%) Nmap
7 3 (0.54%) SELinux
8 2 (0.36%) SCCM
8 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.36%) WSUS
9 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.18%) Graylog
9 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 134 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.32%) Apple
3 44 (7.96%) Adobe
4 43 (7.78%) Cisco
5 33 (5.97%) VMware
6 16 (2.89%) Meraki
7 15 (2.71%) Dell
8 13 (2.35%) Veeam
9 12 (2.17%) HP
10 11 (1.99%) Samsung
11 10 (1.81%) Facebook
12 8 (1.45%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.27%) Salesforce
14 6 (1.08%) HubSpot
14 6 (1.08%) Splunk
15 5 (0.90%) Google
15 5 (0.90%) Intel
16 4 (0.72%) Citrix
16 4 (0.72%) Fortinet
16 4 (0.72%) Qualys