Security Operations Job Trends in Stockport

Security Operations (SecOps)
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 4.11% - 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% - 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £50,000
75th Percentile £66,250 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £75,000 £63,500 £50,154
% change year-on-year +18.11% +26.61% -16.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stockport

Security Operations 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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70 64 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 95.89% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 36 20 48
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,575 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,938 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.34% -29.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £63,125 £51,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £58,125 £66,500
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Stockport

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) People Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef