Information Security Job Trends in Warrington

Information Security (InfoSec)
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 +25
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 1 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 0.34% 2.99% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 3.16% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £25,500
25th Percentile £41,250 - £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.40%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £49,563
90th Percentile - - £62,550
Cheshire median annual salary £42,500 £65,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -34.62% +44.44% -33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Warrington

Information Security 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 Warrington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 158 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 76.77% 94.61% 88.74%
Number of salaries quoted 98 77 111
10th Percentile £28,400 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,987 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -13.64% +30.18%
75th Percentile £53,563 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,000 £77,500
Cheshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Warrington

Information Security
Salary Trend in Warrington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Information Security

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft