Cybersecurity Jobs in Manchester

Cybersecurity
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 24 32
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 +52
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 260 414 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.43% 9.16% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 9.52% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 186 169 207
10th Percentile £36,085 £35,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -8.42% +13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £90,000
North West median annual salary £52,084 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.99% -0.80% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,922 4,348 5,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 83.78% 96.22% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,570 2,480 3,570
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £32,421
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Altrincham -3 9 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Bolton -6 9 £55,000 +12.82% 1
Salford -3 7 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Bury -4 4 £50,000 - 1
Cheadle - 4 £50,000 - 1
Stockport +7 1 - -
Oldham +4 1 - - 1
Rochdale +4 1 £60,000 -
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.54%) CloudStack
2 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (14.62%) Azure
3 22 (8.46%) AWS
4 12 (4.62%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.46%) SaaS
6 7 (2.69%) PaaS
7 6 (2.31%) IaaS
8 5 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.54%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.54%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.77%) GCP
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.38%) Figma
12 1 (0.38%) GitHub
12 1 (0.38%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.69%) Firewall
2 22 (8.46%) WAN
3 17 (6.54%) Network Security
3 17 (6.54%) SD-WAN
4 11 (4.23%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (3.46%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.08%) Unified Communications
7 7 (2.69%) DNS
8 6 (2.31%) DHCP
8 6 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.92%) LAN
9 5 (1.92%) NAS
9 5 (1.92%) SAN
9 5 (1.92%) VoIP
10 4 (1.54%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.54%) Multicast
10 4 (1.54%) OSPF
10 4 (1.54%) RS-232
10 4 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.69%) JIRA
2 4 (1.54%) Burp Suite
2 4 (1.54%) Git
2 4 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.54%) Subversion
3 3 (1.15%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (20.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.15%) Finance
3 25 (9.62%) Law
4 22 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.23%) Legal
7 8 (3.08%) Games
8 7 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.31%) Retail
10 5 (1.92%) Banking
10 5 (1.92%) Local Government
11 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (19.62%) Senior
2 38 (14.62%) Analyst
2 38 (14.62%) Architect
3 33 (12.69%) Lead
4 23 (8.85%) Senior Architect
5 22 (8.46%) Security Analyst
5 22 (8.46%) Security Architect
6 17 (6.54%) Security Manager
6 17 (6.54%) Senior Security Architect
7 16 (6.15%) Cisco Architect
7 16 (6.15%) Senior Cisco Architect
8 14 (5.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 13 (5.00%) Consultant
9 13 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.62%) Security Engineer
11 11 (4.23%) Cisco Security Architect
11 11 (4.23%) IT Manager
11 11 (4.23%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.08%) .NET
2 6 (2.31%) Web Services
3 4 (1.54%) Akka
3 4 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (1.54%) LAMP
3 4 (1.54%) WCF
3 4 (1.54%) WinForms
4 2 (0.77%) OAuth
4 2 (0.77%) OpenID
4 2 (0.77%) REST
5 1 (0.38%) CSS
5 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.38%) HTML
5 1 (0.38%) jQuery
5 1 (0.38%) React
5 1 (0.38%) Spring
5 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 19 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 16 (6.15%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (5.77%) Security Posture
5 13 (5.00%) Private Cloud
5 13 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (2.31%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.31%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.92%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.92%) Social Media
10 4 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.54%) IoT
10 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.54%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.85%) Windows
2 18 (6.92%) Linux
3 16 (6.15%) Windows 10
4 8 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.31%) Kali Linux
7 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.54%) Unix
8 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (21.15%) Information Security
2 51 (19.62%) Presales
3 48 (18.46%) Software Licensing
4 36 (13.85%) Incident Response
5 29 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 25 (9.62%) Project Management
8 22 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (8.46%) Penetration Testing
8 22 (8.46%) User Experience
9 21 (8.08%) Data Protection
9 21 (8.08%) Time Management
10 20 (7.69%) SIEM
11 19 (7.31%) Analytics
12 18 (6.92%) ITIL
12 18 (6.92%) Risk Management
13 16 (6.15%) Cloud Security
13 16 (6.15%) Customer Engagement
13 16 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (5.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.92%) Python
2 10 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 7 (2.69%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.69%) SQL
4 5 (1.92%) Java
5 4 (1.54%) C#
6 3 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (30.77%) Degree
2 29 (11.15%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (10.38%) CISSP
4 24 (9.23%) CCNA
4 24 (9.23%) CCNP
5 17 (6.54%) CISM
6 14 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (5.38%) Security Cleared
7 11 (4.23%) CEH
8 10 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.85%) Master's Degree
9 9 (3.46%) MCP
9 9 (3.46%) PMI Certification
10 8 (3.08%) Chartered Engineer
10 8 (3.08%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.31%) CISA
11 6 (2.31%) PCI QSA
11 6 (2.31%) PMP
11 6 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (14.23%) NIST
3 23 (8.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (6.92%) PCI DSS
5 17 (6.54%) GDPR
6 7 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.69%) NCSC
7 6 (2.31%) SLA
8 4 (1.54%) PMO
9 3 (1.15%) GRC
9 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.15%) ITGC
9 3 (1.15%) QA
10 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (10.77%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.38%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.54%) RACF
5 3 (1.15%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.77%) Docker
6 2 (0.77%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Snort
7 1 (0.38%) XenApp
7 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 11 (4.23%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (1.92%) CASB
2 5 (1.92%) Nessus
3 4 (1.54%) Autotask
3 4 (1.54%) cPanel
3 4 (1.54%) Plesk
4 3 (1.15%) Nmap
4 3 (1.15%) SELinux
4 3 (1.15%) Terraform
5 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.38%) EnCase
5 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.38%) FTK
5 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.38%) SCCM
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 94 (36.15%) Microsoft
2 49 (18.85%) Apple
3 48 (18.46%) Adobe
4 40 (15.38%) Cisco
5 18 (6.92%) VMware
6 17 (6.54%) Dell
6 17 (6.54%) Meraki
7 11 (4.23%) HP
7 11 (4.23%) Samsung
8 7 (2.69%) Intel
9 6 (2.31%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.31%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.92%) Citrix
10 5 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.92%) Splunk
11 4 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.54%) Datto
11 4 (1.54%) Qualys
11 4 (1.54%) Thales