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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 31 48
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 567 664 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.68% 8.62% 6.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 9.02% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 452 299 282
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £62,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% -0.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,025 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 8,221 7,360 8,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.40% 95.55% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,231 3,864 5,251
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,017 £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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -15 253 £55,087 -7.46% 64
Lancashire +44 122 £52,084 +27.81% 18
Cheshire +4 110 £60,000 -33.33% 30
Merseyside -12 70 £43,750 -29.44% 5
Cumbria -7 11 £70,000 - 4
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 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.71%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 84 (14.81%) Azure
2 72 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (11.29%) AWS
4 33 (5.82%) SaaS
5 13 (2.29%) PaaS
6 11 (1.94%) Entra ID
7 10 (1.76%) IaaS
7 10 (1.76%) Serverless
8 8 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.23%) GCP
10 6 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.71%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.71%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.71%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.53%) Commercetools
12 3 (0.53%) GitHub
12 3 (0.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (11.46%) Firewall
2 41 (7.23%) Network Security
3 28 (4.94%) WAN
4 22 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 16 (2.82%) DHCP
6 14 (2.47%) Intrusion Detection
6 14 (2.47%) SD-WAN
7 13 (2.29%) LAN
7 13 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (2.12%) Unified Communications
9 11 (1.94%) DNS
10 8 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (1.23%) SAN
12 6 (1.06%) Broadband
12 6 (1.06%) VoIP
13 5 (0.88%) Internet
13 5 (0.88%) MQTT
13 5 (0.88%) NAS
13 5 (0.88%) Wireless
14 4 (0.71%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.12%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.41%) MySQL
4 6 (1.06%) Power BI
5 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.35%) Tableau
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (4.23%) JIRA
2 14 (2.47%) Git
3 10 (1.76%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.23%) IntelliJ
4 7 (1.23%) JUnit
4 7 (1.23%) Mockito
5 6 (1.06%) Gradle
6 4 (0.71%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.71%) GitLab
6 4 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.71%) Subversion
7 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.53%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 129 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 52 (9.17%) Finance
3 42 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.70%) Law
5 36 (6.35%) Manufacturing
6 35 (6.17%) Legal
7 28 (4.94%) Military
8 25 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (4.06%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.00%) Retail
11 16 (2.82%) Games
12 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.76%) Banking
14 10 (1.76%) Marketing
14 10 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.41%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.71%) Local Government
17 2 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
18 1 (0.18%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 73 (12.87%) Senior
2 57 (10.05%) Analyst
3 44 (7.76%) Architect
3 44 (7.76%) IT Manager
4 40 (7.05%) Lead
5 31 (5.47%) Vulnerability Manager
6 29 (5.11%) Security Analyst
7 28 (4.94%) Project Manager
8 27 (4.76%) Developer
8 27 (4.76%) Security Specialist
9 26 (4.59%) Software Engineer
10 25 (4.41%) Security Engineer
10 25 (4.41%) Security Manager
11 23 (4.06%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 23 (4.06%) Incident Manager
12 20 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.53%) Senior Architect
13 19 (3.35%) Consultant
14 18 (3.17%) Security Architect
15 14 (2.47%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.82%) .NET
2 13 (2.29%) Node.js
3 10 (1.76%) REST
3 10 (1.76%) Spring
3 10 (1.76%) Web Services
4 9 (1.59%) OpenID
4 9 (1.59%) Spring Boot
5 7 (1.23%) CSS
5 7 (1.23%) HTML
6 5 (0.88%) OAuth
7 4 (0.71%) Akka
7 4 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (0.71%) LAMP
7 4 (0.71%) Swing
7 4 (0.71%) Vue
7 4 (0.71%) WCF
7 4 (0.71%) WinForms
8 3 (0.53%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.53%) HTML5
8 3 (0.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.64%) Data Centre
2 65 (11.46%) Management Information System
3 51 (8.99%) Operational Technology
4 40 (7.05%) Cyber Threat
5 33 (5.82%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 29 (5.11%) Security Posture
7 27 (4.76%) Cyberattack
8 21 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (3.00%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.12%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.94%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.76%) SCADA
14 9 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.41%) Client/Server
16 7 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 7 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
17 6 (1.06%) Driving Licence
17 6 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 70 (12.35%) Windows
2 46 (8.11%) Linux
3 32 (5.64%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.17%) Unix
5 17 (3.00%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (1.23%) Kali Linux
8 7 (1.23%) VMS
9 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (19.58%) Incident Response
1 111 (19.58%) Information Security
2 95 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (12.17%) Risk Management
4 66 (11.64%) Project Management
5 53 (9.35%) Mentoring
6 49 (8.64%) Agile
6 49 (8.64%) Presales
7 48 (8.47%) Software Licensing
8 47 (8.29%) Change Management
9 46 (8.11%) ITIL
9 46 (8.11%) Vulnerability Management
10 43 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 43 (7.58%) Roadmaps
11 39 (6.88%) SIEM
12 38 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (6.17%) Incident Management
14 34 (6.00%) Computer Science
15 32 (5.64%) Penetration Testing
16 31 (5.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (6.17%) Java
2 34 (6.00%) Python
3 26 (4.59%) SQL
4 25 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.47%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.59%) C#
7 8 (1.41%) Perl
7 8 (1.41%) Ruby
8 3 (0.53%) Bash
8 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (32.98%) Degree
2 66 (11.64%) CISSP
3 49 (8.64%) Security Cleared
4 42 (7.41%) CISM
5 30 (5.29%) SC Cleared
6 26 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (3.70%) CCNA
7 21 (3.70%) CCNP
8 18 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (2.29%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.29%) CREST Certified
9 13 (2.29%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.94%) CISA
10 11 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.76%) GIAC
12 9 (1.59%) CEH
12 9 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
12 9 (1.59%) MCP
12 9 (1.59%) PMI Certification
13 8 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (10.93%) NIST
3 35 (6.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (4.06%) PCI DSS
5 19 (3.35%) GDPR
6 18 (3.17%) NCSC
6 18 (3.17%) SLA
7 15 (2.65%) PMO
7 15 (2.65%) QA
8 14 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.06%) GRC
10 6 (1.06%) IEC 62304
10 6 (1.06%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.88%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.53%) ITGC
13 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 56 (9.88%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.70%) Docker
3 21 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.71%) Firmware
4 4 (0.71%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.53%) RACF
6 1 (0.18%) Snort
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.59%) Nessus
4 8 (1.41%) Stealthwatch
5 7 (1.23%) Terraform
6 5 (0.88%) CASB
7 4 (0.71%) Autotask
7 4 (0.71%) cPanel
7 4 (0.71%) Plesk
8 3 (0.53%) Nmap
8 3 (0.53%) SELinux
9 2 (0.35%) SCCM
9 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.35%) WSUS
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) EnCase
10 1 (0.18%) FTK
10 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
10 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 147 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.82%) Apple
3 48 (8.47%) Adobe
4 46 (8.11%) Cisco
5 35 (6.17%) VMware
6 19 (3.35%) Meraki
7 17 (3.00%) Dell
8 13 (2.29%) HP
8 13 (2.29%) Veeam
9 12 (2.12%) Samsung
10 10 (1.76%) Facebook
11 8 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.06%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.06%) Intel
12 6 (1.06%) Splunk
13 5 (0.88%) Google
14 4 (0.71%) Citrix
14 4 (0.71%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.71%) Qualys