Security Testing Jobs in Leeds

Security Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 177 198
Rank change year-on-year +56 +21 -45
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 12 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.53% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile £37,750 £41,472 -
25th Percentile £39,438 £47,014 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £62,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +92.31% -18.75%
75th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £53,750
90th Percentile - £75,750 £73,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% - +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Security Testing 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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,955 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 86.66% 97.49% 97.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,713 2,561
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,346 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,950 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,250 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Leeds

Security Testing
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in Leeds.

Salary trend for Security Testing in Leeds

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in Leeds

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Consultant
1 9 (75.00%) Security Consultant
2 8 (66.67%) Information Security Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) IT Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) IT Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (25.00%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 8 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 8 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 8 (66.67%) Information Security
2 8 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 8 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 7 (58.33%) Security Auditing
3 7 (58.33%) Security Operations
3 7 (58.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (50.00%) Risk Register
5 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
6 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Dependency Management
7 2 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (66.67%) GDPR
1 8 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 5 (41.67%) COBIT
2 5 (41.67%) NIST
2 5 (41.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk