Security Testing Jobs in West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 233 213
Rank change year-on-year +89 -20 -40
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 14 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.46% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.14% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 14
10th Percentile £37,750 £37,161 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,778 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,000 £72,750 £68,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £40,778 £42,500
% change year-on-year +22.62% -4.05% -1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,608 5,105 4,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.53% 97.95% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,877 2,322 3,120
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,890 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,393 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +9.47%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Leeds +57 12 £48,750 -22.00% 5
Security Testing
Yorkshire

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Consultant
1 11 (78.57%) Security Consultant
2 10 (71.43%) Information Security Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (21.43%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (71.43%) Data Protection
1 10 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (71.43%) Incident Response
1 10 (71.43%) Information Security
1 10 (71.43%) Threat Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 9 (64.29%) Business Continuity
2 9 (64.29%) Security Auditing
2 9 (64.29%) Security Operations
2 9 (64.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 8 (57.14%) Risk Register
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
6 2 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (71.43%) GDPR
1 10 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 7 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (35.71%) COBIT
3 5 (35.71%) NIST
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk