Cybersecurity Job Trends in Leeds

Cybersecurity
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +38
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 104 62 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.62% 6.10% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.62% 6.85% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 74 37 84
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +20.37% -15.63%
75th Percentile £50,000 £86,250 £70,063
90th Percentile £64,538 £100,000 £86,467
West Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -53.08% +9.20% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Cybersecurity 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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,081 905 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.19% 89.07% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 713 514 940
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,026 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Leeds

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.81%) Drupal
1 5 (4.81%) nginx
1 5 (4.81%) WordPress
2 3 (2.88%) Apache
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.96%) FileNet
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) Azure
2 33 (31.73%) AWS
3 27 (25.96%) GitHub
4 7 (6.73%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (2.88%) dbt
6 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.88%) Serverless
7 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (29.81%) Internet
2 2 (1.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.96%) DHCP
3 1 (0.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.96%) Intranet
3 1 (0.96%) LAN
3 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.96%) VLAN
3 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) MariaDB
2 3 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.88%) Data Vault
2 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Snyk
General
1 35 (33.65%) Multimedia
2 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.73%) Banking
5 6 (5.77%) Finance
5 6 (5.77%) Legal
5 6 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.81%) German Language
6 5 (4.81%) Local Government
6 5 (4.81%) Police
7 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (33.65%) Trainee
2 12 (11.54%) Developer
2 12 (11.54%) Senior
2 12 (11.54%) Software Developer
2 12 (11.54%) Trainee Developer
2 12 (11.54%) Trainee Software Developer
3 7 (6.73%) IT Manager
4 6 (5.77%) Analyst
4 6 (5.77%) Lecturer
5 5 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
5 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 5 (4.81%) Junior
5 5 (4.81%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Junior Security Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Security Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Security Specialist
5 5 (4.81%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.08%) CSS
1 24 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (2.88%) Pandas
3 1 (0.96%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Blog
1 7 (6.73%) IoT
2 3 (2.88%) Cyberattack
2 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Windows
1 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (41.35%) Mentoring
2 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.35%) AI
4 13 (12.50%) Line Management
5 12 (11.54%) Ethical Hacking
6 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (9.62%) Data Protection
7 10 (9.62%) Project Management
8 9 (8.65%) Service Delivery
8 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (7.69%) Agile
9 8 (7.69%) Customer Engagement
9 8 (7.69%) Information Security
9 8 (7.69%) IT Strategy
9 8 (7.69%) ITSM
10 7 (6.73%) High Availability
10 7 (6.73%) Machine Learning
10 7 (6.73%) Tech Ops
10 7 (6.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.96%) Python
2 24 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 12 (11.54%) R
4 3 (2.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (28.85%) AWS Certification
2 29 (27.88%) Azure Certification
3 25 (24.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 16 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 16 (15.38%) Degree
6 11 (10.58%) A+ Certification
6 11 (10.58%) CEH
6 11 (10.58%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (6.73%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (6.73%) Master's Degree
7 7 (6.73%) PhD
7 7 (6.73%) PMP
7 7 (6.73%) Postgraduate
8 5 (4.81%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.96%) CISM
10 1 (0.96%) CISSP
10 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (4.81%) GRC
3 5 (4.81%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.92%) NIST
5 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.92%) QA
5 2 (1.92%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.81%) ForeScout
3 3 (2.88%) PayPal
4 2 (1.92%) Qualys
5 1 (0.96%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.96%) Datto
5 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.96%) IBM
5 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.96%) SonicWALL
5 1 (0.96%) Sparx
5 1 (0.96%) Veeam
5 1 (0.96%) VMware
5 1 (0.96%) WatchGuard