Cyber Threat Job Trends in Leeds

Cyber Threats
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 78 106
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 5 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.38% 0.74% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 2.37% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £37,300 £51,250 £47,875
25th Percentile £38,875 £51,875 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £58,750 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £47,375 £65,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £49,100 £66,250 £65,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £48,500 £58,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.45% -9.62% -5.55%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 375 338 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.26% 31.47% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 228 166 345
10th Percentile £29,925 £27,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,563 £42,303 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,699 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £59,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.00% -23.08% +8.33%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cyber Threat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) SABSA
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Qualys
1 1 (20.00%) Rapid7