Dynamic Application Security Testing Job Trends in Leeds

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Dynamic Application Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Permanent jobs citing Dynamic Application Security Testing 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.14% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £79,632
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.98%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £84,056
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 - £79,632
% change year-on-year - - +7.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Dynamic Application Security Testing 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 1,158 867 1,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 78.40% 90.98% 90.70%
Number of salaries quoted 772 481 1,201
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,606 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -2.65%

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Dynamic Application Security Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Dynamic Application Security Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Dynamic Application Security Testing
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Dynamic Application Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Dynamic Application Security Testing

Dynamic Application Security Testing
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce