Security Testing Job Trends in Leeds

Security Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 79 106
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +68
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 8 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.60% 0.79% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.89% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £49,725 £45,550 -
25th Percentile £50,063 £51,625 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +55.84% -7.35%
75th Percentile £63,188 £65,625 £44,000
90th Percentile £74,775 £66,750 £46,850
West Yorkshire median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +55.84% -7.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 1,054 903 1,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.19% 88.97% 92.35%
Number of salaries quoted 693 512 943
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Security Testing
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in Leeds

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Speaking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Automation Test Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Lead Test Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Security
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Hackathon
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 4 (50.00%) Presales
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Red Team
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Business Development
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) OSCP
2 2 (25.00%) CEH
2 2 (25.00%) CISA
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (25.00%) GRC
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) HP Fortify
2 2 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Qualys