Cyber Essentials Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 101 91
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +42
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 34 5 26
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.82% 0.32% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.53% 3.91% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 28 5 13
10th Percentile £36,175 £50,550 £49,250
25th Percentile £37,188 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +52.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £91,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 - £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.17% +14.29% -2.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 295 128 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.11% 8.17% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 222 93 137
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,520 £25,550
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,565 £53,000 £49,493
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +7.09% -10.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,550 £77,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.07%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
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 Cyber Essentials within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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 -26 20 £52,500 -34.38% 6
Bradford - 9 £57,500 - 3
Ossett - 4 £37,500 -
Cyber Essentials
Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (85.29%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (70.59%) Azure
3 19 (55.88%) Entra ID
4 14 (41.18%) Microsoft Copilot
5 8 (23.53%) NetDocuments
5 8 (23.53%) Power Automate
5 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
6 7 (20.59%) Copilot Studio
7 5 (14.71%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.88%) AWS
9 1 (2.94%) IaaS
9 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) LAN
1 9 (26.47%) WAN
2 6 (17.65%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) Wireless
4 3 (8.82%) Network Security
5 2 (5.88%) DHCP
5 2 (5.88%) DNS
5 2 (5.88%) VLAN
6 1 (2.94%) VPN
6 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
General
1 19 (55.88%) Legal
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Law
5 4 (11.76%) Advertising
6 1 (2.94%) Finance
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) IT Manager
2 13 (38.24%) IT Operations Manager
2 13 (38.24%) Operations Manager
3 9 (26.47%) IT Support
4 8 (23.53%) Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Support Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) IT Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) IT Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Security Manager
9 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
9 2 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (5.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) HTML
1 4 (11.76%) JSON
2 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Driving Licence
1 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 15 (44.12%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.76%) Linux
4 4 (11.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (50.00%) ITSM
3 16 (47.06%) Service Management
4 15 (44.12%) AI
5 13 (38.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (29.41%) Case Management
7 9 (26.47%) Information Security
7 9 (26.47%) Risk Management
7 9 (26.47%) Service Delivery
7 9 (26.47%) User Experience
8 8 (23.53%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 8 (23.53%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 8 (23.53%) Business Forecasting
8 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (23.53%) IT Strategy
9 7 (20.59%) Communications Security
9 7 (20.59%) Cyber Resilience
9 7 (20.59%) Performance Management
10 6 (17.65%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) XAML
3 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) CISA
1 2 (5.88%) CISSP
1 2 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (58.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 12 (35.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (11.76%) GRC
4 2 (5.88%) ISO 22301
4 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.88%) QA
5 1 (2.94%) GDPR
5 1 (2.94%) SLA
5 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (85.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco
2 5 (14.71%) iManage
2 5 (14.71%) Meraki
3 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.94%) IFS