Cybersecurity Jobs in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 64 35
Rank change year-on-year +23 -29 +19
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 112 76 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.78% 2.96% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 3.73% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 56 49 132
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,313 £46,250 £32,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,250 £57,500 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -38.70% -3.79% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £64,938 £77,500 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.00% -16.67% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,508 2,037 2,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.23% 79.32% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 794 1,270 1,820
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,988 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% -5.66% +0.95%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +20 55 £40,000 -36.00% 60
Knottingley - 16 - -
Castleford - 14 - -
Pontefract - 14 - -
Halifax +1 8 £25,313 -48.34% 2
Bradford -8 2 - - 12
Wakefield - 1 £31,000 -
Cybersecurity
Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) Apache
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.82%) Azure
2 10 (8.93%) AWS
3 6 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.57%) GCP
5 3 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.79%) GitHub
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.89%) dbt
7 1 (0.89%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.89%) IaaS
7 1 (0.89%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.89%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.89%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (24.11%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) Network Security
3 4 (3.57%) VPN
4 2 (1.79%) DNS
4 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.79%) VLAN
5 1 (0.89%) Broadband
5 1 (0.89%) DHCP
5 1 (0.89%) Junos
5 1 (0.89%) LAN
5 1 (0.89%) WAN
5 1 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.68%) MySQL
2 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.89%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.89%) Metadata
3 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.89%) Metasploit
General
1 37 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Finance
3 18 (16.07%) Banking
4 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Legal
6 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.57%) Back Office
8 1 (0.89%) Billing
8 1 (0.89%) Games
8 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (11.61%) IT Engineer
1 13 (11.61%) PLC Engineer
2 10 (8.93%) Analyst
3 7 (6.25%) Instrumentation Engineer
4 6 (5.36%) Administrator
4 6 (5.36%) Senior
5 5 (4.46%) IT Manager
6 4 (3.57%) Architect
6 4 (3.57%) Security Specialist
6 4 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (2.68%) Bid Coordinator
7 3 (2.68%) Coordinator
7 3 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (2.68%) Developer
7 3 (2.68%) Information Analyst
7 3 (2.68%) Information Security Analyst
7 3 (2.68%) Security Analyst
7 3 (2.68%) Security Architect
7 3 (2.68%) Security Engineer
7 3 (2.68%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) Software Packaging
2 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.68%) Node.js
2 3 (2.68%) React
2 3 (2.68%) Vue
3 1 (0.89%) .NET
3 1 (0.89%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.89%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.89%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.54%) Operational Technology
2 15 (13.39%) Cyberattack
3 13 (11.61%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.89%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.89%) Linux
3 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.79%) Software Engineering
2 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (17.86%) Information Security
4 19 (16.96%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (16.96%) Line Management
4 19 (16.96%) Network Design
4 19 (16.96%) Network Management
4 19 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (16.07%) Fintech
5 18 (16.07%) Mathematics
6 14 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 12 (10.71%) Incident Response
7 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (8.93%) SIEM
9 9 (8.04%) Internal Audit
9 9 (8.04%) ITSM
10 8 (7.14%) Computer Science
10 8 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.14%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.14%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.36%) Python
2 5 (4.46%) SQL
3 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.68%) Bash
5 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.89%) C#
6 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (17.86%) Degree
2 13 (11.61%) HND
3 5 (4.46%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.68%) CISM
5 3 (2.68%) CISSP
6 2 (1.79%) CCSA
6 2 (1.79%) CCSE
7 1 (0.89%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.89%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) OSCE
7 1 (0.89%) OSCP
7 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.89%) PMP
7 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.36%) NIST
3 5 (4.46%) GRC
4 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.79%) QA
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 19 (16.96%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (3.57%) Docker
4 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.89%) pfSense
5 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.79%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.89%) Ansible
3 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.89%) Nmap
3 1 (0.89%) QRadar
3 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (2.68%) Qualys
3 3 (2.68%) Rapid7
4 2 (1.79%) CheckPoint
4 2 (1.79%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.79%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Cisco
5 1 (0.89%) Commvault
5 1 (0.89%) Juniper
5 1 (0.89%) Splunk
5 1 (0.89%) Tenable
5 1 (0.89%) Varonis
5 1 (0.89%) Veeam
5 1 (0.89%) VMware