Functional Safety Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Functional Safety
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire citing Functional Safety skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	142	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Functional Safety	1	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire	0.025%	-	-
As % of the Systems Management category	0.72%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£48,750	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	-	-
75^th Percentile	£56,250	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Yorkshire median annual salary	£51,250	£80,000	-
% change year-on-year	-35.94%	-	-

All Systems Management Skills
West Yorkshire

Functional Safety falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing systems management skills in West Yorkshire.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing systems management skills	138	122	159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire	3.39%	7.26%	8.33%
Number of salaries quoted	97	103	128
10^th Percentile	£30,500	£31,250	£43,564
25^th Percentile	£45,000	£39,750	£48,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£65,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	-19.23%	+8.33%	-7.69%
75^th Percentile	£67,500	£77,500	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£81,750	£85,000	£87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary	£45,000	£45,000	£53,000
% change year-on-year	-	-15.09%	-3.64%

Functional Safety Top 5 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, job vacancies citing Functional Safety also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region citing Functional Safety.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CAD	100.0%	1
1	Continuous Improvement	100.0%	1
1	Data Protection	100.0%	1
1	EPLAN	100.0%	1
1	Siemens	100.0%	1

Functional Safety Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	EPLAN	100.0%	1