Penetration Testing Jobs in West Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 138 221
Rank change year-on-year +36 +83 -21
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 12 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.16% 0.40% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.47% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 24
10th Percentile - £34,675 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,250 £51,367
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -13.85% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £57,500
90th Percentile - £59,750 £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £44,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +24.29% -15.71% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Penetration 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,179 2,576 5,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 94.77% 85.90% 98.08%
Number of salaries quoted 705 1,869 2,296
10th Percentile £25,388 £28,000 £33,888
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,890 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,964 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +9.62%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in West Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in West Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
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 Penetration Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +51 2 £55,000 +24.29% 4
Penetration Testing
Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus