Secure Coding Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Secure Code Development
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Permanent jobs citing Secure Coding 25 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.18% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £63,250 - £75,812
25th Percentile £64,375 - £77,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +86.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £82,459
90th Percentile £82,000 - £83,935
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 - £79,842
% change year-on-year - - +85.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Secure Coding 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 1,651 1,177 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 78.21% 91.67% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 625 1,752
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,400 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,945 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.77% +5.00% -8.90%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Secure Coding
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Secure Coding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Secure Coding in West Yorkshire

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 February 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 - 24 £70,000 - 4
Bradford - 1 £65,000 -
Secure Coding
Yorkshire

Secure Coding
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) AWS
2 18 (72.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (68.00%) Amazon ECR
3 17 (68.00%) Amazon ECS
3 17 (68.00%) Amazon S3
3 17 (68.00%) Apigee
3 17 (68.00%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (68.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 17 (68.00%) Serverless
4 13 (52.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (4.00%) Datadog
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
1 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (76.00%) GitLab
1 19 (76.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (68.00%) Cypress.io
2 17 (68.00%) Maven
2 17 (68.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Snyk
General
1 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Developer
2 15 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (24.00%) AWS Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Principal Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Principal Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (68.00%) AngularJS
1 17 (68.00%) Gherkin
1 17 (68.00%) Jest
1 17 (68.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) Flutter
2 4 (16.00%) React
2 4 (16.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) Next.js
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (76.00%) DevOps
3 18 (72.00%) Agile
3 18 (72.00%) SDLC
4 13 (52.00%) ITIL
4 13 (52.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 8 (32.00%) Clean Code
5 8 (32.00%) Prototyping
6 7 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 5 (20.00%) Software Delivery
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Data Design
8 4 (16.00%) Microservices
8 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.00%) Scrum
8 4 (16.00%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (16.00%) Test Strategy
9 2 (8.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) Java
2 19 (76.00%) Bash
3 17 (68.00%) Groovy
3 17 (68.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) Go
5 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) AWS Certification
1 13 (52.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 13 (52.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (4.00%) Kibana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (4.00%) New Relic
1 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (4.00%) Qualys
1 1 (4.00%) Salesforce