Security Testing Jobs in West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 139 226
Rank change year-on-year +40 +87 -10
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 10 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.73% 0.49% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.58% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 3
10th Percentile £55,000 £37,750 £37,650
25th Percentile £58,750 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £90,938 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £61,500 £59,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +60.00% +25.00% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Security 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 1,299 2,574 4,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 95.16% 84.09% 98.16%
Number of salaries quoted 675 1,860 2,254
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,000 £34,093
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,000 £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 £75,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year -4.63% -8.90% +7.66%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in West Yorkshire

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in West Yorkshire

Security 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 Security Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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 +49 7 £80,000 +60.00% 8
Pontefract - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Knottingley - 1 - -
Security Testing
Yorkshire

Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (60.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Information Security Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Security Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (60.00%) Cyberattack
1 6 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Incident Management
1 9 (90.00%) Incident Response
1 9 (90.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 9 (90.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (60.00%) Information Security
2 6 (60.00%) Risk Register
2 6 (60.00%) Security Auditing
2 6 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Fuzz Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft