Vulnerability Assessment Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 96 129
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 +95
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 3 1 14
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.16% 0.070% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.079% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 14
10th Percentile £56,500 - £51,250
25th Percentile £64,375 £51,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £53,750 -
90th Percentile £90,500 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £45,218 £60,000
% change year-on-year +76.92% -24.64% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment 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 1,487 1,268 1,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.20% 88.36% 91.60%
Number of salaries quoted 872 629 1,426
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,875 £41,250 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
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 Vulnerability Assessment within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 -17 3 £80,000 +52.38% 1
Vulnerability Assessment
Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
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 1 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Security
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) GCFA
2 1 (33.33%) GCFE
2 1 (33.33%) GCIA
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys