Cyber Defence Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cyber Defence
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.52% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £350 - -

All Generic Skills
Leeds

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 265 131 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 34.42% 26.73% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 85 126
10th Percentile £329 £263 £306
25th Percentile £450 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £575
90th Percentile £625 £733 £606
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +3.90% +6.94% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile - £33.28 £12.07
25th Percentile - £35.99 £12.25
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +203.70% -37.21%
75th Percentile £15.29 £69.07 £15.19
90th Percentile £17.60 £85.61 £16.59
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.25 £38.75 £14.63
% change year-on-year -60.65% +164.96% -21.79%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (75.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform