Cybersecurity Contracts in Leeds

Cybersecurity
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 53 45
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +32
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cybersecurity 16 15 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.73% 2.03% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.41% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 30
10th Percentile £444 £478 £463
25th Percentile £456 £509 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £750
90th Percentile £660 £650 £778
West Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -9.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 527 623 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.78% 84.19% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 408 689
10th Percentile £304 £350 £356
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £638
90th Percentile £641 £657 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £500 £539
% change year-on-year -1.30% -7.24% +7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £13.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.09% -27.00% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £28.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.57 £15.00 £17.82
% change year-on-year +57.13% -15.82% -4.71%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Leeds

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Leeds over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Leeds

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (6.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) SCCP
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Security Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 2 (12.50%) Head of Security
2 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 2 (12.50%) IT Support
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Programme Support Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.25%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Learning Management System
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
2 5 (31.25%) Security Operations
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 2 (12.50%) Information Security
5 2 (12.50%) Invoice Processing
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (12.50%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Supplier Management
5 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) BC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CIMA
3 1 (6.25%) CISA
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.25%) GCIH
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) NIST
3 2 (12.50%) GRC
3 2 (12.50%) PMO
4 1 (6.25%) COBIT
4 1 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
4 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.25%) Darktrace
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) F5
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Progress
2 1 (6.25%) Qualys
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk