Data Security Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Data Security
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 59 84
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Security 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.74% 0.89% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.04% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £515 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £544 -
90th Percentile £615 £578 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £539 £500 £350
% change year-on-year +7.73% +42.86% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Data Security 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 575 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.10% 85.57% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 365 658
10th Percentile £302 £327 £334
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £16.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £20.66
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +45.24% -2.80%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £23.14
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £27.58
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in Leeds

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Leeds over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Leeds

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Security

Data Security
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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Flash
1 2 (40.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Application Security
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (40.00%) Federated Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) KYC
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Rust
1 2 (40.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CCSK
2 2 (40.00%) CEH
2 2 (40.00%) CISA
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (20.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks