Information Assurance Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Information Assurance
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Information Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Information Assurance 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.14% 0.33% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.38% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 £313 £690
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £325 £730
Median % change year-on-year +65.38% -55.48% -
75th Percentile £569 £338 £770
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £325 £730
% change year-on-year +65.38% -55.48% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Information Assurance 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 645 524 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.76% 86.61% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 332 547
10th Percentile £304 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% -
75th Percentile £573 £574 £613
90th Percentile £645 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £15.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.18 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

Information Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Information Assurance job vacancy trend in Leeds

Information Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Information Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Information Assurance

Information Assurance
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft