Information Security Contracts in Leeds

Information Security (InfoSec)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 57 86
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 -7
Contract jobs citing Information Security 4 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.86% 0.75% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.87% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile - £250 £430
25th Percentile £406 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £444 £550 £606
90th Percentile £489 £580 £693
West Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -25.00% -3.51% +34.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Information 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 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Leeds

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Leeds

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Leeds

Information Security
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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Attestation
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) VBA
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (75.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft