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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 55 60
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Information Security 5 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.85% 1.76% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 2.09% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 17
10th Percentile £467 £475 £485
25th Percentile £492 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +7.84% +4.62%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £550
90th Percentile £705 £823 £691
West Yorkshire median daily rate £556 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +1.14% +4.76% +7.69%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 530 622 982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.83% 84.17% 90.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 408 682
10th Percentile £305 £350 £356
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £638
90th Percentile £639 £657 £709
West Yorkshire median daily rate £494 £500 £528
% change year-on-year -1.30% -5.21% +5.50%
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%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Leeds over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Leeds

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
1 1 (20.00%) Chief Security Officer
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (20.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (20.00%) Head of Security
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security Officer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Officer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Invoice Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) CIMA
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform