Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Secure Code Development
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.97% - 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% - 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £433 - £373
25th Percentile £464 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £575
75th Percentile £513 - £650
90th Percentile £535 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £494 - £575

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Secure Coding 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 645 565 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.09% 85.74% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 358 622
10th Percentile £301 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £520
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 8
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +42.81% -1.14%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £22.41
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £35.23
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in Leeds

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in Leeds over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in Leeds

Secure Coding
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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 2 (28.57%) Blazor
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (14.29%) Next.js
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Retrofit
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Security
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
5 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
1 2 (28.57%) PSD2
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft