SLSA Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SLSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLSA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.096% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 283 181 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 27.11% 30.68% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 116 183
10th Percentile £400 £374 £381
25th Percentile £425 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £624 £680 £681
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £84.83 -
Median hourly rate - £91.69 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - +561.07% -
75th Percentile - £98.56 £15.52
90th Percentile - - £16.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £13.87
% change year-on-year -73.82% +561.07% -

SLSA
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%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Attestation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype