SOAR Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 67 66
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing SOAR 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.38% 0.76% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.84% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.00% -13.33%
West Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £520 £650
% change year-on-year +3.85% -20.00% -1.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

SOAR 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 894 592 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.06% 89.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 384 388
10th Percentile £363 £293 £350
25th Percentile £420 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.19%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 17
10th Percentile £19.69 £25.05 £13.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £25.13 £14.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.39% +2.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile - £26.13 £38.75
90th Percentile - £26.35 £45.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £25.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -11.44% +31.58%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in Leeds

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOAR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SOAR

SOAR
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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk