Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Threat Detection
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 59 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.55% 0.49% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £473 £374 -
25th Percentile £490 £420 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% - -
75th Percentile £525 £573 -
90th Percentile £570 £619 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £497 -
% change year-on-year +0.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £41.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Threat Detection 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 635 531 815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.95% 86.91% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 337 555
10th Percentile £301 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £573 £573 £613
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.75 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.40 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Leeds

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Threat Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in Leeds

Threat Detection
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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) GCIH
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk