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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 66 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.50% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £650 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

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 541 621 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.87% 84.60% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 407 695
10th Percentile £303 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £658 £717
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -1.00% -6.54% +7.00%
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 £15.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.03% -21.05% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.50 £15.17 £17.82
% change year-on-year +68.09% -14.87% -10.90%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection 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 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in Leeds

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) Darktrace
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow