YARA Contracts in the UK excluding London

YARA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term YARA in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YARA over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 393 453
Rank change year-on-year +62 +60 -
Contract jobs citing YARA 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.005% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.071% 0.016% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +12.82% -
75th Percentile - - £506
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - £510 £488
% change year-on-year - +4.62% -17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.38 - -
25th Percentile £81.41 - -
Median hourly rate £81.60 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £82.03 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.60 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

YARA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,236 6,091 7,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.16% 29.43% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,645 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 724 436
10th Percentile £16.87 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.99 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

YARA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing YARA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for YARA in the UK excluding London

YARA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YARA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for YARA in the UK excluding London

YARA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YARA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
East of England - 2 - -
Midlands +18 1 - -
West Midlands +13 1 - -
YARA
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YARA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) CSOC
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Information Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Network Packet Capture
3 1 (33.33%) Security Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter
2 YARA jobs Nationwide