YARA Contracts

YARA
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term YARA in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YARA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 578 713
Rank change year-on-year +61 +135 +138
Contract jobs citing YARA 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.030% 0.030% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £505 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +4.62% -17.02%
75th Percentile - £524 £506
90th Percentile - £540 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £488
% change year-on-year - +12.82% -
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 excluding London median hourly rate £81.60 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

YARA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing YARA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for YARA in the UK

YARA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YARA.

Daily rate trend for YARA in the UK

YARA
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +65 3 - -
England +59 3 - - 1
East of England - 2 - -
Midlands +22 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 - -

YARA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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