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 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 572 664
Rank change year-on-year +33 +92 +204
Contract jobs citing YARA 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.061% 0.016% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £674 £558 -
25th Percentile £740 £569 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +33.33% -37.10%
75th Percentile - £794 £506
90th Percentile - £843 -
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 11,419 12,177 17,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.74% 30.57% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,027 7,829 12,214
10th Percentile £300 £300 £305
25th Percentile £406 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 662 450
10th Percentile £15.06 £12.28 £13.94
25th Percentile £18.74 £16.85 £19.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £41.13 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.27% +16.67% +30.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.63 £73.18 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% -5.56% +109.30%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YARA over the 6 months to 30 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for YARA in the UK

YARA
Top 7 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 30 July 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
England +33 4 £660 +20.00% 11
Work from Home +20 3 £850 +54.55% 2
UK excluding London +18 3 - - 8
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands +6 1 - - 1
Midlands +4 1 - - 1
London - 1 £660 - 7

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 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) FTP
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) SMTP
2 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) DSL
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aviation
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Regular Expression
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) CSOC
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) STIX
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
2 5 (71.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 5 (71.43%) SIEM
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 4 (57.14%) SOAR
3 4 (57.14%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 3 (42.86%) Purple Team
4 3 (42.86%) Red Team
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) GCIA
1 3 (42.86%) GCIH
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (14.29%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) GRC
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Demisto
2 1 (14.29%) Fluentd
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) logstash
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Intel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Twitter