Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 63 78
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 +41
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 2 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.24% 0.63% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.45% 5.88% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 15
10th Percentile £377 - -
25th Percentile £398 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% - +39.86%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £515
90th Percentile £492 - £559
Yorkshire median daily rate £439 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.13% - +28.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 138 85 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.39% 10.75% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 130
10th Percentile £270 £263 £274
25th Percentile £385 £359 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £602 £643 £619
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.86
25th Percentile - - £16.68
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £18.81
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.56%
75th Percentile - - £20.91
90th Percentile £23.28 - £21.72
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
% change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in West Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Leeds -15 1 £375 -25.00% 6
Bradford - 1 £504 - 5
Cyber Essentials
Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware