Cybersecurity Contracts in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity 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 56 61 59
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +39
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 16 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.09% 1.60% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.83% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 42
10th Percentile £528 £463 £384
25th Percentile £550 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £680 £675 £663
90th Percentile £722 £750 £750
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -9.24% +10.18% +17.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds -7 5 £600 +14.29% 33
Halifax - 1 £550 - 1
Huddersfield - 1 - - 2
Cybersecurity
Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
1 3 (50.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Information
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Security
3 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) OWASP
2 2 (33.33%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) CISM
3 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (33.33%) CCSP
3 2 (33.33%) CEH
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) OSCP
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) COBIT
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (16.67%) GDPR
4 1 (16.67%) GRC
4 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Qualys