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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cybersecurity 18 19 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.40% 2.20% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.59% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 35
10th Percentile £444 £475 £463
25th Percentile £456 £503 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £744
90th Percentile £660 £650 £775
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -12.50% -3.23% +12.73%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 733 1,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.93% 84.94% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 469 812
10th Percentile £285 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £657 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 27 20
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.17
Median hourly rate £23.57 £15.00 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +57.13% -15.82% -4.71%
75th Percentile £81.25 £31.25 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £24.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +6.95%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in West Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +2 16 £540 -1.82% 59
Halifax -4 3 £550 +175.00% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) SCCP
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Legal
4 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Retail
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Consultant
1 3 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 2 (11.11%) Head of Security
2 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
2 2 (11.11%) IT Support
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) IT Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Testing Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Learning Management System
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
2 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
3 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) SIEM
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.11%) Invoice Processing
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.11%) Risk Register
5 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) BC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CIMA
3 1 (5.56%) CISA
3 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.56%) GCIH
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 3 (16.67%) SOC 2
3 2 (11.11%) GRC
3 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 2 (11.11%) PMO
4 1 (5.56%) COBIT
4 1 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 22301
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.56%) Darktrace
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Progress
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys