Data Security Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Security
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 64 84
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Security 7 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.83% 1.01% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.18% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £317 - £343
25th Percentile £490 £475 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +42.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £594 £544 £363
90th Percentile £613 £578 £385
Yorkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -3.33% +50.00% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.30 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Data Security 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 736 679 1,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.00% 85.73% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 423 788
10th Percentile £290 £325 £317
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +1.94%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile - £19.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £18.82 £21.31
% change year-on-year +26.41% -11.70% +12.16%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in West Yorkshire

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Security

Data Security
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 Data Security within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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 -14 5 £550 +10.00% 12
Bradford - 2 £155 - 4
Data Security
Yorkshire

Data Security
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Flash
1 2 (28.57%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) NHS
2 2 (28.57%) Blockchain
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Application Security
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SDLC
1 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
2 2 (28.57%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
2 2 (28.57%) Federated Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) KYC
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
2 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Rust
1 2 (28.57%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) CCSK
2 2 (28.57%) CEH
2 2 (28.57%) CISA
2 2 (28.57%) CISM
2 2 (28.57%) OSCP
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
3 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
4 1 (14.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft