Information Security Contracts in West Yorkshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security 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 51 69 85
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Information Security 11 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.01% 0.80% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 0.91% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 17
10th Percentile - £325 £463
25th Percentile £406 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -3.51% +34.12%
75th Percentile £444 £613 £650
90th Percentile £489 £625 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £579 £550
% change year-on-year -28.69% +5.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.14 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Information 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 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%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in West Yorkshire

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in West Yorkshire

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in West Yorkshire

Information 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 Information Security 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
Bradford +14 6 - - 11
Leeds +1 4 £413 -17.50% 40
Huddersfield - 1 - -
Information Security
Yorkshire

Information Security
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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (54.55%) Police
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Information
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Security
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
1 6 (54.55%) Performance Measurement
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (54.55%) Service Management
2 3 (27.27%) Attestation
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) VBA
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) SLA
2 3 (27.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (27.27%) SOC 2
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft