Rapid7 Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Rapid7
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Rapid7 LLC.

 6 months to
31 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.77% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £487 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 - -

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

Rapid7 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 384 248 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 42.20% 42.25% 47.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 149 359
10th Percentile £290 £256 £281
25th Percentile £400 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £588
90th Percentile £646 £648 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £459 £466
% change year-on-year +8.99% -1.61% -9.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 12
10th Percentile - £15.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £14.25 £21.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £17.12 £41.00 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -58.24% +180.34% -35.00%
75th Percentile £21.30 £96.64 £15.05
90th Percentile £60.25 £102.00 £15.19
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £27.66 £14.63
% change year-on-year -0.56% +89.09% -26.88%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Rapid7 job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Rapid7
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Rapid7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Rapid7

Rapid7
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 Rapid7 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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 £510 - 1
Rapid7
Yorkshire

Rapid7
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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Security Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
1 5 (71.43%) SIEM
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 3 (42.86%) SOAR
3 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Inventory Management
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (42.86%) GCIA
1 3 (42.86%) GCIH
1 3 (42.86%) GIAC
1 3 (42.86%) SSCP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) NIST 800
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Tenable
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