Security Posture Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Security Posture
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 65 88
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 6 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.72% 0.51% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 2.02% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £491 £555 £714
25th Percentile £505 £563 £716
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £738
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -22.03% +40.48%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £766
90th Percentile £638 £595 £771
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 304 198 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 36.54% 25.10% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 133 235
10th Percentile £364 £182 £331
25th Percentile £438 £359 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 10
10th Percentile - £17.19 £15.11
25th Percentile - £21.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +44.74% -4.28%
75th Percentile - £40.63 £21.31
90th Percentile - £48.00 £22.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -57.43% +87.71% +12.16%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in West Yorkshire

Security Posture
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 Security Posture within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 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 -7 5 £538 -6.52% 5
Bradford - 1 - -
Security Posture
Yorkshire

Security Posture
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 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Security
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Chief Information Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Chief Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Information Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Information Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
4 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) GRC
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) PSD2
3 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes