SLSA Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SLSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLSA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.074% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 341 213 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 25.15% 28.40% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 134 189
10th Percentile £399 £375 £381
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 £84.83 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +561.07% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £98.56 £15.52
90th Percentile - - £16.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £16.19
% change year-on-year -26.38% +466.34% -

SLSA
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 SLSA within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 August 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 - 1 - -
SLSA
Yorkshire

SLSA
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Attestation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype