SOAR Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 74 70
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing SOAR 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.30% 0.61% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.69% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.00% -1.89%
Yorkshire median daily rate £558 £520 £675
% change year-on-year +7.21% -22.96% +1.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

SOAR 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 1,131 720 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 83.47% 87.80% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 462 448
10th Percentile £308 £283 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 18 21
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.87 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.62 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -11.44% +31.58%
75th Percentile £35.00 £74.06 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £22.58 £18.25
% change year-on-year -14.35% +23.70% -10.98%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SOAR
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

SOAR
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 SOAR within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 -17 4 £540 +3.85% 4
SOAR
Yorkshire

SOAR
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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk