Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Threat Detection
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 70 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.40% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £650 -
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Threat Detection 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 672 733 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.89% 85.23% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 468 828
10th Percentile £287 £350 £332
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £655 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 20
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.17
Median hourly rate £25.50 £15.17 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +68.09% -14.87% -10.90%
75th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £24.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +47.60% -25.00% +5.26%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in West Yorkshire

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Detection in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Detection in West Yorkshire

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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 0 3 £500 -23.08% 2
Threat Detection
Yorkshire

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) Darktrace
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow