Cyber Defence Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cyber Defence
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.20% - 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% - 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £582
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £773 £635
% change year-on-year -28.80% +21.65% -6.06%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

Cyber Defence 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 743 333 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.36% 35.54% 26.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 206 298
10th Percentile £324 £175 £256
25th Percentile £425 £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £445
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +7.18% -15.23%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 37
10th Percentile £14.25 £21.61 £11.52
25th Percentile £15.50 £32.67 £12.63
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +164.96% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £57.78 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £31.51 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -15.99% +15.38% +44.54%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cyber Defence
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cyber Defence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cyber Defence

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
West Yorkshire - 4 £350 - 1
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (75.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform