Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 35 43
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 183 60 71
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 9.86% 5.08% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.00% 5.91% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 38 51
10th Percentile £400 £472 -
25th Percentile £450 £515 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £578 £590
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% -2.12% +7.27%
75th Percentile £586 £647 £773
90th Percentile £688 £700 £1,050
England median daily rate £536 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.86 - -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £55.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year -17.72% -23.79% +10.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Cybersecurity 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,663 1,016 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 86.03% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 609 1,028
10th Percentile £250 £232 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 30 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%
75th Percentile £39.68 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
South Yorkshire +2 125 £519 -8.23% 28
West Yorkshire +15 46 £500 -23.08% 55
North Yorkshire +1 7 £625 -10.71% 12
East Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 14
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (18.58%) Confluence
2 6 (3.28%) TPMS
3 5 (2.73%) CMS
4 4 (2.19%) CICS
5 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.55%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.55%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.68%) AWS
1 47 (25.68%) GCP
2 35 (19.13%) Azure
3 23 (12.57%) Serverless
4 7 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.73%) Azure AKS
5 5 (2.73%) Azure Storage
5 5 (2.73%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.73%) OCI
6 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.19%) GitHub
7 3 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.09%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.09%) SaaS
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.55%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.56%) Firewall
2 8 (4.37%) SSH
3 7 (3.83%) Kerberos
4 6 (3.28%) SNMP
4 6 (3.28%) SSL
5 4 (2.19%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.64%) DNS
6 3 (1.64%) Internet
7 2 (1.09%) LAN
7 2 (1.09%) Network Security
7 2 (1.09%) VPN
7 2 (1.09%) WAN
8 1 (0.55%) BGP
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.55%) DHCP
8 1 (0.55%) OSPF
8 1 (0.55%) SCCP
8 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.57%) NoSQL
2 14 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.09%) Power BI
4 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (19.67%) JIRA
2 29 (15.85%) Jenkins
3 24 (13.11%) GitLab
4 20 (10.93%) Liquibase
5 3 (1.64%) Git
6 2 (1.09%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.09%) Postman
6 2 (1.09%) SoapUI
General
1 85 (46.45%) Finance
2 80 (43.72%) Social Skills
3 41 (22.40%) Banking
4 29 (15.85%) Financial Institution
5 20 (10.93%) Legal
6 13 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.83%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Retail
11 2 (1.09%) Aviation
11 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Law
11 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Local Government
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (15.30%) Architect
2 25 (13.66%) Analyst
3 19 (10.38%) Security Architect
4 18 (9.84%) Senior
4 18 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.20%) Consultant
6 13 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 11 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Lead
8 11 (6.01%) Security Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (4.92%) Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.37%) Design Engineer
10 8 (4.37%) Lead Architect
10 8 (4.37%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.30%) REST
2 23 (12.57%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (12.57%) RESTful
3 15 (8.20%) OAuth
4 14 (7.65%) SAML
5 5 (2.73%) JWT
6 4 (2.19%) Hugging Face
6 4 (2.19%) Kafka
6 4 (2.19%) OpenCV
6 4 (2.19%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.19%) Regular Expression
6 4 (2.19%) SpaCy
6 4 (2.19%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.64%) Middleware
7 3 (1.64%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.09%) Flash
8 2 (1.09%) JSON
8 2 (1.09%) LDAP
8 2 (1.09%) Smart Contracts
8 2 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.66%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (13.11%) Public Cloud
4 11 (6.01%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.28%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.19%) VSAM
9 3 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.64%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.64%) IoT
10 2 (1.09%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.55%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.77%) Linux
2 14 (7.65%) Windows
3 5 (2.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.51%) DevOps
2 47 (25.68%) Cryptography
3 46 (25.14%) Identity Access Management
3 46 (25.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (21.86%) Agile
5 39 (21.31%) CI/CD
5 39 (21.31%) Computer Science
6 38 (20.77%) Incident Response
7 35 (19.13%) Data Security
8 33 (18.03%) Risk Management
8 33 (18.03%) Root Cause Analysis
8 33 (18.03%) Software Engineering
9 27 (14.75%) Containerisation
9 27 (14.75%) Privileged Access Management
10 26 (14.21%) Change Management
10 26 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (14.21%) Infrastructure Automation
10 26 (14.21%) Vulnerability Management
11 24 (13.11%) Security Operations
12 23 (12.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 46 (25.14%) Python
2 29 (15.85%) Go
3 11 (6.01%) Java
4 9 (4.92%) SQL
5 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.83%) Bash
7 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.19%) COBOL
8 4 (2.19%) JCL
8 4 (2.19%) Rust
9 3 (1.64%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.09%) Solidity
11 1 (0.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 41 (22.40%) Degree
2 32 (17.49%) Master's Degree
3 30 (16.39%) CISSP
4 29 (15.85%) CISM
5 23 (12.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (7.65%) Security Cleared
7 13 (7.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (6.01%) AWS Certification
9 10 (5.46%) PhD
10 7 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.28%) FFIEC
11 6 (3.28%) SC Cleared
12 5 (2.73%) CISA
13 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
13 4 (2.19%) GCIH
14 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (1.64%) GCIA
14 3 (1.64%) GIAC
14 3 (1.64%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.75%) NIST
2 22 (12.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (11.48%) GDPR
4 14 (7.65%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.28%) GLBA
5 6 (3.28%) QA
5 6 (3.28%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.73%) GRC
7 4 (2.19%) PMO
8 3 (1.64%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.64%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.09%) COBIT
9 2 (1.09%) NCSC
9 2 (1.09%) SLA
10 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (13.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (19.13%) Kubernetes
1 35 (19.13%) Terraform
2 31 (16.94%) Ansible
3 27 (14.75%) Grafana
4 25 (13.66%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.09%) Kiali
8 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
8 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (22.95%) Splunk
2 21 (11.48%) Google
3 20 (10.93%) Microsoft
4 19 (10.38%) CyberArk
5 16 (8.74%) BiZZdesign
6 15 (8.20%) Centrify
7 8 (4.37%) Thycotic
8 5 (2.73%) Rapid7
8 5 (2.73%) Thales
9 4 (2.19%) Oracle
9 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.09%) Cisco
11 2 (1.09%) Dell
11 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.09%) F5
11 2 (1.09%) HP
11 2 (1.09%) SAP