Information Security Contracts in Yorkshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 57 101
Rank change year-on-year -22 +44 -2
Contract jobs citing Information Security 13 43 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.28% 2.55% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 2.95% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 20
10th Percentile - £498 £458
25th Percentile £406 £513 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.69% +5.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £450 £603 £641
90th Percentile £491 £625 £688
England median daily rate £550 £582 £618
% change year-on-year -5.50% -5.75% +7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.14 - -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £19.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +26.46% -74.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Information Security 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 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Yorkshire

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Yorkshire

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Yorkshire

Information Security
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 Information Security within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +18 11 £413 -25.00% 41
South Yorkshire -6 2 £450 -21.74% 8
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (46.15%) Police
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Information
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Security
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Measurement
2 6 (46.15%) Service Management
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (23.08%) Attestation
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Contract Management
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) PQQ
5 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
5 1 (7.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) VBA
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) CISA
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) SLA
2 4 (30.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (23.08%) SOC 2
4 1 (7.69%) GDPR
4 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Okta