Information Security Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 72 72
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 +44
Contract jobs citing Information Security 22 29 51
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.40% 1.96% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 2.32% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 39
10th Percentile £440 £475 £450
25th Percentile £456 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £559 £634 £600
90th Percentile £660 £724 £775
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.48 - -
Median hourly rate £22.14 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £20.10 £73.66
% change year-on-year +66.71% -72.72% +29.54%

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 1,420 1,248 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.27% 84.55% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 738 1,185
10th Percentile £248 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £577 £620
90th Percentile £650 £655 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 41 32
10th Percentile £17.27 - £12.12
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.55 £17.04
Median hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -13.58% +6.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £48.75 £31.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Information Security

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Yorkshire

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Information Security

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 October 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 -11 13 £513 -8.89% 13
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
South Yorkshire -22 2 £463 -19.57% 4
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills and 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 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (45.45%) Police
2 9 (40.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Analyst
2 9 (40.91%) Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Security Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Chief Information Security Officer
6 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Head of Information
6 1 (4.55%) Information Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Information Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Decision-Making
1 9 (40.91%) Performance Measurement
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (40.91%) Service Management
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
3 4 (18.18%) ISMS
3 4 (18.18%) ITIL
3 4 (18.18%) Logistics
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
6 1 (4.55%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) CISMP
1 4 (18.18%) GSEC
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) CIMA
2 1 (4.55%) CISA
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) SLA
2 5 (22.73%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.55%) NIST
4 1 (4.55%) PMO
4 1 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible