Threat Detection Contracts in Yorkshire

Threat Detection
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection 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 87 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 5 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.49% - 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £575 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.01% -16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.01 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 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%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Yorkshire

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in Yorkshire

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection 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
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
West Yorkshire - 2 £343 - 2
Threat Detection
England

Threat Detection
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) IMAP
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) POP3
1 2 (40.00%) SMTP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aviation
2 2 (40.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (40.00%) Police
2 2 (40.00%) Swedish Language
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) SOAR
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Ribbon
2 2 (40.00%) Tenable