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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 100 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +47
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.54% 0.065% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.078% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £481 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +10.64% +2.17%
75th Percentile £544 - £606
90th Percentile £570 - -
England median daily rate £569 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -3.19% -2.08% -7.69%

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 1,361 1,290 1,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.08% 83.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 790 1,192
10th Percentile £263 £300 £276
25th Percentile £375 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 50 30
10th Percentile £16.58 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.39 £12.15 £16.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.31% +6.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.88 £23.50
90th Percentile £34.04 £35.25 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.16% -1.11% +63.46%

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 August 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 - -
West Yorkshire +1 2 £486 -25.19% 1
South Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 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 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (25.00%) Akamai
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aviation
2 2 (25.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (25.00%) Police
2 2 (25.00%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Regular Expression
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Robotics
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
2 6 (75.00%) SIEM
3 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) SOAR
4 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
6 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (25.00%) Release Management
6 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Ribbon
2 2 (25.00%) Tenable
3 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Darktrace
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Imperva
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow