YARA Contracts

YARA
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term YARA in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YARA over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 694 845
Rank change year-on-year +115 +151 -115
Contract jobs citing YARA 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.005% 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.038% 0.016% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £493
25th Percentile £505 £469 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -22.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £550 £506 £713
90th Percentile £745 - £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 -
% change year-on-year +12.82% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

YARA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

YARA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing YARA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for YARA in the UK

YARA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing YARA.

Daily rate trend for YARA in the UK

YARA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing YARA over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for YARA in the UK

YARA
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YARA within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Work from Home +119 4 £510 -
England +84 1 £550 +12.82%
UK excluding London +28 1 £550 +12.82%
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

YARA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) tcpdump
1 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (80.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (80.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
2 4 (80.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike