Cloud Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cloud Security Posture
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.29% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £467 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £460 - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

Cloud Security Posture 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 in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 437 228 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.47% 40.64% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 141 68
10th Percentile £357 £319 £400
25th Percentile £425 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.94% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £609
90th Percentile £693 £600 £647
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +17.65% -18.27% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.41
25th Percentile - - £33.41
Median hourly rate £13.69 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -63.64% -
75th Percentile - - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -

Cloud Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitOps
1 3 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft