Cyber Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cybersecurity Posture
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.17% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £690 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - -
75th Percentile £720 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £705 - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

Cyber 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 269 128 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 45.59% 30.40% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 78 72
10th Percentile £319 £218 £376
25th Percentile £383 £367 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £616
90th Percentile £632 £647 £699
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -9.27% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
% change year-on-year -63.64% - -

Cyber Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Security Posture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Cyber Security Posture job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Cyber 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SLSA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes