Cybersecurity Contracts in Sheffield

Cybersecurity
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity 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 34 39 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 -16 +5
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 16 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.02% 4.22% 7.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 4.56% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 31
10th Percentile £185 - £500
25th Percentile £318 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -2.13% +30.56%
75th Percentile £600 £724 £675
90th Percentile £610 £1,050 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -9.61% -2.13% +30.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Cybersecurity 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Sheffield

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Sheffield

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Sheffield

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) GitHub
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) Gradle
1 4 (25.00%) HP UFT
1 4 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
1 4 (25.00%) JUnit
1 4 (25.00%) Maven
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Test Manager
3 2 (12.50%) IT Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) BDD
3 4 (25.00%) Case Management
3 4 (25.00%) Code Coverage
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 4 (25.00%) Document Management
3 4 (25.00%) Due Diligence
3 4 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (25.00%) TDD
3 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CISM
1 1 (6.25%) CISSP
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Control-M
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Veritas
3 2 (12.50%) Commvault
4 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
4 1 (6.25%) Centrify
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Thycotic
4 1 (6.25%) Zscaler