Data Encryption Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Encryption
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Encryption skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 56 53
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Encryption 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.04% 0.49% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.56% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £398 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £803 - £725
90th Percentile £892 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +0.10% -28.57% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data Encryption 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 552 358 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.34% 88.40% 96.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 188 260
10th Percentile £297 £375 £388
25th Percentile £375 £436 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £523 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -11.06% +11.90%
75th Percentile £542 £594 £682
90th Percentile £613 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -9.81% -9.57% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

Data Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Encryption in Sheffield

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Encryption.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Encryption

Data Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Encryption in Sheffield over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Encryption in Sheffield

Data Encryption
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (83.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 6 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Data Security
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 4 (66.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft