Data Security Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Security
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 34 51
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Data Security 15 17 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.56% 4.22% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 4.75% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 1
10th Percentile £384 £500 -
25th Percentile £396 £508 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £494 £554 £725
90th Percentile £522 £581 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -17.14% -25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data Security 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 555 358 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.71% 88.83% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 188 264
10th Percentile £293 £380 £391
25th Percentile £365 £458 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £592
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% -11.24% +12.67%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £688
90th Percentile £612 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £520 £585
% change year-on-year -11.06% -11.04% +16.91%
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 Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Sheffield

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Sheffield over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Sheffield

Data Security
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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
1 11 (73.33%) GCP
2 10 (66.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SNMP
1 1 (6.67%) SSH
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (20.00%) HBase
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Liquibase
2 8 (53.33%) GitLab
2 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Financial Institution
3 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cryptography Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) REST
2 10 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (66.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (53.33%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (53.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 12 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (73.33%) DevOps
3 11 (73.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 10 (66.67%) High Availability
4 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 10 (66.67%) Microservices
4 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
5 9 (60.00%) Cryptography
6 8 (53.33%) Agile
6 8 (53.33%) Change Management
6 8 (53.33%) Computer Science
6 8 (53.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (53.33%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (53.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (53.33%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Data Encryption
8 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 11 (73.33%) Go
3 6 (40.00%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
1 8 (53.33%) Master's Degree
2 7 (46.67%) AWS Certification
3 6 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) FFIEC
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) GLBA
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Ansible
2 10 (66.67%) Grafana
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 10 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Splunk
2 7 (46.67%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft