FIPS 140-2 Contracts in Sheffield

FIPS 140-2
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring FIPS 140-2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIPS 140-2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FIPS 140-2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.18% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

FIPS 140-2 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 95 33 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 17.21% 7.82% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 24 31
10th Percentile £260 £215 £350
25th Percentile £338 £432 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% -13.87% +17.50%
75th Percentile £525 £622 £628
90th Percentile £599 £643 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -5.47% -8.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £20.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.04%

FIPS 140-2
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Machine to Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST