SANS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

SANS Institute
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SANS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.12% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £675 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 203 56 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 24.52% 23.33% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 40 57
10th Percentile £411 £208 £395
25th Percentile £456 £220 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £418 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.62% -27.30% +6.48%
75th Percentile £647 £526 £675
90th Percentile £700 £639 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £414 £575
% change year-on-year +25.42% -28.00% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 - -

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SANS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SANS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SANS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SANS

SANS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BiZZdesign