Secure Coding Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Secure Code Development
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Secure Coding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Secure Coding 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 689 282 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.43% 92.16% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 162 233
10th Percentile £319 £220 £390
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £621 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Secure Coding job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Secure Coding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Secure Coding

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in Sheffield

Secure Coding
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Apigee
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Kong
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Police
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Officer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Officer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (25.00%) Kibana
3 1 (25.00%) logstash
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk