Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Security Architecture
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 50 49
Rank change year-on-year -29 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.59% 0.27% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.29% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £1,200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £422 £1,300
Median % change year-on-year +30.33% -67.54% +116.67%
75th Percentile - - £1,400
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £422 £1,300
% change year-on-year +30.33% -67.54% +116.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Security Architecture 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 650 339 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 96.01% 91.62% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 183 216
10th Percentile £315 £240 £381
25th Percentile £400 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -5.61% +4.20%
75th Percentile £541 £592 £650
90th Percentile £647 £650 £728
South Yorkshire median daily rate £477 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.19% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £18.95
25th Percentile - £15.22 £19.63
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% +28.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £25.63
90th Percentile - - £29.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £12.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.91% -42.98% +60.71%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Security Architecture
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) RSA SecurID
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (25.00%) NetScout
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) SevOne
1 1 (25.00%) VMware