Security Officer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Security Officer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Security Officer daily rate in Sheffield is £482, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Officer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 634 311 325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 87.11% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 177 211
10th Percentile £316 £230 £375
25th Percentile £400 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £611 £660 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.14 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 - £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% -11.11% +18.42%

Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Officer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Security Officer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Security Officer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, Security Officer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Security Officer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection

Security Officer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes