Security Operations Centre Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Security Operations Centre
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations Centre 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.097% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 437 228 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.47% 40.64% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 141 68
10th Percentile £357 £319 £400
25th Percentile £425 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.94% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £609
90th Percentile £693 £600 £647
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +17.65% -18.27% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.41
25th Percentile - - £33.41
Median hourly rate £13.69 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -63.64% -
75th Percentile - - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Security Operations Centre
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
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%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) GSEC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk