Security Patching Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Security Patching
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Security Patching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.094% - 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £250
South Yorkshire median daily rate - - £250

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Security Patching 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 952 333 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 89.64% 94.33% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 215 206
10th Percentile £366 £265 £377
25th Percentile £425 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -17.45%
75th Percentile £558 £559 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £14.02 £18.10 -
25th Percentile £14.51 £18.20 £10.90
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.69 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +7.57% -15.24%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £22.44
90th Percentile £19.07 - £23.75
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.69 £12.83
% change year-on-year -10.81% +45.67% +20.70%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Security Patching
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
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (100.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP