SLSA Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLSA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.17% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £690 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - -
75th Percentile £720 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £705 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 153 96 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 25.93% 22.80% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 70 60
10th Percentile £345 £460 £375
25th Percentile £400 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £624 £691
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £552 £575
% change year-on-year -13.95% -4.00% +15.00%

SLSA
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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes