SOAR Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SOAR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £700

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

SOAR 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 871 531 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.65% 94.65% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 354 195
10th Percentile £363 £298 £383
25th Percentile £430 £371 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £469 £515
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -8.93% -14.17%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £465 £514
% change year-on-year +7.53% -9.53% -14.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £15.00 £15.88
25th Percentile - £17.33 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% -12.58% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -35.85%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SOAR
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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Claude Code
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk