Threat Detection Contracts in Sheffield

Threat Detection
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.36% - 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £588
75th Percentile £588 - £606
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - £588

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Threat Detection 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 526 376 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.77% 89.10% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 201 251
10th Percentile £289 £381 £400
25th Percentile £374 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -14.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £700
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £514 £600
% change year-on-year -10.02% -14.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £20.20 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +9.09%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £20.69
90th Percentile - - £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Sheffield

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in Sheffield

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Akamai
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Imperva