Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Threat Detection
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.87% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile £522 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

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 666 324 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 96.10% 92.05% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 181 220
10th Percentile £316 £230 £386
25th Percentile £402 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £598 £650
90th Percentile £624 £665 £726
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £19.10
25th Percentile - £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £14.85 £22.50
% change year-on-year +1.04% -34.02% +60.71%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Threat Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Threat Detection

Threat Detection
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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Akamai
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Security Officer
1 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Security Officer
1 1 (16.67%) Web Applications Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Application Security
1 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Imperva
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft