Cloud Security Posture Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Cloud Security Posture
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £467 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £537 - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 483 241 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.52% 38.75% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 148 79
10th Percentile £353 £306 £213
25th Percentile £413 £360 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £520
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -18.27% -9.57%
75th Percentile £588 £523 £594
90th Percentile £688 £600 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £514
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.59% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £14.61 - £20.41
25th Percentile £16.00 - £33.41
Median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -
75th Percentile £22.20 - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
% change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -31.98%

Cloud Security Posture
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Security Posture within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 3 £460 - 1
Cloud Security Posture
Yorkshire

Cloud Security Posture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitOps
1 3 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft