Cyber Security Posture Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity Posture
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Security Posture in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Security Posture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £690 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - -
75th Percentile £720 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £705 - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

Cyber 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 286 143 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.27% 30.82% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 87 77
10th Percentile £313 £209 £253
25th Percentile £372 £306 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £665 £647 £693
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £25.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -31.88% +17.32% +12.16%

Cyber Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Security Posture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Cyber Security Posture job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Cyber 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 Cyber Security Posture within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 2025. 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 - 1 £705 -
Cyber Security Posture
Yorkshire

Cyber 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 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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SLSA
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