Cybersecurity Contracts in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 39 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 17 17 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.56% 3.72% 6.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.16% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 31
10th Percentile £185 - £500
25th Percentile £384 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -2.13% +30.56%
75th Percentile £600 £724 £675
90th Percentile £609 £1,050 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -9.24% +10.18% +17.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +5 16 £520 -9.61% 17
Cybersecurity
Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
1 1 (5.88%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) Gradle
1 4 (23.53%) HP UFT
1 4 (23.53%) IntelliJ
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
1 4 (23.53%) JUnit
1 4 (23.53%) Maven
1 4 (23.53%) Selenium
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) IT Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) BDD
3 4 (23.53%) Case Management
3 4 (23.53%) Code Coverage
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Data Privacy
3 4 (23.53%) Document Management
3 4 (23.53%) Due Diligence
3 4 (23.53%) Exploratory Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) QA Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
3 4 (23.53%) TDD
3 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
3 4 (23.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CISM
1 1 (5.88%) CISSP
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Control-M
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Veritas
3 2 (11.76%) Commvault
4 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.88%) Blue Coat
4 1 (5.88%) Centrify
4 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Thycotic
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler