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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 30 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +15
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 45 30 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.23% 6.42% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 7.37% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 23
10th Percentile £315 £515 £550
25th Percentile £413 £550 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £580 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -17.14% +51.35%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £888
90th Percentile £627 £700 £1,188
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% +11.36%

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 591 407 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.02% 87.15% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 220 269
10th Percentile £295 £300 £373
25th Percentile £369 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £514 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% -14.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £544 £580 £688
90th Percentile £616 £638 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 5
10th Percentile £15.00 - £13.90
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £22.75
90th Percentile - £21.80 £39.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.26%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +4 44 £508 -12.50% 29
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 5 (11.11%) CICS
1 5 (11.11%) CMS
2 4 (8.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (2.22%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) AWS
1 12 (26.67%) GCP
2 10 (22.22%) Azure
3 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 6 (13.33%) Serverless
4 5 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
1 3 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.78%) Liquibase
3 6 (13.33%) Git
3 6 (13.33%) JIRA
4 5 (11.11%) Postman
5 4 (8.89%) GitLab
6 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.67%) Gradle
6 3 (6.67%) HP UFT
6 3 (6.67%) IntelliJ
6 3 (6.67%) JUnit
6 3 (6.67%) Maven
6 3 (6.67%) Selenium
7 2 (4.44%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (48.89%) Finance
2 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
3 13 (28.89%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 6 (13.33%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) IT Support
4 3 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Programme Director
4 3 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Test Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Security Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (13.33%) REST
1 6 (13.33%) RESTful
2 3 (6.67%) Hugging Face
2 3 (6.67%) OpenCV
2 3 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 3 (6.67%) Regular Expression
2 3 (6.67%) SpaCy
2 3 (6.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.44%) JSON
3 2 (4.44%) OAuth
3 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
3 2 (4.44%) OpenID
3 2 (4.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 5 (11.11%) VSAM
4 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.67%) Mainframe
6 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Windows
3 3 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (2.22%) AIX
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Solaris
4 1 (2.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) DevOps
2 15 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (26.67%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (17.78%) High Availability
5 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (15.56%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (15.56%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (15.56%) Privileged Access Management
7 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.33%) Cryptography
7 6 (13.33%) Data Security
7 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (13.33%) Microservices
8 5 (11.11%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) Go
3 7 (15.56%) Java
4 5 (11.11%) COBOL
4 5 (11.11%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
1 5 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.67%) CISM
3 3 (6.67%) CISSP
4 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) NIST
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.89%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.22%) Terraform
3 9 (20.00%) Ansible
4 6 (13.33%) Grafana
4 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.67%) Puppet
6 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.22%) Control-M
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Splunk
3 6 (13.33%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (4.44%) Alibaba
5 2 (4.44%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (4.44%) Thycotic
5 2 (4.44%) Veritas
6 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.22%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.22%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat