Data Security Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Security
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 38 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Data Security 18 18 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.81% 4.02% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 4.57% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 1
10th Percentile £348 £500 -
25th Percentile £384 £508 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £554 £725
90th Percentile £519 £581 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £515 £340
% change year-on-year -16.50% +51.47% +0.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Data Security 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 607 394 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.84% 87.95% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 209 281
10th Percentile £289 £318 £363
25th Percentile £363 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £680
90th Percentile £612 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.68 £20.00
% change year-on-year +41.20% -21.60% +6.10%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in South Yorkshire

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in South Yorkshire

Data Security
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 Data Security within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 September 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 -24 15 £450 -14.29% 2
Barnsley - 2 £357 - 1
Doncaster - 1 £435 -
Data Security
Yorkshire

Data Security
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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
1 11 (61.11%) GCP
2 10 (55.56%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) SNMP
1 1 (5.56%) SSH
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Hive
2 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (16.67%) HBase
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Liquibase
2 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 10 (55.56%) Financial Institution
2 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cryptography Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) REST
2 10 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (55.56%) RESTful
3 3 (16.67%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Cloud Native
2 8 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (44.44%) Public Cloud
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 12 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (61.11%) DevOps
3 11 (61.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 10 (55.56%) High Availability
4 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
4 10 (55.56%) Microservices
4 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
5 9 (50.00%) Cryptography
6 8 (44.44%) Agile
6 8 (44.44%) Change Management
6 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
6 8 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Data Encryption
8 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) Go
3 6 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
1 8 (44.44%) Master's Degree
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Certification
3 6 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) FFIEC
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) GLBA
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Ansible
2 10 (55.56%) Grafana
2 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (55.56%) Prometheus
2 10 (55.56%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Splunk
2 7 (38.89%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft