Information Security Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 42 43
Rank change year-on-year -44 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.26% 1.55% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.68% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £429 £456 £365
25th Percentile £434 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -4.65% -6.52%
75th Percentile £484 £584 £551
90th Percentile £486 £606 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +19.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Information 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 730 357 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.93% 92.25% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 198 236
10th Percentile £316 £213 £363
25th Percentile £400 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £650
90th Percentile £634 £656 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.39 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.50 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.76% -3.02% +3.12%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Information Security

Information 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 Information Security within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 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 -44 2 £463 -15.91% 3
Information Security
Yorkshire

Information Security
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform