NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

NIST 800 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 151 104 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.18% 16.91% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 86 26
10th Percentile £350 £262 £225
25th Percentile £425 £339 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -8.64%
75th Percentile £550 £529 £615
90th Percentile £669 £593 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 - -
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.40 £22.14 £11.88
% change year-on-year +46.32% +86.36% -42.05%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

NIST 800
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 NIST 800 within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 2026. 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 - 2 £700 - 2
NIST 800
Yorkshire

NIST 800
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISA99
1 2 (100.00%) NIST