Offensive Security Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Offensive Security
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Offensive Security 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £650

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Offensive 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 924 334 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 92.12% 95.16% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 217 225
10th Percentile £355 £232 £296
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile £15.27 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.29 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +3.35% +65.71%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Offensive 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 Offensive Security within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 April 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 - 3 £600 -
Offensive Security
Yorkshire

Offensive 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Claude Code
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Security Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Purple Team
2 1 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks