SANS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

SANS Institute
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SANS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £675 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 215 63 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 24.16% 22.99% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 43 60
10th Percentile £410 £208 £375
25th Percentile £463 £220 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £414 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% -28.00% +9.00%
75th Percentile £675 £522 £656
90th Percentile £701 £630 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.58 £32.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -27.46% +116.67% -63.08%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SANS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SANS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SANS

SANS
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 SANS within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 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 - 1 £675 -
SANS
Yorkshire

SANS
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 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BiZZdesign