Security Operations Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 58 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 16 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.34% 0.21% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 0.24% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £516 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% - -
75th Percentile £694 - £775
90th Percentile £700 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £537 £700 £510
% change year-on-year -23.29% +37.25% -23.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Security Operations 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 656 422 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.91% 89.41% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 219 256
10th Percentile £306 £229 £375
25th Percentile £389 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £520 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -11.04% +16.91%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.78% -10.84% +12.16%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in South Yorkshire

Security Operations
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 Security Operations within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 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 - 16 £537 - 7
Security Operations
Yorkshire

Security Operations
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 8 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Akamai
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Cloudflare
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Kerberos
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (18.75%) HTTP
3 3 (18.75%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (43.75%) Security Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 5 (31.25%) Lead Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Lead Security Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Design Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) OAuth
1 7 (43.75%) SAML
2 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
3 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Incident Response
2 12 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (68.75%) Cryptography
3 11 (68.75%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 11 (68.75%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (62.50%) Secrets Management
5 9 (56.25%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (56.25%) Decision-Making
5 9 (56.25%) Privileged Access Management
5 9 (56.25%) SABSA
5 9 (56.25%) Technical Debt
5 9 (56.25%) TOGAF
6 8 (50.00%) Programme Management
6 8 (50.00%) Project Governance
7 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
7 7 (43.75%) Risk Management
7 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
7 7 (43.75%) UML
7 7 (43.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) CISM
1 10 (62.50%) CISSP
2 9 (56.25%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (43.75%) Degree
3 7 (43.75%) Master's Degree
3 7 (43.75%) PhD
4 3 (18.75%) CEH
4 3 (18.75%) GIAC
4 3 (18.75%) GWAPT
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) BiZZdesign
2 6 (37.50%) CyberArk
3 5 (31.25%) Centrify
4 4 (25.00%) F5
5 3 (18.75%) Imperva
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (6.25%) SAP