Security Patching Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Security Patching
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Patching 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.086% - 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £250
Yorkshire median daily rate £150 £400 £250
% change year-on-year -62.50% +60.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Security Patching 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 1,040 384 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.50% 94.35% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 245 243
10th Percentile £363 £261 £360
25th Percentile £424 £385 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £557 £573 £584
90th Percentile £669 £640 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 17
10th Percentile £13.55 £18.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £12.55
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.69 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +45.67% +20.70%
75th Percentile £20.60 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.29 - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Security Patching job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Security Patching
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Security Patching
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 Patching within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 June 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 - - 1
Security Patching
Yorkshire

Security Patching
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
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (100.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP