Threat Detection Contracts in South Yorkshire

Threat Detection
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.33% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £588
75th Percentile £588 - £606
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -23.08% +10.64% +2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Threat Detection 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 585 415 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.12% 87.18% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 226 271
10th Percentile £286 £319 £363
25th Percentile £369 £425 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £514 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% -14.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £544 £580 £688
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £15.00 - £13.90
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.13 £22.75
90th Percentile - £21.85 £39.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.90%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in South Yorkshire

Threat Detection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat Detection in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Threat Detection in South Yorkshire

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 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 - 2 £575 - 2
Threat Detection
Yorkshire

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Akamai
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Imperva