Knowledge Transfer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Knowledge Transfer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.50% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £150
Median % change year-on-year - - -78.57%
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Knowledge Transfer 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 754 273 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.84% 92.86% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 162 256
10th Percentile £321 £210 £375
25th Percentile £403 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £509 £531
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -4.28% +1.19%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £626
90th Percentile £631 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.44 £12.63
25th Percentile £19.50 £13.49 £15.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +129.59%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £27.50
90th Percentile - £19.43 £50.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.10
% change year-on-year +11.78% +6.62% +12.55%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Knowledge Transfer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Knowledge Transfer.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
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 Knowledge Transfer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 January 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 - 2 - - 4
Doncaster - 1 - - 2
Knowledge Transfer
Yorkshire

Knowledge Transfer
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 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (50.00%) ShareGate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DKIM
1 2 (50.00%) DMARC
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Ceph
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow