Active Listening Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Active Listening
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Active Listening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 35 50
Rank change year-on-year -60 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 1 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.12% 2.11% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 2.18% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% -10.43% -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £617 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +19.81% -10.43% +21.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Active Listening 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 821 229 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.48% 96.62% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 143 219
10th Percentile £351 £220 £353
25th Percentile £413 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £593
90th Percentile £675 £650 £703
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £14.44 - -
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -28.04% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Listening relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Active Listening job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Active Listening
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Active Listening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Active Listening

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Active Listening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Active Listening

Active Listening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk