Black Duck Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Black Duck
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring knowledge or experience of Black Duck products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Black Duck over the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Black Duck Software.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black Duck 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.11% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
Sheffield

Black Duck falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 516 149 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 55.66% 53.79% 54.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 99 113
10th Percentile £357 £220 £238
25th Percentile £425 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £586 £588
90th Percentile £677 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £445
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.12% -15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £15.74 - -
25th Percentile £16.34 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% +26.98% -32.40%
75th Percentile £19.01 £17.16 £12.88
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £16.19 £12.75
% change year-on-year +2.96% +26.98% -8.80%

Black Duck
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Software Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Licensing