Data Collection Contracts in Sheffield

Data Collection
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Collection over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Collection 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data Collection 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 549 365 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.82% 87.95% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 196 229
10th Percentile £301 £395 £400
25th Percentile £375 £443 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £700
90th Percentile £625 £641 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -8.93% -14.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +43.08% -36.64% +13.29%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Data Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in Sheffield

Data Collection
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Collection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (33.33%) OLTP
2 2 (33.33%) Power Query
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jaeger
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Naive Bayes
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Support Vector Machines
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
1 1 (16.67%) VMware