Data Management Contracts in Sheffield

Data Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 52 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Management 32 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.68% 1.18% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.00% 1.33% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 2
10th Percentile £298 £340 £407
25th Percentile £380 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £421
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +12.77% +12.32%
75th Percentile £491 £556 £430
90th Percentile £650 - £435
South Yorkshire median daily rate £423 £475 £421
% change year-on-year -11.05% +12.77% +12.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data Management 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 533 376 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.67% 88.89% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 199 250
10th Percentile £298 £381 £399
25th Percentile £374 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -14.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £688
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £514 £592
% change year-on-year -9.53% -13.10% +18.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £20.20 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +9.09%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £20.69
90th Percentile - - £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Sheffield

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Sheffield

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Sheffield

Data Management
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 5 (15.63%) Apache
1 5 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.50%) Confluence
3 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (15.63%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.13%) Figma
3 1 (3.13%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.13%) Miro
3 1 (3.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Firewall
2 13 (40.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Flink
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.13%) Power Query
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) Jenkins
1 13 (40.63%) Postman
2 9 (28.13%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (53.13%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Senior
2 9 (28.13%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Windows Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Business Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
7 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Business Manager
8 2 (6.25%) Lead
8 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
9 1 (3.13%) Commvault Specialist
9 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Designer
9 1 (3.13%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (9.38%) AIX
4 3 (9.38%) Solaris
4 3 (9.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (9.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Agile
2 15 (46.88%) DevOps
3 13 (40.63%) Configuration Management
4 8 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Problem Management
6 6 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (18.75%) Workflow
7 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis
7 5 (15.63%) Data Lineage
7 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
7 5 (15.63%) ETL
7 5 (15.63%) Migration
7 5 (15.63%) Workflow Management
8 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 4 (12.50%) Project Management
8 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Ansible
1 13 (40.63%) Puppet
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Clustering
3 6 (18.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) MuleSoft
1 13 (40.63%) VMware
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.63%) Google
4 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) Commvault
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Veritas