Data-Driven Decision Making Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data-Driven Decision Making
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.51% - 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £581
25th Percentile - - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £591
75th Percentile - - £603
90th Percentile - - £608
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £591

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data-Driven Decision Making 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 557 355 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.54% 88.75% 96.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 185 258
10th Percentile £293 £361 £400
25th Percentile £380 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -11.02% +12.38%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £686
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Sheffield

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks