DORA Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring DORA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	93	75	57
Rank change year-on-year	-18	-18	-
Contract jobs citing DORA	11	4	1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield	1.04%	0.63%	0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	6.40%	3.96%	2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	10	4	0
10^th Percentile	£481	£572	-
25^th Percentile	£491	£589	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£528	£603	-
Median % change year-on-year	-12.47%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£537	£670	-
90^th Percentile	£939	£775	-
South Yorkshire median daily rate	£528	£603	-
% change year-on-year	-12.47%	-	-

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

DORA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Sheffield.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills	172	101	39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield	16.30%	16.01%	9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted	109	82	24
10^th Percentile	£377	£269	£199
25^th Percentile	£425	£339	£486
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£460	£473	£514
Median % change year-on-year	-2.65%	-7.98%	+7.26%
75^th Percentile	£537	£545	£622
90^th Percentile	£654	£611	£643
South Yorkshire median daily rate	£460	£470	£507
% change year-on-year	-2.13%	-7.30%	+5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted	25	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£30.02	-	-
Median hourly rate	£36.07	-	-
75^th Percentile	£36.61	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South Yorkshire median hourly rate	£36.07	£12.21	-
% change year-on-year	+195.41%	-	-

DORA Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

DORA Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing DORA.

DORA Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DORA in Sheffield over the 6 months to 22 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DORA in Sheffield

DORA Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing DORA also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region with a requirement for DORA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Observability	72.7%	8
1	Site Reliability Engineering	72.7%	8
3	AppDynamics	54.5%	6
3	Capacity Management	54.5%	6
3	Community of Practice	54.5%	6
3	Data Mapping	54.5%	6
3	Incident Response	54.5%	6
3	Splunk	54.5%	6
3	Task Automation	54.5%	6
3	Technical Architecture	54.5%	6
3	Use Case	54.5%	6
3	Wireframes	54.5%	6
13	ITIL	36.4%	4
13	Operational Resilience	36.4%	4
13	Risk Management	36.4%	4
16	Systems Thinking	27.3%	3
17	AWS	18.2%	2
17	Azure	18.2%	2
17	Business Continuity	18.2%	2
17	Cybersecurity	18.2%	2
17	GCP	18.2%	2
17	Incident Management	18.2%	2
17	ITSM	18.2%	2
17	QA	18.2%	2
17	Scenario Testing	18.2%	2
17	Service Management	18.2%	2
17	ServiceNow	18.2%	2
17	Stakeholder Engagement	18.2%	2
17	Vulnerability Assessment	18.2%	2
30	AI	9.1%	1

DORA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	QA	18.2%	2