Pattern Matching Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Pattern Matching
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Pattern Matching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pattern Matching 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Pattern Matching 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 602 385 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 96.01% 89.74% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 200 241
10th Percentile £313 £250 £400
25th Percentile £400 £434 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £523 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -11.06% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £520 £585
% change year-on-year -7.69% -11.04% +16.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

Pattern Matching
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) PyCharm
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Online Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared