Subject Matter Expert Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Subject Matter Expert
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Subject Matter Expert daily rate in Sheffield is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Subject Matter Expert 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.28% 1.36% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 1.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £528 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - -
75th Percentile £609 - -
90th Percentile £634 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £569 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 648 252 345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 85.42% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 146 221
10th Percentile £316 £220 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £609 £697 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%

Subject Matter Expert
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Subject Matter Expert' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Subject Matter Expert job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Subject Matter Expert
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Subject Matter Expert job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Subject Matter Expert job vacancies in Sheffield

Subject Matter Expert
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Subject Matter Expert in Sheffield over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Subject Matter Expert in Sheffield

Subject Matter Expert Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Subject Matter Expert contract job roles required 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 featuring Subject Matter Expert in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation

Subject Matter Expert Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp