Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Synthetic Data
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

Synthetic Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 399 126 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.72% 41.18% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 83 70
10th Percentile £363 £305 £399
25th Percentile £434 £387 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £618 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £610
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £15.74 - -
25th Percentile £16.34 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £17.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.88%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 - £12.75
% change year-on-year - - +22.18%

Synthetic Data
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk