Target Operating Model Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Target Operating Model (TOM)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Target Operating Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 46 41
Rank change year-on-year -36 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Target Operating Model 2 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.30% 0.28% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.30% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £561 - £609
25th Percentile £567 - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £450 £610
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -26.20% +24.56%
75th Percentile £592 - £610
90th Percentile £597 - £610
South Yorkshire median daily rate £581 £450 £610
% change year-on-year +29.17% -26.20% +24.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Target Operating Model 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 634 334 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.77% 92.27% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 183 215
10th Percentile £316 £240 £380
25th Percentile £400 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.78% +2.58%
75th Percentile £540 £596 £650
90th Percentile £635 £663 £729
South Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £19.10
25th Percentile - £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £13.17 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.94% -41.49% +60.71%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Target Operating Model job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Target Operating Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Target Operating Model

Target Operating Model
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Video Analytics
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft