WFM Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Workforce Management (WFM)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring WFM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing WFM 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.44% 1.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £468 -
25th Percentile £468 £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% - -
75th Percentile £503 £619 -
90th Percentile - £653 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £550 -
% change year-on-year -11.82% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

WFM 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 846 233 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.10% 96.68% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 151 192
10th Percentile £353 £220 £339
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -1.23% -7.95%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £16.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.34 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £22.25 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +37.40% -8.14% -31.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +19.46% +22.37% +24.46%

WFM
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

WFM job vacancy trend in Sheffield

WFM
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing WFM

WFM
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Workforce Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Business Case
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (25.00%) People Management
1 1 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
1 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Genesys
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle