Active Listening Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Active Listening
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Active Listening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 34 57
Rank change year-on-year -65 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 1 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.11% 1.86% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 1.93% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% -10.43% +21.05%
Yorkshire median daily rate £617 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +19.81% -4.19% +13.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Active Listening 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 870 259 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 93.65% 96.28% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 166 251
10th Percentile £350 £211 £320
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £14.55 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £15.22 £12.19
Median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.54 £22.14 £15.00
% change year-on-year +1.80% +47.60% +41.11%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Listening relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Active Listening job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Active Listening
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Active Listening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Active Listening

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Active Listening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Active Listening

Active Listening
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -57 1 £617 +19.81% 4
Active Listening
Yorkshire

Active Listening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk