Benchmarking Contracts in South Yorkshire

Benchmarking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.07% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £579 - -
90th Percentile £617 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Benchmarking 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 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Benchmarking in South Yorkshire

Benchmarking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Benchmarking in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Benchmarking in South Yorkshire

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in South Yorkshire

Benchmarking
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 Benchmarking within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 4 £510 - 1
Benchmarking
Yorkshire

Benchmarking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Testing
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle