Black Duck Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Black Duck
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Black Duck products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Black Duck over the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Black Duck Software.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black Duck 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.10% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £475

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

Black Duck falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 556 160 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 55.88% 49.84% 56.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 109 142
10th Percentile £342 £220 £237
25th Percentile £413 £355 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +1.12% -15.24%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £552
90th Percentile £675 £650 £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.27 - -
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £16.67 £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +26.98% -8.80%
75th Percentile £18.67 £17.16 £14.50
90th Percentile £19.07 - £40.30
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £30.16 £14.63
% change year-on-year +40.94% +106.19% -29.52%

Black Duck
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 Black Duck within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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 - 1 £550 -
Black Duck
Yorkshire

Black Duck
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Software Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Licensing