Blog Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Blogs
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Blog 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.42% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.02% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

Blog falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 490 164 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 41.14% 35.42% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 98 69
10th Percentile £358 £346 £235
25th Percentile £415 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £514
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -10.02% -12.51%
75th Percentile £584 £580 £588
90th Percentile £688 £638 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £14.68 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.67 - £11.11
Median hourly rate £19.34 £15.00 £13.38
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% +12.15% +25.82%
75th Percentile £21.40 - £28.28
90th Percentile £22.20 - £41.88
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £21.00 £14.63
% change year-on-year +27.24% +43.59% +37.58%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Blog job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Blog
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Blog

Blog
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 Blog within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 June 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 - 5 £400 - 1
Blog
Yorkshire

Blog
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Go
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform