Data-Driven Decision Making Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data-Driven Decision Making
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.47% - 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £581
25th Percentile - - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £591
75th Percentile - - £603
90th Percentile - - £608
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £591
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.14% +7.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Data-Driven Decision Making 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 609 395 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.45% 87.97% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 207 275
10th Percentile £289 £250 £380
25th Percentile £369 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £675
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in South Yorkshire

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 Data-Driven Decision Making within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 - 3 £600 - 4
Data-Driven Decision Making
Yorkshire

Data-Driven Decision Making
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks