Internet Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Internet
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Internet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Internet 6 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.84% - 2.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.06% - 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £263 - £575
25th Percentile £423 - £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £538 - £626
90th Percentile - - £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.18% +31.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 85 66 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.92% 14.80% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 24
10th Percentile £296 £209 £190
25th Percentile £406 £220 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -8.70% +30.83%
75th Percentile £641 £622 £625
90th Percentile £689 £676 £697
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +14.71% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +4.07%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Internet job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Internet in South Yorkshire

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Internet

Internet
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 Internet within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 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 - 6 £525 - 12
Internet
Yorkshire

Internet
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) PyCharm
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) NumPy
1 3 (50.00%) Pandas
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (50.00%) Online Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) Application Security
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Data Munging
1 3 (50.00%) Data Science
1 3 (50.00%) Data Security
1 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (50.00%) Pattern Matching
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Vision
2 2 (33.33%) Image Processing
2 2 (33.33%) LLM
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Zscaler