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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Internet 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.69% 0.29% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.90% 1.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £625 £325
% change year-on-year -12.00% +92.31% -35.00%

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 143 75 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.19% 22.06% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 41 45
10th Percentile £358 £220 £234
25th Percentile £409 £231 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £540 £613 £540
90th Percentile £688 £675 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £425 £432
% change year-on-year +5.88% -1.62% -9.05%

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
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

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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 27 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 -45 6 £525 -16.00% 4
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:

Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) IPsec
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) RDBMS
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) PyCharm
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) NumPy
1 4 (57.14%) Pandas
1 4 (57.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
1 4 (57.14%) Online Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 1 (14.29%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) Application Security
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) Conversational UI
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Data Munging
1 4 (57.14%) Data Science
1 4 (57.14%) Data Security
1 4 (57.14%) Deep Learning
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (57.14%) Pattern Matching
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Vision
2 3 (42.86%) Image Processing
2 3 (42.86%) LLM
2 3 (42.86%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow