Onboarding Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Onboarding
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 29 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.27% - 1.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.95% - 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 0 2
10th Percentile £278 - £439
25th Percentile £403 - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.64%
75th Percentile £538 - £653
90th Percentile £572 - £696
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £325 £425
% change year-on-year +51.69% -23.53% -8.60%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

Onboarding 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 324 144 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 47.72% 32.00% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 85 78
10th Percentile £318 £209 £279
25th Percentile £387 £300 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.44% -3.30%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £598
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.03 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -57.43% +87.71% +12.16%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in South Yorkshire

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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 - 29 £480 - 4
Onboarding
Yorkshire

Onboarding
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 5 (17.24%) Mule
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
1 12 (41.38%) Azure AKS
2 11 (37.93%) GCP
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
3 6 (20.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.69%) SaaS
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) JIRA
3 5 (17.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 9 (31.03%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 4 (13.79%) Service Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Product Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Product Owner
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Product Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Calypso Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.45%) IT Support
6 1 (3.45%) IT Support Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Machine Learning Developer
6 1 (3.45%) PMO Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Product Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Support Manager
6 1 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Hugging Face
1 6 (20.69%) JSON
1 6 (20.69%) OAuth
1 6 (20.69%) OAuth2
1 6 (20.69%) OpenCV
1 6 (20.69%) OpenID
1 6 (20.69%) PyTorch
1 6 (20.69%) Regular Expression
1 6 (20.69%) SAML
1 6 (20.69%) SpaCy
1 6 (20.69%) TensorFlow
2 2 (6.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.24%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.90%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 13 (44.83%) KYC
3 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
4 7 (24.14%) AI
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Generative AI
4 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
4 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (20.69%) Client Onboarding
5 6 (20.69%) Deep Learning
5 6 (20.69%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (20.69%) Identity Management
5 6 (20.69%) Image Processing
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (20.69%) Natural Language Processing
5 6 (20.69%) OCR
5 6 (20.69%) Open Source
5 6 (20.69%) Privileged Identity Management
5 6 (20.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) VCAP
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GRC
2 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 6 (20.69%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.90%) Ansible
5 1 (3.45%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Alibaba
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Calypso
4 1 (3.45%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) VMware