Pattern Matching Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Pattern Matching
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Pattern Matching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pattern Matching 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Pattern Matching 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 651 419 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.88% 89.34% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 216 256
10th Percentile £307 £228 £375
25th Percentile £389 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.04% +16.91%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

Pattern Matching
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 Pattern Matching within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 2 £525 -
Pattern Matching
Yorkshire

Pattern Matching
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 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) PyCharm
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Online Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared