Shadow IT Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Shadow IT
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Shadow IT in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Shadow IT over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Shadow IT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

Shadow IT 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 390 134 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 45.77% 49.26% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 88 93
10th Percentile £363 £209 £360
25th Percentile £435 £247 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £588
90th Percentile £686 £650 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £477 £448
% change year-on-year +4.82% +6.59% -14.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £11.75 £10.97
Median hourly rate £18.01 £13.50 £12.73
Median % change year-on-year +33.37% +6.09% +19.71%
75th Percentile £19.01 £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £16.11
% change year-on-year -45.03% +140.53% +51.55%

Shadow IT
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 Shadow IT within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 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 - 1 - -
Shadow IT
Yorkshire

Shadow IT
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Records Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft