Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Synthetic Data
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.100% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

Synthetic Data 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 438 137 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.67% 38.70% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 90 85
10th Percentile £353 £297 £345
25th Percentile £424 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.55%
75th Percentile £550 £609 £564
90th Percentile £673 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +3.90% +6.94% -14.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 - £11.04
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.18%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £55.00 £36.91 £14.63
% change year-on-year +49.03% +152.34% +37.58%

Synthetic Data
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 Synthetic Data within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 April 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 - -
Synthetic Data
Yorkshire

Synthetic Data
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk