Zemax Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Zemax
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Zemax skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zemax 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.091% - -
As % of the Applications category 1.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Software Application Skills
South Yorkshire

Zemax falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 62 47 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.66% 12.77% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 10
10th Percentile £343 - £165
25th Percentile £373 £150 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £232 £225
Median % change year-on-year +83.19% +3.11% -52.63%
75th Percentile £478 £447 £346
90th Percentile £606 £519 £384
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £300 £300
% change year-on-year +41.67% - -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - +42.78% -
75th Percentile - £18.41 £12.88
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £23.01 £13.50
% change year-on-year -38.06% +70.41% -50.46%

Zemax
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 Zemax within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 £500 -
Zemax
Yorkshire

Zemax
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ANSYS