Trainee Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Trainee
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Trainee salary in South Yorkshire is £32,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Trainee 28 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 1.74% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% - -
Number of salaries quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £35,000 £26,760 £22,000
% change year-on-year +30.79% +21.64% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,479 557 1,068
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 91.46% 93.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 393 757
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%

Trainee
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Trainee' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Trainee job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Trainee
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Trainee job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Trainee job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Trainee
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Trainee in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Trainee in South Yorkshire

Trainee
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Trainee within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 27 £30,500 - 20
Doncaster - 1 £37,500 - 3
Trainee
Yorkshire

Trainee Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 18 August 2026, Trainee job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Trainee in the job title.

1 11 (39.29%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (28.57%) Logistics
2 8 (28.57%) Postgraduate
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (21.43%) Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 6 (21.43%) Security Testing
4 6 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) AWS
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
6 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (10.71%) AI
7 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Chatbot
7 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (10.71%) Conversational UI
7 3 (10.71%) Data Privacy
7 3 (10.71%) Hugging Face
7 3 (10.71%) Jupyter
7 3 (10.71%) LLM
7 3 (10.71%) Machine Learning
7 3 (10.71%) Matplotlib

Trainee Skill Set
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 3 (10.71%) Jupyter
2 2 (7.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Data Mining
1 2 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (7.14%) Git
General
1 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Retail
4 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.71%) Multimedia
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Hugging Face
1 3 (10.71%) Matplotlib
1 3 (10.71%) NumPy
1 3 (10.71%) Pandas
1 3 (10.71%) scikit-learn
1 3 (10.71%) Streamlit
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (28.57%) Logistics
3 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (21.43%) Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 6 (21.43%) Security Testing
4 6 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
6 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (10.71%) AI
7 3 (10.71%) Data Privacy
7 3 (10.71%) Machine Learning
7 3 (10.71%) Neural Network
7 3 (10.71%) OO
7 3 (10.71%) OOP
7 3 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) R
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Postgraduate
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CEH
4 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Google