UK market Dataset last reviewed 2026-04-26

Sheffield career opportunity guide

Use this page to compare graduate and broader career prospects in Sheffield, including broad salary ranges, stronger industries, example roles, and CV positioning advice.

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Location snapshot

Graduate score

Career score

South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Graduate Map view

Sheffield graduate prospects

Salary range

£22k–£28k

Opportunity score

19/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE combined-authority earnings release

2024 earnings, published in the 4 November 2025 provisional release · Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Modern CV rounds checked-in ONS earnings percentiles into a broad public-facing band. Graduate Map bands use the published 30th percentile to median range as an early-career proxy.

Top industries: Healthcare, Manufacturing, Education, Business Services

Example roles: Graduate Engineer, Production Planner, Procurement Assistant, Quality Coordinator

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

Salary strength · 4/100 × 30% = 1.2 points
Raw input: 69/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release
Employment strength · 0/100 × 25% = 0 points
Raw input: 68/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release
Industry concentration · 25/100 × 20% = 5 points
Raw input: 72/100 · ONS BRES region by broad industry group, 2024 provisional
Role diversity · 80/100 × 15% = 12 points
Raw input: 85/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release
Graduate friendliness · 4/100 × 10% = 0.4 points
Raw input: 69/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release

CV tip

Bring technical projects, software tools, and operational detail into the top third of the CV.

Career Map view

Sheffield wider career market

Salary range

£28k–£38k

Opportunity score

24/100

Salary band reference

ONS ASHE combined-authority earnings release

2024 earnings, published in the 4 November 2025 provisional release · Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Modern CV rounds checked-in ONS earnings percentiles into a broad public-facing band. Career Map bands use the published median to 75th percentile range for broader career positioning.

Top industries: Manufacturing, Business Services, Healthcare, Professional Services

Example roles: Mechanical Engineer, Operations Planner, Supply Chain Analyst, Procurement Manager

Score maths

Formula: final score = sum of each component's normalised value × its weight.

Salary strength · 0/100 × 30% = 0 points
Raw input: 70/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release
Employment strength · 0/100 × 25% = 0 points
Raw input: 68/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release
Industry concentration · 58/100 × 20% = 11.6 points
Raw input: 80/100 · ONS BRES region by broad industry group, 2024 provisional
Role diversity · 80/100 × 15% = 12 points
Raw input: 85/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release
Graduate friendliness · 0/100 × 10% = 0 points
Raw input: 65/100 · ONS ASHE earnings release

CV tip

Use clear process metrics, production improvements, and technical ownership to stand out in applied industrial roles.

Data sources and methodology

Career opportunity scores and salary ranges are editorial estimates derived from public labour market datasets and curated role research. They are not live job counts and should be treated as indicative.

This location dataset was refreshed against current official source pages reviewed on 2026-04-26. For expanded UK coverage, salary bands and most score inputs are derived from checked-in ONS ASHE earnings files, while UK industry themes are derived from the official ONS BRES region-by-broad-industry workbook and then lightly grouped by Modern CV into reader-friendly labels.

What comes from where

Official source-backed: the salary reference, most UK score inputs, and UK broad-industry inputs come from checked-in ONS releases.
Derived by Modern CV: the final score, salary band, and UK display industry labels are calculated or grouped from those source files and rounded for readability.
Editorial by Modern CV: example roles, CV tips, and Europe-side industry summaries are guidance content rather than official statistics.

ONS BRES region by broad industry group, 2024 provisional

Top UK industry themes for South Yorkshire are derived from the official ONS BRES 2024 provisional region-by-broad-industry table for Yorkshire and The Humber, because a matching checked-in city or combined-authority industry table is not currently used in this project.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

ONS ASHE combined authorities, 2025 provisional

Used for checked-in median, mean, jobs volume, and percentile context by combined authority or wider geography where available. Release date 4 November 2025.

Office for National Statistics content reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where applicable.

Office for Students student outcomes data dashboard

Retained in the project as the official graduate outcomes source for future provider-level expansion. Current UK graduate-map scores rely primarily on checked-in ONS earnings and jobs-volume proxies where city-level graduate outcomes are not published in a matching geography.

Office for Students official statistics, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.

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