IaaS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing IaaS 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.46% - 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% - 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 230 125 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.01% 30.56% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 81 82
10th Percentile £305 £413 £400
25th Percentile £384 £481 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.63% +6.81%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £610
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £587
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.63% +6.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

IaaS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing IaaS

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On