Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Infrastructure Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.82% 1.47% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.63% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £435 £433 £624
25th Percentile £459 £444 £660
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £475 £720
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -34.03% +60.00%
75th Percentile £622 £522 -
90th Percentile £688 £543 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £549 £475 £720
% change year-on-year +15.58% -34.03% +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 633 367 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.91% 89.73% 96.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 189 212
10th Percentile £313 £248 £376
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £520 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% -8.45% +8.19%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £636 £651 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £551
% change year-on-year -6.80% -6.48% +10.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Sheffield over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Sheffield

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) SNMP
1 3 (25.00%) SSH
1 3 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
2 2 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cryptography Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Server Migration Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Server Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) AS400
1 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) VMS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Data Security
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Observability
3 3 (25.00%) OWASP
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) FFIEC
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) GLBA
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
1 3 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Thales
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow