Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Infrastructure Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.25% - 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% - 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £650
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Infrastructure Management 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 689 283 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.56% 91.88% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 161 235
10th Percentile £317 £220 £385
25th Percentile £400 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £620 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Infrastructure Management
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 1 (11.11%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Administrator
1 4 (44.44%) VMWare Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Security Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Server Management
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) OCP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) Pure Storage