IT Manager Contracts in Sheffield

IT Manager
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median IT Manager daily rate in Sheffield is £370, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 5 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.88% 2.20% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 2.50% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £304 £351 £368
25th Percentile £343 £398 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £413 £500 £519
90th Percentile £480 - £553
South Yorkshire median daily rate £370 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -22.11% -13.64% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 517 360 357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 87.80% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 211 241
10th Percentile £290 £386 £388
25th Percentile £375 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £688
90th Percentile £613 £628 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -9.53% -6.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £15.88 £11.51
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £12.28
Median hourly rate £18.35 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £20.00
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £21.65
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +7.69% +2.63%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured IT Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in Sheffield

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in Sheffield

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in Sheffield

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in Sheffield

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, IT Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) PMO
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (40.00%) Budget Management
3 2 (40.00%) Budgeting
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Project Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (40.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) XenApp
1 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Veeam