Senior Design Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Senior Design Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior Design Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 957 511 366
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 91.25% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 347 213
10th Percentile £363 £294 £382
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -10.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £627
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £465 £514
% change year-on-year +7.53% -9.53% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 6
10th Percentile - - £15.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.10 £20.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £18.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.52% -12.61% +10.53%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.50 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.40 £18.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.52% -12.61% +7.69%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Design Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Senior Design Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, Senior Design Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
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