Senior Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Senior
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior daily rate in Sheffield is £496, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 32 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 47 22 35
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 7.15% 5.38% 10.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.90% 6.23% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 22
10th Percentile £343 £495 £406
25th Percentile £400 £500 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £720
90th Percentile £892 £623 £871
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £558 £650
% change year-on-year -10.31% -14.23% +19.54%

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 595 353 302
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 86.31% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 188 204
10th Percentile £313 £259 £366
25th Percentile £400 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £534 £551
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -3.03% +4.89%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £612 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -8.81% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.14 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £18.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £24.02 - £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.23% +6.58%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sheffield

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Sheffield

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Sheffield

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 27 (57.45%) DevOps
1 27 (57.45%) Python
2 26 (55.32%) Jenkins
3 25 (53.19%) Ansible
4 23 (48.94%) Agile
5 20 (42.55%) Linux
6 17 (36.17%) AWS
6 17 (36.17%) Terraform
7 15 (31.91%) GCP
7 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
8 14 (29.79%) Cost Optimisation
8 14 (29.79%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (29.79%) Go
8 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (29.79%) Software Engineering
9 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
9 13 (27.66%) Docker
9 13 (27.66%) Liquibase
9 13 (27.66%) Microservices
9 13 (27.66%) VMware
10 12 (25.53%) Change Management
10 12 (25.53%) Configuration Management
10 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
10 12 (25.53%) Degree
10 12 (25.53%) Firewall
10 12 (25.53%) Grafana
10 12 (25.53%) MuleSoft
10 12 (25.53%) Postman
10 12 (25.53%) Puppet
10 12 (25.53%) TCP/IP

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) AWS
2 15 (31.91%) GCP
3 10 (21.28%) Serverless
4 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.38%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.26%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.26%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.13%) Azure
6 1 (2.13%) Figma
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.53%) Firewall
1 12 (25.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.38%) Data Mining
3 3 (6.38%) Power BI
4 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (55.32%) Jenkins
2 13 (27.66%) Liquibase
3 12 (25.53%) Postman
4 11 (23.40%) GitLab
5 9 (19.15%) Git
6 3 (6.38%) JIRA
7 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.13%) Selenium
7 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.13%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (63.83%) Finance
2 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
3 16 (34.04%) Banking
4 10 (21.28%) Financial Institution
5 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Elastic Stack
1 11 (23.40%) REST
2 10 (21.28%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) Jest
3 1 (2.13%) Kafka
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
3 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (38.30%) Public Cloud
2 13 (27.66%) Cloud Native
3 11 (23.40%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
5 4 (8.51%) Mainframe
6 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.13%) Derivative
7 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.13%) Equities
7 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.13%) FMCG
7 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.13%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 20 (42.55%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) AIX
3 3 (6.38%) Solaris
3 3 (6.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) CentOS
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.13%) SUSE
4 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) DevOps
2 23 (48.94%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) Cost Optimisation
3 14 (29.79%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (29.79%) Software Engineering
4 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
4 13 (27.66%) Microservices
5 12 (25.53%) Change Management
5 12 (25.53%) Configuration Management
5 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 11 (23.40%) Computer Science
6 11 (23.40%) Continuous Delivery
6 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (23.40%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (21.28%) Cryptography
7 10 (21.28%) Data Management
7 10 (21.28%) High Availability
7 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (21.28%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) Python
2 14 (29.79%) Go
3 7 (14.89%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) SQL
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Degree
2 11 (23.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (23.40%) Master's Degree
3 6 (12.77%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.13%) CISSP
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Docker
2 12 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (53.19%) Ansible
2 17 (36.17%) Terraform
3 15 (31.91%) Kubernetes
4 12 (25.53%) Grafana
4 12 (25.53%) Puppet
5 11 (23.40%) Prometheus
6 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (12.77%) SCCM
8 1 (2.13%) Argo
8 1 (2.13%) Packer
8 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) VMware
2 12 (25.53%) MuleSoft
3 11 (23.40%) Splunk
4 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
5 7 (14.89%) Google
6 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle
8 1 (2.13%) Pure Storage