Small office space to rent in Sheffield from £239/month

The cheapest way in is a virtual office at £89/month, which gives a business a Sheffield address without any desk at all. It suits a sole trader who works from home but wants post and a registered address kept away from the kitchen table.

If you need somewhere to sit, a hot desk by the month starts at £229/month, only a little below the cheapest private office. You get a seat in the shared floor rather than a room of your own, so it fits one person who is happy working alongside others and does not need to leave papers or kit behind a locked door.

A day pass from £29/day is the route for someone who comes into town now and then and would rather pay per visit than commit to a month.

The private office earns its slightly higher price once there is a small team: a lockable room means confidential calls, a shared screen and a space that is yours each morning. Because the monthly gap to a hot desk is so narrow, two or three people who would each take a desk usually get more for their money sharing one room. The full Sheffield price guide sets every option side by side.

Yes: a day office is a private room booked for a single day, and in Sheffield it runs from £75/day to £85/day. It suits someone who works remotely most of the week but needs a closed door for a client meeting, an interview day or a workshop with a colleague.

Set against the monthly private office, whose plan comes to £9/day, the day office costs far more per day, so it only makes sense when the room is needed rarely. Once you find yourself booking one regularly, the monthly room is the better deal, and it also gives you the same space every time rather than whichever room is free.

A business lounge, from £25/day, sits in between: a quieter, more polished place to work for the day without a room of your own, handy for a visiting consultant who needs calm rather than privacy.

Spaces Acero and Spaces Pennine Five are the two Sheffield centres that price private offices by the month. Both are open 24/7, so a small team renting a room can come in early before a deadline, stay late for calls with another time zone or work at the weekend without asking anyone.

Both centres also offer the cheaper options around the private office, so a business can start on hot desks or a virtual address and move into a room under the same roof as it grows, without changing address or routine. That makes either a sensible base for a firm that expects to add people over the next few months.

The choice between them comes down to which suits your team's commute and the room sizes on offer at the time. The private offices in Sheffield page lists what each centre rents.