Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 51 53
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 8 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.14% 1.09% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 1.20% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £534
25th Percentile £385 £320 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £700
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -51.43% +59.64%
75th Percentile £650 £360 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £415 £425
% change year-on-year -0.60% -2.35% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 8 £425 - 3
Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) JIRA
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (50.00%) Groovy
4 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) Confluence
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Ansible
4 4 (50.00%) IaaS
4 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (25.00%) SAN
6 2 (25.00%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) vRealize
6 2 (25.00%) Git
6 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (25.00%) RESTful
7 1 (12.50%) Social Skills

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) TestNG
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) BDD
6 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Groovy
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) vRealize
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) 3PAR
3 1 (12.50%) Brocade
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) EMC
3 1 (12.50%) HP