Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 41 48
Rank change year-on-year -39 +7 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 9 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.16% 0.63% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.72% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £469 - £624
25th Percentile £522 £463 £660
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £720
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -34.03% +44.00%
75th Percentile £688 £488 -
90th Percentile £694 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £363 £394 £438
% change year-on-year -7.94% -10.00% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 697 276 392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 86.52% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 164 243
10th Percentile £316 £194 £353
25th Percentile £400 £347 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £596 £610
90th Percentile £622 £688 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -9.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £16.63
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £19.63
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £25.63
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £36.88
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.91% +5.58% -0.88%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 24 December 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 -37 8 £675 +42.11% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, Infrastructure 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 6 (66.67%) Splunk
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 5 (55.56%) Cryptography
4 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (55.56%) Data Security
4 5 (55.56%) FFIEC
4 5 (55.56%) GDPR
4 5 (55.56%) GLBA
4 5 (55.56%) NIST
4 5 (55.56%) Observability
4 5 (55.56%) OWASP
4 5 (55.56%) PCI DSS
4 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
4 5 (55.56%) SNMP
4 5 (55.56%) SSH
4 5 (55.56%) SSL
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (55.56%) TPMS
5 4 (44.44%) Thales
6 2 (22.22%) Ansible
6 2 (22.22%) Firewall
6 2 (22.22%) High Availability
7 1 (11.11%) AWS
7 1 (11.11%) Azure
7 1 (11.11%) Bash
7 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
7 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 1 (11.11%) Cisco

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (55.56%) TPMS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SNMP
1 5 (55.56%) SSH
1 5 (55.56%) SSL
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) NGFW
3 1 (11.11%) SMS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Cryptography
2 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) Observability
2 5 (55.56%) OWASP
2 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) KYC
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) FFIEC
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
1 5 (55.56%) GLBA
1 5 (55.56%) NIST
1 5 (55.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Splunk
2 4 (44.44%) Thales
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) VMware