Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 50 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.22% 1.31% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 1.47% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £385 - £363
25th Percentile £399 £320 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -43.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £598 £360 £700
90th Percentile £650 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +38.16% -10.59% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +13 12 £425 - 4
Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) TestNG
4 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Middleware
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) Migration
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Kanban
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) BDD
6 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
6 1 (8.33%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Groovy
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (25.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) vRealize
3 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) 3PAR
2 1 (8.33%) Brocade
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Confluent
2 1 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) HP