Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 49 48
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 -20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.68% 1.35% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.50% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £435 £433 £624
25th Percentile £459 £444 £660
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £475 £720
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -34.03% +60.00%
75th Percentile £622 £522 -
90th Percentile £688 £543 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -2.78%

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 684 399 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.80% 89.66% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 203 226
10th Percentile £312 £220 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.48% +10.14%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £650
90th Percentile £638 £652 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £21.31
% change year-on-year +38.37% -15.22% +12.16%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

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 3 November 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 -22 12 £549 +15.58% 3
Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
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 3 (25.00%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) SNMP
1 3 (25.00%) SSH
1 3 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) NAS
2 2 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cryptography Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Server Migration Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Server Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) AS400
1 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) VMS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Data Security
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Observability
3 3 (25.00%) OWASP
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) FFIEC
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) GLBA
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
1 3 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Thales
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow