Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Management
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 9 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.16% - 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% - 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £365 £650
% change year-on-year +36.99% -43.85% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Management 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 737 308 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.34% 91.94% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 178 260
10th Percentile £316 £213 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £515 £539
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -4.41% +2.62%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Management
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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 - 9 £525 - 1
Infrastructure Management
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Management
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 1 (11.11%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Administrator
1 4 (44.44%) VMWare Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Security Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Server Management
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) OCP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) Pure Storage