Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £538, 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 39 60 69
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 23 17 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.20% 1.70% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.37% 1.83% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 27
10th Percentile £277 £331 £313
25th Percentile £383 £380 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% +5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £503 £544
90th Percentile £628 £575 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £415 £425
% change year-on-year -0.60% -2.35% +6.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 526 928 1,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 92.89% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 561 1,105
10th Percentile £255 £275 £327
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 15
10th Percentile £19.61 £11.75 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%
75th Percentile £55.29 £29.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £100.28 £53.75 £70.00
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Leeds +12 20 £550 +17.33% 12
Mirfield - 2 £275 -
Huddersfield - 1 £320 -
Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
3 14 (60.87%) Cisco
3 14 (60.87%) Windows
3 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
4 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
4 13 (56.52%) Windows Server
5 12 (52.17%) Linux
5 12 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (52.17%) Agile
6 10 (43.48%) Oracle
6 10 (43.48%) SQL
6 10 (43.48%) Bash
6 10 (43.48%) Oracle Database
7 9 (39.13%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
7 9 (39.13%) PL/SQL
7 9 (39.13%) DNS
8 8 (34.78%) SOA
8 8 (34.78%) Perl
8 8 (34.78%) Migration
8 8 (34.78%) Security Management
8 8 (34.78%) Azure
8 8 (34.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (34.78%) Microservices
9 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (26.09%) Server Management
10 6 (26.09%) IaaS
10 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (26.09%) Social Skills

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 8 (34.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (17.39%) Confluence
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) IaaS
4 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
1 4 (17.39%) ScriptRunner
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Local Government
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Windows Server
3 12 (52.17%) Linux
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (52.17%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Microservices
3 8 (34.78%) Migration
3 8 (34.78%) Security Management
3 8 (34.78%) SOA
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) Server Management
5 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
5 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
5 5 (21.74%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (17.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
8 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.70%) Proactive Management
8 2 (8.70%) Proactive Monitoring
9 1 (4.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Bash
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) PL/SQL
2 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
3 8 (34.78%) Perl
4 4 (17.39%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Cisco
2 10 (43.48%) Oracle
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 4 (17.39%) Atlassian
4 4 (17.39%) Meraki
4 4 (17.39%) Veeam
4 4 (17.39%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.35%) Aruba
6 1 (4.35%) HP