Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 58 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 -19 +17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 17 10 39
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.88% 1.39% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.61% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 35
10th Percentile £293 £363 £311
25th Percentile £350 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £415
Median % change year-on-year - +20.48% -12.63%
75th Percentile - £525 £506
90th Percentile £516 £625 £565
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +2.53% +18.75% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +133.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 776 623 1,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.94% 86.77% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 388 689
10th Percentile £286 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -3.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £15.97 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Leeds -3 14 £500 - 12
Huddersfield - 2 - -
Bradford -6 1 £325 -13.33% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) OCI
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Akamai
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Implementation Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Security
3 1 (5.88%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Implementation Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Project Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) CCTV
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Security Hardening
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Dependency Management
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (11.76%) Runbook
4 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (11.76%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) COBIT
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM
3 2 (11.76%) vRealize
3 2 (11.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
3 2 (11.76%) Dell
3 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.76%) F5
3 2 (11.76%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) OpenAI