Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 56 57
Rank change year-on-year +29 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 35 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.29% 2.26% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 2.60% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 33
10th Percentile £316 £312 £316
25th Percentile £423 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £415 £430
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -3.49% +1.18%
75th Percentile £575 £491 £618
90th Percentile £645 £575 £678
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +38.16% -10.59% +6.25%

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 512 845 1,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.09% 86.93% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 500 957
10th Percentile £273 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £625
90th Percentile £600 £651 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 19
10th Percentile - £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £31.45 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £34.46 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire

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 23 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 +25 32 £550 +22.22% 39
Mirfield - 2 £275 -
Huddersfield 0 1 £320 -14.67% 1
Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
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 15 (42.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (14.29%) Confluence
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.86%) nginx
5 1 (2.86%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
3 6 (17.14%) IaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.71%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (51.43%) DNS
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 3 (8.57%) Network Security
4 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.86%) LAN
5 1 (2.86%) VLAN
5 1 (2.86%) VPN
5 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (54.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.71%) Local Government
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Military
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (65.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 9 (25.71%) Engineering Specialist
4 7 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Senior
5 5 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Network Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) JIRA Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) cloud-init
1 1 (2.86%) Kafka
1 1 (2.86%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (68.57%) Windows
2 23 (65.71%) Linux
3 22 (62.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.71%) CentOS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 16 (45.71%) Microservices
2 16 (45.71%) Security Management
3 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (42.86%) SOA
4 14 (40.00%) Server Management
5 13 (37.14%) Migration
6 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 4 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (11.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (8.57%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security
10 2 (5.71%) Data Protection
10 2 (5.71%) DevOps
10 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
10 2 (5.71%) Proactive Management
10 2 (5.71%) Proactive Monitoring
10 2 (5.71%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Bash
2 19 (54.29%) PowerShell
2 19 (54.29%) SQL
3 17 (48.57%) Perl
3 17 (48.57%) PL/SQL
4 4 (11.43%) Groovy
5 3 (8.57%) Python
6 1 (2.86%) Go
6 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) NCSC
1 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) SCCM
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) Consul
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.86%) Istio
4 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.86%) linkerd
4 1 (2.86%) Packer
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Rancher
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.86%) vRealize
4 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (68.57%) Cisco
2 19 (54.29%) Oracle
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
4 4 (11.43%) Meraki
4 4 (11.43%) Veeam
4 4 (11.43%) VMware
5 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.86%) Apple
7 1 (2.86%) Aruba
7 1 (2.86%) ESET
7 1 (2.86%) HP
7 1 (2.86%) Okta
7 1 (2.86%) Splunk