Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £413, 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 59 72 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 33 28 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.24% 1.66% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.44% 1.81% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 31
10th Percentile £263 £319 £300
25th Percentile £350 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £415 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -2.35% +6.92%
75th Percentile £575 £502 £544
90th Percentile - £575 £638
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +21 23 £538 +19.44% 13
South Yorkshire +11 8 £425 +25.00% 2
North Yorkshire +6 2 £357 -4.93% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

1 33 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (60.61%) Windows
3 19 (57.58%) Active Directory
4 16 (48.48%) Windows Server
5 15 (45.45%) Cisco
6 14 (42.42%) Agile
6 14 (42.42%) Security Cleared
7 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
7 13 (39.39%) Linux
8 12 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (33.33%) Bash
9 11 (33.33%) Azure
9 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
10 10 (30.30%) SQL
10 10 (30.30%) DNS
10 10 (30.30%) Oracle
10 10 (30.30%) Oracle Database
11 9 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (27.27%) PL/SQL
11 9 (27.27%) Migration
11 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (24.24%) Security Management
12 8 (24.24%) Perl
12 8 (24.24%) SOA
12 8 (24.24%) VMware
12 8 (24.24%) Microservices
12 8 (24.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
13 7 (21.21%) Social Skills

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (24.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) IaaS
4 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) Network Security
2 3 (9.09%) SAN
3 2 (6.06%) NAS
3 2 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (6.06%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.03%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) Selenium
4 1 (3.03%) TestNG
4 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.06%) Local Government
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) REST
1 2 (6.06%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
2 1 (3.03%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.03%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) Windows Server
3 13 (39.39%) Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (42.42%) Agile
3 9 (27.27%) Migration
3 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) Microservices
4 8 (24.24%) Security Management
4 8 (24.24%) SOA
5 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
6 6 (18.18%) Server Management
7 5 (15.15%) Incident Management
7 5 (15.15%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 3 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (6.06%) Data Protection
10 2 (6.06%) IT Strategy
10 2 (6.06%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Bash
1 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 10 (30.30%) SQL
3 9 (27.27%) PL/SQL
4 8 (24.24%) Perl
5 4 (12.12%) Groovy
5 4 (12.12%) Python
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.06%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 3 (9.09%) vSphere
5 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Ansible
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.09%) vRealize
3 2 (6.06%) SCCM
3 2 (6.06%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.03%) Puppet
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Cisco
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle
3 8 (24.24%) VMware
4 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.12%) Atlassian
5 4 (12.12%) Meraki
5 4 (12.12%) Veeam
6 2 (6.06%) HP
6 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.03%) 3PAR
7 1 (3.03%) Aruba
7 1 (3.03%) Brocade
7 1 (3.03%) EMC
7 1 (3.03%) Kaseya