Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 77 78
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 119 41 25
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.15% 2.66% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 2.93% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 22 17
10th Percentile £318 £359 £328
25th Percentile £328 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £581 £566 £500
90th Percentile £695 £645 £535
England median daily rate £549 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £26.06 - -
25th Percentile £26.38 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £26.92 - £52.50
75th Percentile £27.46 - £56.25
90th Percentile £27.78 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,393 1,398 1,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.41% 90.72% 83.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 889 771
10th Percentile £345 £262 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £584
90th Percentile £669 £625 £663
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 56 47
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +36.75% -19.05%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £42.75
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 2026. 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 +4 49 £500 - 30
South Yorkshire -19 30 £545 +25.00% 9
North Yorkshire 0 8 £900 +148.28% 3
East Yorkshire - 1 £313 - 4
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.84%) Apache
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.84%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.01%) Azure
2 15 (12.61%) GitHub
3 11 (9.24%) IaaS
3 11 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.56%) AWS
4 9 (7.56%) GCP
5 8 (6.72%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.36%) SaaS
8 3 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.52%) OCI
8 3 (2.52%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.68%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.84%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.84%) PaaS
10 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.69%) Firewall
2 12 (10.08%) BIG-IP
3 11 (9.24%) DNS
3 11 (9.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 11 (9.24%) SAN
4 8 (6.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 7 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.20%) VLAN
7 4 (3.36%) Network Security
7 4 (3.36%) WAN
8 3 (2.52%) BGP
8 3 (2.52%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (2.52%) OSPF
8 3 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.52%) VXLAN
8 3 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.52%) WLAN
9 2 (1.68%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.68%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.84%) Power BI
2 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (17.65%) JIRA
2 14 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.36%) Git
4 3 (2.52%) GitLab
General
1 14 (11.76%) Finance
2 11 (9.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.20%) Banking
3 5 (4.20%) Law
4 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Retail
6 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.84%) Legal
6 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 80 (67.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (18.49%) Senior
3 13 (10.92%) Data Centre Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) Lead
6 8 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Mobile Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (3.36%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Site Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.97%) Terraform
2 7 (5.88%) Kafka
3 2 (1.68%) Laravel
3 2 (1.68%) Symfony
4 1 (0.84%) Redfish
4 1 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 49 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 19 (15.97%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.88%) Replication
6 6 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
7 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.68%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.29%) Windows
2 15 (12.61%) Linux
3 9 (7.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.04%) Android
4 6 (5.04%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.20%) VMS
6 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.84%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.84%) Unix
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) CI/CD
2 27 (22.69%) DevOps
3 23 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (15.13%) Observability
4 18 (15.13%) Validation
5 17 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (10.08%) High Availability
9 11 (9.24%) Agile
9 11 (9.24%) Migration
9 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (6.72%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.72%) Zero Trust
12 7 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
12 7 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.17%) Python
2 16 (13.45%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.92%) Bash
4 8 (6.72%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.68%) PHP
5 2 (1.68%) SQL
6 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (5.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.84%) A+ Certification
3 1 (0.84%) CCNA
3 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.84%) Degree
3 1 (0.84%) ECDL
3 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.84%) MCSE
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.68%) IASME
2 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (25.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (6.72%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.04%) vSphere
4 5 (4.20%) oVirt
5 4 (3.36%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.68%) NFS
7 1 (0.84%) Firmware
7 1 (0.84%) NDS
7 1 (0.84%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (0.84%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.56%) Ansible
3 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.52%) Grafana
4 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.68%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.84%) Control-M
6 1 (0.84%) Packer
6 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.84%) vMotion
6 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (26.05%) VMware
2 21 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) F5
4 11 (9.24%) Juniper
5 7 (5.88%) Dell
5 7 (5.88%) Google
6 5 (4.20%) Apple
6 5 (4.20%) Cisco
6 5 (4.20%) NetApp
6 5 (4.20%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.36%) Aruba
8 3 (2.52%) Arista
9 2 (1.68%) Citrix
9 2 (1.68%) Databricks
9 2 (1.68%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.68%) Sophos
10 1 (0.84%) Brocade
10 1 (0.84%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.84%) HP
10 1 (0.84%) IBM