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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 88 80
Rank change year-on-year +34 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 113 39 22
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.98% 2.33% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 2.59% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 15
10th Percentile £318 £354 £350
25th Percentile £358 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £650 £599 £500
90th Percentile £840 £668 £540
England median daily rate £550 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.68% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £25.17 - -
25th Percentile £25.42 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £52.50
75th Percentile £26.92 - £56.25
90th Percentile £27.57 - -
England median hourly rate £71.74 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +124.20% -54.29% -

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 2,374 1,504 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.53% 90.01% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 977 727
10th Percentile £338 £246 £295
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £651
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 52 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £17.48 -
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.87 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.04 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +33.05% -11.70%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.15 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £78.38 £49.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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
South Yorkshire +1 38 £500 -16.67% 15
West Yorkshire -8 38 £508 +1.50% 39
North Yorkshire - 7 £900 - 3
East Yorkshire - 2 £338 - 7
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 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.58%) Azure
2 17 (15.04%) GitHub
3 14 (12.39%) IaaS
4 11 (9.73%) AWS
5 10 (8.85%) GCP
6 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.31%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.65%) OCI
10 3 (2.65%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.65%) SaaS
10 3 (2.65%) Serverless
11 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.77%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.77%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (1.77%) PaaS
11 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (27.43%) Firewall
2 14 (12.39%) BIG-IP
2 14 (12.39%) DNS
3 13 (11.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 10 (8.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 10 (8.85%) SAN
5 9 (7.96%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.31%) VLAN
7 5 (4.42%) Network Security
8 4 (3.54%) WAN
9 3 (2.65%) BGP
9 3 (2.65%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (2.65%) OSPF
9 3 (2.65%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.65%) VXLAN
9 3 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.65%) WLAN
10 2 (1.77%) SNMP
10 2 (1.77%) SSL
11 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (18.58%) JIRA
2 17 (15.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.54%) Git
3 4 (3.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Liquibase
General
1 14 (12.39%) Finance
2 12 (10.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.42%) Law
4 4 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.54%) Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Retail
7 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 69 (61.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (18.58%) Senior
3 12 (10.62%) Data Centre Engineer
3 12 (10.62%) Lead
4 11 (9.73%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Network Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Technical Leader
9 4 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Site Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.58%) Terraform
2 9 (7.96%) Kafka
3 2 (1.77%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.77%) Laravel
3 2 (1.77%) Symfony
4 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.88%) Redfish
4 1 (0.88%) RESTful
4 1 (0.88%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 50 (44.25%) Data Centre
2 15 (13.27%) Enterprise Storage
3 12 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.62%) Onboarding
4 11 (9.73%) Cloud Native
5 8 (7.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.19%) Private Cloud
7 5 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (4.42%) Public Cloud
7 5 (4.42%) Replication
8 4 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.54%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.65%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.77%) PKI
10 2 (1.77%) SCADA
11 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.70%) Linux
2 16 (14.16%) Windows
3 8 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.42%) VMS
5 2 (1.77%) Android
5 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.88%) Check Point GAiA
6 1 (0.88%) Unix
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.74%) CI/CD
2 28 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (22.12%) DevOps
4 22 (19.47%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (17.70%) Observability
6 19 (16.81%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (15.04%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (14.16%) Agile
8 16 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (12.39%) Validation
11 12 (10.62%) Roadmaps
11 12 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (9.73%) High Availability
12 11 (9.73%) Vulnerability Management
13 10 (8.85%) Change Management
13 10 (8.85%) Data Protection
13 10 (8.85%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (8.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.78%) Python
2 16 (14.16%) PowerShell
3 14 (12.39%) Bash
4 10 (8.85%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.77%) Bicep
5 2 (1.77%) PHP
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) Degree
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.77%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) CCNA
5 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.77%) ECDL
5 2 (1.77%) MCSE
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.77%) PMP
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.77%) GRC
1 2 (1.77%) IASME
2 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (33.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (9.73%) vSphere
3 10 (8.85%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (7.96%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
5 7 (6.19%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.31%) oVirt
7 2 (1.77%) NDS
7 2 (1.77%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 2 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.88%) Docker
8 1 (0.88%) Firmware
8 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (22.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.08%) Ansible
3 4 (3.54%) Grafana
3 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.77%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (1.77%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (1.77%) Nessus
5 2 (1.77%) VxRail
6 1 (0.88%) Control-M
6 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.88%) Packer
6 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.88%) vMotion
Vendors
1 39 (34.51%) VMware
2 18 (15.93%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.39%) F5
4 9 (7.96%) Juniper
5 8 (7.08%) Dell
6 7 (6.19%) Google
7 6 (5.31%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.42%) Cisco
8 5 (4.42%) NetApp
9 4 (3.54%) Aruba
10 3 (2.65%) Arista
10 3 (2.65%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.77%) Apple
11 2 (1.77%) Carbon Black
11 2 (1.77%) Citrix
11 2 (1.77%) Databricks
11 2 (1.77%) McAfee
11 2 (1.77%) Sophos
11 2 (1.77%) Tenable