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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 61 75
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 124 54 25
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.30% 3.52% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 3.84% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 17
10th Percentile - £356 £328
25th Percentile £318 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £500
90th Percentile £656 £605 £553
England median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -1.48%
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 £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%

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 2,423 1,405 1,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.10% 91.59% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,463 880 772
10th Percentile £323 £263 £319
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 £575 £550 £581
90th Percentile £669 £625 £665
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 64 52
10th Percentile £14.55 £16.73 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.47 £12.45
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +59.63% -30.65%
75th Percentile £29.94 £25.15 £22.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £72.63 £38.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -9 51 £500 -2.44% 12
South Yorkshire -16 31 £540 +20.81% 8
North Yorkshire 0 9 £900 +148.28% 5
East Yorkshire - 2 £294 - 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 5 (4.03%) Confluence
2 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.97%) Azure
2 14 (11.29%) GitHub
3 11 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.06%) GCP
4 10 (8.06%) IaaS
5 9 (7.26%) AWS
6 8 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.23%) SaaS
9 3 (2.42%) OCI
9 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.61%) Google Compute Engine
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.81%) CloudBees
11 1 (0.81%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (23.39%) Firewall
2 14 (11.29%) SAN
3 11 (8.87%) BIG-IP
3 11 (8.87%) DNS
4 10 (8.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 8 (6.45%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (4.84%) VLAN
8 5 (4.03%) Network Security
9 4 (3.23%) iSCSI
9 4 (3.23%) WAN
10 3 (2.42%) BGP
10 3 (2.42%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (2.42%) OSPF
10 3 (2.42%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.42%) VXLAN
10 3 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.42%) WLAN
11 2 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.61%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (20.97%) JIRA
2 17 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.03%) Git
4 3 (2.42%) GitLab
General
1 17 (13.71%) Finance
2 15 (12.10%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.45%) Banking
4 5 (4.03%) Law
5 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (0.81%) Advertising
7 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 84 (67.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (14.52%) Senior
3 14 (11.29%) Data Centre Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Lead
6 8 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) GCP DevOps
8 5 (4.03%) Mobile Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Site Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.03%) Kafka
2 3 (2.42%) Middleware
3 2 (1.61%) Laravel
3 2 (1.61%) Symfony
4 1 (0.81%) Redfish
4 1 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 50 (40.32%) Data Centre
2 21 (16.94%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.65%) Replication
6 5 (4.03%) Mobile App
6 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.61%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.61%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.94%) Windows
2 17 (13.71%) Linux
3 10 (8.06%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.84%) Android
4 6 (4.84%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.03%) VMS
6 3 (2.42%) Unix
6 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.81%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.42%) CI/CD
2 29 (23.39%) DevOps
3 25 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (16.13%) Validation
5 17 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (12.10%) Observability
7 14 (11.29%) Agile
8 13 (10.48%) Migration
8 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (9.68%) High Availability
10 11 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (8.06%) Workflow
12 9 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.26%) Load Balancing
12 9 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (6.45%) Roadmaps
13 8 (6.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.97%) Python
2 16 (12.90%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.48%) Bash
4 7 (5.65%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.61%) PHP
5 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.81%) CCNA
4 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.81%) Degree
4 1 (0.81%) ECDL
4 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.81%) MCSE
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.61%) IASME
2 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (6.45%) vSphere
3 7 (5.65%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.61%) NFS
5 2 (1.61%) SRDF
6 1 (0.81%) Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) NDS
6 1 (0.81%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 1 (0.81%) oVirt
6 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (15.32%) Terraform
2 14 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.68%) Ansible
4 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.42%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.42%) Puppet
6 2 (1.61%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.61%) Grafana
6 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.81%) Control-M
7 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.81%) Packer
7 1 (0.81%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.81%) vMotion
7 1 (0.81%) vRealize
7 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (24.19%) VMware
2 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.48%) Juniper
4 12 (9.68%) F5
5 9 (7.26%) Dell
6 8 (6.45%) Google
7 7 (5.65%) Cisco
8 6 (4.84%) Aruba
9 5 (4.03%) Apple
9 5 (4.03%) NetApp
9 5 (4.03%) Palo Alto
10 4 (3.23%) HP
11 3 (2.42%) Arista
12 2 (1.61%) Broadcom
12 2 (1.61%) Citrix
12 2 (1.61%) Pure Storage
12 2 (1.61%) Sophos
12 2 (1.61%) TOWER Software
13 1 (0.81%) Brocade
13 1 (0.81%) CheckPoint