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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 48 78
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 -12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 119 58 27
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.18% 4.19% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.55% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 35 21
10th Percentile - £363 £320
25th Percentile £318 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £500
90th Percentile £656 £599 £575
England median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £58.69
% change year-on-year -5.79% +31.20% -19.05%

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 2,429 1,274 1,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.32% 91.99% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,471 789 846
10th Percentile £325 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £577
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 60 56
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.13 -
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.29 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +61.78% -31.58%
75th Percentile £31.50 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £30.68 £51.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -13 56 £490 -6.67% 15
South Yorkshire -30 25 £500 +11.86% 6
North Yorkshire -7 7 £900 +102.82% 1
East Yorkshire - 4 £338 - 5
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 (4.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.49%) Azure
2 17 (14.29%) GitHub
3 14 (11.76%) GCP
4 11 (9.24%) IaaS
5 8 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.04%) AWS
7 6 (5.04%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.36%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.36%) SaaS
9 3 (2.52%) Apigee
9 3 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.52%) OCI
10 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.68%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.68%) PaaS
11 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.84%) CloudBees
11 1 (0.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.53%) Firewall
2 15 (12.61%) SAN
3 12 (10.08%) BIG-IP
4 11 (9.24%) DNS
4 11 (9.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
6 8 (6.72%) VLAN
7 7 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (5.04%) Network Security
9 4 (3.36%) iSCSI
10 3 (2.52%) BGP
10 3 (2.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (2.52%) OSPF
10 3 (2.52%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.52%) VXLAN
10 3 (2.52%) WAN
10 3 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.52%) WLAN
11 2 (1.68%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (22.69%) JIRA
2 21 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.52%) Git
3 3 (2.52%) GitLab
General
1 17 (14.29%) Finance
2 13 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.56%) Banking
4 4 (3.36%) Military
5 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Advertising
7 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.84%) Legal
7 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (66.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (15.13%) Senior
3 14 (11.76%) Data Centre Engineer
4 13 (10.92%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Lead
7 6 (5.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) GCP DevOps
8 5 (4.20%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Mobile Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.36%) REST
2 3 (2.52%) Kafka
2 3 (2.52%) Middleware
2 3 (2.52%) OpenAPI
2 3 (2.52%) Swagger
3 2 (1.68%) Laravel
3 2 (1.68%) Symfony
4 1 (0.84%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 49 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 19 (15.97%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
5 5 (4.20%) Replication
6 4 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.68%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.84%) IoT
8 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.97%) Windows
2 14 (11.76%) Linux
3 8 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.04%) Android
4 6 (5.04%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.52%) Unix
7 3 (2.52%) VMS
8 1 (0.84%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.89%) CI/CD
2 29 (24.37%) DevOps
3 21 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (16.81%) Validation
5 15 (12.61%) Agile
6 13 (10.92%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (9.24%) Observability
9 10 (8.40%) High Availability
9 10 (8.40%) Migration
9 10 (8.40%) Workflow
10 9 (7.56%) Cloud Security
10 9 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (6.72%) Load Balancing
11 8 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (6.72%) Zero Trust
12 7 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (5.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (5.04%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.69%) Python
2 18 (15.13%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.92%) Bash
4 8 (6.72%) ActionScript
5 3 (2.52%) Groovy
6 2 (1.68%) PHP
6 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.36%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 23 (19.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.04%) vSphere
4 2 (1.68%) NFS
4 2 (1.68%) SRDF
5 1 (0.84%) Firmware
5 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.84%) oVirt
5 1 (0.84%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (15.13%) Terraform
2 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.56%) Ansible
4 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.52%) Istio
5 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.52%) Puppet
6 2 (1.68%) Grafana
6 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.84%) Control-M
7 1 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.84%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.84%) Packer
7 1 (0.84%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.84%) vRealize
7 1 (0.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (21.85%) VMware
2 17 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.76%) F5
4 13 (10.92%) Juniper
5 11 (9.24%) Google
6 7 (5.88%) Aruba
6 7 (5.88%) NetApp
7 6 (5.04%) Dell
7 6 (5.04%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.20%) Apple
8 5 (4.20%) Cisco
8 5 (4.20%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.36%) HP
10 3 (2.52%) Arista
10 3 (2.52%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.52%) Pure Storage
11 2 (1.68%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.68%) Citrix
11 2 (1.68%) Veeam