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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 124 59 23
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.33% 3.88% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 4.24% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 35 16
10th Percentile - £353 £316
25th Percentile £318 £396 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £500
90th Percentile £648 £599 £538
England median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -2.44%
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 £72.54 £54.88 £67.50
% change year-on-year +32.19% -18.70% -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 2,407 1,393 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.07% 91.58% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 869 770
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
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 £580
90th Percentile £666 £618 £655
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 63 49
10th Percentile £15.03 £16.65 -
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.43 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +64.00% -32.50%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £71.89 £36.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 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 10 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 -10 54 £425 -19.05% 17
South Yorkshire -18 28 £500 +11.86% 7
North Yorkshire +1 9 £900 +102.82% 2
East Yorkshire - 3 £313 - 6
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 16 (12.90%) GitHub
3 13 (10.48%) GCP
4 11 (8.87%) IaaS
4 11 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.45%) AWS
5 8 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.23%) SaaS
8 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.42%) OCI
8 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.61%) Apigee
9 2 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.61%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.61%) PaaS
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.81%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (24.19%) Firewall
2 14 (11.29%) SAN
3 11 (8.87%) BIG-IP
4 10 (8.06%) DNS
4 10 (8.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 9 (7.26%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 7 (5.65%) VLAN
7 5 (4.03%) Network Security
8 4 (3.23%) iSCSI
8 4 (3.23%) WAN
9 3 (2.42%) BGP
9 3 (2.42%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (2.42%) OSPF
9 3 (2.42%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.42%) VXLAN
9 3 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.42%) WLAN
10 2 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
10 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 20 (16.13%) 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 4 (3.23%) 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
7 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (66.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (14.52%) Senior
3 14 (11.29%) Data Centre Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Lead
6 8 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) GCP DevOps
9 5 (4.03%) Mobile Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Storage Engineer
11 3 (2.42%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.42%) Kafka
1 3 (2.42%) Middleware
1 3 (2.42%) REST
2 2 (1.61%) Laravel
2 2 (1.61%) OpenAPI
2 2 (1.61%) Swagger
2 2 (1.61%) Symfony
3 1 (0.81%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 50 (40.32%) Data Centre
2 20 (16.13%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (8.87%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.84%) Replication
6 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.03%) Mobile App
6 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.61%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.61%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.81%) IoT
9 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.94%) Windows
2 16 (12.90%) 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
6 4 (3.23%) VMS
7 3 (2.42%) Unix
7 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.81%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.61%) CI/CD
2 29 (23.39%) DevOps
3 23 (18.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (16.13%) Validation
5 15 (12.10%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (11.29%) Agile
7 13 (10.48%) Observability
7 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (9.68%) Migration
9 11 (8.87%) High Availability
10 10 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (8.06%) Load Balancing
10 10 (8.06%) Workflow
11 9 (7.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (6.45%) Cloud Security
12 8 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (6.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.77%) Python
2 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
3 14 (11.29%) Bash
4 7 (5.65%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.61%) Groovy
5 2 (1.61%) PHP
5 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.26%) 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%) DV Cleared
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 25 (20.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.65%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.65%) vSphere
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 20 (16.13%) Terraform
2 12 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.87%) 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%) Istio
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 27 (21.77%) VMware
2 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.48%) Juniper
4 12 (9.68%) F5
5 10 (8.06%) Google
6 8 (6.45%) Dell
7 7 (5.65%) Aruba
7 7 (5.65%) Cisco
8 5 (4.03%) Apple
8 5 (4.03%) NetApp
8 5 (4.03%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.23%) HP
10 3 (2.42%) Arista
10 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.61%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.61%) Citrix
11 2 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.61%) Pure Storage
11 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.61%) Sophos