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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 57 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 73 23 53
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.63% 2.52% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 2.86% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 17 38
10th Percentile - £263 £313
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £390
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +34.62% -17.89%
75th Percentile £524 £575 £500
90th Percentile £688 £585 £513
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £22.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £63.14 £46.18
% change year-on-year -46.15% +36.73% -21.85%

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 1,793 805 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.07% 88.36% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 492 1,015
10th Percentile £304 £232 £263
25th Percentile £403 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £668
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 20 49
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.93 £11.09
25th Percentile £15.19 £16.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.27 £25.00 £15.23
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +64.15% +43.27%
75th Percentile £51.06 £39.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.93 £97.18 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -25 35 £500 - 8
West Yorkshire -25 15 £425 -22.73% 12
North Yorkshire +4 11 £350 -0.14% 11
East Yorkshire - 10 £350 -
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 11 (15.07%) TPMS
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) OpenShift
2 12 (16.44%) Azure
3 9 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.22%) AWS
5 5 (6.85%) GCP
6 4 (5.48%) PaaS
7 3 (4.11%) Apigee
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (4.11%) IaaS
8 2 (2.74%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.74%) SaaS
9 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.44%) SSL
2 11 (15.07%) SNMP
2 11 (15.07%) SSH
3 10 (13.70%) SAN
4 8 (10.96%) Fibre Channel
4 8 (10.96%) iSCSI
4 8 (10.96%) NAS
5 5 (6.85%) Firewall
5 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.11%) VLAN
7 2 (2.74%) DNS
7 2 (2.74%) LAN
7 2 (2.74%) WAN
7 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.37%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.37%) DHCP
8 1 (1.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.74%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) GitLab
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Finance
3 12 (16.44%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (57.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.07%) Cryptography Engineer
3 4 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (4.11%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (4.11%) IT Engineer
4 3 (4.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
4 3 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Specialist
5 2 (2.74%) Coordinator
5 2 (2.74%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (2.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) Senior
5 2 (2.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) OpenAPI
1 3 (4.11%) REST
1 3 (4.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 8 (10.96%) Replication
3 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) CMDB
4 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.74%) PKI
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) CCTV
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.14%) Windows
2 15 (20.55%) Linux
3 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.48%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) Migration
1 16 (21.92%) Roadmaps
2 15 (20.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (19.18%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (19.18%) Observability
4 13 (17.81%) High Availability
4 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.44%) CI/CD
5 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
5 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (15.07%) Cryptography
6 11 (15.07%) Data Security
6 11 (15.07%) OWASP
7 10 (13.70%) DevOps
7 10 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (10.96%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (10.96%) Change Management
9 8 (10.96%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) Python
2 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.22%) Bash
4 3 (4.11%) Groovy
5 1 (1.37%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) FFIEC
2 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) CISM
4 2 (2.74%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) GDPR
1 13 (17.81%) PCI DSS
2 11 (15.07%) GLBA
2 11 (15.07%) NIST
3 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) COBIT
4 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) NFS
1 8 (10.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.74%) vSphere
5 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.44%) Terraform
3 9 (12.33%) Ansible
4 3 (4.11%) Istio
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.74%) vRealize
5 2 (2.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (1.37%) Grafana
6 1 (1.37%) SCCM
6 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
1 12 (16.44%) Splunk
1 12 (16.44%) VMware
2 10 (13.70%) Thales
3 8 (10.96%) NetApp
4 5 (6.85%) EMC
4 5 (6.85%) IBM
5 4 (5.48%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.48%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.48%) Pure Storage
5 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.11%) F5
6 3 (4.11%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) Veeam
7 2 (2.74%) Adobe
7 2 (2.74%) Aruba
7 2 (2.74%) Cisco
7 2 (2.74%) HP
7 2 (2.74%) Meraki
8 1 (1.37%) Dell