Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 82 65
Rank change year-on-year +36 -17 -18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 59 25 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.49% 1.46% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 1.73% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 37
10th Percentile £363 £319 £312
25th Percentile £409 £373 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +8.43% +2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £618
90th Percentile £599 £575 £658
England median daily rate £525 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £54.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +5.24% -24.31% +53.15%

All Process and 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 1,216 1,446 1,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.47% 84.22% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 870 1,279
10th Percentile £263 £287 £279
25th Percentile £381 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £624
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 68 58
10th Percentile £15.38 £11.62 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.39 £12.15 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.37 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year +65.66% -1.58% -27.38%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £21.31
90th Percentile £32.99 £50.25 £45.84
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Yorkshire

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 6 July 2025. 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 +32 41 £525 +10.53% 33
South Yorkshire +10 17 £540 +41.18% 8
North Yorkshire +10 2 £444 +31.48% 3
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (22.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.78%) Confluence
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) Azure
2 12 (20.34%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (15.25%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.86%) AWS
5 6 (10.17%) IaaS
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Akamai
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (1.69%) GCP
8 1 (1.69%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (30.51%) DNS
2 5 (8.47%) SAN
3 4 (6.78%) Firewall
3 4 (6.78%) NAS
4 2 (3.39%) Network Security
4 2 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.69%) LAN
5 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.69%) SSL
5 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.69%) VLAN
5 1 (1.69%) VPN
5 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.69%) MySQL
2 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) JIRA
3 4 (6.78%) Git
3 4 (6.78%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (5.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.69%) Log4j
5 1 (1.69%) Selenium
5 1 (1.69%) TestNG
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Finance
3 2 (3.39%) Local Government
3 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (61.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 9 (15.25%) Engineering Specialist
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
4 6 (10.17%) IT Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Mac Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Mac Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) JIRA Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Head of Cybersecurity
8 2 (3.39%) Head of Security
8 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) Middleware
2 2 (3.39%) Kafka
2 2 (3.39%) REST
2 2 (3.39%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.69%) JDBC
3 1 (1.69%) JMS
3 1 (1.69%) JNDI
3 1 (1.69%) LDAP
3 1 (1.69%) OAuth
3 1 (1.69%) pytest
3 1 (1.69%) SAML
3 1 (1.69%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.12%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) AS400
3 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (3.39%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 28 (47.46%) Windows
2 27 (45.76%) Linux
3 23 (38.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.78%) Mac OS
4 4 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.69%) CentOS
6 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Agile
2 21 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (33.90%) Migration
4 15 (25.42%) Microservices
5 14 (23.73%) Security Management
6 13 (22.03%) SOA
7 12 (20.34%) Server Management
8 9 (15.25%) Incident Management
9 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.17%) CI/CD
11 6 (10.17%) Technology Roadmap
12 5 (8.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 4 (6.78%) Data Protection
13 4 (6.78%) IT Strategy
13 4 (6.78%) Kanban
13 4 (6.78%) Performance Tuning
13 4 (6.78%) Scrum
13 4 (6.78%) User Experience
14 3 (5.08%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) Bash
2 23 (38.98%) PowerShell
3 17 (28.81%) SQL
4 15 (25.42%) Perl
4 15 (25.42%) PL/SQL
5 13 (22.03%) Python
6 5 (8.47%) Groovy
7 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (45.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.90%) SC Cleared
3 19 (32.20%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.39%) CCNA
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Degree
5 1 (1.69%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.69%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) QA
1 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (45.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.17%) vSphere
3 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.47%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Ansible
1 9 (15.25%) Terraform
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.47%) vRealize
4 4 (6.78%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (6.78%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.39%) SCCM
5 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) Puppet
6 1 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) Cisco
2 17 (28.81%) Oracle
3 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.95%) VMware
4 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.78%) Apple
5 4 (6.78%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.78%) Veeam
6 3 (5.08%) HP
6 3 (5.08%) IBM
7 2 (3.39%) Aruba
7 2 (3.39%) Databricks
7 2 (3.39%) Meraki
7 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.69%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.69%) Confluent
8 1 (1.69%) Dell
8 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.69%) Splunk