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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 51 82
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 -12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 123 54 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.47% 4.37% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 4.69% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 34 19
10th Percentile £318 £361 £334
25th Percentile £325 £408 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £513
90th Percentile £688 £599 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.00
25th Percentile £26.25 - £28.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £48.13
90th Percentile - - £53.00
England median hourly rate £72.54 £128.88 £54.88
% change year-on-year -43.71% +134.85% -24.31%

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 2,382 1,151 1,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.59% 93.12% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 708 875
10th Percentile £325 £263 £275
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 £576 £550 £580
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 51 68
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £11.62
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.23 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +65.66% +1.56%
75th Percentile £31.88 £25.13 £21.63
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.15 £54.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 55 £490 -8.84% 17
South Yorkshire -21 31 £545 +0.93% 6
North Yorkshire +1 13 £450 +1.41% 2
East Yorkshire - 3 £363 - 4
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 (4.07%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) TPMS
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Acrobat
1 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.89%) Azure
2 17 (13.82%) GitHub
3 14 (11.38%) GCP
4 11 (8.94%) IaaS
5 9 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.88%) AWS
7 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.07%) SaaS
9 3 (2.44%) Apigee
9 3 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.44%) OCI
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.63%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.63%) PaaS
11 1 (0.81%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.81%) CloudBees
11 1 (0.81%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.76%) Firewall
2 17 (13.82%) SAN
3 12 (9.76%) BIG-IP
4 11 (8.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 10 (8.13%) DNS
5 10 (8.13%) TCP/IP
6 8 (6.50%) VLAN
7 7 (5.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (4.88%) iSCSI
8 6 (4.88%) Network Security
8 6 (4.88%) SSL
9 4 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (3.25%) NAS
9 4 (3.25%) SNMP
9 4 (3.25%) SSH
9 4 (3.25%) WAN
9 4 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.44%) BGP
10 3 (2.44%) OSPF
10 3 (2.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 27 (21.95%) JIRA
2 21 (17.07%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.44%) Git
3 3 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 20 (16.26%) Finance
2 17 (13.82%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.13%) Banking
4 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.25%) Military
6 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Legal
8 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (65.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (13.01%) Senior
3 10 (8.13%) Data Centre Engineer
4 9 (7.32%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (5.69%) Lead
5 7 (5.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) GCP DevOps
7 5 (4.07%) GCP Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Mobile Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Cryptography Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.25%) REST
2 3 (2.44%) Middleware
2 3 (2.44%) OpenAPI
2 3 (2.44%) Swagger
3 2 (1.63%) Kafka
4 1 (0.81%) Laravel
4 1 (0.81%) Redfish
4 1 (0.81%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 45 (36.59%) Data Centre
2 18 (14.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (8.94%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.07%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.25%) Replication
7 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.63%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.63%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.81%) CMDB
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.81%) IoT
9 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.89%) Windows
2 17 (13.82%) Linux
3 7 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.88%) Android
4 6 (4.88%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.44%) Unix
6 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.81%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.02%) CI/CD
2 28 (22.76%) DevOps
3 22 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (17.07%) Validation
5 14 (11.38%) Agile
5 14 (11.38%) Observability
6 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.76%) High Availability
7 12 (9.76%) Migration
7 12 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (8.94%) Roadmaps
9 10 (8.13%) Workflow
10 9 (7.32%) Cloud Security
10 9 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (6.50%) Load Balancing
11 8 (6.50%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (6.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.14%) Python
2 17 (13.82%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.57%) Bash
4 8 (6.50%) ActionScript
5 3 (2.44%) Groovy
6 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.81%) PHP
7 1 (0.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.25%) FFIEC
4 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) GDPR
1 4 (3.25%) GLBA
1 4 (3.25%) NIST
1 4 (3.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.25%) NFS
5 3 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.44%) vSphere
6 2 (1.63%) SRDF
7 1 (0.81%) Firmware
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (14.63%) Terraform
2 10 (8.13%) Ansible
3 9 (7.32%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.44%) Istio
5 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (0.81%) Control-M
6 1 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.81%) Grafana
6 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.81%) Packer
6 1 (0.81%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.81%) vRealize
6 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (19.51%) VMware
2 19 (15.45%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.38%) F5
4 13 (10.57%) Juniper
5 11 (8.94%) Google
6 7 (5.69%) Aruba
7 6 (4.88%) Cisco
7 6 (4.88%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.07%) Apple
8 5 (4.07%) Pure Storage
8 5 (4.07%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.25%) HP
9 4 (3.25%) NetApp
9 4 (3.25%) Splunk
9 4 (3.25%) Thales
10 3 (2.44%) Arista
10 3 (2.44%) Dell
10 3 (2.44%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.44%) Veeam