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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 80 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 -26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 38 24 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.45% 1.60% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 1.90% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 38
10th Percentile £356 £344 £303
25th Percentile £411 £359 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £420
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +10.12% -6.67%
75th Percentile £553 £500 £550
90th Percentile £650 £538 £656
England median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% - +47.87%

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 1,407 1,260 1,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.60% 83.83% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 757 1,193
10th Percentile £238 £310 £305
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £620
90th Percentile £638 £663 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 44 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £25.27
90th Percentile £69.75 £45.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 +13 24 £500 +5.26% 21
South Yorkshire 0 17 £523 +10.00% 5
North Yorkshire 0 1 £363 +3.57% 4
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 6 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) TPMS
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.53%) IaaS
5 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) OCI
7 1 (2.63%) Akamai
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (2.63%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) DNS
1 6 (15.79%) NAS
1 6 (15.79%) SAN
2 5 (13.16%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) SSL
4 1 (2.63%) SNMP
4 1 (2.63%) SSH
4 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.42%) JIRA
3 5 (13.16%) Git
3 5 (13.16%) GitLab
4 4 (10.53%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) Log4j
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Legal
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Mac Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Mac Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) JIRA Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Migration Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Security
6 2 (5.26%) Implementation Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Server Migration Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) Server Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Implementation Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) WebSphere Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Middleware
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.63%) JDBC
3 1 (2.63%) JMS
3 1 (2.63%) JNDI
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
3 1 (2.63%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) AS400
2 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.26%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
2 9 (23.68%) Linux
3 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.26%) VMS
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
1 17 (44.74%) Migration
2 10 (26.32%) Incident Management
2 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Automation
3 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.79%) Kanban
4 6 (15.79%) Scrum
5 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
5 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
6 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (10.53%) User Experience
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.89%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 6 (15.79%) Bash
4 5 (13.16%) Groovy
4 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.63%) Bicep
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.53%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.63%) FFIEC
4 1 (2.63%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) COBIT
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) GLBA
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (15.79%) vSphere
3 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Ansible
1 10 (26.32%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) vRealize
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (13.16%) vCenter Server
4 4 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (5.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.63%) SCCM
6 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
1 7 (18.42%) VMware
2 4 (10.53%) Apple
2 4 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.53%) F5
2 4 (10.53%) HP
3 3 (7.89%) Dell
3 3 (7.89%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.89%) IBM
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Aruba
4 2 (5.26%) CheckPoint
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Confluent
5 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.63%) TIBCO