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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 74 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 -11 -20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 36 22 51
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.05% 1.59% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.87% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 41
10th Percentile £352 £350 £310
25th Percentile £411 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £528 £497 £506
90th Percentile £653 £535 £575
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% - +27.27%

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 1,573 1,176 1,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.43% 84.85% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 670 1,093
10th Percentile £262 £263 £282
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -3.29% +3.40%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £605
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 36 30
10th Percentile £15.25 - £15.11
25th Percentile £18.69 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +38.37% -15.22% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £70.75 £38.75 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 -4 23 £500 +5.26% 3
South Yorkshire -27 12 £549 +15.58% 8
East Yorkshire - 1 £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 3 (8.33%) TPMS
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.56%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
6 2 (5.56%) OCI
7 1 (2.78%) Akamai
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) SSL
3 3 (8.33%) SNMP
3 3 (8.33%) SSH
4 2 (5.56%) DNS
4 2 (5.56%) NAS
4 2 (5.56%) SAN
5 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) VLAN
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Log4j
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Mac Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Cryptography Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (5.56%) Head of Security
5 2 (5.56%) Implementation Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Server Migration Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Server Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Incident Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) JDBC
2 1 (2.78%) JMS
2 1 (2.78%) JNDI
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) LDAP
2 1 (2.78%) OAuth
2 1 (2.78%) SAML
2 1 (2.78%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) AS400
2 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.56%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Windows
2 9 (25.00%) Linux
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.56%) VMS
6 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Migration
2 8 (22.22%) Agile
3 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 6 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
5 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) IT Strategy
6 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 4 (11.11%) User Experience
7 3 (8.33%) Cryptography
7 3 (8.33%) Kanban
7 3 (8.33%) OWASP
7 3 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) Bash
2 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.78%) Bicep
4 1 (2.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) FFIEC
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.78%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
1 3 (8.33%) GLBA
1 3 (8.33%) NIST
1 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.56%) COBIT
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) vSphere
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.78%) Docker
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Terraform
2 9 (25.00%) Ansible
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (11.11%) vRealize
5 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.56%) SCCM
5 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.78%) Grafana
6 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 8 (22.22%) VMware
2 5 (13.89%) Splunk
3 4 (11.11%) Apple
3 4 (11.11%) F5
4 3 (8.33%) Dell
4 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (8.33%) HP
4 3 (8.33%) IBM
5 2 (5.56%) Aruba
5 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.56%) Databricks
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.56%) Thales
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.78%) TIBCO