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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 74 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 -19 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 48 22 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.61% 1.72% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.01% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 12 44
10th Percentile £335 £350 £310
25th Percentile £409 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £523 £500 £506
90th Percentile £688 £545 £568
England median daily rate £487 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.24% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £48.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +133.33% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -47.69% +10.18% +6.30%

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 1,649 1,097 1,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.77% 85.57% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 641 1,032
10th Percentile £230 £235 £300
25th Percentile £380 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 36 24
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.35 £15.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -3.02% +3.12%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £48.88 £40.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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
South Yorkshire -14 24 £487 +2.53% 10
West Yorkshire +6 22 £483 -1.03% 16
East Yorkshire - 2 £344 - 10
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 6 (12.50%) TPMS
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) OpenShift
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.50%) AWS
5 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.25%) GCP
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub
6 3 (6.25%) PaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.17%) IaaS
7 2 (4.17%) OCI
8 1 (2.08%) Akamai
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) SSL
2 6 (12.50%) Firewall
2 6 (12.50%) SNMP
2 6 (12.50%) SSH
3 5 (10.42%) NAS
3 5 (10.42%) SAN
4 3 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (6.25%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.17%) DNS
6 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.08%) VLAN
6 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.25%) GitLab
3 2 (4.17%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.08%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Legal
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Cryptography Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (8.33%) Mac Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Implementation Specialist
5 2 (4.17%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Server Migration Specialist
5 2 (4.17%) Server Specialist
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Disaster Recovery Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Head of Security
6 1 (2.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 3 (6.25%) Replication
2 2 (4.17%) AS400
2 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.17%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) CCTV
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 11 (22.92%) Linux
3 7 (14.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.42%) VMS
5 4 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (18.75%) DevOps
2 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (12.50%) Agile
5 6 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (12.50%) Cryptography
5 6 (12.50%) Data Security
5 6 (12.50%) High Availability
5 6 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (12.50%) Observability
5 6 (12.50%) OWASP
6 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) Python
2 7 (14.58%) Bash
3 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) FFIEC
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) CISM
3 2 (4.17%) CISSP
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) GDPR
1 8 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 6 (12.50%) GLBA
2 6 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (4.17%) COBIT
3 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.33%) vSphere
4 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.25%) NFS
5 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) Terraform
2 13 (27.08%) Ansible
3 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (8.33%) vRealize
6 2 (4.17%) SCCM
6 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.08%) Grafana
7 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 9 (18.75%) VMware
2 7 (14.58%) Splunk
3 5 (10.42%) IBM
3 5 (10.42%) Thales
4 4 (8.33%) Apple
4 4 (8.33%) F5
5 3 (6.25%) Dell
5 3 (6.25%) EMC
5 3 (6.25%) HP
5 3 (6.25%) NetApp
6 2 (4.17%) Aruba
6 2 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.17%) Databricks
6 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow