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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 45 82
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 -19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 123 55 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.50% 4.63% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 4.95% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 34 18
10th Percentile £318 £361 £332
25th Percentile £325 £408 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £497
90th Percentile £688 £600 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £22.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £49.75
England median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -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 2,366 1,111 1,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.60% 93.44% 83.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 673 879
10th Percentile £325 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £581
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 78 50 77
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.13 £11.57
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.16 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.69 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +60.67% +27.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £24.80 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £30.68 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%

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 22 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 22 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 -8 53 £480 -12.73% 13
South Yorkshire -33 31 £550 +1.85% 4
North Yorkshire +6 17 £350 -21.13% 2
East Yorkshire - 3 £363 - 1
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
1 5 (4.07%) TPMS
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Acrobat
2 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
4 11 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.88%) AWS
6 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.88%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.88%) SaaS
7 3 (2.44%) Apigee
7 3 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.44%) OCI
8 2 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.63%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (1.63%) PaaS
9 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.81%) CloudBees
9 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.14%) Firewall
2 15 (12.20%) SAN
3 12 (9.76%) BIG-IP
4 11 (8.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 11 (8.94%) TCP/IP
5 10 (8.13%) DNS
6 8 (6.50%) VLAN
7 7 (5.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 7 (5.69%) SSL
8 6 (4.88%) iSCSI
8 6 (4.88%) Network Security
9 5 (4.07%) SNMP
9 5 (4.07%) SSH
9 5 (4.07%) WAN
9 5 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (3.25%) NAS
11 3 (2.44%) BGP
11 3 (2.44%) OSPF
11 3 (2.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 25 (20.33%) JIRA
2 21 (17.07%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.44%) Git
3 3 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 20 (16.26%) Finance
2 18 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.32%) Banking
4 7 (5.69%) 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%) Legal
8 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 81 (65.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (13.01%) Senior
3 7 (5.69%) Data Centre Engineer
3 7 (5.69%) Lead
3 7 (5.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (4.88%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (4.88%) Network Engineer
5 5 (4.07%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.07%) Cryptography Engineer
5 5 (4.07%) GCP DevOps
5 5 (4.07%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (4.07%) Mobile Engineer
5 5 (4.07%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (2.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 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 40 (32.52%) Data Centre
2 16 (13.01%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (8.94%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.50%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.07%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.25%) Replication
8 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.63%) CMDB
9 2 (1.63%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.51%) 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 19 (15.45%) Validation
5 15 (12.20%) Observability
5 15 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (11.38%) Agile
7 12 (9.76%) Migration
7 12 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (9.76%) Roadmaps
7 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (8.94%) High Availability
9 9 (7.32%) Cloud Security
9 9 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (6.50%) Load Balancing
10 8 (6.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 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%) FFIEC
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) GDPR
1 5 (4.07%) GLBA
1 5 (4.07%) NIST
1 5 (4.07%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (16.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.25%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.25%) NFS
4 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.44%) vSphere
5 2 (1.63%) SRDF
6 1 (0.81%) Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (13.82%) Terraform
2 10 (8.13%) Ansible
3 8 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.44%) Istio
4 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (0.81%) Control-M
5 1 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.81%) Packer
5 1 (0.81%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.81%) vRealize
5 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (18.70%) VMware
2 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.38%) F5
4 11 (8.94%) Google
4 11 (8.94%) Juniper
5 7 (5.69%) Aruba
5 7 (5.69%) Cisco
6 6 (4.88%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.07%) Apple
7 5 (4.07%) Pure Storage
7 5 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.07%) Splunk
7 5 (4.07%) Thales
8 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.25%) HP
8 4 (3.25%) NetApp
8 4 (3.25%) Veeam
9 3 (2.44%) Arista
9 3 (2.44%) Dell
9 3 (2.44%) Palo Alto