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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 83 83
Rank change year-on-year +33 0 -19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 119 38 25
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.17% 2.49% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 2.75% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 17
10th Percentile £318 £356 £328
25th Percentile £338 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £594 £553 £500
90th Percentile £700 £650 £535
England median daily rate £549 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £26.06 - -
25th Percentile £26.38 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £26.92 - £52.50
75th Percentile £27.46 - £56.25
90th Percentile £27.78 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -1.75%

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 1,383 1,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.49% 90.75% 83.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 882 757
10th Percentile £347 £251 £309
25th Percentile £413 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £585
90th Percentile £669 £638 £663
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 52 46
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.23 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.89 £22.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +26.51% -12.50%
75th Percentile £27.86 £25.15 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £78.38 £43.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -3 47 £500 - 41
South Yorkshire -18 33 £545 +4.31% 10
North Yorkshire -1 8 £900 +148.28% 4
East Yorkshire - 1 £313 - 5
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 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.84%) Apache
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.84%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.17%) Azure
2 15 (12.61%) GitHub
3 12 (10.08%) IaaS
4 11 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (8.40%) AWS
6 9 (7.56%) Entra ID
6 9 (7.56%) GCP
7 6 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.36%) SaaS
10 3 (2.52%) OCI
10 3 (2.52%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.68%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.53%) Firewall
2 12 (10.08%) BIG-IP
2 12 (10.08%) DNS
3 11 (9.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 11 (9.24%) SAN
4 8 (6.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 7 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.20%) Network Security
6 5 (4.20%) VLAN
7 4 (3.36%) WAN
8 3 (2.52%) BGP
8 3 (2.52%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (2.52%) OSPF
8 3 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.52%) VXLAN
8 3 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.52%) WLAN
9 2 (1.68%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.68%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.84%) Power BI
2 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (17.65%) JIRA
2 14 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.36%) Git
4 3 (2.52%) GitLab
General
1 15 (12.61%) Finance
2 11 (9.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.20%) Banking
3 5 (4.20%) Law
4 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Retail
5 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.84%) Legal
6 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 79 (66.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (18.49%) Senior
3 12 (10.08%) Data Centre Engineer
3 12 (10.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (9.24%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) Lead
6 8 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Network Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Mobile Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Site Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.65%) Terraform
2 7 (5.88%) Kafka
3 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.68%) Laravel
3 2 (1.68%) Symfony
4 1 (0.84%) Redfish
4 1 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 49 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 19 (15.97%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
4 10 (8.40%) Onboarding
5 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.88%) Replication
7 6 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
8 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
8 5 (4.20%) Private Cloud
9 4 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (2.52%) Operational Technology
10 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.84%) Cyber Security Posture
12 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.84%) PKI
12 1 (0.84%) SCADA
12 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.29%) Linux
1 17 (14.29%) Windows
2 8 (6.72%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.04%) Android
3 6 (5.04%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.20%) VMS
5 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.84%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.84%) Unix
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) CI/CD
2 28 (23.53%) DevOps
3 25 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (15.13%) Observability
5 17 (14.29%) Validation
6 16 (13.45%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (13.45%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (9.24%) Agile
9 11 (9.24%) High Availability
10 10 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (7.56%) Migration
12 8 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (6.72%) Roadmaps
12 8 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (6.72%) Vulnerability Management
12 8 (6.72%) Zero Trust
13 7 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.01%) Python
2 17 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 14 (11.76%) Bash
4 8 (6.72%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.68%) Bicep
5 2 (1.68%) PHP
6 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.84%) CCNA
4 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.84%) Degree
4 1 (0.84%) ECDL
4 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.84%) MCSE
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.68%) IASME
2 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (26.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (8.40%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (7.56%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (5.88%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.04%) oVirt
5 6 (5.04%) vSphere
6 4 (3.36%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.68%) NFS
8 1 (0.84%) Firmware
8 1 (0.84%) NDS
8 1 (0.84%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.84%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.72%) Ansible
3 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.52%) Grafana
4 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.68%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.84%) Control-M
6 1 (0.84%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.84%) Nessus
6 1 (0.84%) Packer
6 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.84%) vMotion
6 1 (0.84%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (26.89%) VMware
2 22 (18.49%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) F5
4 11 (9.24%) Juniper
5 8 (6.72%) Dell
6 7 (5.88%) Google
7 5 (4.20%) Apple
7 5 (4.20%) Cisco
7 5 (4.20%) NetApp
7 5 (4.20%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.36%) Aruba
9 3 (2.52%) Arista
10 2 (1.68%) Citrix
10 2 (1.68%) Databricks
10 2 (1.68%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.68%) Sophos
11 1 (0.84%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.84%) HP
11 1 (0.84%) IBM
11 1 (0.84%) McAfee