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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 64 80
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 121 52 25
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.23% 3.40% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 3.72% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 30 16
10th Percentile - £372 £325
25th Percentile £318 £408 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £500
90th Percentile £686 £605 £538
England median daily rate £544 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.54% +5.00% -
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 £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%

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 2,390 1,396 1,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.62% 91.30% 83.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,443 882 772
10th Percentile £331 £263 £319
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £584
90th Percentile £669 £625 £665
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 61 51
10th Percentile £14.18 £16.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.35 £12.55
Median hourly rate £22.80 £22.14 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +59.63% -30.65%
75th Percentile £28.25 £25.15 £23.50
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £38.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -10 51 £500 -3.85% 7
South Yorkshire -20 28 £550 +23.04% 8
North Yorkshire 0 9 £900 +148.28% 3
East Yorkshire - 2 £294 - 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 4 (3.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.66%) Azure
2 14 (11.57%) GitHub
3 11 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.26%) GCP
4 10 (8.26%) IaaS
5 9 (7.44%) AWS
6 8 (6.61%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.31%) SaaS
9 3 (2.48%) OCI
9 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.65%) Google Compute Engine
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.83%) CloudBees
11 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.83%) PaaS
11 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (23.97%) Firewall
2 12 (9.92%) SAN
3 11 (9.09%) BIG-IP
3 11 (9.09%) DNS
4 10 (8.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
6 7 (5.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (4.96%) VLAN
8 5 (4.13%) Network Security
9 4 (3.31%) WAN
10 3 (2.48%) BGP
10 3 (2.48%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (2.48%) OSPF
10 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.48%) VXLAN
10 3 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.48%) WLAN
11 2 (1.65%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.65%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.65%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (20.66%) JIRA
2 15 (12.40%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.13%) Git
4 3 (2.48%) GitLab
General
1 15 (12.40%) Finance
2 14 (11.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.96%) Banking
4 5 (4.13%) Law
5 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.65%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Advertising
7 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (66.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (14.88%) Senior
3 14 (11.57%) Data Centre Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (9.09%) Lead
6 8 (6.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) GCP DevOps
9 5 (4.13%) Mobile Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Storage Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.70%) Terraform
2 5 (4.13%) Kafka
3 2 (1.65%) Laravel
3 2 (1.65%) Middleware
3 2 (1.65%) Symfony
4 1 (0.83%) Redfish
4 1 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 50 (41.32%) Data Centre
2 21 (17.36%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.44%) Onboarding
5 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.79%) Replication
7 5 (4.13%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.48%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.65%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
11 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.70%) Windows
2 15 (12.40%) Linux
3 10 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.96%) Android
4 6 (4.96%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.13%) VMS
6 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.83%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.83%) Unix
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.45%) CI/CD
2 27 (22.31%) DevOps
3 23 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (16.53%) Validation
5 18 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (13.22%) Observability
7 13 (10.74%) Agile
8 12 (9.92%) High Availability
8 12 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (9.09%) Migration
9 11 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.44%) Workflow
11 8 (6.61%) Load Balancing
11 8 (6.61%) Zero Trust
12 7 (5.79%) Roadmaps
12 7 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.83%) Python
2 16 (13.22%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.74%) Bash
4 7 (5.79%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.65%) PHP
6 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.83%) CCNA
4 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.83%) Degree
4 1 (0.83%) ECDL
4 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.83%) MCSE
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.65%) IASME
2 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (22.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.61%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (6.61%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (6.61%) vSphere
3 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.65%) NFS
6 1 (0.83%) Firmware
6 1 (0.83%) NDS
6 1 (0.83%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 1 (0.83%) oVirt
6 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.26%) Ansible
3 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.65%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (1.65%) Grafana
4 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.65%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.83%) Control-M
5 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.83%) Packer
5 1 (0.83%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.83%) Puppet
5 1 (0.83%) vMotion
5 1 (0.83%) vRealize
5 1 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) VMware
2 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.74%) Juniper
4 12 (9.92%) F5
5 8 (6.61%) Google
6 7 (5.79%) Dell
7 5 (4.13%) Apple
7 5 (4.13%) Aruba
7 5 (4.13%) Cisco
7 5 (4.13%) NetApp
7 5 (4.13%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.48%) Arista
9 2 (1.65%) Citrix
9 2 (1.65%) HP
9 2 (1.65%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.65%) Sophos
10 1 (0.83%) Brocade
10 1 (0.83%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.83%) IBM
10 1 (0.83%) Veritas