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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 68 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 50 23 61
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.68% 1.98% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.31% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 14 47
10th Percentile £325 £278 £310
25th Percentile £356 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £503
90th Percentile £688 £554 £560
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 £62.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.94% +6.78%

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 1,665 997 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.32% 85.80% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 599 1,031
10th Percentile £252 £242 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £682 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 29 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.06 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%
75th Percentile £47.50 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £62.05 £64.33 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 19 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 19 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 -28 26 £487 -3.80% 11
West Yorkshire -13 17 £500 +5.26% 19
East Yorkshire - 7 £350 - 14
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 (12.00%) TPMS
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) Azure
1 14 (28.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (12.00%) AWS
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.00%) GCP
3 3 (6.00%) PaaS
4 2 (4.00%) IaaS
4 2 (4.00%) Mimecast
4 2 (4.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) Akamai
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) NAS
1 8 (16.00%) SAN
2 7 (14.00%) SSL
3 6 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (12.00%) Firewall
3 6 (12.00%) iSCSI
3 6 (12.00%) SNMP
3 6 (12.00%) SSH
4 2 (4.00%) DNS
5 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.00%) VLAN
5 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) GitLab
1 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Cryptography Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Implementation Specialist
4 2 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (4.00%) Senior
4 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) Server Migration Specialist
4 2 (4.00%) Server Specialist
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Automation Developer
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (2.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 6 (12.00%) Replication
2 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) AS400
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (4.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) PKI
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) CCTV
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.00%) Windows
2 11 (22.00%) Linux
3 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (12.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Migration
2 11 (22.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (18.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (18.00%) High Availability
3 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
3 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (16.00%) DevOps
5 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (12.00%) Cryptography
6 6 (12.00%) Data Security
6 6 (12.00%) Observability
6 6 (12.00%) OWASP
6 6 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (10.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (12.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) Bash
3 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) FFIEC
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) CISM
3 2 (4.00%) CISSP
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) GDPR
1 8 (16.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (12.00%) GLBA
2 6 (12.00%) NIST
3 2 (4.00%) COBIT
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (12.00%) NFS
1 6 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.00%) vSphere
5 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.00%) Ansible
3 10 (20.00%) Terraform
4 4 (8.00%) vRealize
5 2 (4.00%) SCCM
5 2 (4.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.00%) Grafana
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) VMware
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.00%) IBM
3 7 (14.00%) Splunk
4 5 (10.00%) EMC
4 5 (10.00%) NetApp
4 5 (10.00%) Thales
5 4 (8.00%) F5
6 2 (4.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.00%) Dell
6 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.00%) HP
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle
7 1 (2.00%) Aruba
7 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.00%) Pure Storage
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow