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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 84 77
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 121 36 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.21% 2.33% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% 2.57% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 19 16
10th Percentile £318 £378 £344
25th Percentile £357 £430 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +11.45%
75th Percentile £581 £568 £500
90th Percentile £700 £650 £538
England median daily rate £550 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.48% +1.50%
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% -

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 2,384 1,399 1,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.01% 90.37% 84.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 891 754
10th Percentile £345 £240 £302
25th Percentile £413 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £580
90th Percentile £669 £638 £664
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 44
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.68 £12.15
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.16 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.69 £22.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +26.51% -12.50%
75th Percentile £26.72 £25.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £72.63 £45.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 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 21 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 +1 48 £500 - 56
South Yorkshire -13 33 £500 -4.31% 14
North Yorkshire - 8 £900 - 6
East Yorkshire - 2 £338 - 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 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Apache
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.01%) Azure
2 17 (14.05%) GitHub
3 15 (12.40%) IaaS
4 11 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (8.26%) AWS
6 9 (7.44%) Entra ID
6 9 (7.44%) GCP
7 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.31%) SaaS
10 3 (2.48%) OCI
10 3 (2.48%) PaaS
11 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.65%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.65%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (25.62%) Firewall
2 14 (11.57%) BIG-IP
2 14 (11.57%) DNS
3 13 (10.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 10 (8.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 10 (8.26%) SAN
5 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.96%) VLAN
7 5 (4.13%) Network Security
8 4 (3.31%) WAN
9 3 (2.48%) BGP
9 3 (2.48%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (2.48%) OSPF
9 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.48%) VXLAN
9 3 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.48%) WLAN
10 2 (1.65%) SSL
11 1 (0.83%) SNMP
11 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.83%) Power BI
2 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (18.18%) JIRA
2 16 (13.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.31%) Git
4 3 (2.48%) GitLab
General
1 15 (12.40%) Finance
2 13 (10.74%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.13%) Law
4 4 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.31%) Banking
5 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.65%) Retail
5 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.83%) Legal
6 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 77 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (19.83%) Senior
3 12 (9.92%) Data Centre Engineer
3 12 (9.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (9.09%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (7.44%) Lead
6 8 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Mobile Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (3.31%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.36%) Terraform
2 9 (7.44%) Kafka
3 2 (1.65%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.65%) Laravel
3 2 (1.65%) Symfony
4 1 (0.83%) Redfish
4 1 (0.83%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 51 (42.15%) Data Centre
2 17 (14.05%) Enterprise Storage
3 12 (9.92%) Onboarding
4 11 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
6 8 (6.61%) Product Ownership
7 7 (5.79%) Private Cloud
8 6 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (4.96%) Replication
9 5 (4.13%) Mobile App
10 4 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (3.31%) Operational Technology
10 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
11 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.65%) PKI
12 2 (1.65%) SCADA
13 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
13 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.70%) Linux
2 18 (14.88%) Windows
3 9 (7.44%) 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
7 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.83%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.83%) Unix
8 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.75%) CI/CD
2 27 (22.31%) DevOps
2 27 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (16.53%) Observability
4 19 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (14.05%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (14.05%) Validation
6 16 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (11.57%) Agile
9 11 (9.09%) High Availability
9 11 (9.09%) Roadmaps
9 11 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (8.26%) Data Protection
10 10 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.44%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (6.61%) Capacity Planning
12 8 (6.61%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.31%) Python
2 17 (14.05%) PowerShell
3 14 (11.57%) Bash
4 10 (8.26%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.65%) Bicep
5 2 (1.65%) PHP
6 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.65%) Degree
4 2 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.83%) CCNA
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) ECDL
5 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.83%) MCSE
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.83%) PMP
5 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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%) GRC
2 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (28.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (8.26%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (8.26%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.79%) vSphere
4 6 (4.96%) oVirt
5 5 (4.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.83%) Firmware
7 1 (0.83%) NDS
7 1 (0.83%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (0.83%) NFS
7 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Ansible
3 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.48%) Grafana
4 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.65%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (1.65%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (1.65%) Nessus
5 2 (1.65%) VxRail
6 1 (0.83%) Control-M
6 1 (0.83%) Packer
6 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 35 (28.93%) VMware
2 22 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.57%) F5
4 10 (8.26%) Juniper
5 9 (7.44%) Dell
6 7 (5.79%) Google
7 5 (4.13%) Apple
7 5 (4.13%) Cisco
7 5 (4.13%) NetApp
7 5 (4.13%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.31%) Aruba
9 3 (2.48%) Arista
10 2 (1.65%) Carbon Black
10 2 (1.65%) Citrix
10 2 (1.65%) Databricks
10 2 (1.65%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.65%) McAfee
10 2 (1.65%) Sophos
10 2 (1.65%) Tenable
11 1 (0.83%) Brocade