IT Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Abingdon

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Abingdon is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Abingdon 5.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £415 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Abingdon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Abingdon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Abingdon with a recognized job title 17 7 13
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £426 - £131
25th Percentile £453 £463 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £143
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +233.33% -72.86%
75th Percentile £506 £488 £148
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £460 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -8.00% +17.65% -7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £13.46
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -24.86%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon.

IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Abingdon

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon

For the 6 months to 21 March 2026, IT Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Abingdon region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
IT Infrastructure Engineer jobs