Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 31 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 3.03% 1.11% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 1.33% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile £406 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile - - £431
90th Percentile £440 - £458
East of England median daily rate £406 £425 £650
% change year-on-year -4.41% -34.62% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 150 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.45% 83.33% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 73 142
10th Percentile £198 £214 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £558
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 4
10th Percentile £37.50 £27.00 £51.63
25th Percentile £57.38 £30.78 £52.19
Median hourly rate £84.75 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.09% - +0.64%
75th Percentile £91.50 £64.10 £58.88
90th Percentile - £67.50 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
% change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Luton - 7 £425 - 2
Infrastructure Engineering
East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 7 (100.00%) PaaS
General
1 5 (71.43%) Aviation
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) OpenID
1 7 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) CRM
3 4 (57.14%) Network Design
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft