Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Infrastructure Engineer
Lancashire > Blackpool

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Blackpool is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
2 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 33.33% 22.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 35.29% 22.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £438 -
% change year-on-year +31.43% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Blackpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Blackpool. 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 Blackpool with a recognized job title 34 9 11
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 6
10th Percentile £360 £400 £200
25th Percentile £542 £419 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £380
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +18.42% -32.14%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £623
90th Percentile £619 £510 £650
Lancashire median daily rate £600 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £22.74 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £11.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £25.52 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.56 £28.75 £41.62
% change year-on-year +58.45% -30.92% -1.68%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Blackpool.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Blackpool

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool

For the 6 months to 2 June 2026, 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 Blackpool region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Arista
2 7 (58.33%) Aruba
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) BGP
2 7 (58.33%) BIG-IP
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 7 (58.33%) F5
2 7 (58.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) GitLab
2 7 (58.33%) High Availability
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (58.33%) Load Balancing
2 7 (58.33%) Network Architecture
2 7 (58.33%) Network Design
2 7 (58.33%) OCI
2 7 (58.33%) OSPF
2 7 (58.33%) Palo Alto
2 7 (58.33%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) SaaS
2 7 (58.33%) SD-WAN
2 7 (58.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 7 (58.33%) VXLAN
2 7 (58.33%) WAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) OCI
1 7 (58.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) BGP
1 7 (58.33%) BIG-IP
1 7 (58.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (58.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
1 7 (58.33%) OSPF
1 7 (58.33%) SD-WAN
1 7 (58.33%) VXLAN
1 7 (58.33%) WAN
1 7 (58.33%) Wi-Fi
1 7 (58.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) GitLab
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Native
1 7 (58.33%) Data Centre
1 7 (58.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) High Availability
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (58.33%) Load Balancing
2 7 (58.33%) Network Architecture
2 7 (58.33%) Network Design
2 7 (58.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Arista
1 7 (58.33%) Aruba
1 7 (58.33%) F5
1 7 (58.33%) Palo Alto
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