Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Infrastructure Engineering
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 16.67% 50.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.24% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £438 -
% change year-on-year +31.43% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29 4 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 96.67% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 16
10th Percentile £352 - £210
25th Percentile £378 - £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.91%
75th Percentile £588 - £720
90th Percentile £644 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £535 £531
% change year-on-year +2.76% +0.75% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £22.55 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £11.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £25.52 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £56.44 £28.75 £22.39
% change year-on-year +96.31% +28.41% -47.32%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) OCI
1 4 (80.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (80.00%) WLAN
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Network Design
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Aruba
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (60.00%) Arista
2 3 (60.00%) F5