Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Blandford Forum

Infrastructure Engineering
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blandford Forum requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Blandford Forum 100.00% 42.86% 40.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 100.00% 42.86% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £491 £456
25th Percentile £563 £520 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £547
90th Percentile - - £549
Dorset median daily rate £449 £550 £185
% change year-on-year -18.36% +197.60% -64.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Blandford Forum

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 Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1 14 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £508 £456
25th Percentile £563 £516 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £547
90th Percentile - - £549
Dorset median daily rate £449 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -5.47% -6.17% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £11.87
Dorset median hourly rate £63.14 £15.50 £14.81
% change year-on-year +307.32% +4.66% -73.69%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Blandford Forum

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blandford Forum citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) OPNET
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle