Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 34 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 4 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.28% 3.33% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 3.63% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 11
10th Percentile - £411 £350
25th Percentile £525 £419 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -1.10% +2.25%
75th Percentile £575 £499 £500
90th Percentile - £519 £535
South East median daily rate £550 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 289 358 784
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 91.79% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 238 609
10th Percentile £213 £234 £225
25th Percentile £350 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £539 £588
90th Percentile £634 £627 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 22 10
10th Percentile - £14.89 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £16.86 £13.27
Median hourly rate £15.91 £25.00 £14.99
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +66.83% +15.27%
75th Percentile £24.50 £28.75 £18.16
90th Percentile £67.50 £35.40 £19.93
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £49.37
% change year-on-year -56.15% +16.18% +124.39%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Milton Keynes -3 3 - - 4
High Wycombe - 1 £550 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 10 August 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Buckinghamshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
3 1 (25.00%) Email Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) UniData
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) UniData
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Email Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Tanium
2 1 (25.00%) VMware