Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 27 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 6 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.88% 5.91% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 7.14% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 22
10th Percentile - £411 £328
25th Percentile £525 £422 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £470
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +2.13% -5.95%
75th Percentile £575 £523 £500
90th Percentile - £538 -
South East median daily rate £483 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -7.25% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 308 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 91.85% 82.80% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 221 556
10th Percentile £213 £234 £313
25th Percentile £358 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -11.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £636 £638 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £518
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 11
10th Percentile - £18.84 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £23.75 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.38 £30.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.75% +82.93% +26.15%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.37 £21.75
90th Percentile - £37.25 £23.00
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £52.10
% change year-on-year -61.81% +10.08% +60.31%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 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 -9 4 - - 5
High Wycombe - 1 £550 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Lucidchart
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) UniData
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Email Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Tanium
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) VMware