Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineering
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 29 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.99% 2.07% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.73% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £323 - £410
25th Percentile £338 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -34.62% +44.44%
75th Percentile £413 £438 -
90th Percentile £428 - -
South Wales median daily rate £488 £463 £538
% change year-on-year +5.41% -13.95% -5.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 183 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 84.46% 75.62% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 129 172
10th Percentile £213 £156 £179
25th Percentile £290 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
South Wales median daily rate £405 £413 £450
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 7
10th Percentile - £15.48 £17.60
25th Percentile £13.08 £19.09 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.30 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% -2.69% +52.81%
75th Percentile £20.50 £26.08 £34.50
90th Percentile £22.24 £27.50 £47.00
South Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.28% -3.85% +30.59%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Burndown Charts
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP