Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Chelmsford

Infrastructure Engineering
Essex > Chelmsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chelmsford requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chelmsford 3.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £375 £350 £300
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -31.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chelmsford

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 Chelmsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chelmsford 96.67% 100.00% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £240 £343 £256
25th Percentile £413 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +12.43%
75th Percentile £450 £563 £488
90th Percentile £493 £608 £548
Essex median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 5
10th Percentile - £70.50 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £78.75 £10.42
Median hourly rate £16.25 £95.00 £12.86
Median % change year-on-year -82.89% +638.72% -47.77%
75th Percentile £69.67 £108.75 £15.76
90th Percentile £81.05 £115.50 £18.45
Essex median hourly rate £20.51 £32.50 £57.25
% change year-on-year -36.89% -43.23% +28.57%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Chelmsford

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Chelmsford

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chelmsford 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
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft