Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Infrastructure Engineering
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 4 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.55% 2.40% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 2.87% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile - £503 £608
25th Percentile £553 £525 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £763
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -21.31% +90.63%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £800
90th Percentile £631 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £700 £650 £575
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 209 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 77.27% 83.60% 79.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 96 106
10th Percentile £414 £400 £343
25th Percentile £525 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £708 £676 £675
90th Percentile £756 £731 £731
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - £61.38 £24.08
25th Percentile - £70.50 £28.69
Median hourly rate £36.00 £71.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% +47.92% +236.84%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - £91.35
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £78.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% -51.90% +103.26%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheltenham

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
1 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware