Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £446, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 47 46
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 2.12% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 2.28% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £286 £275
25th Percentile £423 £337 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.10% -22.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £469 £404 £520
90th Percentile - £405 £531
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 612 482 356
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.34% 93.05% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 280 224
10th Percentile £270 £322 £265
25th Percentile £358 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £470 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -5.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £575
90th Percentile £688 £641 £606
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.49 £16.80
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £20.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.09 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -27.67% +40.22%
75th Percentile £36.06 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +45.05%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Knutsford - 1 £446 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) iPlanet
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) iPlanet
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk