Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.78% - 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% - 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 242 84 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 71.60% 75.00% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 40 78
10th Percentile £319 £379 £274
25th Percentile £400 £445 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £501 £496
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +0.93% +0.61%
75th Percentile £549 £557 £525
90th Percentile £700 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £490
% change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 21
10th Percentile £13.37 £25.17 £45.22
25th Percentile £17.75 £26.70 £48.60
Median hourly rate £40.99 £36.53 £62.32
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -41.37% +18.70%
75th Percentile £64.04 £53.94 £70.90
90th Percentile £73.25 £58.55 £80.59
North West median hourly rate £46.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +86.76% -40.84% +28.79%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cumbria over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cumbria

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Windermere - 3 £350 -
Barrow-in-Furness - 2 £488 -
Workington - 1 £624 -
Ulverston - 1 £488 -
Dalton-in-Furness - 1 £488 -
Millom - 1 £488 -
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior SCCM Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (16.67%) Ivanti