2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Daventry

2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Northamptonshire > Daventry

The median 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Daventry is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Daventry 80.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 80.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £325 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £300 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Daventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Daventry. 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 Daventry with a recognized job title 5 2 18
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £245 £431 -
25th Percentile £275 £459 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £513 £388
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +32.26% -
75th Percentile £325 £559 £438
90th Percentile - £584 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £463 £390 £445
% change year-on-year +18.59% -12.36% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.83
Median hourly rate - - £12.22
75th Percentile - - £21.34
90th Percentile - - £24.25
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £20.50 £21.39 £14.00
% change year-on-year -4.16% +52.79% -43.62%

2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Daventry

For the 6 months to 12 July 2026, 2nd/3rd Line 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 Daventry region featuring 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server

2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Daventry 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft