Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Derby

Infrastructure Engineering
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 3.17% - 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% - 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.86%
Derbyshire median daily rate £650 £413 £388
% change year-on-year +57.58% +6.45% +24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 105 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 82.54% 81.40% 78.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 58
10th Percentile £171 £250 £157
25th Percentile £355 £310 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £600
90th Percentile £695 £641 £664
Derbyshire median daily rate £456 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -3.95% +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 7
10th Percentile £16.13 - £15.25
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.00 £16.48
Median hourly rate £23.67 £19.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% +8.89% +5.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.86 £18.86
90th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.67 £22.89 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.43% +14.43% +18.84%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Derby

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) BCP
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) GitOps
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler