Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 4.55% 0.92% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 1.10% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.03%
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £449
% change year-on-year - +0.22% +0.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 91 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 72.22% 83.49% 64.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 51 76
10th Percentile £388 £171 £168
25th Percentile £413 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £320
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +48.44% -32.63%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £545
90th Percentile £693 £800 £605
East Midlands median daily rate £465 £410 £430
% change year-on-year +13.41% -4.65% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 20
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.25 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.29 £21.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £25.08 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.73% +41.27% -53.90%
75th Percentile £24.29 £25.15 £32.11
90th Percentile £24.73 - £50.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.94 £18.87 £17.25
% change year-on-year -4.95% +9.39% -32.77%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Derby +4 8 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Batch
4 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
1 6 (66.67%) VLAN
General
1 6 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 6 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
2 6 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (66.67%) RBAC
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft