Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Devon

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Devon

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Devon is £175, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 3 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 1.97% 3.29% 5.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 3.48% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £330 -
25th Percentile - £398 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -70.83% - +4.35%
75th Percentile - - £672
90th Percentile - - £675
South West median daily rate £553 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -3.91% +1.10% +21.01%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Devon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Devon. 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 Devon with a recognized job title 129 201 233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.87% 94.37% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 124 184
10th Percentile £173 £189 £228
25th Percentile £275 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £475 £620 £600
90th Percentile £586 £685 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.21% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 18
10th Percentile £15.74 £14.70 £14.33
25th Percentile £22.74 £46.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% +50.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £46.00 £67.50 £44.38
90th Percentile £50.95 £70.00 £61.25
South West median hourly rate £37.50 £65.00 £57.99
% change year-on-year -42.31% +12.09% -10.78%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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 Devon.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Devon

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Plymouth +2 1 - -
Exeter +1 1 £175 -70.83%
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 22 December 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 Devon region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware