Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Devon

Infrastructure Engineering
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 1.76% 6.48% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 7.96% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £330 £528
25th Percentile - £429 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -70.83% - +60.00%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £563 £550 £558
% change year-on-year +2.27% -1.35% +17.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 201 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 86.47% 81.38% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 112 155
10th Percentile £145 £330 £350
25th Percentile £275 £406 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% -10.77% +9.52%
75th Percentile £539 £620 £675
90th Percentile £591 £685 £700
South West median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 15
10th Percentile £15.99 £38.25 £18.01
25th Percentile - £55.00 £26.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +62.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £49.38
90th Percentile - - £74.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Devon

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Devon region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Exeter -2 2 £175 -70.83% 1
Plymouth +3 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
South West

Infrastructure Engineering
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%) 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 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
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
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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