IT Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Devon

IT Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Devon

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Devon is £175, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 1.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - -
South West median daily rate £700 £700 £300
% change year-on-year - +133.33% -

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 126 207 235
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.00% 94.52% 91.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 128 188
10th Percentile £173 £189 £248
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 £606 £600
90th Percentile £586 £685 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 18
10th Percentile £15.74 £14.70 £14.33
25th Percentile £22.76 £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 £52.60 £70.00 £61.25
South West median hourly rate £37.50 £65.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year -42.31% +13.38% -11.80%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon.

IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Devon

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the Devon region over the 6 months to 18 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
Exeter - 1 £175 -
IT Infrastructure Engineer
South West

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

IT 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware