Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Dorset

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Dorset is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 24 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 5.10% 2.42% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.15% 2.45% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £485 £274 -
25th Percentile £519 £415 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +165.15%
75th Percentile £675 - £538
90th Percentile £780 - £553
South West median daily rate £575 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +6.88% +2.48% +15.01%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 97 163 198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.98% 98.79% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 106 115
10th Percentile £200 £172 £160
25th Percentile £363 £175 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £431 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -6.76% -2.63%
75th Percentile £563 £630 £575
90th Percentile £671 £797 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 41 47
10th Percentile £14.47 £11.87 £13.55
25th Percentile £14.99 £13.69 £17.50
Median hourly rate £21.63 £15.62 £54.83
Median % change year-on-year +38.44% -71.51% +0.36%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.83 £61.35
90th Percentile - £57.50 £68.56
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bournemouth +3 3 £650 +235.38% 1
Blandford Forum - 2 £506 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Dorset region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Server Building
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CESG
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Server Building
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco