Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineering
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 3 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 14 26 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 14.29% 15.76% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.56% 18.44% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 7
10th Percentile £454 £175 -
25th Percentile £514 £175 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £185 £525
Median % change year-on-year +197.60% -64.80% +165.15%
75th Percentile £650 £194 £538
90th Percentile £728 £510 £553
South West median daily rate £569 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +13.75% -9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 141 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 91.84% 85.45% 82.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 91 103
10th Percentile £203 £175 £160
25th Percentile £363 £175 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £563 £630 £610
90th Percentile £675 £825 £638
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 35 36
10th Percentile £14.47 £11.87 £17.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £13.69 £48.86
Median hourly rate £21.63 £15.31 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% -72.80% +5.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.49 £62.72
90th Percentile - £61.25 £70.77
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -8 8 £600 +224.66% 2
Blandford Forum -2 6 £550 +10.00%
Infrastructure Engineering
South West

Infrastructure Engineering
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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
1 6 (42.86%) Google Workspace
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Legal
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Site Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (28.57%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) CESG
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
2 10 (71.43%) Validation
3 6 (42.86%) Change Management
3 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) High Availability
4 4 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (28.57%) NsoIT
4 4 (28.57%) Power Management
4 4 (28.57%) Service Management
4 4 (28.57%) System Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
5 2 (14.29%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) CCNA
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 4 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (35.71%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (28.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Google
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) Cisco
4 4 (28.57%) Atlassian