Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineering
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 3
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 +24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3 9 28
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.51% 10.00% 15.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 10.59% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 27
10th Percentile - £503 £175
25th Percentile - £519 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £550 £185
Median % change year-on-year -18.36% +197.60% -64.80%
75th Percentile - £575 £194
90th Percentile - £770 £543
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £494
% change year-on-year -4.35% +16.46% -10.23%

All Process & 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 134 85 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 67.34% 94.44% 83.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 59 92
10th Percentile £350 £197 £175
25th Percentile £382 £309 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +12.12% -19.51%
75th Percentile £583 £553 £630
90th Percentile £688 £601 £748
South West median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 35
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.50 £11.87
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.20 £13.69
Median hourly rate £61.73 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +298.27% -0.77% -72.25%
75th Percentile £72.54 £46.25 £56.91
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.50 £63.25
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +59.72% -34.55% -8.33%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Dorset

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

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 31 May 2026. 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 -14 2 £449 -35.86% 6
Poole - 1 - - 4
Infrastructure Engineering
South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft