Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 47 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 10 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.33% 2.38% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 2.52% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 18
10th Percentile - £313 £343
25th Percentile £375 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% -0.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £483 £488
90th Percentile £598 £560 £700
England median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 667 795 910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.81% 94.53% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 519 684
10th Percentile £200 £200 £213
25th Percentile £325 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £510 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £620 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 82 45
10th Percentile £15.11 £11.86 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.20 £14.00 £18.38
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -20.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £32.99 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Nottinghamshire +2 5 - - 6
Northamptonshire -8 3 £400 -11.11% 2
Leicestershire -8 1 - - 4
Derbyshire - 1 £650 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 East Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco
4 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (40.00%) SCCM
5 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (20.00%) Workday
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (10.00%) VxRail
7 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (10.00%) VSAN
7 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
7 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Zscaler

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) API Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (10.00%) IT Audit
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Workday
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam
4 1 (10.00%) Zerto
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler