Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 38 60
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 29 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.85% 2.57% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 2.97% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 5
10th Percentile £405 - £315
25th Percentile £408 £375 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £338
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -21.97%
75th Percentile £475 - £388
90th Percentile - £480 £494
England median daily rate £520 £538 £488
% change year-on-year -3.26% +10.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.25 - -
90th Percentile £76.00 - -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -28.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 836 437 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 82.20% 86.53% 79.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 301 414
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £361 £317 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £550
90th Percentile £625 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 21 63
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.72 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +23.37% +3.66%
75th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -13.33%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Derbyshire - 7 £220 - 4
Nottinghamshire -21 6 £415 -12.63% 1
Lincolnshire - 6 - - 3
Northamptonshire -18 5 £450 +12.50% 2
Leicestershire - 4 - - 2
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Batch
4 2 (6.90%) IaaS
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) VLAN
2 5 (17.24%) Network Security
3 4 (13.79%) Firewall
4 3 (10.34%) DHCP
4 3 (10.34%) DNS
4 3 (10.34%) IPv4
4 3 (10.34%) IPv6
4 3 (10.34%) SAN
5 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (31.03%) Military
2 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Windows
1 10 (34.48%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
1 6 (20.69%) DevOps
1 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
2 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (13.79%) RBAC
4 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
4 3 (10.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (10.34%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (10.34%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.34%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (6.90%) High Availability
5 2 (6.90%) Identity Management
5 2 (6.90%) Migration
6 1 (3.45%) Agile
6 1 (3.45%) Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.45%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Bash
2 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) VCAP
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.45%) Docker
5 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) SCCM
3 3 (10.34%) WSUS
4 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) VMware
2 9 (31.03%) Fortinet
2 9 (31.03%) NetApp
2 9 (31.03%) ServiceNow
3 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) Cisco
5 3 (10.34%) Citrix
5 3 (10.34%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) F5
6 1 (3.45%) Remedy