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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 45 15 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.87% 1.99% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 2.31% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 14
10th Percentile £270 £375 £314
25th Percentile £275 £400 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +0.11% -0.11%
75th Percentile £475 £474 £484
90th Percentile £501 £545 £549
England median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £72.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
England median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -4.84% +14.07% -6.90%

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 882 649 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.84% 85.96% 78.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 450 425
10th Percentile £213 £225 £250
25th Percentile £400 £336 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £449
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -8.69% -5.47%
75th Percentile £572 £500 £567
90th Percentile £650 £600 £622
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 57 46
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.30 £12.28
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.87 £12.94
Median hourly rate £18.31 £20.50 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +15.49% -60.34%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.69 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Northamptonshire +22 13 £450 - 7
Lincolnshire - 13 £500 - 2
Derbyshire +3 10 £475 -26.92% 1
Leicestershire -1 5 £135 - 9
Nottinghamshire -17 3 £325 -27.78% 3
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 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) Entra ID
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) IaaS
5 4 (8.89%) PaaS
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Batch
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.22%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) Network Security
2 11 (24.44%) DNS
2 11 (24.44%) VLAN
3 10 (22.22%) DHCP
4 6 (13.33%) Firewall
4 6 (13.33%) IPv4
4 6 (13.33%) IPv6
5 5 (11.11%) SAN
6 2 (4.44%) LAN
6 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.44%) WAN
7 1 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (17.78%) Military
2 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (71.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Support Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 4 (8.89%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) IT Support
6 4 (8.89%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Remote Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (44.44%) Windows
1 20 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 8 (17.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.22%) Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.22%) VMS
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (17.78%) DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
3 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (15.56%) Migration
4 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 6 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (13.33%) RBAC
5 5 (11.11%) High Availability
5 5 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (8.89%) Server Migrations
7 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.67%) Identity Management
7 3 (6.67%) ITIL
7 3 (6.67%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 2 (4.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.44%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) MCSA
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.89%) vSphere
4 3 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.22%) Docker
6 1 (2.22%) Firmware
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Terraform
2 6 (13.33%) WSUS
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.44%) VxRail
5 1 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) SCCM
5 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (33.33%) VMware
3 9 (20.00%) NetApp
4 8 (17.78%) Fortinet
4 8 (17.78%) ServiceNow
5 6 (13.33%) Citrix
6 3 (6.67%) Dell
7 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.22%) Databricks
8 1 (2.22%) NEC