Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 45 58 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 8 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.05% 1.03% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.33% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 31
10th Percentile £375 £278 £325
25th Percentile £394 £316 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £445
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -24.16% +11.95%
75th Percentile £467 £438 £475
90th Percentile £486 £519 £500
England median daily rate £525 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.31% +6.74%

All Process and 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 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the East Midlands

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 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
Nottinghamshire +12 6 £475 +35.71% 6
Northamptonshire +2 5 £425 +21.43% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Architect
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) BPR
1 4 (36.36%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
1 4 (36.36%) IT Governance
1 4 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (36.36%) Scrum
1 4 (36.36%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) API Integration
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
4 1 (9.09%) Product Management
4 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Workday
3 1 (9.09%) Ab Initio
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft