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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 7 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.89% 2.55% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 3.09% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 24
10th Percentile £432 - £350
25th Percentile £441 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +2.78% +28.57%
75th Percentile £563 £514 £491
90th Percentile £615 £525 £700
England median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% +5.26%

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 672 648 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.61% 82.65% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 402 541
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 48
10th Percentile £15.71 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
Derbyshire +2 2 £650 +36.84% 6
Nottinghamshire -4 2 - - 9
Northamptonshire -22 2 £458 -3.68% 6
Leicestershire -5 1 - - 8
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 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) BPR
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 1 (14.29%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) IT Audit
2 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) NVQ Level 3
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
1 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) Zerto
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler