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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 45 55
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 15 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.08% 2.66% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.38% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 22
10th Percentile £375 £314 £314
25th Percentile £413 £330 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £448
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +0.34% +11.88%
75th Percentile £486 £475 £488
90th Percentile £560 £542 £680
England median daily rate £525 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% +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 626 680 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.82% 78.70% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 447 680
10th Percentile £225 £210 £213
25th Percentile £332 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £600
90th Percentile £589 £622 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 52
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.15 £12.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -40.87% +33.72%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

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
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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram 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 6 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 +4 7 £475 +35.71% 12
Northamptonshire -8 5 £425 -5.56% 4
Derbyshire +8 2 £650 +36.84% 8
Leicestershire -7 1 - - 5
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 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) SSL
2 1 (6.67%) VLAN
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Project Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) PKI
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Agile
1 4 (26.67%) BPR
1 4 (26.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (26.67%) IT Governance
1 4 (26.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (26.67%) Scrum
1 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (13.33%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (6.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL
3 1 (6.67%) ITSM
3 1 (6.67%) Migration
3 1 (6.67%) Service Management
3 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Workday
4 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) Zerto
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler