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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 44 49
Rank change year-on-year -25 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 6 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.71% 3.04% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 3.61% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 13
10th Percentile £448 - £350
25th Percentile £481 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +15.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £514 £484
90th Percentile £633 £525 £498
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +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 734 637 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.66% 84.15% 84.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 392 521
10th Percentile £215 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 28 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +4.38% +31.03%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £52.63
90th Percentile - £51.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +4 3 £650 +57.58% 2
Leicestershire -9 1 - - 6
Nottinghamshire -10 1 - - 9
Northamptonshire -18 1 £450 -7.69% 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) VSAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) BCP
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) IT Audit
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) Zerto
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler