Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £467, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 90 73
Rank change year-on-year +28 -17 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 20 22 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.13% 1.15% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 1.29% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 41
10th Percentile £377 £239 £345
25th Percentile £450 £295 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.36% +47.06% -15.00%
75th Percentile £516 £725 £625
90th Percentile £550 - £700
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 - -
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 14 £473 - 7
Essex +13 4 £375 +76.47% 6
Hertfordshire +17 2 £450 -30.77% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (50.00%) VMware
4 9 (45.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) VMware NSX
5 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (40.00%) Agile
5 8 (40.00%) Windows
6 7 (35.00%) Dell
6 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
6 7 (35.00%) Ansible
7 6 (30.00%) Zero Trust
7 6 (30.00%) VxRail
7 6 (30.00%) Firewall
7 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (25.00%) vSphere
8 5 (25.00%) Replication
8 5 (25.00%) Python
8 5 (25.00%) DNS
8 5 (25.00%) ITIL
8 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
8 5 (25.00%) Terraform
9 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) GitHub
1 4 (20.00%) Nutanix
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Cohesity
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (20.00%) Network Security
3 4 (20.00%) VSAN
4 3 (15.00%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (10.00%) Skype
6 1 (5.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Replication
2 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Smartcard
3 2 (10.00%) YubiKey
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 6 (30.00%) Zero Trust
5 5 (25.00%) ITIL
5 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (20.00%) Capacity Management
6 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 4 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Management
6 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (10.00%) ITSM
7 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
8 1 (5.00%) Migration
8 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
8 1 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) DBS Check
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) VCAP
4 3 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (45.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (45.00%) VMware NSX
3 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (25.00%) vSphere
5 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) VxRail
3 5 (25.00%) Terraform
4 4 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (20.00%) Podman
4 4 (20.00%) PowerCLI
4 4 (20.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (10.00%) Avamar
5 2 (10.00%) Nessus
5 2 (10.00%) SCCM
5 2 (10.00%) WSUS
6 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) VMware
2 7 (35.00%) Dell
3 4 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (10.00%) Tenable
6 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.00%) Google
6 1 (5.00%) IBM
6 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm
6 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.00%) Veeam