Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 77 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 25 8 45
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.56% 0.70% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 0.79% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 37
10th Percentile £343 - £393
25th Percentile £359 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £643
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -33.85% +51.18%
75th Percentile £513 £581 £675
90th Percentile £575 £668 £713
England median daily rate £464 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.25% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £68.63
25th Percentile - - £70.31
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £74.06
90th Percentile - - £74.63
England median hourly rate £34.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +40.61% -39.55% -47.37%

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 1,422 1,012 1,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.88% 88.93% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 454 877
10th Percentile £185 £213 £200
25th Percentile £335 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -4.42% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 156 286
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.46 £16.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £43.15
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +10.08% +110.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.63 £84.36
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 19 December 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
Hertfordshire - 9 £550 - 7
Cambridgeshire -4 5 £363 -14.71% 7
Essex -5 5 £375 - 7
Bedfordshire - 5 £413 - 5
Suffolk +3 1 £400 -42.86%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (64.00%) Windows
3 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (52.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (48.00%) Azure
6 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
6 11 (44.00%) VMware
7 9 (36.00%) DNS
7 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
8 8 (32.00%) DevOps
8 8 (32.00%) DHCP
8 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (28.00%) AWS
9 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
10 6 (24.00%) Firewall
10 6 (24.00%) Linux
10 6 (24.00%) Migration
10 6 (24.00%) PaaS
11 5 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
11 5 (20.00%) Observability
11 5 (20.00%) OpenID
11 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (20.00%) SAML
12 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 4 (16.00%) ITIL
12 4 (16.00%) Python
12 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
12 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
12 4 (16.00%) Zero Trust

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) PaaS
4 5 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Google Workspace
6 2 (8.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) DNS
2 8 (32.00%) DHCP
3 6 (24.00%) Firewall
4 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (12.00%) SAN
6 1 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.00%) NAS
6 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Aviation
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) OpenID
1 5 (20.00%) SAML
2 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
2 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 13 (52.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (24.00%) Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.00%) CentOS
5 2 (8.00%) VMS
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Observability
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (16.00%) ITIL
5 4 (16.00%) Zero Trust
6 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.00%) Agile
7 2 (8.00%) Change Management
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) CRM
7 2 (8.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.00%) Network Design
7 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) PRINCE2
7 2 (8.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Perl
5 1 (4.00%) Ruby
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) MCTS
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) BitLocker
4 1 (4.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.00%) SCCM
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
1 2 (8.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Citrix
3 3 (12.00%) Veeam
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) Wyse
5 1 (4.00%) Aruba
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Veritas