Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Infrastructure Support
England > East of England

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the East of England is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 93 102
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +33
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.072% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.080% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile - - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.78%
75th Percentile £288 - £455
90th Percentile £325 - £479
England median daily rate £260 £306 £400
% change year-on-year -15.10% -23.44% -

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 1,186 1,246 1,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.39% 89.13% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 531 989
10th Percentile £188 £213 £190
25th Percentile £350 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 236 276
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +43.94% +66.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £82.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.28% +58.75%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the East of England

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the East of England

Infrastructure Support
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire - 3 £225 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Infrastructure Support
England

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Management
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) VMware

Infrastructure Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (25.00%) Conflict Management
2 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas
1 1 (25.00%) VMware