Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 3.03% - 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% - 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £160 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £170 - £400
75th Percentile £188 - -
90th Percentile £192 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87 66 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 87.88% 88.00% 97.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 43
10th Percentile £159 £300 £362
25th Percentile £290 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -20.00% +1.85%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £745
90th Percentile £700 £649 -
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 6
10th Percentile £12.55 - £13.08
25th Percentile £12.60 £51.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £15.58
Median % change year-on-year -70.48% +236.97% +17.67%
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 £24.19
90th Percentile £25.13 - £29.09
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.05 £52.10
% change year-on-year -64.32% +11.41% +43.47%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 27 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
Eastbourne - 2 £170 -
St Leonards-on-Sea - 1 £190 -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft