Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 507 575
Rank change year-on-year +16 +68 +172
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 21 18 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.054% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.058% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 25
10th Percentile £225 £162 £268
25th Percentile £250 £241 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £375
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £486 £473
90th Percentile £623 £538 £570
UK median daily rate £575 £340 £375
% change year-on-year +69.12% -9.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 25,286 31,125 42,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,399 20,504 30,192
10th Percentile £287 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,309 1,826 1,341
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
South East +37 12 £575 +53.33% 5
London -5 4 £250 -41.18% 4
North of England -9 3 £265 -41.11% 3
East of England +6 2 £225 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £265 -
North East - 1 - -
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Infrastructure Support 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (90.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (80.95%) Active Directory
4 16 (76.19%) Firewall
5 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
6 13 (61.90%) VMware
6 13 (61.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (52.38%) PaaS
7 11 (52.38%) DHCP
7 11 (52.38%) DNS
7 11 (52.38%) IaaS
8 10 (47.62%) DevOps
9 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
10 8 (38.10%) Data Centre
10 8 (38.10%) Citrix
10 8 (38.10%) VPN
11 7 (33.33%) SMTP
11 7 (33.33%) HP
11 7 (33.33%) Linux
11 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (33.33%) Terminal Services
11 7 (33.33%) Nagios
11 7 (33.33%) Symantec
11 7 (33.33%) Machine Learning
11 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (33.33%) Puppet
11 7 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (33.33%) Hyper-V
11 7 (33.33%) Azure
11 7 (33.33%) AWS

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) IaaS
1 11 (52.38%) PaaS
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) GCP
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) DHCP
2 11 (52.38%) DNS
3 8 (38.10%) VPN
4 7 (33.33%) SMTP
5 3 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (14.29%) SAN
5 3 (14.29%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) LAN
6 2 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (9.52%) WAN
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (4.76%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (4.76%) VoIP
7 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (33.33%) Big Data
1 7 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Data Centre
2 7 (33.33%) Clustering
2 7 (33.33%) PKI
3 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 7 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (33.33%) Software Deployment
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Security Patching
7 2 (9.52%) Logistics
8 1 (4.76%) Biotechnology
8 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (4.76%) Converged Infrastructure
8 1 (4.76%) Customer Service
8 1 (4.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.76%) Migration
8 1 (4.76%) Preventative Maintenance
8 1 (4.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
1 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Active Directory
2 13 (61.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 7 (33.33%) Docker
3 7 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 7 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 7 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (14.29%) DFS Replication
4 3 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (33.33%) Nagios
1 7 (33.33%) Puppet
1 7 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 7 (33.33%) vMotion
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) SCCM
4 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (61.90%) VMware
3 8 (38.10%) Citrix
4 7 (33.33%) Google
4 7 (33.33%) HP
4 7 (33.33%) Symantec
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
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