IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £525, 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 465 525 633
Rank change year-on-year +60 +108 +106
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 20 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.046% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.049% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £319 £255 £388
25th Percentile £447 £320 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% +26.62%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £568
90th Percentile £588 £638 £666
UK median daily rate £513 £423 £488
% change year-on-year +21.30% -13.33% +26.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.88
25th Percentile - - £49.06
Median hourly rate - - £54.38
75th Percentile - - £59.69
90th Percentile - - £62.88
UK median hourly rate - - £54.38

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the 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
North of England +29 13 £525 +54.41% 25
Yorkshire +16 9 £538 +58.09% 9
South East +50 5 £525 +9.38% 27
North East - 3 - - 3
South West +46 1 £700 - 11
London +36 1 £450 -7.88% 8
Midlands +19 1 £700 +180.00% 20
North West +16 1 £275 - 13
West Midlands +12 1 £700 +154.55% 9
IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 England region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (75.00%) Cisco
3 13 (65.00%) Windows
4 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (55.00%) Linux
6 10 (50.00%) Azure
7 9 (45.00%) VMware
7 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
8 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (35.00%) Firewall
9 7 (35.00%) Security Management
9 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
10 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
10 6 (30.00%) Bash
11 5 (25.00%) PaaS
11 5 (25.00%) IaaS
11 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database
11 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
11 5 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
11 5 (25.00%) Veeam
11 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (25.00%) DNS
11 5 (25.00%) SQL
11 5 (25.00%) Oracle
12 4 (20.00%) Perl
12 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
12 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange

IT Infrastructure 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (25.00%) IaaS
3 5 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security
3 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (10.00%) VSAN
3 2 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) NAS
4 1 (5.00%) SAN
4 1 (5.00%) VLAN
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.00%) Local Government
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Linux
3 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.00%) Rocky
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Security Management
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Server Management
3 4 (20.00%) SOA
3 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) Information Security
4 3 (15.00%) Information Security Management
4 3 (15.00%) ISMS
4 3 (15.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) Bash
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Perl
4 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (45.00%) VMware
4 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 5 (25.00%) Veeam
5 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (15.00%) HP
5 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.00%) Dell
6 2 (10.00%) Meraki
7 1 (5.00%) EMC
7 1 (5.00%) SonicWALL