Lead Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 486 547
Rank change year-on-year -62 +61 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 6 1 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.018% 0.004% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.004% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £235 - -
25th Percentile £325 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £488 - £713
90th Percentile £495 - £741
UK median daily rate £475 - £613
% change year-on-year - - +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 30,608 24,451 35,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.04% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,485 15,141 23,660
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 728 2,103
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.77
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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 West - 2 £175 - 1
North of England - 1 £475 -
North East - 1 £475 -
South East - 1 £500 - 3
London - 1 - - 2
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (16.67%) Becrypt
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (16.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) UAG
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Becrypt
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft