Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 479 589
Rank change year-on-year +50 +110 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 44 62 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 51 45
10th Percentile £450 £405 £373
25th Percentile £500 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £638
90th Percentile £650 £638 £702
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 -

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 22,096 34,040 45,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.74% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,636 22,553 32,010
10th Percentile £294 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 2,522 1,314
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.01
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +61 28 £588 +3.30% 24
North of England +5 6 £650 +40.54% 58
South West +46 5 £450 - 15
Yorkshire +14 5 £650 +36.84% 8
North East - 4 £650 - 7
North West -1 3 - - 43
East of England - 3 - - 11
West Midlands +15 2 - - 8
Midlands +12 2 - - 12
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (97.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (54.55%) Windows
3 21 (47.73%) Security Cleared
4 20 (45.45%) Azure
5 19 (43.18%) SC Cleared
6 15 (34.09%) AWS
6 15 (34.09%) Active Directory
7 14 (31.82%) Migration
7 14 (31.82%) Windows Server
8 13 (29.55%) Agile
8 13 (29.55%) Incident Management
8 13 (29.55%) JIRA
9 12 (27.27%) Atlassian
10 11 (25.00%) Business Continuity
10 11 (25.00%) Firewall
10 11 (25.00%) VPN
10 11 (25.00%) DNS
10 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
10 11 (25.00%) Confluence
10 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
11 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
11 10 (22.73%) IaaS
11 10 (22.73%) Python
11 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
12 9 (20.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 9 (20.45%) ScriptRunner
12 9 (20.45%) DHCP
12 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
12 9 (20.45%) Groovy

Senior 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 11 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Mattermost
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
3 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
3 10 (22.73%) IaaS
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (9.09%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.27%) OCI
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.27%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) DNS
1 11 (25.00%) Firewall
1 11 (25.00%) VPN
2 9 (20.45%) DHCP
2 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
3 7 (15.91%) LAN
4 5 (11.36%) 4G
4 5 (11.36%) Network Security
4 5 (11.36%) WAN
4 5 (11.36%) Wireless
5 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) JIRA
2 9 (20.45%) ScriptRunner
3 5 (11.36%) GitLab
4 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Banking
3 3 (6.82%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
3 3 (6.82%) Military
4 1 (2.27%) Law
4 1 (2.27%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (11.36%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (9.09%) PKI
4 3 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (54.55%) Windows
2 14 (31.82%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.36%) Linux
4 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (97.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (31.82%) Migration
3 13 (29.55%) Agile
3 13 (29.55%) Incident Management
4 11 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (20.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 7 (15.91%) High Availability
6 7 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (15.91%) Software Licensing
7 6 (13.64%) Data Privacy
7 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (13.64%) Inventory Management
7 6 (13.64%) Proactive Management
7 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.64%) Server Management
8 5 (11.36%) Business Strategy
8 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
8 5 (11.36%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) Python
2 9 (20.45%) Groovy
2 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.82%) SQL
4 1 (2.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (47.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (43.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) CCNA
3 5 (11.36%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.09%) CCNP
4 4 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) Hyper-V
3 5 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (9.09%) Docker
5 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (6.82%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (15.91%) Terraform
3 6 (13.64%) FortiGate
4 4 (9.09%) Puppet
5 3 (6.82%) SCCM
5 3 (6.82%) VxRail
6 2 (4.55%) Avamar
7 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) Nessus
7 1 (2.27%) Opsgenie
7 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.27%) vRealize
7 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) VMware
4 5 (11.36%) Google
5 4 (9.09%) Dell
6 2 (4.55%) Citrix
6 2 (4.55%) NetApp
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (4.55%) QAD
6 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.27%) Apple
7 1 (2.27%) Aruba
7 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.27%) HP
7 1 (2.27%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.27%) New Relic
7 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.27%) Zscaler