Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Essex

Infrastructure Engineering
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 24 26
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 5 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.25% 3.60% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.58% 4.44% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £386 £194 £278
25th Percentile £422 £347 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +29.03% -27.91%
75th Percentile £547 - £494
90th Percentile £579 £514 £633
East of England median daily rate £473 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.67% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 £40.31 -
Median % change year-on-year +396.15% - -
East of England median hourly rate £200.00 £40.31 -
% change year-on-year +396.15% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.00% 81.08% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Essex

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Essex

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Essex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Essex

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Essex

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Basildon - 2 £375 - 4
Southend-on-Sea - 2 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITSM
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat