Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 43 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 -28 +45
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 12 3 69
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.19% 0.65% 9.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 0.79% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 55
10th Percentile £225 - £405
25th Percentile £306 - £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £575 - £713
90th Percentile £706 - £775
East of England median daily rate £400 £425 £643
% change year-on-year -5.88% -33.85% +42.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.38
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
East of England median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +91.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 499 382 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.89% 83.22% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 150 374
10th Percentile £196 £257 £266
25th Percentile £402 £314 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £675
90th Percentile £713 £650 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 89 152
10th Percentile £16.45 £15.10 £20.58
25th Percentile £18.45 £30.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £42.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.23% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.63
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.05 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -4.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Hertfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Stevenage - 4 £338 - 6
Welwyn Garden City -1 2 £713 -
Hatfield - 2 - -
Broxbourne - 1 - - 1
Hoddesdon - 1 - - 1
St Albans - 1 £335 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (8.33%) Cohesity
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) DHCP
3 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (8.33%) NAS
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
6 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Finance Systems Manager
6 1 (8.33%) IT Finance Manager
6 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
6 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Oracle Project Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (8.33%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Smartcard
2 1 (8.33%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (16.67%) VMS
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (8.33%) BCP
3 1 (8.33%) Biotechnology
3 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.33%) Scrum
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
1 2 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Wyse
4 1 (8.33%) Aruba
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Tenable
4 1 (8.33%) Veeam
4 1 (8.33%) Veritas