Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South East median daily rate £560 £479 £465
% change year-on-year +16.97% +2.96% -7.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 91.67% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £530 £569 -
25th Percentile £575 £597 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £644 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% - -
75th Percentile £675 £897 -
90th Percentile £685 £1,049 -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat