Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Kent is £451, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 12 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 11.43% 4.46% 8.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.63% 4.81% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 19
10th Percentile - £310 -
25th Percentile £329 £375 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £388 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £608 £425 £356
90th Percentile £623 - £394
South East median daily rate £559 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +24.28% - +3.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 95 187 214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.57% 97.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 118 175
10th Percentile £180 £203 £129
25th Percentile £205 £211 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £388 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +10.71% -17.65%
75th Percentile £529 £523 £491
90th Percentile £668 £575 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 7
10th Percentile £16.19 £11.45 £37.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.50 £42.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £55.20 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -60.15% -1.84% +69.79%
75th Percentile £80.10 £78.58 £57.12
90th Percentile £88.58 £82.43 £61.35
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Kent 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
Maidstone - 8 £451 - 4
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Kent region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) VMware
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) IaaS
2 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 6 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) DFS Replication
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) DHCP
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) SLA
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) SAN
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Email Migration
4 3 (25.00%) PaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (25.00%) Migration

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
1 6 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Email Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) DFS Replication
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft