Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 13 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 19 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 15.70% 4.89% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.81% 7.56% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 12
10th Percentile - £143 -
25th Percentile £329 £156 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £320 £350
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -8.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £603 £425 £359
90th Percentile £623 - £372
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 119 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 83.47% 64.67% 71.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 72 118
10th Percentile £160 £155 £200
25th Percentile £220 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% -6.74%
75th Percentile £513 £556 £540
90th Percentile £625 £728 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 8
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile £16.36 - £54.22
Median hourly rate £18.38 £15.00 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.53% -75.90% -
75th Percentile £20.66 £53.27 £79.05
90th Percentile £21.12 £60.38 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £21.67 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.22% +14.70% +113.27%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Kent over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Kent region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 - 7 £333 - 4
Dover - 5 £375 -
West Malling - 1 £615 - 3
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) IaaS
3 4 (21.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) DHCP
1 12 (63.16%) DNS
2 8 (42.11%) SAN
3 7 (36.84%) Firewall
4 5 (26.32%) SSL
4 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
4 5 (26.32%) VLAN
4 5 (26.32%) VPN
5 4 (21.05%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) French Language
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) VMware Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
3 3 (15.79%) Email Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
4 1 (5.26%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (5.26%) Agile
4 1 (5.26%) API Testing
4 1 (5.26%) Epics
4 1 (5.26%) Logistics
4 1 (5.26%) Microservices
4 1 (5.26%) Scrum
4 1 (5.26%) User Stories
4 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (63.16%) vSphere
2 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) DFS Replication
3 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) VMware
2 10 (52.63%) Citrix
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 5 (26.32%) SolarWinds
4 5 (26.32%) Veeam