Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 20 21 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 9 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.14% 5.64% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.70% 7.14% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £45.59 -
North West median hourly rate - £45.59 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 154 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.29% 78.97% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 118
10th Percentile £400 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £747 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 42
10th Percentile £14.62 - £22.31
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £28.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%
75th Percentile £43.94 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £60.59 £48.00 £53.43
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Lancashire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston -4 4 £438 - 3
Burnley - 3 - - 1
Blackpool - 2 - - 2
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (44.44%) OneDrive
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) SAN
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (44.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Industrial Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2019
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) E-Discovery
1 4 (44.44%) High Availability
1 4 (44.44%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (44.44%) RBAC
2 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (44.44%) MCSE
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) vCenter Server
2 4 (44.44%) WSUS
3 3 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco
3 3 (33.33%) Symantec
3 3 (33.33%) Veeam
4 2 (22.22%) Atlassian