Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Infrastructure Engineering
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.18% - 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% - 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £444
90th Percentile - - £470
Leicestershire median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61 64 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 71.76% 90.14% 82.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 85
10th Percentile £192 £225 £175
25th Percentile £400 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -13.45% +23.46%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £575
90th Percentile £627 £714 £701
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £428 £475
% change year-on-year -0.58% -10.00% +18.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £14.51 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.51 £21.25 £34.00
Median hourly rate £17.92 £22.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% -59.82% -12.16%
75th Percentile £21.09 £23.75 £60.50
90th Percentile £22.53 - £63.20
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.50 £23.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +1.08% +10.71% -65.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Leicester

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto