Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 8.59% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £449
% change year-on-year - +0.22% +0.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £72.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £74.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 114 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 69.94% 76.74% 75.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 5 29
10th Percentile £205 £205 £181
25th Percentile £433 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.85%
75th Percentile £552 £519 £688
90th Percentile £634 £538 £788
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £445
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 6
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.21 £12.28
25th Percentile £23.05 £18.45 £12.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £18.87 £17.08
Median % change year-on-year +51.03% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £31.09 £21.30
90th Percentile £74.25 £45.58 £31.99
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -40.87%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
Lincoln - 10 £500 -
Immingham - 3 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DHCP
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (42.86%) IPv4
2 6 (42.86%) IPv6
2 6 (42.86%) Network Security
2 6 (42.86%) VLAN
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) IT Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (35.71%) Onboarding
2 5 (35.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
1 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 6 (42.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.14%) Information Management
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Management
4 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Service Management
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) MCSA
4 1 (7.14%) MCSE
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) WSUS
2 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Citrix
3 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
3 3 (21.43%) NetApp
3 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds