Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £385, 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 72 72 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 -20 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 24 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 1.58% 3.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.65% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 49
10th Percentile £349 £313 £323
25th Percentile - £375 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £500
90th Percentile £605 £644 £540
North West median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

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 Manchester region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
4 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Google
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
4 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (28.57%) BitLocker

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Unix
4 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) BitLocker
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Citrix
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
3 1 (14.29%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam
53 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in the North West