Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 63 58 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 +37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 16 38 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 2.50% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.88% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 33 63
10th Percentile £349 £313 £325
25th Percentile - £350 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £525
90th Percentile £605 £610 £538
North West median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Entra ID
3 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (31.25%) IaaS
5 3 (18.75%) AWS
6 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DHCP
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
3 1 (6.25%) MPLS
3 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
General
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
1 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) VMS
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Analytics
1 5 (31.25%) BCP
1 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
1 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity Planning
1 5 (31.25%) Change Management
1 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (31.25%) High Availability
1 5 (31.25%) Information Security
1 5 (31.25%) Line Management
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
1 5 (31.25%) Risk Assessment
1 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 5 (31.25%) Web Operations
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) vSphere
3 2 (12.50%) BitLocker
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (12.50%) WSUS
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) VMware
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 2 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (12.50%) Zscaler
5 1 (6.25%) EMC
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Meraki
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) Veeam