Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Merseyside

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Merseyside is £215, 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 28 25 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.60% 3.51% 3.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 3.69% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £223 £319
25th Percentile £208 £285 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £290 £375
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% -22.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £223 £402 £402
90th Percentile - £444 £453
North West median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 160 217 330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 95.18% 96.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 117 242
10th Percentile £143 £151 £236
25th Percentile £203 £230 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% +10.47%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £550
90th Percentile £630 £588 £686
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 32 13
10th Percentile £13.28 - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +21.96% +9.13%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.80 £18.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £43.09 £23.75
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Merseyside

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Merseyside

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Merseyside

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Merseyside 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
Prescot - 1 £215 -
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

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 Merseyside region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) IVR
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft