Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Milton Keynes is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 34 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 25 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.96% 1.98% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.13% 2.09% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 7
10th Percentile - - £412
25th Percentile £503 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £501 £465
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +7.64% -4.62%
75th Percentile £600 £501 -
90th Percentile £603 - £497
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £501 £431
% change year-on-year +14.89% +16.08% -12.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 605 191 420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.88% 94.55% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 142 318
10th Percentile £350 £248 £243
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £599
90th Percentile £640 £650 £708
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 30
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.30 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -17.02% +97.73%
75th Percentile £37.82 £53.75 £29.25
90th Percentile £39.63 £63.50 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.34 £17.25 £23.88
% change year-on-year +0.49% -27.75% +81.42%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 31 March 2026, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (40.00%) Citrix
4 7 (28.00%) High Availability
4 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (28.00%) VMware
5 5 (20.00%) Azure
5 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 5 (20.00%) Linux
5 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (16.00%) AWS
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
7 3 (12.00%) DNS
7 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (12.00%) Windows
7 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
8 2 (8.00%) Agile
8 2 (8.00%) Bicep
8 2 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (8.00%) CCA
8 2 (8.00%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
8 2 (8.00%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.00%) DevOps

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.00%) IaaS
3 1 (4.00%) PaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) VSAN
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) PKI
2 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Debian
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (28.00%) High Availability
3 5 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (12.00%) Zero Trust
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (8.00%) User Experience
7 1 (4.00%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.00%) Migration
7 1 (4.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Bicep
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) CCA
4 2 (8.00%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (8.00%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (8.00%) NCDA
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) VCAP
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (8.00%) vSphere
4 1 (4.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Citrix
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) NetApp
4 2 (8.00%) Veeam
5 1 (4.00%) Tanium