Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineering
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 41
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 25 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.33% 2.06% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 2.19% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 13
10th Percentile £449 - £416
25th Percentile £503 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £501 £465
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% +7.64% -7.01%
75th Percentile - £501 £500
90th Percentile £610 - £538
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 £501 £465
% change year-on-year +19.88% +7.64% -8.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 457 183 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.07% 94.33% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 138 293
10th Percentile £305 £304 £279
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.05% +5.26%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £652 £666
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 27
10th Percentile £15.19 £12.98 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.44 £17.82
Median hourly rate £18.32 £17.25 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -27.37% +137.50%
75th Percentile £29.61 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.51 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% -24.00% +92.31%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) 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%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) VSAN
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MySQL
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 18 (72.00%) Senior
2 15 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Identity Management Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DBA
6 2 (8.00%) SQL DBA
6 2 (8.00%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Citrix Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Senior DBA
7 1 (4.00%) Senior SQL DBA
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) PKI
2 4 (16.00%) Replication
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) High Availability
2 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 4 (16.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) User Experience
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.00%) Database Security
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) ETL
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.00%) Migration
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (8.00%) Planning and Forecasting
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) RBAC
6 2 (8.00%) Zero Trust
7 1 (4.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) CCA
4 3 (12.00%) CESG Certified Professional
4 3 (12.00%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (8.00%) NCDA
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.00%) CCNP
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.00%) LFCS
6 1 (4.00%) MCSE
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.00%) RHCE
6 1 (4.00%) RHCSA
6 1 (4.00%) VCAP
6 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (12.00%) VMware NSX
4 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.00%) vSphere
5 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) vCenter Server
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%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Citrix
2 6 (24.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) NetApp
4 2 (8.00%) Veeam
5 1 (4.00%) Broadcom
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) Tanium