Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £466, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.13% - 3.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% - 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £471 - £720
90th Percentile £473 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £466 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 256 151 140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.24% 84.83% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 78 102
10th Percentile £163 £174 £201
25th Percentile £338 £336 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £425 £485
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -12.37% -11.82%
75th Percentile £536 £501 £600
90th Percentile £600 £627 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £448 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.29% -10.53% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 5
10th Percentile £14.05 £17.01 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £42.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.97 £60.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.72% +252.94% +38.78%
75th Percentile £51.50 £70.00 £32.00
90th Percentile £53.75 - £33.05
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.97 £60.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -66.72% +252.94% +36.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus