Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.06% 0.53% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 0.58% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £650 £600 £400
% change year-on-year +8.33% +50.00% -23.81%

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 216 172 233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 91.01% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 88 168
10th Percentile £275 £343 £319
25th Percentile £379 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -15.93% +7.62%
75th Percentile £558 £540 £650
90th Percentile £644 £627 £750
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 3
10th Percentile £13.92 £16.25 £19.85
25th Percentile £14.75 £18.69 £24.13
Median hourly rate £19.25 £47.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.47% +48.44% +93.94%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £32.88
90th Percentile £39.45 £70.00 £33.40
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year -25.71% -45.31% +93.94%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Atlassian
2 4 (57.14%) Groovy
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Confluence
2 4 (57.14%) IaaS
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (57.14%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) ISMS
3 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security Management
3 3 (42.86%) ISMS
3 3 (42.86%) Security Management
3 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Atlassian
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Veeam
2 3 (42.86%) VMware