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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 47 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.50% 3.05% -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.74% 3.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 0
10th Percentile £593 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £600 £650 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 607 184 134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.81% 93.40% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 118 83
10th Percentile £313 £218 £317
25th Percentile £400 £416 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £531
90th Percentile £650 £638 £641
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 8 10
10th Percentile £20.86 £13.64 £18.23
25th Percentile £62.50 £14.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £19.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +250.65% -61.50% +104.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £24.47 £70.00
90th Percentile - £40.80 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £14.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +364.45% -72.01% +104.08%

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 19 August 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (48.94%) Security Cleared
3 21 (44.68%) AWS
4 20 (42.55%) Ansible
4 20 (42.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (42.55%) OCI
5 17 (36.17%) Azure
5 17 (36.17%) SC Cleared
6 16 (34.04%) Firewall
6 16 (34.04%) Palo Alto
6 16 (34.04%) Python
6 16 (34.04%) Zero Trust
7 14 (29.79%) GitLab
7 14 (29.79%) Terraform
8 11 (23.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (21.28%) Arista
9 10 (21.28%) Aruba
9 10 (21.28%) BGP
9 10 (21.28%) BIG-IP
9 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
9 10 (21.28%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (21.28%) F5
9 10 (21.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 10 (21.28%) OSPF
9 10 (21.28%) SD-WAN
9 10 (21.28%) VXLAN
9 10 (21.28%) WAN
10 9 (19.15%) Load Balancing
11 7 (14.89%) High Availability
12 5 (10.64%) Incident Management

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 21 (44.68%) AWS
2 20 (42.55%) OCI
3 17 (36.17%) Azure
4 5 (10.64%) SaaS
5 1 (2.13%) GCP
5 1 (2.13%) IaaS
5 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.04%) Firewall
2 10 (21.28%) BGP
2 10 (21.28%) BIG-IP
2 10 (21.28%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (21.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 10 (21.28%) OSPF
2 10 (21.28%) SD-WAN
2 10 (21.28%) VXLAN
2 10 (21.28%) WAN
3 4 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (8.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) GitLab
2 3 (6.38%) Git
General
1 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Data Centre
2 9 (19.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) AIX
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Android
2 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (42.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (34.04%) Zero Trust
4 11 (23.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 9 (19.15%) Load Balancing
7 7 (14.89%) High Availability
8 5 (10.64%) Incident Management
8 5 (10.64%) Network Design
9 4 (8.51%) Data Migration
9 4 (8.51%) Migration
10 3 (6.38%) DevOps
10 3 (6.38%) Network Architecture
11 1 (2.13%) Mobile Device Management
11 1 (2.13%) Network Segmentation
11 1 (2.13%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (42.55%) Ansible
2 14 (29.79%) Terraform
3 4 (8.51%) Data Guard
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Palo Alto
2 10 (21.28%) Arista
2 10 (21.28%) Aruba
2 10 (21.28%) F5
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) VMware
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