Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineering
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 25 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 10 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.48% 0.95% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 1.13% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile - - £213
25th Percentile - £550 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £650 £544
90th Percentile - - £550
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £650 £600 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
1 4 (40.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 5 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Trainee
5 1 (10.00%) Trainee Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security Management
3 3 (30.00%) ISMS
3 3 (30.00%) Security Management
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (30.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) Veeam
2 3 (30.00%) VMware