Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North East

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North East is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 8 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.58% 1.24% 2.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 1.36% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £416 - £340
25th Percentile £504 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% +9.38% -23.81%
75th Percentile - £650 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +9.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 289 295 321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 91.61% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 127 237
10th Percentile £200 £190 £248
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £574 £625
90th Percentile £625 £646 £708
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 62 6
10th Percentile - £10.42 £16.63
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -56.62% +95.45%
75th Percentile £19.70 £48.11 £33.75
90th Percentile £47.93 £50.00 £39.97
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +2 7 £650 +8.33% 15
Durham 0 1 £365 +32.73% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 1 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 North East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (50.00%) Groovy
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Confluence
2 4 (50.00%) IaaS
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (37.50%) Veeam
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) ISMS
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security Management
3 3 (37.50%) ISMS
3 3 (37.50%) Security Management
3 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 3 (37.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Veeam