Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North East

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North East is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 37 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 58 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 6.80% 2.28% -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.29% 2.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 0
10th Percentile £433 £469 -
25th Percentile £534 £473 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 -
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £540 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +13.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £47.12 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £32.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +134.38% -46.67% -15.79%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 796 282 259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 91.86% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 180 107
10th Percentile £313 £173 £268
25th Percentile £365 £338 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £568
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 11 23
10th Percentile £13.84 £13.75 £15.35
25th Percentile £39.88 £16.19 £32.70
Median hourly rate £65.00 £19.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +237.66% -58.32% +44.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £22.19 £50.00
90th Percentile - £36.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 16 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North East

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 16 October 2026. 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 +5 53 £600 +6.67% 10
Durham -6 4 £500 -
Northumberland - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 North East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (43.10%) Security Cleared
3 24 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (37.93%) AWS
5 21 (36.21%) Ansible
5 21 (36.21%) Azure
6 20 (34.48%) Firewall
6 20 (34.48%) OCI
7 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
8 17 (29.31%) Palo Alto
8 17 (29.31%) Terraform
9 16 (27.59%) Python
9 16 (27.59%) Zero Trust
10 14 (24.14%) GitLab
11 11 (18.97%) Aruba
11 11 (18.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (17.24%) Arista
12 10 (17.24%) BGP
12 10 (17.24%) BIG-IP
12 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
12 10 (17.24%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (17.24%) F5
12 10 (17.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 10 (17.24%) OSPF
12 10 (17.24%) SD-WAN
12 10 (17.24%) VXLAN
12 10 (17.24%) WAN
13 9 (15.52%) Load Balancing
13 9 (15.52%) Windows
14 8 (13.79%) Active Directory

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 22 (37.93%) AWS
2 21 (36.21%) Azure
3 20 (34.48%) OCI
4 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.90%) SaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.17%) IaaS
6 3 (5.17%) PaaS
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.72%) Route 53
8 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (34.48%) Firewall
2 10 (17.24%) BGP
2 10 (17.24%) BIG-IP
2 10 (17.24%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (17.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 10 (17.24%) OSPF
2 10 (17.24%) SD-WAN
2 10 (17.24%) VXLAN
2 10 (17.24%) WAN
3 5 (8.62%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (6.90%) WLAN
5 2 (3.45%) DHCP
5 2 (3.45%) DNS
5 2 (3.45%) VPN
6 1 (1.72%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
1 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) GitLab
2 3 (5.17%) Git
General
1 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.45%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) Terraform
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Data Centre
2 10 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.72%) PKI
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
5 1 (1.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Windows
2 7 (12.07%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.34%) Linux
4 4 (6.90%) AIX
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (27.59%) Zero Trust
4 11 (18.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 9 (15.52%) Load Balancing
7 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 7 (12.07%) High Availability
9 5 (8.62%) Incident Management
9 5 (8.62%) Network Design
10 4 (6.90%) Data Migration
11 3 (5.17%) Analytics
11 3 (5.17%) DevOps
11 3 (5.17%) Log Analytics
11 3 (5.17%) Network Architecture
11 3 (5.17%) Penetration Testing
11 3 (5.17%) Server Migrations
11 3 (5.17%) Validation
12 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security
12 1 (1.72%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Python
2 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (43.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Ansible
2 4 (6.90%) Data Guard
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (5.17%) SCCM
4 2 (3.45%) Nessus
5 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.72%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Palo Alto
2 11 (18.97%) Aruba
3 10 (17.24%) Arista
3 10 (17.24%) F5
4 5 (8.62%) VMware
5 4 (6.90%) Oracle
6 3 (5.17%) Commvault
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.17%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.17%) Veeam
7 2 (3.45%) Cisco
7 2 (3.45%) Tenable
8 1 (1.72%) Carbon Black
8 1 (1.72%) Citrix
8 1 (1.72%) Dell
8 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.72%) McAfee
8 1 (1.72%) Okta
8 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.72%) Zscaler