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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 35 32
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +20
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.91% 1.90% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.97% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile - £358 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £365 £438
Median % change year-on-year +36.99% -16.57% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £373 £650
90th Percentile £594 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -7.50%

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 525 304 304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.20% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 219 140
10th Percentile £180 £200 £187
25th Percentile £363 £340 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year - -3.12% -13.38%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £593 £625 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 18 64
10th Percentile £17.00 - £10.42
25th Percentile £37.38 £11.60 £11.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 £14.73
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -11.71% -69.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £23.97 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £49.73 £50.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -19.08%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -18 5 £500 - 10
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) VMware

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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Key Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) VMware