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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 50 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 6.35% 2.76% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.77% 3.04% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 3 1
10th Percentile £461 £416 -
25th Percentile - £504 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £275
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +136.36% -31.25%
75th Percentile £647 - £288
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £525 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% -

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 739 263 214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 171 115
10th Percentile £313 £188 £268
25th Percentile £363 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £660 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 21 27
10th Percentile £17.00 - £10.42
25th Percentile £50.94 £11.60 £14.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.49 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +381.84% -68.63% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £48.09
90th Percentile - £46.18 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -10 47 £600 -7.69% 4
Durham -6 3 £500 +36.99% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 North East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (46.00%) Security Cleared
3 21 (42.00%) AWS
4 20 (40.00%) Ansible
4 20 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (40.00%) OCI
5 17 (34.00%) Azure
5 17 (34.00%) Firewall
5 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
6 16 (32.00%) Palo Alto
6 16 (32.00%) Python
6 16 (32.00%) Zero Trust
7 14 (28.00%) GitLab
7 14 (28.00%) Terraform
8 11 (22.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (20.00%) Arista
9 10 (20.00%) Aruba
9 10 (20.00%) BGP
9 10 (20.00%) BIG-IP
9 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 10 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (20.00%) F5
9 10 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 10 (20.00%) OSPF
9 10 (20.00%) SD-WAN
9 10 (20.00%) VXLAN
9 10 (20.00%) WAN
10 9 (18.00%) Load Balancing
11 7 (14.00%) High Availability
12 5 (10.00%) Incident Management

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 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 20 (40.00%) OCI
3 17 (34.00%) Azure
4 5 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) IaaS
5 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) Firewall
2 10 (20.00%) BGP
2 10 (20.00%) BIG-IP
2 10 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 10 (20.00%) OSPF
2 10 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 10 (20.00%) VXLAN
2 10 (20.00%) WAN
3 5 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (8.00%) WLAN
5 1 (2.00%) DHCP
5 1 (2.00%) DMZ
5 1 (2.00%) DNS
5 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (8.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) GitLab
2 3 (6.00%) Git
General
1 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (18.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) AIX
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (32.00%) Zero Trust
4 11 (22.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.00%) Load Balancing
7 7 (14.00%) High Availability
8 5 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 5 (10.00%) Network Design
9 4 (8.00%) Data Migration
9 4 (8.00%) Migration
10 3 (6.00%) DevOps
10 3 (6.00%) Network Architecture
11 1 (2.00%) Mobile Device Management
11 1 (2.00%) Network Segmentation
11 1 (2.00%) Project Delivery
11 1 (2.00%) Service Delivery
11 1 (2.00%) Task Automation
11 1 (2.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (46.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (40.00%) Ansible
2 14 (28.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.00%) Data Guard
3 4 (8.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.00%) Nessus
4 1 (2.00%) SCCM
4 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Palo Alto
2 10 (20.00%) Arista
2 10 (20.00%) Aruba
2 10 (20.00%) F5
3 4 (8.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.00%) Citrix
5 1 (2.00%) Tenable
5 1 (2.00%) Zscaler