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 £471, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.93% - 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £467 - £375
25th Percentile £468 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £473 - £646
90th Percentile £474 - £720
England median daily rate £454 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.13% - +7.82%

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 297 245 217
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 88.13% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 105 167
10th Percentile £170 £264 £240
25th Percentile £338 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £572
90th Percentile £640 £650 £636
England median daily rate £510 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.60% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 9
10th Percentile £13.83 £26.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.03 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.32% +44.31% +103.17%
75th Percentile £26.81 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £49.95 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +55.17%

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
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 27 October 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 £471 - 5
Durham - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin

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 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) VMware