Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 33 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.44% 1.48% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 1.85% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £416 - £213
25th Percentile £504 £263 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £438 £513
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -14.63% +13.89%
75th Percentile - £650 £541
90th Percentile - - £550
England median daily rate £525 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.31% +6.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +3 10 £650 +8.33% 12
Durham 0 1 £365 +32.73% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (36.36%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
1 4 (36.36%) ScriptRunner
General
1 5 (45.45%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Trainee
5 1 (9.09%) Trainee Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Zero Trust
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 3 (27.27%) Information Security
3 3 (27.27%) Information Security Management
3 3 (27.27%) ISMS
3 3 (27.27%) Security Management
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Register
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (9.09%) Benchmarking
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Atlassian
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
2 3 (27.27%) HP
2 3 (27.27%) Veeam