Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 104 98
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 63 83 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.91% 1.74% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 1.87% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 57 95
10th Percentile £263 £285 £313
25th Percentile £350 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £500
90th Percentile £630 £618 £550
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire +13 33 £413 -0.60% 19
North West -9 25 £525 +23.53% 47
North East +6 10 £650 +48.57% 11
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (96.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (58.73%) Windows
3 36 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 32 (50.79%) Windows Server
5 30 (47.62%) Linux
6 28 (44.44%) Cisco
7 25 (39.68%) Microsoft
7 25 (39.68%) VMware
8 23 (36.51%) Azure
9 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
10 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
11 17 (26.98%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (25.40%) Entra ID
13 15 (23.81%) Agile
13 15 (23.81%) DNS
14 13 (20.63%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (20.63%) Security Management
14 13 (20.63%) PowerShell
14 13 (20.63%) Veeam
15 12 (19.05%) Bash
15 12 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (19.05%) Migration
16 11 (17.46%) SAN
16 11 (17.46%) Roadmaps
17 10 (15.87%) Perl
17 10 (15.87%) SQL
17 10 (15.87%) Oracle
17 10 (15.87%) VMware Infrastructure
17 10 (15.87%) Microservices
17 10 (15.87%) Linux Command Line

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (25.40%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.11%) AWS
5 6 (9.52%) IaaS
6 4 (6.35%) Google Workspace
6 4 (6.35%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.17%) PaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.59%) GitHub
9 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.81%) DNS
2 11 (17.46%) SAN
3 7 (11.11%) Network Security
4 6 (9.52%) Firewall
4 6 (9.52%) VPN
5 4 (6.35%) DHCP
5 4 (6.35%) LAN
5 4 (6.35%) WAN
6 3 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (4.76%) Wireless
6 3 (4.76%) WLAN
7 2 (3.17%) Internet
7 2 (3.17%) MPLS
7 2 (3.17%) NAS
7 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.17%) VSAN
7 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.59%) DMZ
8 1 (1.59%) DWDM
8 1 (1.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) JIRA
3 4 (6.35%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (4.76%) GitLab
5 2 (3.17%) Git
6 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.59%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) TestNG
6 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.35%) Finance
4 4 (6.35%) Legal
5 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.17%) Local Government
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) Kafka
1 2 (3.17%) REST
1 2 (3.17%) RESTful
2 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.59%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.59%) Middleware
2 1 (1.59%) Node.js
2 1 (1.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (15.87%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.59%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.59%) IVR
7 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (58.73%) Windows
2 32 (50.79%) Windows Server
3 30 (47.62%) Linux
4 9 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (9.52%) Windows 10
7 5 (7.94%) Unix
7 5 (7.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (1.59%) Android
10 1 (1.59%) VMS
10 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (96.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (23.81%) Agile
3 13 (20.63%) Security Management
4 12 (19.05%) Migration
5 11 (17.46%) Roadmaps
6 10 (15.87%) Microservices
6 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.29%) RBAC
8 8 (12.70%) Data Protection
8 8 (12.70%) SOA
9 7 (11.11%) Information Security
10 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 6 (9.52%) Incident Management
10 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (9.52%) ITIL
10 6 (9.52%) Server Management
10 6 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
11 5 (7.94%) Storage Management
11 5 (7.94%) Strategic Roadmap
11 5 (7.94%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) PowerShell
2 12 (19.05%) Bash
3 10 (15.87%) Perl
3 10 (15.87%) SQL
4 9 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 8 (12.70%) Python
6 4 (6.35%) Groovy
7 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.63%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.35%) MCSE
5 4 (6.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.17%) CCNA
6 2 (3.17%) Degree
7 1 (1.59%) CCIE
7 1 (1.59%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.59%) SLA
2 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.35%) BitLocker
5 4 (6.35%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.76%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.76%) vSphere
7 2 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.59%) Docker
8 1 (1.59%) Firmware
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (11.11%) Ansible
4 6 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (6.35%) Terraform
5 4 (6.35%) WSUS
6 3 (4.76%) Backup Exec
6 3 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.76%) SCCM
6 3 (4.76%) vRealize
7 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.59%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
7 1 (1.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (44.44%) Cisco
2 25 (39.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (39.68%) VMware
3 13 (20.63%) Veeam
4 10 (15.87%) Oracle
5 9 (14.29%) Citrix
6 8 (12.70%) HP
7 7 (11.11%) Fortinet
8 5 (7.94%) CyberArk
8 5 (7.94%) Meraki
9 4 (6.35%) Atlassian
9 4 (6.35%) CheckPoint
9 4 (6.35%) Google
9 4 (6.35%) Zscaler
10 3 (4.76%) EMC
10 3 (4.76%) Symantec
11 2 (3.17%) Brocade
11 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
11 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
12 1 (1.59%) Arista