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 £406, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 106 94
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 58 78 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.73% 1.66% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 1.78% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 56 77
10th Percentile £263 £293 £320
25th Percentile £350 £347 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £500
90th Percentile £593 £619 £579
England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £200.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +788.89% -65.38% +42.92%

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 3,120 4,377 5,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.01% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,062 2,718 3,703
10th Percentile £236 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £595
90th Percentile £638 £671 £688
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 425 159
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.07 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.34 £12.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.36 £22.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -25.00% +54.16%
75th Percentile £46.89 £46.91 £48.29
90th Percentile £74.38 £64.50 £65.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

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 31 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 31 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 +24 31 £419 -6.94% 21
North West -20 23 £385 -9.41% 80
North East +7 10 £650 +48.57% 19
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 56 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (60.34%) Active Directory
3 33 (56.90%) Windows
4 31 (53.45%) Linux
5 29 (50.00%) Windows Server
6 28 (48.28%) Cisco
7 23 (39.66%) VMware
8 22 (37.93%) Microsoft
9 21 (36.21%) Azure
10 20 (34.48%) Security Cleared
11 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
12 16 (27.59%) Agile
12 16 (27.59%) Entra ID
13 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (25.86%) DNS
14 13 (22.41%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (22.41%) Security Management
14 13 (22.41%) PowerShell
14 13 (22.41%) Veeam
14 13 (22.41%) Bash
15 12 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (20.69%) Migration
16 11 (18.97%) SAN
17 10 (17.24%) Linux Command Line
17 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (17.24%) Oracle Database
17 10 (17.24%) Perl
17 10 (17.24%) SQL
17 10 (17.24%) Oracle
18 9 (15.52%) PL/SQL

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 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (13.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) Entra ID
3 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.07%) AWS
5 6 (10.34%) IaaS
6 4 (6.90%) Google Workspace
6 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.45%) PaaS
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub
9 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.86%) DNS
2 11 (18.97%) SAN
3 7 (12.07%) Network Security
4 6 (10.34%) Firewall
4 6 (10.34%) VPN
5 4 (6.90%) DHCP
5 4 (6.90%) LAN
5 4 (6.90%) WAN
6 3 (5.17%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (5.17%) Wireless
6 3 (5.17%) WLAN
7 2 (3.45%) Internet
7 2 (3.45%) MPLS
7 2 (3.45%) NAS
7 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.72%) BGP
8 1 (1.72%) DWDM
8 1 (1.72%) L2TP
8 1 (1.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.72%) GitLab
4 1 (1.72%) Selenium
4 1 (1.72%) TestNG
4 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (6.90%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Legal
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.45%) Local Government
6 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) REST
1 2 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.72%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.72%) Middleware
2 1 (1.72%) Node.js
2 1 (1.72%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (17.24%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (13.79%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (8.62%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.72%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 33 (56.90%) Windows
2 31 (53.45%) Linux
3 29 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (10.34%) Windows 10
5 6 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (8.62%) Unix
7 4 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (1.72%) Android
9 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (27.59%) Agile
3 13 (22.41%) Security Management
4 12 (20.69%) Migration
5 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.52%) Data Protection
6 9 (15.52%) RBAC
6 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
7 8 (13.79%) Microservices
7 8 (13.79%) SOA
8 7 (12.07%) Information Security
9 6 (10.34%) Server Management
9 6 (10.34%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (8.62%) High Availability
10 5 (8.62%) Information Security Management
10 5 (8.62%) Privileged Access Management
10 5 (8.62%) Storage Management
10 5 (8.62%) Technology Roadmap
10 5 (8.62%) User Experience
10 5 (8.62%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) Bash
1 13 (22.41%) PowerShell
2 10 (17.24%) Perl
2 10 (17.24%) SQL
3 9 (15.52%) PL/SQL
4 6 (10.34%) Python
5 4 (6.90%) Groovy
6 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.41%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.90%) MCSE
5 4 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.45%) CCNA
7 1 (1.72%) CCIE
7 1 (1.72%) CCNP
7 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (60.34%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (8.62%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.90%) BitLocker
6 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.17%) VMware NSX
6 3 (5.17%) vSphere
7 2 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.72%) Docker
8 1 (1.72%) Firmware
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) vCenter Server
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (8.62%) Ansible
5 4 (6.90%) WSUS
6 3 (5.17%) Backup Exec
6 3 (5.17%) vRealize
7 2 (3.45%) SCCM
7 2 (3.45%) Terraform
8 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.72%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.72%) Puppet
8 1 (1.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (48.28%) Cisco
2 23 (39.66%) VMware
3 22 (37.93%) Microsoft
4 13 (22.41%) Veeam
5 10 (17.24%) Oracle
6 9 (15.52%) Citrix
7 8 (13.79%) HP
8 7 (12.07%) Fortinet
9 5 (8.62%) CyberArk
9 5 (8.62%) Meraki
10 4 (6.90%) Atlassian
10 4 (6.90%) CheckPoint
10 4 (6.90%) Google
10 4 (6.90%) Zscaler
11 3 (5.17%) EMC
11 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
11 3 (5.17%) Symantec
12 2 (3.45%) Brocade
12 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
13 1 (1.72%) Arista