Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 71 78 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 101 116 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.07% 2.43% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 2.84% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 77 131
10th Percentile £277 £312 £313
25th Percentile £374 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £525
90th Percentile £618 £605 £600
England median daily rate £525 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.31% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £63.84
% change year-on-year +35.34% -27.66% +27.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +25 51 £525 +38.16% 30
North West -15 44 £525 +23.53% 62
North East +6 11 £650 +48.57% 14
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 23 (22.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (15.84%) SharePoint
3 15 (14.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (4.95%) Confluence
5 1 (0.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.99%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (40.59%) Azure
2 34 (33.66%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (31.68%) Entra ID
4 13 (12.87%) AWS
5 11 (10.89%) IaaS
6 4 (3.96%) Google Workspace
6 4 (3.96%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.98%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.98%) PaaS
8 2 (1.98%) Serverless
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.99%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.99%) GCP
9 1 (0.99%) GitHub
9 1 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (36.63%) DNS
2 15 (14.85%) DHCP
3 13 (12.87%) SAN
4 12 (11.88%) Firewall
4 12 (11.88%) Network Security
5 7 (6.93%) VPN
6 5 (4.95%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (4.95%) LAN
6 5 (4.95%) WAN
7 4 (3.96%) NAS
8 3 (2.97%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (2.97%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.97%) Wireless
8 3 (2.97%) WLAN
9 2 (1.98%) Internet
9 2 (1.98%) MPLS
9 2 (1.98%) VSAN
9 2 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.99%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.81%) Oracle Database
2 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.99%) MySQL
3 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.94%) GitLab
2 6 (5.94%) JIRA
3 4 (3.96%) Git
3 4 (3.96%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.99%) TestNG
4 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.89%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.92%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.95%) Finance
4 5 (4.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (3.96%) Legal
5 4 (3.96%) Military
6 3 (2.97%) Banking
6 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Local Government
7 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 61 (60.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 11 (10.89%) IT Engineer
3 11 (10.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (9.90%) Engineering Specialist
4 10 (9.90%) Senior
5 8 (7.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Analyst
8 5 (4.95%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) Kafka
2 3 (2.97%) Middleware
3 2 (1.98%) REST
3 2 (1.98%) RESTful
4 1 (0.99%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.99%) cloud-init
4 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.99%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.99%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.99%) Node.js
4 1 (0.99%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.81%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (13.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.94%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.99%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) IVR
8 1 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (65.35%) Windows
2 58 (57.43%) Windows Server
3 43 (42.57%) Linux
4 11 (10.89%) VMS
5 9 (8.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (5.94%) Unix
7 6 (5.94%) Windows 10
8 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.98%) CentOS
12 1 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.99%) Android
12 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.72%) Agile
2 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (20.79%) Migration
4 19 (18.81%) Microservices
4 19 (18.81%) Security Management
5 16 (15.84%) ITIL
6 15 (14.85%) SOA
7 14 (13.86%) DevOps
7 14 (13.86%) Roadmaps
7 14 (13.86%) Server Management
8 12 (11.88%) High Availability
9 11 (10.89%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (10.89%) ITSM
10 10 (9.90%) Information Security
11 9 (8.91%) Business Continuity
11 9 (8.91%) Project Delivery
11 9 (8.91%) RBAC
12 8 (7.92%) CI/CD
12 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (7.92%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.69%) PowerShell
2 24 (23.76%) Bash
3 19 (18.81%) Perl
3 19 (18.81%) SQL
4 17 (16.83%) PL/SQL
5 13 (12.87%) Python
6 4 (3.96%) Groovy
6 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.99%) Go
7 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (33.66%) Security Cleared
2 29 (28.71%) SC Cleared
3 22 (21.78%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.95%) Degree
6 4 (3.96%) MCSE
6 4 (3.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.98%) CCNA
7 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.99%) CCIE
8 1 (0.99%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.99%) NCSC
2 1 (0.99%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.99%) SLA
2 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (62.38%) Active Directory
2 18 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.90%) vSphere
4 8 (7.92%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.94%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (4.95%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.95%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.96%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.99%) Docker
9 1 (0.99%) Firmware
9 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 23 (22.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (14.85%) WSUS
3 11 (10.89%) vCenter Server
4 10 (9.90%) Ansible
5 7 (6.93%) Terraform
6 6 (5.94%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.95%) vRealize
8 3 (2.97%) Backup Exec
8 3 (2.97%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.97%) SCCM
9 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.99%) Grafana
10 1 (0.99%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.99%) linkerd
10 1 (0.99%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.99%) Packer
10 1 (0.99%) Puppet
10 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (41.58%) VMware
2 40 (39.60%) Microsoft
3 36 (35.64%) Cisco
4 19 (18.81%) Oracle
5 11 (10.89%) Veeam
6 9 (8.91%) Citrix
7 6 (5.94%) HP
8 5 (4.95%) CyberArk
8 5 (4.95%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.95%) Meraki
9 4 (3.96%) Atlassian
9 4 (3.96%) CheckPoint
9 4 (3.96%) Google
9 4 (3.96%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.97%) EMC
10 3 (2.97%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.97%) Symantec
11 2 (1.98%) Apple
11 2 (1.98%) Brocade
11 2 (1.98%) Splunk