Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 100 63
Rank change year-on-year -18 -37 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 95 62 140
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.01% 1.73% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.99% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 32 113
10th Percentile £300 £301 £310
25th Percentile £325 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £544 £563 £500
90th Percentile £650 £642 £538
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £32.75 £49.81 -
25th Percentile £42.88 £51.41 £21.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 £58.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% +158.41% -
75th Percentile £71.76 £65.20 £23.75
90th Percentile £73.26 £66.98 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.94% +6.78%

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 4,189 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.62% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.36 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £28.96 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Engineering

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 December 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 -15 50 £482 +13.41% 54
North West -20 42 £472 -3.28% 56
North East -6 4 £466 - 11
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (6.32%) SharePoint
1 6 (6.32%) TPMS
2 4 (4.21%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) IIS
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) iPlanet
4 2 (2.11%) JBoss
4 2 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.11%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.05%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) Azure
2 18 (18.95%) AWS
3 16 (16.84%) OpenShift
4 15 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (13.68%) SaaS
6 12 (12.63%) Google Workspace
7 7 (7.37%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.21%) GCP
9 3 (3.16%) PaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.11%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.11%) IaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.11%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.11%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.68%) Firewall
2 9 (9.47%) SAN
3 8 (8.42%) NAS
3 8 (8.42%) SSH
3 8 (8.42%) SSL
4 6 (6.32%) DNS
4 6 (6.32%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (6.32%) iSCSI
4 6 (6.32%) SNMP
5 5 (5.26%) VLAN
6 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.16%) BGP
8 2 (2.11%) DHCP
8 2 (2.11%) Kerberos
8 2 (2.11%) NetScaler
8 2 (2.11%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (2.11%) VPN
8 2 (2.11%) WAN
9 1 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (1.05%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.32%) JIRA
3 4 (4.21%) Git
4 3 (3.16%) GitLab
5 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.11%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.05%) MSI
6 1 (1.05%) Robot Framework
General
1 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.05%) Finance
3 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
6 5 (5.26%) Military
7 4 (4.21%) Legal
8 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.16%) Retail
9 2 (2.11%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (61.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (13.68%) Senior
2 13 (13.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (6.32%) Cryptography Engineer
3 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (5.26%) IT Engineer
4 5 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (4.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (4.21%) Lead
6 3 (3.16%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.11%) Analyst
7 2 (2.11%) Design Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) Developer
7 2 (2.11%) Implementation Specialist
7 2 (2.11%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.16%) Middleware
2 2 (2.11%) LDAP
2 2 (2.11%) OAuth
2 2 (2.11%) OpenID
2 2 (2.11%) SAML
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.05%) pytest
3 1 (1.05%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.37%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.37%) Replication
3 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.21%) Digital Signage
6 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.16%) PKI
6 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) AS400
7 2 (2.11%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.11%) Tandem
8 1 (1.05%) CCTV
8 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (34.74%) Windows
2 20 (21.05%) Linux
3 13 (13.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.32%) VMS
5 4 (4.21%) Unix
6 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.05%) Android
8 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.11%) Migration
2 17 (17.89%) DevOps
3 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (13.68%) Containerisation
5 13 (13.68%) High Availability
5 13 (13.68%) Mobile Device Management
6 12 (12.63%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (10.53%) User Experience
9 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (9.47%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (8.42%) Cryptography
10 8 (8.42%) Incident Response
10 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (8.42%) Observability
10 8 (8.42%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.79%) Python
2 12 (12.63%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.37%) Bash
4 4 (4.21%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.16%) Perl
6 2 (2.11%) Groovy
6 2 (2.11%) Ruby
7 1 (1.05%) Bicep
7 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) Degree
4 6 (6.32%) FFIEC
5 5 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.16%) CCNP
7 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.16%) CISM
7 3 (3.16%) CISSP
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.11%) CCDP
8 2 (2.11%) CCNA
8 2 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.58%) GDPR
2 8 (8.42%) PCI DSS
3 6 (6.32%) GLBA
3 6 (6.32%) NIST
4 2 (2.11%) COBIT
4 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.11%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (16.84%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.32%) NFS
3 6 (6.32%) vSphere
4 5 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.21%) Docker
6 2 (2.11%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.05%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) Terraform
2 15 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 12 (12.63%) Ansible
4 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (7.37%) SCCM
6 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
6 4 (4.21%) vRealize
7 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.11%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.11%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.11%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.05%) AirWatch
9 1 (1.05%) Grafana
9 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (21.05%) VMware
2 16 (16.84%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.63%) Google
4 11 (11.58%) IBM
5 9 (9.47%) Splunk
6 8 (8.42%) F5
7 7 (7.37%) Thales
8 6 (6.32%) NetApp
9 5 (5.26%) Citrix
9 5 (5.26%) EMC
10 4 (4.21%) Oracle
10 4 (4.21%) Red Hat
10 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
11 3 (3.16%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.16%) Dell
11 3 (3.16%) Veeam
12 2 (2.11%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.11%) Cisco
12 2 (2.11%) Gemalto
12 2 (2.11%) HP