Infrastructure Security Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 - 218
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% - 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £366 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +75.71%
75th Percentile £472 - £623
90th Percentile £504 - -
England median daily rate £500 £422 £633
% change year-on-year +18.53% -33.31% +58.13%

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 3,253 4,562 5,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.80% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,147 2,761 3,633
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £655 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 462 167
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £24.15 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -8.89% +34.18%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.88 £43.61
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.31% -10.11% +80.18%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
North East - 4 - -
North West - 2 £425 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £413 -
Infrastructure Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Fortinet
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Zero Trust
3 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (57.14%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (57.14%) ISMS
3 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
3 4 (57.14%) Veeam
3 4 (57.14%) HP
3 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (57.14%) Information Security Management
3 4 (57.14%) Security Management
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Meraki
5 1 (14.29%) Attestation
5 1 (14.29%) SOC 2

Infrastructure Security 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Housing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) Zero Trust
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security Management
2 4 (57.14%) ISMS
2 4 (57.14%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Attestation
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Server Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Fortinet
3 4 (57.14%) HP
3 4 (57.14%) Veeam
3 4 (57.14%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Meraki
4 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds