Infrastructure Specialist Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Specialist daily rate in the North of England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 - 203
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 20 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% - 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 3
10th Percentile £396 - £290
25th Percentile £493 - £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £419
90th Percentile £643 - £472
England median daily rate £564 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +12.80% -0.99% -1.46%

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 3,057 4,297 5,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.11% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,026 2,698 3,720
10th Percentile £230 £263 £281
25th Percentile £367 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 404 158
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.13 £12.60 £17.85
Median hourly rate £24.59 £20.89 £29.65
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -29.56% +55.68%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £49.30
90th Percentile £75.25 £62.50 £66.21
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the North of England

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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 £550 - 6
North West - 8 £510 - 6
North East - 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 17 (85.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (80.00%) Windows
3 15 (75.00%) Windows Server
4 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
5 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
5 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
6 11 (55.00%) Bash
6 11 (55.00%) Agile
6 11 (55.00%) Linux
6 11 (55.00%) Cisco
7 9 (45.00%) Oracle Database
7 9 (45.00%) Microservices
7 9 (45.00%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (45.00%) Oracle
7 9 (45.00%) Perl
7 9 (45.00%) SQL
7 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (40.00%) Security Management
8 8 (40.00%) PL/SQL
8 8 (40.00%) DNS
8 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
8 8 (40.00%) Server Management
9 7 (35.00%) Firewall
9 7 (35.00%) Azure
9 7 (35.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
9 7 (35.00%) SOA
9 7 (35.00%) SQL Server

Infrastructure Specialist 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 7 (35.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (30.00%) IaaS
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) DNS
2 7 (35.00%) Firewall
3 6 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (30.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) PBX
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) VLAN
4 1 (5.00%) VoIP
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle Database
2 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Acoustics
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 15 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (55.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
4 8 (40.00%) Security Management
4 8 (40.00%) Server Management
5 7 (35.00%) SOA
6 6 (30.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (30.00%) Migration
6 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 5 (25.00%) Change Management
8 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
9 3 (15.00%) BCP
9 3 (15.00%) Business Continuity Planning
9 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 3 (15.00%) Information Security
9 3 (15.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (55.00%) Bash
3 9 (45.00%) Perl
3 9 (45.00%) SQL
4 8 (40.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) vSphere
3 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) Oracle
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
5 1 (5.00%) Mitel
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Siemens