IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North of England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 182 218
Rank change year-on-year +29 +36 +13
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 13 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.063% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.068% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £363 - £380
25th Percentile £513 £320 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £340 £500
Median % change year-on-year +54.41% -32.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £575 £360 £575
90th Percentile - - £620
England median daily rate £525 £480 £488
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% +26.62%

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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

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

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

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

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

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

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

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer 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 +16 9 £538 +58.09% 2
North East - 3 - - 1
North West +16 1 £275 - 6
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) Linux
3 8 (61.54%) Windows
3 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (61.54%) VMware
4 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
4 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 7 (53.85%) Security Management
5 5 (38.46%) DNS
5 5 (38.46%) SQL
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle Database
5 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
5 5 (38.46%) Veeam
5 5 (38.46%) Azure
5 5 (38.46%) Bash
5 5 (38.46%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (30.77%) Server Management
6 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
6 4 (30.77%) Microservices
6 4 (30.77%) Perl
6 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
6 4 (30.77%) SOA

IT 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 4 (30.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 2 (15.38%) VSAN
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
4 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (15.38%) Local Government
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
3 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Security Management
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) Server Management
3 4 (30.77%) SOA
4 3 (23.08%) Information Security
4 3 (23.08%) Information Security Management
4 3 (23.08%) ISMS
4 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
5 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (7.69%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Bash
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Perl
2 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
2 8 (61.54%) VMware
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 5 (38.46%) Oracle
4 5 (38.46%) Veeam
5 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
5 3 (23.08%) HP
6 2 (15.38%) Meraki
6 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto