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 22 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 162 191
Rank change year-on-year -15 +29 +53
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.072% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.077% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £399 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +35.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,697 3,878 4,841
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 92.73% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,392 2,346 3,277
10th Percentile £250 £283 £263
25th Percentile £369 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £644 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 279 195
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.40 £15.48
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.32 £29.77 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.04% +12.34% +32.50%
75th Percentile £49.28 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £57.06
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +65.50%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 22 August 2025.

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

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire -2 5 £525 +10.53% 6
North East - 1 - - 3
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 22 August 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 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (33.33%) Server Management
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (33.33%) Security Management
5 2 (33.33%) Perl
5 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft

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 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Signage
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Veeam