Lead Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 181 166
Rank change year-on-year -72 -15 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.079% 0.050% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.054% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £531 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.44%
75th Percentile £688 - £425
90th Percentile - - £455
England median daily rate £600 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 6,934 3,696 3,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 92.47% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,033 2,417 2,190
10th Percentile £313 £250 £275
25th Percentile £406 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 218 241
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.00 £15.17
25th Percentile £24.90 £17.30 £17.44
Median hourly rate £42.00 £22.45 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.12% -30.94% +31.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.28 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.30 £70.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

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

Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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 West -43 3 £675 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 1
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Lead Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) AIX
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Data Guard
3 3 (50.00%) Database Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) OCI
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks