Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North West 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 95 86 72
Rank change year-on-year -9 -14 +25
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 25 51 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.27% 1.85% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.96% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 62
10th Percentile £288 £288 £325
25th Percentile £350 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £500
90th Percentile £633 £623 £538
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the North West 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
Lancashire - 9 £438 - 17
Manchester 0 7 £385 -9.41% 28
Cheshire -8 3 £625 +47.06% 8
Cumbria +2 2 £400 -
Merseyside -3 1 £215 -25.86% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
3 15 (60.00%) Windows Server
4 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (48.00%) Linux
4 12 (48.00%) Azure
5 11 (44.00%) VMware
5 11 (44.00%) Entra ID
6 9 (36.00%) RBAC
6 9 (36.00%) Citrix
7 8 (32.00%) Cisco
7 8 (32.00%) SAN
7 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
8 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
8 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (28.00%) vCenter Server
8 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
9 6 (24.00%) VPN
9 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (20.00%) DNS
10 5 (20.00%) ITIL
10 5 (20.00%) Unix
10 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (20.00%) Migration
10 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.00%) Google Workspace
4 4 (16.00%) OneDrive
5 3 (12.00%) AWS
6 2 (8.00%) IaaS
6 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) SAN
2 6 (24.00%) VPN
3 5 (20.00%) DNS
4 4 (16.00%) DHCP
4 4 (16.00%) LAN
4 4 (16.00%) Network Security
4 4 (16.00%) WAN
5 3 (12.00%) Firewall
5 3 (12.00%) Wireless
5 3 (12.00%) WLAN
6 2 (8.00%) Internet
6 2 (8.00%) MPLS
6 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.00%) BGP
7 1 (4.00%) DWDM
7 1 (4.00%) L2TP
7 1 (4.00%) Multicast
7 1 (4.00%) OSPF
7 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) IVR
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (48.00%) Linux
4 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (20.00%) Unix
5 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (16.00%) Windows 10
6 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (4.00%) Android
8 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) RBAC
3 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (20.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 5 (20.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
5 4 (16.00%) E-Discovery
5 4 (16.00%) High Availability
5 4 (16.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Data Management
6 3 (12.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (8.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Groovy
2 2 (8.00%) Perl
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) MCSE
3 4 (16.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.00%) CCIE
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) BitLocker
3 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.00%) Docker
5 1 (4.00%) Firmware
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (16.00%) WSUS
4 3 (12.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Backup Exec
4 3 (12.00%) Terraform
5 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) VMware
3 9 (36.00%) Citrix
4 8 (32.00%) Cisco
5 5 (20.00%) CyberArk
6 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
6 4 (16.00%) Google
6 4 (16.00%) Veeam
6 4 (16.00%) Zscaler
7 3 (12.00%) Symantec
8 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
8 2 (8.00%) EMC
8 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
9 1 (4.00%) Apple
9 1 (4.00%) Brocade
9 1 (4.00%) HP
9 1 (4.00%) McAfee
9 1 (4.00%) NetApp
9 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
9 1 (4.00%) Splunk