Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 61 61
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 44 77 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.24% 2.79% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 3.24% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 49 78
10th Percentile £319 £313 £325
25th Percentile £376 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £547 £531 £506
90th Percentile £626 £613 £538
England median daily rate £525 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.31% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £45.59 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £63.84
% change year-on-year +35.34% -27.66% +27.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the North West

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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
Manchester -5 16 £385 -3.75% 40
Cumbria +8 10 £525 - 2
Lancashire +1 9 £438 - 24
Cheshire -6 5 £613 +40.00% 7
Merseyside -2 1 £215 -25.86% 6
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 20 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (31.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) Azure
2 26 (59.09%) Entra ID
3 21 (47.73%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.91%) IaaS
5 6 (13.64%) AWS
6 4 (9.09%) Google Workspace
6 4 (9.09%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.27%) GitHub
8 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (36.36%) DNS
2 15 (34.09%) DHCP
3 9 (20.45%) Network Security
4 8 (18.18%) Firewall
4 8 (18.18%) SAN
5 6 (13.64%) VPN
6 5 (11.36%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (9.09%) LAN
7 4 (9.09%) WAN
8 3 (6.82%) Wireless
8 3 (6.82%) WLAN
9 2 (4.55%) Internet
9 2 (4.55%) MPLS
9 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (2.27%) DWDM
10 1 (2.27%) L2TP
10 1 (2.27%) Multicast
10 1 (2.27%) OSPF
10 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) GitLab
1 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
1 2 (4.55%) ScriptRunner
General
1 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.09%) Legal
4 3 (6.82%) Military
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Social Housing
6 1 (2.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (56.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Industrial Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) IVR
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (70.45%) Windows
2 30 (68.18%) Windows Server
3 12 (27.27%) Linux
4 11 (25.00%) VMS
5 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (11.36%) Unix
6 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (9.09%) Windows 10
7 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) ITIL
2 11 (25.00%) DevOps
3 10 (22.73%) ITSM
4 9 (20.45%) Business Continuity
4 9 (20.45%) Collaborative Working
4 9 (20.45%) High Availability
4 9 (20.45%) RBAC
5 7 (15.91%) Change Management
5 7 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (13.64%) BCP
6 6 (13.64%) Information Security
6 6 (13.64%) Migration
6 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 6 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (11.36%) Analytics
7 5 (11.36%) Business Continuity Planning
7 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (11.36%) Line Management
7 5 (11.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) Groovy
3 2 (4.55%) Perl
4 1 (2.27%) Bash
4 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
5 4 (9.09%) MCSE
5 4 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.27%) CCIE
6 1 (2.27%) CCNP
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.36%) vSphere
4 4 (9.09%) BitLocker
4 4 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.27%) Docker
6 1 (2.27%) Firmware
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (34.09%) WSUS
3 7 (15.91%) vCenter Server
4 5 (11.36%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.82%) Ansible
5 3 (6.82%) Backup Exec
5 3 (6.82%) Terraform
6 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 28 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 27 (61.36%) VMware
3 9 (20.45%) Citrix
4 8 (18.18%) Cisco
5 5 (11.36%) CyberArk
6 4 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 4 (9.09%) Google
6 4 (9.09%) Veeam
6 4 (9.09%) Zscaler
7 3 (6.82%) Symantec
8 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
8 2 (4.55%) EMC
8 2 (4.55%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.27%) Apple
9 1 (2.27%) Brocade
9 1 (2.27%) HP
9 1 (2.27%) McAfee
9 1 (2.27%) NetApp
9 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.27%) Splunk