Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 71 59
Rank change year-on-year -27 -12 -2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 35 47 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.60% 1.97% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.36% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 70
10th Percentile £348 £350 £300
25th Percentile £423 £375 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £638 £534 £538
90th Percentile £680 £643 £581
England median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.00 - -
Median hourly rate £27.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% - +47.87%

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 1,940 1,992 2,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.83% 83.31% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 1,157 1,649
10th Percentile £299 £294 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 108 162
10th Percentile £13.54 £16.43 £15.78
25th Percentile £17.36 £27.94 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +21.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £51.19 £57.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.32 £70.90 £66.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Engineering

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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure Engineering

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 18 September 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 -1 22 £600 +33.33% 37
Lancashire +4 7 £250 -52.38% 25
Merseyside +1 1 - - 4
Cheshire -34 1 £446 +18.93% 12
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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
1 2 (5.71%) IIS
1 2 (5.71%) iPlanet
1 2 (5.71%) JBoss
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Google Workspace
2 13 (37.14%) SaaS
3 8 (22.86%) AWS
3 8 (22.86%) Azure
4 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (11.43%) IaaS
7 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.86%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Network Security
2 4 (11.43%) SAN
3 3 (8.57%) LAN
3 3 (8.57%) WLAN
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) Firewall
4 2 (5.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (5.71%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.86%) DHCP
5 1 (2.86%) VLAN
5 1 (2.86%) VPN
5 1 (2.86%) WAN
5 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (5.71%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Military
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (82.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
2 13 (37.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Industrial Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Design Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) LDAP
1 2 (5.71%) OAuth
1 2 (5.71%) OpenID
1 2 (5.71%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Digital Signage
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.71%) Unix
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) VMS
5 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 11 (31.43%) User Experience
3 8 (22.86%) Benchmarking
4 5 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 5 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) High Availability
5 4 (11.43%) ITIL
6 3 (8.57%) Asset Management
6 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.57%) Data Management
6 3 (8.57%) Incident Management
6 3 (8.57%) Migration
6 3 (8.57%) Proactive Maintenance
6 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
6 3 (8.57%) Storage Management
6 3 (8.57%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (5.71%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Groovy
2 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CCNP
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 2 (5.71%) vSphere
4 1 (2.86%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 3 (8.57%) Backup Exec
2 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.71%) CA Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.71%) CA Wily
3 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.86%) AirWatch
4 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Google
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (25.71%) VMware
4 5 (14.29%) Veeam
5 4 (11.43%) Cisco
6 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
6 3 (8.57%) Symantec
7 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
7 2 (5.71%) Broadcom
7 2 (5.71%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.71%) Citrix
7 2 (5.71%) IBM
7 2 (5.71%) NetApp
7 2 (5.71%) Oracle
7 2 (5.71%) Splunk
7 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
8 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.86%) Samsung