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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 76 59
Rank change year-on-year -27 -17 -8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 36 41 94
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.50% 1.76% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.11% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 80
10th Percentile £250 £339 £313
25th Percentile £313 £405 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +2.72% +0.06%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £538
90th Percentile £648 £665 £581
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £32.75 - -
25th Percentile £42.88 £59.39 -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £63.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% - -
75th Percentile £71.76 £68.18 -
90th Percentile £73.26 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% - +27.27%

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 2,113 1,946 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.75% 83.48% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 1,051 1,689
10th Percentile £215 £294 £270
25th Percentile £361 £391 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £656 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 109 166
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.78 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.19 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.27 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +15.21% +49.64%
75th Percentile £46.29 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.45 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend 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 4 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 November 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 20 £613 +25.64% 35
Lancashire -3 9 £250 -52.38% 10
Cheshire -30 3 £325 -13.33% 10
Merseyside -3 1 - - 3
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) Apache
1 3 (8.33%) IIS
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) iPlanet
2 2 (5.56%) JBoss
2 2 (5.56%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Google Workspace
1 13 (36.11%) SaaS
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) VLAN
2 2 (5.56%) BGP
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Kerberos
2 2 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (5.56%) SSH
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) SAN
3 1 (2.78%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) WebEx
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (5.56%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.78%) MSI
4 1 (2.78%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Military
4 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Senior
2 11 (30.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Lead
3 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Design Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Collaboration Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) JIRA Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) LDAP
1 2 (5.56%) OAuth
1 2 (5.56%) OpenID
1 2 (5.56%) SAML
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) pytest
2 1 (2.78%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Digital Signage
3 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.56%) Tandem
5 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Windows
2 7 (19.44%) Linux
3 4 (11.11%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.78%) Android
5 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Mobile Device Management
2 11 (30.56%) User Experience
3 8 (22.22%) Benchmarking
4 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
4 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.11%) High Availability
5 4 (11.11%) ITIL
5 4 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.33%) Change Control
6 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (8.33%) ITSM
6 3 (8.33%) Migration
6 3 (8.33%) Problem Management
7 2 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) Bash
2 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.33%) Perl
4 2 (5.56%) Groovy
4 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 19 (52.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) CCNP
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.56%) CCDP
5 2 (5.56%) CCNA
5 2 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) Docker
3 2 (5.56%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) CA Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.56%) CA Wily
2 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.56%) SCCM
2 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Tivoli
2 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.78%) AirWatch
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Google
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.67%) VMware
4 4 (11.11%) Citrix
4 4 (11.11%) IBM
5 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.56%) AppDynamics
6 2 (5.56%) Broadcom
6 2 (5.56%) Gemalto
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle
6 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 2 (5.56%) Thales
7 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.78%) Cisco
7 1 (2.78%) Dell
7 1 (2.78%) NetApp
7 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.78%) Samsung
7 1 (2.78%) Zscaler