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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 61 51
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 +25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 48 79 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.31% 2.84% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 3.37% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 55 77
10th Percentile £330 £313 £320
25th Percentile £395 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £643 £543
England median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £45.59 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £54.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +5.24% -24.31% +53.15%

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 1,840 2,341 2,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.67% 84.18% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 1,427 1,901
10th Percentile £300 £304 £313
25th Percentile £378 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £666 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 265 150
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.19 £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%
75th Percentile £60.75 £46.18 £45.90
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -7 21 £600 +33.33% 49
Cumbria +16 10 £525 - 2
Lancashire -5 9 £438 - 36
Cheshire -14 2 £505 +24.69% 11
Merseyside -1 1 £215 -25.86% 9
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 17 (35.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (22.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) Azure
2 23 (47.92%) Entra ID
3 19 (39.58%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (25.00%) Google Workspace
5 9 (18.75%) SaaS
6 7 (14.58%) AWS
6 7 (14.58%) IaaS
7 4 (8.33%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.08%) DNS
2 12 (25.00%) DHCP
3 9 (18.75%) Network Security
4 8 (16.67%) Firewall
4 8 (16.67%) SAN
5 5 (10.42%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (10.42%) VPN
6 4 (8.33%) LAN
6 4 (8.33%) WAN
7 3 (6.25%) Wireless
7 3 (6.25%) WLAN
8 2 (4.17%) Internet
8 2 (4.17%) MPLS
8 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (2.08%) BGP
9 1 (2.08%) DWDM
9 1 (2.08%) Multicast
9 1 (2.08%) OSPF
9 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
1 2 (4.17%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (6.25%) Military
4 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 30 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Senior
2 8 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Industrial Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Lead
4 3 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (2.08%) Node.js
1 1 (2.08%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) IVR
4 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (56.25%) Windows
2 26 (54.17%) Windows Server
3 12 (25.00%) Linux
4 8 (16.67%) VMS
5 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (10.42%) Unix
6 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
8 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) ITIL
2 11 (22.92%) User Experience
3 9 (18.75%) Business Continuity
3 9 (18.75%) DevOps
3 9 (18.75%) High Availability
3 9 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
4 8 (16.67%) RBAC
5 7 (14.58%) Benchmarking
5 7 (14.58%) Change Management
5 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (14.58%) ITSM
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.50%) BCP
6 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (12.50%) Information Security
6 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 5 (10.42%) Analytics
7 5 (10.42%) Business Continuity Planning
7 5 (10.42%) Line Management
7 5 (10.42%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.25%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) Groovy
3 2 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (2.08%) Bash
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 12 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.33%) MCSE
5 4 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.17%) Degree
7 1 (2.08%) CCIE
7 1 (2.08%) CCNP
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) NCSC
1 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (10.42%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (10.42%) vSphere
4 3 (6.25%) BitLocker
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.08%) Docker
6 1 (2.08%) Firmware
6 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (25.00%) WSUS
3 8 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.25%) Backup Exec
6 2 (4.17%) Ansible
7 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 24 (50.00%) VMware
3 12 (25.00%) Google
4 8 (16.67%) Cisco
4 8 (16.67%) Citrix
5 4 (8.33%) CyberArk
5 4 (8.33%) Veeam
6 3 (6.25%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.25%) Symantec
6 3 (6.25%) Zscaler
7 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
7 2 (4.17%) EMC
7 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.08%) Apple
8 1 (2.08%) Arista
8 1 (2.08%) Brocade
8 1 (2.08%) HP
8 1 (2.08%) McAfee
8 1 (2.08%) NetApp
8 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds