Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the North West is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 113 120
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 11 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.45% 0.30% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.32% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 22
10th Percentile £449 £450 -
25th Percentile £471 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +25.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £500
90th Percentile £641 - -
England median daily rate £563 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -9.09%

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 2,226 2,194 2,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 93.08% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,477 1,162 1,773
10th Percentile £215 £264 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £656 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 162 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.37 £16.02
25th Percentile £19.18 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £30.50 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -9.06% +67.70%
75th Percentile £50.89 £48.44 £46.35
90th Percentile £70.16 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 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 9 £625 +38.89% 6
Cheshire -23 1 £446 -28.64% 2
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Google
2 8 (72.73%) Google Workspace
2 8 (72.73%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (72.73%) SaaS
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 7 (63.64%) User Experience
4 5 (45.45%) Benchmarking
5 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 4 (36.36%) Windows
6 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 3 (27.27%) AWS
6 3 (27.27%) Linux
7 2 (18.18%) Apache
7 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics
7 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (18.18%) Broadcom
7 2 (18.18%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (18.18%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (18.18%) CA Wily
7 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Docker
7 2 (18.18%) Git
7 2 (18.18%) Groovy
7 2 (18.18%) IBM
7 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (18.18%) IIS

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) iPlanet
1 2 (18.18%) JBoss
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Google Workspace
1 8 (72.73%) SaaS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Kerberos
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (18.18%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) OpenID
1 2 (18.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (63.64%) User Experience
4 5 (45.45%) Benchmarking
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Server Hardening
6 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Groovy
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) CA Single Sign-On
1 2 (18.18%) CA Wily
1 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Google
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics
3 2 (18.18%) Broadcom
3 2 (18.18%) IBM
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow