Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 39 31
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 9 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 4.13% 1.87% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 1.98% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile - - £315
25th Percentile £425 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £475 £456 £488
90th Percentile - £466 £548
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £449
% change year-on-year - +0.22% +0.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 253 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 83.03% 94.76% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 224 184
10th Percentile £364 £263 £316
25th Percentile £402 £339 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -15.73% +11.25%
75th Percentile £575 £447 £554
90th Percentile £600 £525 £619
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £445
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 14
10th Percentile £20.52 £17.57 £10.90
25th Percentile - - £11.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -72.55%
75th Percentile - - £35.00
90th Percentile £48.45 £38.20 £48.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -40.87%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
Northampton +15 9 £450 +5.88% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
1 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
1 4 (44.44%) Server Migrations
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Dell