Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Oxfordshire is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 22 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 4.90% 2.53% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.84% 2.74% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £225 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £250 -
75th Percentile £450 £269 -
90th Percentile - £280 -
South East median daily rate £541 £550 £464
% change year-on-year -1.71% +18.57% -7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.00 -
South East median hourly rate £77.50 £77.00 -
% change year-on-year +0.65% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 377 146 169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.96% 92.41% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 77 109
10th Percentile £225 £178 £172
25th Percentile £320 £222 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £650 £680 £608
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 17 19
10th Percentile £13.84 £23.43 £12.18
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.15 £17.63
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.76 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.29% +26.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £77.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £89.63 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +114.71% -56.15% +14.70%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Wantage +1 10 £250 -9.09%
Kidlington - 4 £400 - 3
Abingdon - 1 £415 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (72.73%) Active Directory
3 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
4 12 (54.55%) Windows
5 10 (45.45%) Privileged Access Management
6 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
7 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (22.73%) Azure
8 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
9 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
9 4 (18.18%) Information Security
9 4 (18.18%) ITIL
9 4 (18.18%) Linux
9 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
9 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (18.18%) Server Management
9 4 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
10 3 (13.64%) IaaS
10 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (4.55%) Ansible
11 1 (4.55%) DHCP
11 1 (4.55%) DNS
11 1 (4.55%) Firewall
11 1 (4.55%) Google
11 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
11 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.64%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DHCP
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
General
1 10 (45.45%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Linux
3 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (45.45%) Privileged Access Management
3 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (18.18%) Information Security
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Server Management
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (4.55%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Veeam
2 1 (4.55%) VMware