Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Oxfordshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.47% - 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile - - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.83%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -6.08%

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 179 92 196
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.83% 92.00% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 50 131
10th Percentile £200 £250 £134
25th Percentile £263 £361 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £503
90th Percentile £638 £666 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 27
10th Percentile £17.45 £23.24 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.91 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -22.00%
75th Percentile £25.08 £46.30 £28.25
90th Percentile £27.50 £49.50 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £37.16 £42.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -12.56% +11.84% -15.56%

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
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 9 March 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
Oxford - 1 £400 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 9 March 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware