Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 20 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.50% 1.20% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 1.64% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £294
25th Percentile £250 £458 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £465 £325
Median % change year-on-year -43.55% +43.08% -26.14%
75th Percentile £316 £473 £341
90th Percentile £366 - £346
South East median daily rate £483 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +3.74% -6.98% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile £83.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £77.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +21.74% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 122 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 88.11% 73.49% 87.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 86 140
10th Percentile £181 £173 £199
25th Percentile £250 £325 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% - -
75th Percentile £550 £500 £600
90th Percentile £684 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 16
10th Percentile £20.86 £11.59 £25.48
25th Percentile - £12.08 £25.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.00 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year +57.19% -50.48% +72.64%
75th Percentile £83.00 £26.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £54.00 £51.88
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +70.14%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Oxford - 2 £400 - 3
Wantage - 1 £275 -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Logistics
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) VMware