Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Preston

Infrastructure Engineering
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.91% 6.45% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 7.14% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £261 - -
25th Percentile £374 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% - -
75th Percentile £588 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £438 -
% change year-on-year +31.43% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate - - £45.59

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 56 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.55% 90.32% 87.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 25
10th Percentile £213 £220 £355
25th Percentile £472 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.45% +35.52%
75th Percentile £762 £630 £645
90th Percentile £856 £669 £885
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 32
10th Percentile £36.41 - £12.20
25th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.80 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +118.42% +79.02% -61.18%
75th Percentile £71.45 £47.12 £19.05
90th Percentile £71.50 £59.30 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £35.36
% change year-on-year +122.92% -18.69% -16.46%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Preston

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Preston over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Preston

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Tanium
1 1 (33.33%) VMware