Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Somerset

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Somerset is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £549 £485 £575
% change year-on-year +13.20% -15.65% -7.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £85.00 - £78.00

All Contract IT Job Roles
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 421 137 164
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 83.03% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 90 117
10th Percentile £236 £261 £208
25th Percentile £406 £411 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £530 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +17.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £599
90th Percentile £730 £721 £625
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 6 14
10th Percentile £27.32 £15.48 £12.33
25th Percentile £52.50 £19.14 £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £23.08 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.13% -28.98% -37.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.29 £48.00
90th Percentile £92.53 £66.25 £65.63
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +138.57% -61.31% +3.17%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Somerset

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Somerset

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 31 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
Taunton - 1 £550 - 1
Yeovil - 1 - -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 2026, Senior 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 Somerset region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware