Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 83 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 +32
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 163 68 169
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.70% 2.29% 2.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.95% 2.51% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 47 138
10th Percentile £375 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £369 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £599
90th Percentile £615 £623 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £463
% change year-on-year - +13.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile £78.98 - -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £200.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -63.73% +788.89% -65.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,528 2,707 5,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 91.08% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,376 1,807 3,090
10th Percentile £303 £220 £234
25th Percentile £414 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £656 £688
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 174 535
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £24.25 £16.95 £18.35
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -32.85% -3.20%
75th Percentile £80.08 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.78 £30.00 £38.14
% change year-on-year +52.60% -21.33% -15.26%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Thames Valley +18 103 £510 +1.90% 25
Buckinghamshire +10 63 £573 +14.39% 15
Hampshire -12 29 £575 - 21
Berkshire -33 22 £425 -22.73% 4
Oxfordshire -13 18 £250 - 6
Surrey -12 10 £500 -4.76% 8
Isle of Wight - 10 - -
Kent -13 4 £571 +52.33% 4
East Sussex -2 2 £600 -
West Sussex -18 2 £575 +53.33% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 7 June 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 160 (98.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 78 (47.85%) Security Cleared
3 61 (37.42%) VMware
4 53 (32.52%) Azure
5 51 (31.29%) SC Cleared
6 48 (29.45%) Microsoft
7 46 (28.22%) Windows
8 44 (26.99%) Active Directory
9 38 (23.31%) VMware Infrastructure
10 32 (19.63%) Citrix
10 32 (19.63%) Linux
11 30 (18.40%) DV Cleared
12 27 (16.56%) Windows Server
13 25 (15.34%) PowerShell
14 19 (11.66%) VMware NSX
14 19 (11.66%) vSphere
15 18 (11.04%) Firewall
16 17 (10.43%) DevOps
17 16 (9.82%) AWS
17 16 (9.82%) DNS
18 15 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
18 15 (9.20%) High Availability
18 15 (9.20%) ITIL
18 15 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
18 15 (9.20%) Veeam
19 14 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
19 14 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
19 14 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (8.59%) vCenter Server
19 14 (8.59%) VMware ESXi

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.52%) Azure
2 16 (9.82%) AWS
3 14 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.13%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.68%) IaaS
6 5 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.45%) PaaS
8 3 (1.84%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.23%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.61%) GitHub
10 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.61%) OCI
10 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.61%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.04%) Firewall
2 16 (9.82%) DNS
3 13 (7.98%) DHCP
4 12 (7.36%) VLAN
5 8 (4.91%) VSAN
6 6 (3.68%) LAN
6 6 (3.68%) WAN
7 5 (3.07%) SAN
7 5 (3.07%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.45%) VPN
8 4 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.84%) SMTP
10 2 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.23%) NAS
10 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.61%) Network Security
11 1 (0.61%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.84%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.61%) JIRA
1 1 (0.61%) Robot Framework
General
1 12 (7.36%) Public Sector
2 10 (6.13%) Marketing
2 10 (6.13%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.52%) Aerospace
3 9 (5.52%) Manufacturing
4 8 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.84%) Legal
7 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Advertising
8 1 (0.61%) Finance
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.61%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.04%) PKI
2 12 (7.36%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.52%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.68%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.23%) Replication
7 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 46 (28.22%) Windows
2 32 (19.63%) Linux
3 27 (16.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.68%) Debian
5 4 (2.45%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (98.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (10.43%) DevOps
3 15 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (9.20%) High Availability
3 15 (9.20%) ITIL
4 14 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (6.75%) Agile
5 11 (6.75%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (6.13%) Migration
6 10 (6.13%) Privileged Access Management
6 10 (6.13%) Project Delivery
7 8 (4.91%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (4.91%) RBAC
8 7 (4.29%) Change Control
8 7 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (4.29%) Identity Management
8 7 (4.29%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (4.29%) Zero Trust
9 6 (3.68%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.34%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.68%) Bicep
3 3 (1.84%) Python
4 1 (0.61%) Bash
4 1 (0.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (47.85%) Security Cleared
2 51 (31.29%) SC Cleared
3 30 (18.40%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.68%) VCAP
4 6 (3.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (3.07%) Degree
6 2 (1.23%) CCA
6 2 (1.23%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.23%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (1.23%) MCSA
6 2 (1.23%) MCSE
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.23%) NCDA
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.61%) OCP
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) SLA
2 5 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.07%) NIST
3 4 (2.45%) NCSC
4 2 (1.23%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.23%) QA
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (26.99%) Active Directory
2 38 (23.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.66%) VMware NSX
3 19 (11.66%) vSphere
4 14 (8.59%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.91%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.45%) Docker
8 3 (1.84%) DFS Replication
8 3 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.23%) UAG
10 1 (0.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (8.59%) vCenter Server
2 13 (7.98%) Terraform
3 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.29%) SCCM
5 6 (3.68%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.07%) SCOM
7 4 (2.45%) Ansible
7 4 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.45%) VxRail
8 3 (1.84%) SCSM
9 2 (1.23%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.61%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.61%) Grafana
10 1 (0.61%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (37.42%) VMware
2 48 (29.45%) Microsoft
3 32 (19.63%) Citrix
4 15 (9.20%) Veeam
5 7 (4.29%) Cisco
6 6 (3.68%) NetApp
7 4 (2.45%) BT
7 4 (2.45%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.45%) Commvault
7 4 (2.45%) Meraki
7 4 (2.45%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.45%) Xerox
7 4 (2.45%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.84%) Dell
8 3 (1.84%) Trend Micro
9 2 (1.23%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle
9 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.23%) Zerto