Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 68 95
Rank change year-on-year -25 +27 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 68 161 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.06% 2.84% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 3.07% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 124 102
10th Percentile £329 £352 £345
25th Percentile £369 £381 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £494
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -6.33% +16.18%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £547
90th Percentile £623 £608 £605
England median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £21.20
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £200.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +196.30% -6.90% +17.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,989 5,248 5,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 92.46% 94.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,934 3,101 3,875
10th Percentile £213 £250 £224
25th Percentile £375 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 520 250
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.69 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% - +138.10%
75th Percentile £61.71 £70.00 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.81
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.69% +77.28%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 July 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
Thames Valley -6 28 £525 -12.50% 34
Berkshire +7 23 £550 -9.09% 13
Kent +6 18 £375 -3.23% 13
Hampshire -3 18 £575 +10.58% 17
Oxfordshire -1 3 £250 -33.33% 6
Surrey +5 2 £538 +33.54% 12
Buckinghamshire 0 2 £550 +25.00% 17
East Sussex -5 1 - -
West Sussex -15 1 £375 -17.81% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (73.53%) VMware
3 48 (70.59%) Windows
4 39 (57.35%) Active Directory
5 35 (51.47%) Security Cleared
6 29 (42.65%) VMware Infrastructure
7 27 (39.71%) DV Cleared
7 27 (39.71%) DNS
8 24 (35.29%) Microsoft
8 24 (35.29%) PowerShell
9 23 (33.82%) DHCP
9 23 (33.82%) Windows Server
10 20 (29.41%) DevOps
10 20 (29.41%) Azure
10 20 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
11 19 (27.94%) Firewall
12 18 (26.47%) Citrix
12 18 (26.47%) vSphere
13 15 (22.06%) IaaS
13 15 (22.06%) Linux
14 14 (20.59%) Ansible
15 13 (19.12%) Windows 10
15 13 (19.12%) Microsoft Exchange
16 12 (17.65%) SMTP
16 12 (17.65%) VPN
16 12 (17.65%) Dell
16 12 (17.65%) Hyper-V
17 11 (16.18%) Onboarding
17 11 (16.18%) Degree
17 11 (16.18%) PKI

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
2 5 (7.35%) Confluence
3 4 (5.88%) IIS
4 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.47%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) Azure
2 15 (22.06%) IaaS
3 11 (16.18%) PaaS
4 9 (13.24%) AWS
5 8 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (10.29%) GCP
6 7 (10.29%) OpenShift
7 6 (8.82%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.94%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.47%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (39.71%) DNS
2 23 (33.82%) DHCP
3 19 (27.94%) Firewall
4 12 (17.65%) SMTP
4 12 (17.65%) VPN
5 8 (11.76%) SAN
5 8 (11.76%) VLAN
6 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.35%) SSL
8 4 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (2.94%) VSAN
10 1 (1.47%) FTP
10 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.47%) Telnet
10 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (10.29%) Big Data
1 7 (10.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.47%) UniData
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) YAML
2 2 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (1.47%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Onboarding
1 11 (16.18%) PKI
2 8 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.29%) Clustering
4 5 (7.35%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (70.59%) Windows
2 23 (33.82%) Windows Server
3 15 (22.06%) Linux
4 13 (19.12%) Windows 10
5 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (7.35%) CentOS
7 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.94%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.47%) Unix
9 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (29.41%) DevOps
3 10 (14.71%) ITIL
4 8 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (11.76%) Security Patching
5 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (10.29%) Machine Learning
5 7 (10.29%) Software Deployment
6 6 (8.82%) Agile
7 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.35%) Migration
8 4 (5.88%) Email Migration
8 4 (5.88%) Prototyping
9 3 (4.41%) Computer Science
9 3 (4.41%) Test Automation
10 2 (2.94%) Logistics
10 2 (2.94%) Network Design
10 2 (2.94%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.94%) Bash
2 2 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (1.47%) PHP
3 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.71%) DV Cleared
3 11 (16.18%) Degree
4 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.94%) CCDP
5 2 (2.94%) CCNA
5 2 (2.94%) CCNP
5 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.47%) MCP
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.47%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (57.35%) Active Directory
2 29 (42.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (26.47%) vSphere
5 12 (17.65%) Hyper-V
6 8 (11.76%) DFS Replication
7 7 (10.29%) BitLocker
7 7 (10.29%) Docker
7 7 (10.29%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (10.29%) Terminal Services
8 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.47%) NFS
9 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (20.59%) Ansible
2 9 (13.24%) Puppet
2 9 (13.24%) vCenter Server
3 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.29%) Nagios
3 7 (10.29%) vMotion
4 5 (7.35%) Tivoli
5 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.41%) Terraform
7 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.94%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.94%) SCCM
8 1 (1.47%) SCOM
8 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (73.53%) VMware
2 24 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (26.47%) Citrix
4 12 (17.65%) Dell
5 11 (16.18%) Wyse
6 7 (10.29%) Google
6 7 (10.29%) HP
6 7 (10.29%) Symantec
7 6 (8.82%) SolarWinds
8 5 (7.35%) Veeam
9 4 (5.88%) Cisco
10 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.47%) Commvault
11 1 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.47%) IBM
11 1 (1.47%) Imperva
11 1 (1.47%) McAfee
11 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
11 1 (1.47%) Netskope
11 1 (1.47%) Sophos