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 £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 90 111
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 82 95 103
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.27% 2.23% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 2.42% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 70 72
10th Percentile £219 £350 £314
25th Percentile £264 £360 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile £591 £613 £575
England median daily rate £472 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.70% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £44.50
25th Percentile £71.00 - £56.15
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £71.90
75th Percentile £83.00 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% -14.29% +43.83%

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 3,234 3,930 5,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.46% 92.21% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,097 2,353 3,542
10th Percentile £204 £250 £209
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -0.29% +2.00%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 232 259
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.00 £15.90
25th Percentile £15.65 £27.00 £21.61
Median hourly rate £20.77 £58.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.30% +10.80% +66.51%
75th Percentile £50.00 £74.03 £67.75
90th Percentile £71.13 £75.38 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +62.04%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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 +12 44 £273 -38.07% 15
Berkshire +28 37 £270 -28.95% 10
Hampshire -12 16 £550 +13.64% 20
Kent +7 14 £369 +53.65% 5
Buckinghamshire -4 4 £550 +22.22% 2
East Sussex - 4 £170 - 2
Oxfordshire - 3 £325 - 4
Surrey +3 2 £543 +27.65% 4
West Sussex -9 1 £475 +5.56% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, 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 81 (98.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (63.41%) Windows
3 50 (60.98%) VMware
4 37 (45.12%) Security Cleared
5 32 (39.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 31 (37.80%) Microsoft
7 29 (35.37%) Linux
7 29 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (34.15%) Active Directory
8 28 (34.15%) Azure
8 28 (34.15%) DNS
9 24 (29.27%) SC Cleared
10 23 (28.05%) DHCP
11 21 (25.61%) ITIL
12 19 (23.17%) Hyper-V
12 19 (23.17%) TCP/IP
12 19 (23.17%) VLAN
13 15 (18.29%) Ansible
13 15 (18.29%) DevOps
13 15 (18.29%) vSphere
14 14 (17.07%) DV Cleared
15 13 (15.85%) AWS
15 13 (15.85%) Disaster Recovery
15 13 (15.85%) Windows Server
16 12 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (14.63%) Service Management
17 11 (13.41%) Azure Certification
17 11 (13.41%) Firewall
17 11 (13.41%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (13.41%) PowerShell

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 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.10%) Apache
2 5 (6.10%) Confluence
3 4 (4.88%) IIS
4 1 (1.22%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.15%) Azure
2 13 (15.85%) AWS
3 7 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (8.54%) OneDrive
4 5 (6.10%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.88%) IaaS
6 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.66%) PaaS
7 2 (2.44%) GCP
7 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.22%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.22%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 28 (34.15%) DNS
2 23 (28.05%) DHCP
3 19 (23.17%) TCP/IP
3 19 (23.17%) VLAN
4 11 (13.41%) Firewall
5 8 (9.76%) SAN
5 8 (9.76%) VPN
6 7 (8.54%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (7.32%) SMTP
7 6 (7.32%) SSL
8 5 (6.10%) 4G
9 3 (3.66%) VSAN
10 2 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (2.44%) Wireless
11 1 (1.22%) HTTPS
11 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.22%) LAN
11 1 (1.22%) MPLS
11 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.44%) Big Data
1 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.22%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.22%) UniData
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
General
1 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.44%) Finance
5 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.22%) Legal
5 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) YAML
2 2 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (1.22%) ADO
3 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.22%) RESTful
3 1 (1.22%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (8.54%) PKI
3 6 (7.32%) Clustering
3 6 (7.32%) Replication
4 5 (6.10%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.44%) NHS
6 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.22%) FlexPod
7 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 52 (63.41%) Windows
2 29 (35.37%) Linux
3 13 (15.85%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.20%) Windows 10
5 9 (10.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (7.32%) CentOS
6 6 (7.32%) Ubuntu
7 5 (6.10%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.22%) SUSE
9 1 (1.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.22%) Unix
9 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (98.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (25.61%) ITIL
4 15 (18.29%) DevOps
5 13 (15.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (14.63%) Service Management
7 11 (13.41%) Preventative Maintenance
7 11 (13.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 7 (8.54%) Agile
9 6 (7.32%) Architectural Design
9 6 (7.32%) DevSecOps
10 5 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (4.88%) Prototyping
12 3 (3.66%) Analytics
12 3 (3.66%) Change Control
12 3 (3.66%) High Availability
12 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 3 (3.66%) Log Analytics
12 3 (3.66%) Mentoring
12 3 (3.66%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.88%) Bicep
3 1 (1.22%) Bash
3 1 (1.22%) Go
3 1 (1.22%) Java
3 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.22%) PHP
3 1 (1.22%) Python
3 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (45.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.07%) DV Cleared
4 12 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (13.41%) Azure Certification
5 11 (13.41%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (13.41%) Server+ Certification
6 3 (3.66%) Degree
7 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (39.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (34.15%) Active Directory
3 19 (23.17%) Hyper-V
4 15 (18.29%) vSphere
5 7 (8.54%) Docker
5 7 (8.54%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.44%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.44%) DFS Replication
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.44%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (18.29%) Ansible
2 9 (10.98%) SCCM
3 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.54%) Terraform
4 6 (7.32%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (7.32%) vCenter Server
5 5 (6.10%) Tivoli
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.44%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.44%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.44%) Nagios
7 2 (2.44%) Puppet
7 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.44%) vMotion
7 2 (2.44%) VxRail
8 1 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.22%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.22%) Rsyslog
8 1 (1.22%) Salt
8 1 (1.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (60.98%) VMware
2 31 (37.80%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.41%) Red Hat
4 10 (12.20%) Citrix
5 8 (9.76%) Dell
6 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
7 5 (6.10%) SolarWinds
7 5 (6.10%) Veeam
8 3 (3.66%) Wyse
9 2 (2.44%) Aruba
9 2 (2.44%) Cisco
9 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.44%) Google
9 2 (2.44%) HP
9 2 (2.44%) Symantec
10 1 (1.22%) IBM
10 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.22%) SAP
10 1 (1.22%) Tanium