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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 80 125
Rank change year-on-year -19 +45 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 78 102 91
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.97% 2.47% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.19% 2.67% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 73 59
10th Percentile £219 £350 £313
25th Percentile £255 £360 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -6.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £541
90th Percentile £600 £638 £576
England median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £44.50
25th Percentile £71.00 - £56.15
Median hourly rate £77.00 £24.18 £71.90
Median % change year-on-year +218.44% -66.37% +181.95%
75th Percentile £83.00 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £42.09 £70.00
% change year-on-year -19.22% -39.87% -8.20%

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 3,562 3,824 5,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.79% 92.64% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,291 2,299 3,390
10th Percentile £205 £249 £210
25th Percentile £381 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - +2.00%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £613
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 213 253
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.80 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.97 £27.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.79 £57.50 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -63.84% +10.36% +39.62%
75th Percentile £51.39 £71.90 £67.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +11 44 £275 -36.78% 27
Berkshire +15 38 £270 -28.95% 11
Hampshire -28 13 £550 +4.76% 24
Kent +8 12 £350 +45.83% 6
East Sussex +1 4 £170 -67.62%
Buckinghamshire 0 4 £550 +22.22% 12
Surrey -6 2 £560 +19.15% 12
Oxfordshire - 2 £400 - 6
West Sussex -12 1 £475 +26.67% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 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 77 (98.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (60.26%) Windows
3 43 (55.13%) VMware
4 34 (43.59%) Security Cleared
5 31 (39.74%) Microsoft
6 30 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (34.62%) Azure
8 27 (34.62%) Linux
9 24 (30.77%) Active Directory
9 24 (30.77%) DNS
9 24 (30.77%) SC Cleared
10 20 (25.64%) ITIL
11 19 (24.36%) DHCP
12 17 (21.79%) TCP/IP
12 17 (21.79%) VLAN
13 15 (19.23%) Hyper-V
14 13 (16.67%) Ansible
14 13 (16.67%) DevOps
14 13 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (15.38%) Service Management
15 12 (15.38%) vSphere
16 11 (14.10%) AWS
16 11 (14.10%) Azure Certification
16 11 (14.10%) DV Cleared
16 11 (14.10%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (14.10%) Preventative Maintenance
16 11 (14.10%) Server+ Certification
16 11 (14.10%) Virtual Infrastructure

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 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.41%) Apache
3 4 (5.13%) IIS
4 3 (3.85%) Confluence
5 1 (1.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.62%) Azure
2 11 (14.10%) AWS
3 7 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (8.97%) OneDrive
4 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.56%) IaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.28%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.28%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (30.77%) DNS
2 19 (24.36%) DHCP
3 17 (21.79%) TCP/IP
3 17 (21.79%) VLAN
4 9 (11.54%) Firewall
5 8 (10.26%) SAN
5 8 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (7.69%) 4G
7 4 (5.13%) SMTP
7 4 (5.13%) SSL
7 4 (5.13%) VPN
8 3 (3.85%) VSAN
9 2 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (2.56%) Wireless
10 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.28%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.28%) LAN
10 1 (1.28%) MPLS
10 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.56%) SAP HANA
1 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.28%) UniData
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) GitLab
General
1 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.28%) Legal
5 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) YAML
2 2 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (1.28%) ADO
3 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.28%) RESTful
3 1 (1.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (7.69%) PKI
2 6 (7.69%) Replication
3 5 (6.41%) Clustering
4 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.56%) NHS
5 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) FlexPod
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 47 (60.26%) Windows
2 27 (34.62%) Linux
3 9 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 9 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.41%) CentOS
4 5 (6.41%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.56%) SUSE
6 2 (2.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.28%) Unix
7 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (98.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (25.64%) ITIL
4 13 (16.67%) DevOps
4 13 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (15.38%) Service Management
6 11 (14.10%) Preventative Maintenance
6 11 (14.10%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 7 (8.97%) Agile
8 6 (7.69%) Architectural Design
8 6 (7.69%) DevSecOps
9 5 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (5.13%) Analytics
10 4 (5.13%) High Availability
10 4 (5.13%) Prototyping
10 4 (5.13%) Validation
11 3 (3.85%) Change Control
11 3 (3.85%) Mentoring
11 3 (3.85%) Patch Management
11 3 (3.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.13%) Bicep
3 1 (1.28%) Bash
3 1 (1.28%) Go
3 1 (1.28%) Java
3 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.28%) PHP
3 1 (1.28%) Python
3 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (43.59%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (14.10%) Azure Certification
4 11 (14.10%) DV Cleared
4 11 (14.10%) Network+ Certification
4 11 (14.10%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (1.28%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 15 (19.23%) Hyper-V
4 12 (15.38%) vSphere
5 5 (6.41%) Docker
6 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.56%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) Ansible
2 9 (11.54%) SCCM
3 7 (8.97%) Terraform
4 6 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.13%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.85%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.56%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.56%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.56%) VxRail
9 1 (1.28%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.28%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.28%) Rsyslog
9 1 (1.28%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.28%) Salt
9 1 (1.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 43 (55.13%) VMware
2 31 (39.74%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.82%) Red Hat
4 8 (10.26%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.69%) Citrix
5 6 (7.69%) Dell
6 3 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.85%) Veeam
7 2 (2.56%) Aruba
7 2 (2.56%) Cisco
7 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.56%) SAP
8 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.28%) Commvault
8 1 (1.28%) EMC
8 1 (1.28%) HP
8 1 (1.28%) IBM
8 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.28%) NetApp
8 1 (1.28%) Wyse