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 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 85 138
Rank change year-on-year -29 +53 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 76 94 75
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.79% 2.37% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 2.56% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 66 48
10th Percentile £219 £350 £275
25th Percentile £255 £360 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% +4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £495 £608 £514
90th Percentile £600 £675 £586
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £70.20 - £44.50
25th Percentile £70.50 - £56.15
Median hourly rate £77.00 £24.18 £71.90
Median % change year-on-year +218.44% -66.37% +181.95%
75th Percentile £84.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £24.18 £57.99
% change year-on-year +40.61% -58.30% -24.20%

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 3,822 3,679 4,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 92.88% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,456 2,271 3,215
10th Percentile £213 £238 £208
25th Percentile £400 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £681 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 169 245
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £24.18 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +2.10% +38.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £69.69 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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 10 December 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 10 December 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 +4 44 £273 -35.50% 29
Berkshire +11 38 £269 -23.29% 13
Hampshire -24 14 £569 +13.75% 18
Kent +3 7 £333 +3.91% 8
East Sussex +6 5 £180 -65.71% 4
Buckinghamshire -3 4 £550 +25.00% 13
Surrey -7 3 £560 +19.15% 16
Oxfordshire - 2 £400 - 4
West Sussex -13 1 £475 +26.67% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 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 75 (98.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (57.89%) Windows
3 40 (52.63%) VMware
4 36 (47.37%) Microsoft
5 35 (46.05%) Security Cleared
6 32 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 29 (38.16%) Linux
8 28 (36.84%) Azure
9 27 (35.53%) Active Directory
9 27 (35.53%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (35.53%) SC Cleared
10 22 (28.95%) DNS
11 19 (25.00%) ITIL
11 19 (25.00%) TCP/IP
12 18 (23.68%) DHCP
13 17 (22.37%) Hyper-V
14 15 (19.74%) AWS
15 14 (18.42%) Ansible
15 14 (18.42%) VLAN
16 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (15.79%) Service Management
17 11 (14.47%) Azure Certification
17 11 (14.47%) Disaster Recovery
17 11 (14.47%) Firewall
17 11 (14.47%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (14.47%) Preventative Maintenance
17 11 (14.47%) Red Hat
17 11 (14.47%) Server+ Certification
17 11 (14.47%) Virtual Infrastructure
18 10 (13.16%) DevSecOps

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 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.63%) Apache
2 2 (2.63%) IIS
3 1 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.84%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) AWS
3 9 (11.84%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.21%) OneDrive
5 6 (7.89%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.32%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.32%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.95%) DNS
2 19 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 18 (23.68%) DHCP
4 14 (18.42%) VLAN
5 11 (14.47%) Firewall
6 9 (11.84%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (9.21%) SAN
8 6 (7.89%) 4G
9 2 (2.63%) LAN
9 2 (2.63%) MPLS
9 2 (2.63%) SMTP
9 2 (2.63%) WAN
9 2 (2.63%) Wireless
10 1 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.32%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.32%) SSL
10 1 (1.32%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.32%) VoIP
10 1 (1.32%) VPN
10 1 (1.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.63%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.32%) UniData
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) GitLab
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Finance
4 2 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Legal
5 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) YAML
2 1 (1.32%) ADO
2 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.32%) RESTful
2 1 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (13.16%) PKI
3 6 (7.89%) Replication
4 5 (6.58%) Clustering
5 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.63%) NHS
6 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.32%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.32%) FlexPod
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.32%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (57.89%) Windows
2 29 (38.16%) Linux
3 9 (11.84%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.63%) SUSE
5 2 (2.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.32%) CentOS
6 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (98.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (35.53%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.00%) ITIL
4 12 (15.79%) Service Management
5 11 (14.47%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (14.47%) Preventative Maintenance
5 11 (14.47%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 10 (13.16%) DevSecOps
7 8 (10.53%) DevOps
8 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.89%) Architectural Design
9 6 (7.89%) Containerisation
9 6 (7.89%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (6.58%) SIEM
11 4 (5.26%) Agile
11 4 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (5.26%) High Availability
11 4 (5.26%) Mentoring
11 4 (5.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.58%) Bash
2 5 (6.58%) Python
3 4 (5.26%) Bicep
4 2 (2.63%) SQL
5 1 (1.32%) Go
5 1 (1.32%) Java
5 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 35 (46.05%) Security Cleared
2 27 (35.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (14.47%) Azure Certification
4 11 (14.47%) Network+ Certification
4 11 (14.47%) Server+ Certification
5 8 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) QA
1 2 (2.63%) SLA
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (35.53%) Active Directory
3 17 (22.37%) Hyper-V
4 9 (11.84%) Docker
5 3 (3.95%) vSphere
6 1 (1.32%) Sendmail
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) Ansible
2 10 (13.16%) SCCM
2 10 (13.16%) Terraform
3 9 (11.84%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.63%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.32%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.32%) Rsyslog
8 1 (1.32%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.32%) Salt
8 1 (1.32%) SCOM
8 1 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (52.63%) VMware
2 36 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 11 (14.47%) Red Hat
4 8 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.26%) Citrix
5 4 (5.26%) Dell
6 2 (2.63%) Aruba
6 2 (2.63%) Cisco
6 2 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.63%) NetApp
6 2 (2.63%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.32%) Commvault
7 1 (1.32%) EMC
7 1 (1.32%) HP
7 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.32%) Tanium