Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £559, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 69 100
Rank change year-on-year -19 +31 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 72 155 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.39% 2.79% 2.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 3.01% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 128 112
10th Percentile £318 £314 £345
25th Percentile £363 £375 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.28% - +3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £558 £550
90th Percentile £653 £608 £638
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £21.53
25th Percentile - - £35.81
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £54.38
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 28 £431 -7.25% 18
Berkshire +10 23 £563 +2.27% 11
Hampshire +7 22 £575 +9.52% 15
Kent +11 12 £451 +16.26% 7
Surrey +8 5 £470 +16.77% 9
Oxfordshire +4 3 £250 -33.33% 8
East Sussex -2 3 £525 +10.53%
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £501 +17.44% 1
West Sussex -11 2 £375 -16.67% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 72 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (68.06%) VMware
3 47 (65.28%) Windows
4 37 (51.39%) Microsoft
4 37 (51.39%) Active Directory
5 32 (44.44%) Security Cleared
6 30 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 29 (40.28%) Windows Server
8 26 (36.11%) PowerShell
9 22 (30.56%) DV Cleared
9 22 (30.56%) Azure
9 22 (30.56%) Linux
10 19 (26.39%) Firewall
11 18 (25.00%) Ansible
12 17 (23.61%) VMware ESXi
13 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
13 16 (22.22%) IaaS
13 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
14 15 (20.83%) vCenter Server
14 15 (20.83%) DHCP
14 15 (20.83%) DNS
15 14 (19.44%) Dell
15 14 (19.44%) Citrix
15 14 (19.44%) vSphere
15 14 (19.44%) OpenShift
16 13 (18.06%) DevOps
16 13 (18.06%) PaaS
17 12 (16.67%) HP
18 11 (15.28%) Windows 10

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 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) IaaS
2 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (19.44%) OpenShift
4 13 (18.06%) PaaS
5 11 (15.28%) AWS
6 8 (11.11%) SaaS
7 7 (9.72%) GCP
8 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.39%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.39%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (26.39%) Firewall
2 15 (20.83%) DHCP
2 15 (20.83%) DNS
3 8 (11.11%) SMTP
4 7 (9.72%) SAN
4 7 (9.72%) VPN
5 3 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (4.17%) VLAN
6 2 (2.78%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (2.78%) SSL
7 1 (1.39%) FTP
7 1 (1.39%) Internet
7 1 (1.39%) LAN
7 1 (1.39%) Telnet
7 1 (1.39%) WAN
7 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (9.72%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.72%) Big Data
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
General
1 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 8 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 7 (9.72%) Clustering
3 7 (9.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (9.72%) PKI
3 7 (9.72%) Public Cloud
4 6 (8.33%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.39%) Replication
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (65.28%) Windows
2 29 (40.28%) Windows Server
3 22 (30.56%) Linux
4 11 (15.28%) Windows 10
5 10 (13.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (11.11%) CentOS
6 8 (11.11%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.78%) AIX
8 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.78%) Unix
8 2 (2.78%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (18.06%) DevOps
3 8 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (9.72%) Agile
4 7 (9.72%) Application Packaging
4 7 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (9.72%) Change Control
4 7 (9.72%) DevSecOps
4 7 (9.72%) ITIL
4 7 (9.72%) Machine Learning
4 7 (9.72%) Software Deployment
5 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (8.33%) Migration
5 6 (8.33%) Security Patching
6 4 (5.56%) Email Migration
6 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (4.17%) Computer Science
8 2 (2.78%) Load Balancing
8 2 (2.78%) Network Design
8 2 (2.78%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.56%) Bash
2 4 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) DV Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) Degree
4 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.56%) CCNA
5 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.78%) CCDP
6 2 (2.78%) CCNP
6 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.39%) Dell Certification
7 1 (1.39%) MCP
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (51.39%) Active Directory
2 30 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (23.61%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (19.44%) vSphere
5 9 (12.50%) Docker
5 9 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 7 (9.72%) BitLocker
6 7 (9.72%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (9.72%) Terminal Services
7 6 (8.33%) DFS Replication
8 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (1.39%) NFS
9 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (25.00%) Ansible
2 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 15 (20.83%) vCenter Server
4 11 (15.28%) Puppet
5 9 (12.50%) Terraform
6 7 (9.72%) Nagios
6 7 (9.72%) Nessus
6 7 (9.72%) vMotion
7 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (6.94%) SCCM
8 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.78%) Proxmox
9 2 (2.78%) SCOM
10 1 (1.39%) SCSM
Vendors
1 49 (68.06%) VMware
2 37 (51.39%) Microsoft
3 14 (19.44%) Citrix
3 14 (19.44%) Dell
4 12 (16.67%) HP
5 10 (13.89%) Red Hat
6 9 (12.50%) Wyse
7 7 (9.72%) Google
7 7 (9.72%) Symantec
8 6 (8.33%) Cisco
9 4 (5.56%) Commvault
10 2 (2.78%) F5
10 2 (2.78%) IBM
11 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.39%) Imperva
11 1 (1.39%) McAfee
11 1 (1.39%) Netskope
11 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.39%) Sophos