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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 82 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 +37
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 166 71 167
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.73% 2.35% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% 2.58% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 50 135
10th Percentile £375 £329 £363
25th Percentile £450 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £600
90th Percentile £611 £623 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £463
% change year-on-year - +13.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile £78.98 - -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £200.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -63.73% +788.89% -65.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 5,567 2,749 5,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 91.00% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,384 1,812 3,116
10th Percentile £303 £220 £243
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £656 £688
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 187 553
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £24.25 £16.95 £18.92
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.31 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.75% -35.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £79.38 £62.50 £66.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £79.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +55.17% -26.58% -11.30%

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 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 2026. 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 +22 107 £510 -0.54% 16
Buckinghamshire +16 66 £573 +9.00% 12
Hampshire -12 30 £575 - 15
Berkshire -22 23 £425 -22.73% 2
Oxfordshire -14 18 £250 - 3
Surrey -14 10 £500 -4.76% 6
Isle of Wight - 10 - -
Kent -12 4 £571 +52.33% 3
West Sussex -20 2 £575 +53.33%
East Sussex -3 1 £600 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 2026, 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.

1 163 (98.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (48.19%) Security Cleared
3 61 (36.75%) VMware
4 56 (33.73%) Azure
5 54 (32.53%) SC Cleared
6 49 (29.52%) Microsoft
7 47 (28.31%) Windows
8 44 (26.51%) Active Directory
9 38 (22.89%) VMware Infrastructure
10 32 (19.28%) Citrix
11 31 (18.67%) Linux
12 29 (17.47%) DV Cleared
13 28 (16.87%) Windows Server
14 25 (15.06%) PowerShell
15 19 (11.45%) VMware NSX
15 19 (11.45%) vSphere
16 17 (10.24%) AWS
16 17 (10.24%) DevOps
16 17 (10.24%) DNS
16 17 (10.24%) Firewall
17 16 (9.64%) High Availability
18 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
18 15 (9.04%) ITIL
18 15 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (8.43%) DHCP
19 14 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
19 14 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
19 14 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
19 14 (8.43%) Terraform
19 14 (8.43%) Veeam

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 14 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 56 (33.73%) Azure
2 17 (10.24%) AWS
3 14 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.63%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.61%) IaaS
6 5 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.41%) PaaS
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.20%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.20%) SaaS
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.60%) Datadog
10 1 (0.60%) GCP
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub
10 1 (0.60%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.24%) DNS
1 17 (10.24%) Firewall
2 14 (8.43%) DHCP
3 11 (6.63%) VLAN
4 8 (4.82%) VSAN
5 6 (3.61%) LAN
5 6 (3.61%) WAN
6 5 (3.01%) SAN
6 5 (3.01%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.41%) VPN
7 4 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.81%) SMTP
9 2 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.20%) NAS
9 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.60%) FTP
10 1 (0.60%) Network Security
10 1 (0.60%) SNMP
10 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.81%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) JIRA
1 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
General
1 12 (7.23%) Public Sector
2 10 (6.02%) Marketing
2 10 (6.02%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.42%) Aerospace
3 9 (5.42%) Manufacturing
4 8 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.81%) Legal
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Advertising
8 1 (0.60%) Finance
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.60%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.84%) PKI
2 12 (7.23%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.61%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Replication
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 47 (28.31%) Windows
2 31 (18.67%) Linux
3 28 (16.87%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.61%) Debian
5 4 (2.41%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (98.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (10.24%) DevOps
3 16 (9.64%) High Availability
4 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (9.04%) ITIL
4 15 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (6.63%) Agile
6 11 (6.63%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (6.02%) Migration
7 10 (6.02%) Privileged Access Management
7 10 (6.02%) Project Delivery
8 8 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (4.82%) RBAC
8 8 (4.82%) Zero Trust
9 7 (4.22%) Change Control
9 7 (4.22%) Identity Management
9 7 (4.22%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (3.61%) Analytics
10 6 (3.61%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.06%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.22%) Bicep
3 3 (1.81%) Python
4 1 (0.60%) Bash
4 1 (0.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (48.19%) Security Cleared
2 54 (32.53%) SC Cleared
3 29 (17.47%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.61%) VCAP
4 6 (3.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (3.01%) Degree
6 2 (1.20%) CCA
6 2 (1.20%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.20%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (1.20%) MCSA
6 2 (1.20%) MCSE
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.20%) NCDA
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.60%) OCP
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) SLA
2 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.01%) NCSC
2 5 (3.01%) NIST
3 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.20%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (26.51%) Active Directory
2 38 (22.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.45%) VMware NSX
3 19 (11.45%) vSphere
4 14 (8.43%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.42%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (4.82%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.41%) Docker
8 3 (1.81%) DFS Replication
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.20%) UAG
10 1 (0.60%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (8.43%) Terraform
2 13 (7.83%) vCenter Server
3 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.22%) SCCM
5 6 (3.61%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.01%) SCOM
7 4 (2.41%) Ansible
7 4 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.81%) SCSM
8 3 (1.81%) VxRail
9 2 (1.20%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.60%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.60%) Grafana
10 1 (0.60%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (36.75%) VMware
2 49 (29.52%) Microsoft
3 32 (19.28%) Citrix
4 14 (8.43%) Veeam
5 7 (4.22%) Cisco
6 6 (3.61%) NetApp
7 4 (2.41%) BT
7 4 (2.41%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.41%) Commvault
7 4 (2.41%) Meraki
7 4 (2.41%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.41%) Xerox
7 4 (2.41%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.81%) Trend Micro
9 2 (1.20%) Becrypt
9 2 (1.20%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.20%) Dell
9 2 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle
9 2 (1.20%) Zerto