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 £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 75 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 80 117 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.32% 2.56% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 2.77% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 86 83
10th Percentile £223 £350 £345
25th Percentile £329 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £538
90th Percentile £600 £608 £586
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.70
25th Percentile £71.00 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £62.63
75th Percentile £83.00 - £73.06
90th Percentile - - £75.14
England median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year -50.00% -15.79% +56.66%

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 3,103 4,219 5,333
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 92.38% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,003 2,517 3,616
10th Percentile £204 £250 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 318 252
10th Percentile £13.38 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.47 £31.44 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.43 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.20% +14.85% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.06
90th Percentile £71.50 £80.00 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
% change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%

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
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 September 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 September 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 +3 37 £454 -12.41% 15
Berkshire +13 29 £471 -22.21% 8
Hampshire -9 19 £575 +20.55% 21
Kent +7 16 £369 +14.34% 4
East Sussex +3 4 £170 -64.21% 1
Buckinghamshire -3 4 £550 +22.22% 3
Oxfordshire -6 4 £250 - 5
Surrey -4 2 £538 +32.72% 2
West Sussex -8 1 £375 -16.67% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 79 (98.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (66.25%) Windows
3 51 (63.75%) VMware
4 35 (43.75%) Security Cleared
5 33 (41.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (41.25%) Active Directory
6 31 (38.75%) DNS
7 29 (36.25%) Microsoft
8 28 (35.00%) Linux
9 26 (32.50%) DHCP
9 26 (32.50%) Azure
10 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (27.50%) DevOps
12 21 (26.25%) DV Cleared
13 20 (25.00%) Hyper-V
14 19 (23.75%) ITIL
14 19 (23.75%) Windows Server
15 18 (22.50%) Ansible
15 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
16 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
17 16 (20.00%) vSphere
17 16 (20.00%) Firewall
17 16 (20.00%) Citrix
18 15 (18.75%) TCP/IP
18 15 (18.75%) AWS
18 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
19 14 (17.50%) VMware ESXi
20 13 (16.25%) VLAN
20 13 (16.25%) VPN
20 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Exchange

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 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.25%) Apache
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
3 4 (5.00%) IIS
4 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.50%) Azure
2 15 (18.75%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) IaaS
4 9 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.25%) PaaS
5 7 (8.75%) GCP
5 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
6 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.25%) Lucidchart
10 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.75%) DNS
2 26 (32.50%) DHCP
3 16 (20.00%) Firewall
4 15 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 13 (16.25%) VLAN
5 13 (16.25%) VPN
6 11 (13.75%) SMTP
7 10 (12.50%) SAN
8 6 (7.50%) SSL
9 3 (3.75%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (3.75%) VSAN
10 2 (2.50%) Wireless
11 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
11 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.25%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.25%) LAN
11 1 (1.25%) MPLS
11 1 (1.25%) WAN
11 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (8.75%) Big Data
1 7 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) UniData
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) YAML
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (1.25%) ADO
3 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) PKI
2 10 (12.50%) Clustering
2 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 8 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (7.50%) Replication
5 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) NHS
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) FlexPod
7 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 53 (66.25%) Windows
2 28 (35.00%) Linux
3 19 (23.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (8.75%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (7.50%) CentOS
5 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
6 5 (6.25%) Windows 10
7 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.25%) Unix
8 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (98.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (27.50%) DevOps
4 19 (23.75%) ITIL
5 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (12.50%) Service Management
6 8 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 8 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 7 (8.75%) Agile
7 7 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (8.75%) Machine Learning
7 7 (8.75%) Software Deployment
8 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (5.00%) Architectural Design
9 4 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps
9 4 (5.00%) Patch Management
9 4 (5.00%) Prototyping
9 4 (5.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.00%) Bicep
3 2 (2.50%) SQL
4 1 (1.25%) Bash
4 1 (1.25%) Go
4 1 (1.25%) Java
4 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.25%) PHP
4 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.25%) DV Cleared
3 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.50%) Degree
5 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 8 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (10.00%) Server+ Certification
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.25%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CCDP
8 1 (1.25%) CCNA
8 1 (1.25%) CCNP
8 1 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.75%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (41.25%) Active Directory
1 33 (41.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 16 (20.00%) vSphere
4 14 (17.50%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (15.00%) Docker
6 7 (8.75%) BitLocker
6 7 (8.75%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (8.75%) Terminal Services
7 4 (5.00%) DFS Replication
8 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Ansible
2 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 7 (8.75%) Nagios
4 7 (8.75%) Puppet
4 7 (8.75%) Terraform
4 7 (8.75%) vMotion
5 5 (6.25%) Tivoli
6 4 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (5.00%) SCCM
7 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.50%) SCOM
8 2 (2.50%) VxRail
9 1 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.25%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.25%) Rsyslog
9 1 (1.25%) Rundeck
9 1 (1.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 51 (63.75%) VMware
2 29 (36.25%) Microsoft
3 16 (20.00%) Citrix
4 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
5 7 (8.75%) Dell
5 7 (8.75%) Google
5 7 (8.75%) HP
5 7 (8.75%) Symantec
6 6 (7.50%) SolarWinds
7 5 (6.25%) Veeam
7 5 (6.25%) Wyse
8 3 (3.75%) Cisco
9 1 (1.25%) Commvault
9 1 (1.25%) EMC
9 1 (1.25%) IBM
9 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.25%) NetApp
9 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.25%) Tanium