Infrastructure Engineer Contracts 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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 62 88
Rank change year-on-year -33 +26 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 61 168 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 3.01% 2.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 3.26% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 138 106
10th Percentile £325 £325 £345
25th Percentile £356 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £623 £608 £638
England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £21.53
25th Percentile - - £35.81
Median hourly rate - - £54.38
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £200.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +788.89% -65.38% +42.92%

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 2,666 5,149 5,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.19% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,792 3,079 3,675
10th Percentile £220 £229 £217
25th Percentile £375 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 509 231
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.23 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £33.89 £48.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -4.00% +138.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £65.01
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

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 29 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 29 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 +3 26 £438 -10.75% 70
Berkshire +8 21 £600 -0.83% 46
Kent +7 16 £375 -3.23% 11
Hampshire +3 14 £575 +6.98% 26
Surrey +3 3 £525 +31.25% 11
Oxfordshire 0 3 £250 -33.33% 7
Buckinghamshire +1 2 £501 +16.08% 17
East Sussex -1 1 - - 3
West Sussex -10 1 £375 -16.67% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 61 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (72.13%) Windows
3 43 (70.49%) VMware
4 34 (55.74%) Active Directory
5 31 (50.82%) Security Cleared
6 23 (37.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 23 (37.70%) Microsoft
6 23 (37.70%) Windows Server
7 22 (36.07%) PowerShell
7 22 (36.07%) DV Cleared
8 21 (34.43%) DNS
9 20 (32.79%) DHCP
10 19 (31.15%) VMware ESXi
11 18 (29.51%) Citrix
12 17 (27.87%) Firewall
13 16 (26.23%) Azure
14 15 (24.59%) DevOps
15 14 (22.95%) IaaS
16 13 (21.31%) Linux
16 13 (21.31%) Windows 10
17 12 (19.67%) vSphere
18 11 (18.03%) PaaS
18 11 (18.03%) Degree
18 11 (18.03%) Hyper-V
18 11 (18.03%) VPN
18 11 (18.03%) Dell
18 11 (18.03%) Wyse
18 11 (18.03%) Ansible
18 11 (18.03%) Onboarding
19 10 (16.39%) Social Skills

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 (16.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) Confluence
3 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.28%) Apache
5 1 (1.64%) IIS
5 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) Azure
2 14 (22.95%) IaaS
3 11 (18.03%) PaaS
4 9 (14.75%) AWS
5 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (11.48%) GCP
6 7 (11.48%) OpenShift
7 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.28%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.64%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (34.43%) DNS
2 20 (32.79%) DHCP
3 17 (27.87%) Firewall
4 11 (18.03%) VPN
5 9 (14.75%) SMTP
6 7 (11.48%) VLAN
7 6 (9.84%) SAN
8 5 (8.20%) TCP/IP
9 4 (6.56%) SSL
10 3 (4.92%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (1.64%) FTP
11 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.64%) Telnet
11 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.48%) Big Data
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.64%) Middleware
1 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.64%) Software Packaging
1 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Onboarding
2 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.11%) PKI
3 7 (11.48%) Clustering
4 6 (9.84%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (72.13%) Windows
2 23 (37.70%) Windows Server
3 13 (21.31%) Linux
3 13 (21.31%) Windows 10
4 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.92%) CentOS
5 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.28%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (24.59%) DevOps
3 8 (13.11%) ITIL
4 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning
4 7 (11.48%) Software Deployment
5 6 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (9.84%) Migration
5 6 (9.84%) Security Patching
6 4 (6.56%) Email Migration
7 3 (4.92%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (4.92%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (3.28%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 2 (3.28%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 2 (3.28%) Server Management
8 2 (3.28%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.28%) Bash
2 2 (3.28%) Python
3 1 (1.64%) PHP
3 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (50.82%) Security Cleared
2 22 (36.07%) DV Cleared
3 11 (18.03%) Degree
4 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.28%) CCDP
5 2 (3.28%) CCNA
5 2 (3.28%) CCNP
5 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.64%) MCP
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.64%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (55.74%) Active Directory
2 23 (37.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (31.15%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (19.67%) vSphere
5 11 (18.03%) Hyper-V
6 7 (11.48%) BitLocker
6 7 (11.48%) Docker
6 7 (11.48%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (11.48%) Terminal Services
7 6 (9.84%) DFS Replication
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (1.64%) NFS
9 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Ansible
2 9 (14.75%) Puppet
3 8 (13.11%) vCenter Server
4 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 7 (11.48%) Nagios
4 7 (11.48%) vMotion
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.56%) SCCM
5 4 (6.56%) Tivoli
6 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.28%) Proxmox
6 2 (3.28%) SCOM
6 2 (3.28%) Terraform
7 1 (1.64%) SCSM
Vendors
1 43 (70.49%) VMware
2 23 (37.70%) Microsoft
3 18 (29.51%) Citrix
4 11 (18.03%) Dell
4 11 (18.03%) Wyse
5 7 (11.48%) Google
5 7 (11.48%) HP
5 7 (11.48%) Symantec
6 5 (8.20%) SolarWinds
7 4 (6.56%) Cisco
7 4 (6.56%) Veeam
8 1 (1.64%) Commvault
8 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.64%) Imperva
8 1 (1.64%) McAfee
8 1 (1.64%) Netskope
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.64%) Sophos