Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 41 72
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 87 234 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.94% 4.15% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 5.00% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 173 134
10th Percentile £318 £351 £345
25th Percentile £363 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £608 £550
90th Percentile £623 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +8.08% -2.85% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 9
10th Percentile £51.93 - £37.40
25th Percentile £53.22 £51.06 £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.70% -13.87%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.03 - £65.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.88 £68.75
% change year-on-year +23.01% -20.18% +61.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,707 4,681 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.36% 83.11% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,738 2,707 3,450
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £504
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.29% +0.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 451 217
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.14
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.26 £22.16
Median hourly rate £26.53 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.15% -9.52% +141.77%
75th Percentile £61.71 £62.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.85% - +50.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -8 37 £550 +9.78% 334
Berkshire +12 32 £600 -0.83% 181
Hampshire -20 24 £575 - 172
Kent +7 18 £375 -3.23% 98
Surrey +9 5 £400 -1.23% 98
Oxfordshire +2 3 £250 -33.33% 64
Buckinghamshire -7 2 £501 +7.64% 94
West Sussex -11 2 £375 -16.67% 49
East Sussex -3 1 - - 43
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 11 (12.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.05%) Confluence
3 3 (3.45%) Apache
3 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.30%) IIS
5 1 (1.15%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Azure
2 14 (16.09%) IaaS
3 12 (13.79%) PaaS
4 10 (11.49%) AWS
5 9 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (8.05%) GCP
6 7 (8.05%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.30%) GitHub
8 2 (2.30%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.30%) SaaS
9 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.15%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.15%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (32.18%) DNS
2 25 (28.74%) DHCP
3 18 (20.69%) Firewall
4 12 (13.79%) VPN
5 10 (11.49%) SMTP
5 10 (11.49%) TCP/IP
6 8 (9.20%) VLAN
7 6 (6.90%) SAN
8 5 (5.75%) SSL
9 4 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (3.45%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (2.30%) SNMP
11 2 (2.30%) VSAN
12 1 (1.15%) FTP
12 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (1.15%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (8.05%) Big Data
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) JIRA
2 3 (3.45%) Robot Framework
3 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.30%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.30%) Git
3 2 (2.30%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.15%) Postman
4 1 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.15%) French Language
3 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 66 (75.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (19.54%) Support Engineer
3 14 (16.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) VMware Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 10 (11.49%) 3rd Line Support
7 10 (11.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) IT Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Lead
12 3 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.45%) VMware Support Engineer
12 3 (3.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.30%) CSS
1 2 (2.30%) HTML
1 2 (2.30%) Middleware
1 2 (2.30%) YAML
2 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.15%) SOAP
2 1 (1.15%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 11 (12.64%) Onboarding
3 9 (10.34%) PKI
4 7 (8.05%) Clustering
5 6 (6.90%) Driving Licence
6 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (62.07%) Windows
2 29 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 23 (26.44%) Linux
4 14 (16.09%) Windows 10
5 9 (10.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (8.05%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (5.75%) CentOS
8 4 (4.60%) Ubuntu
8 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.30%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.15%) Unix
10 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.54%) DevOps
2 12 (13.79%) ITIL
2 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (8.05%) Agile
4 7 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (8.05%) Machine Learning
4 7 (8.05%) Software Deployment
5 6 (6.90%) DevSecOps
5 6 (6.90%) Migration
5 6 (6.90%) Security Patching
5 6 (6.90%) Validation
6 5 (5.75%) High Availability
7 4 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (4.60%) Email Migration
7 4 (4.60%) Project Delivery
7 4 (4.60%) Prototyping
7 4 (4.60%) Software Engineering
7 4 (4.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.45%) C++
2 3 (3.45%) Python
3 2 (2.30%) Bash
3 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.15%) PHP
4 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (54.02%) Security Cleared
2 30 (34.48%) DV Cleared
3 17 (19.54%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.64%) Degree
5 2 (2.30%) CCDP
5 2 (2.30%) CCNA
5 2 (2.30%) CCNP
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.15%) MCP
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) SLA
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.15%) NIST
3 1 (1.15%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 28 (32.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (27.59%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (22.99%) vSphere
5 13 (14.94%) Hyper-V
6 9 (10.34%) Docker
7 7 (8.05%) BitLocker
7 7 (8.05%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (8.05%) Terminal Services
8 6 (6.90%) DFS Replication
9 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (3.45%) Firmware
11 1 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (1.15%) NFS
11 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (14.94%) Ansible
2 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Puppet
2 9 (10.34%) vCenter Server
3 7 (8.05%) Nagios
3 7 (8.05%) vMotion
4 6 (6.90%) SCCM
5 5 (5.75%) Tivoli
6 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.60%) NetBackup
6 4 (4.60%) SCOM
7 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.30%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.30%) Terraform
8 1 (1.15%) SCSM
8 1 (1.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (67.82%) VMware
2 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 19 (21.84%) Citrix
4 16 (18.39%) Dell
5 11 (12.64%) HP
5 11 (12.64%) Wyse
6 9 (10.34%) Google
6 9 (10.34%) SolarWinds
7 7 (8.05%) Red Hat
7 7 (8.05%) Symantec
8 5 (5.75%) Veeam
9 4 (4.60%) 3PAR
9 4 (4.60%) Cisco
9 4 (4.60%) Veritas
10 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
11 1 (1.15%) Commvault
11 1 (1.15%) IBM
11 1 (1.15%) Juniper
11 1 (1.15%) McAfee
11 1 (1.15%) Sophos