Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 184 206
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 +73
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 11 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.063% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.068% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £250 - -
25th Percentile £563 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% - -
75th Percentile £594 £388 -
90th Percentile £623 - -
England median daily rate £438 £460 £375
% change year-on-year -4.89% +22.67% -6.25%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,182 4,401 5,326
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 92.24% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,049 2,662 3,652
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £631 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 363 232
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.31 £65.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +21 7 £575 -
Thames Valley +13 2 £250 -33.33% 10
Kent - 2 £615 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 - 1
Infrastructure Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, Infrastructure Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) Firewall
2 9 (81.82%) VMware
2 9 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (81.82%) DHCP
2 9 (81.82%) DNS
2 9 (81.82%) PaaS
2 9 (81.82%) IaaS
2 9 (81.82%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 7 (63.64%) BitLocker
3 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
3 7 (63.64%) GCP
3 7 (63.64%) vMotion
3 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (63.64%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
3 7 (63.64%) Ansible
3 7 (63.64%) Docker
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (63.64%) Big Data
3 7 (63.64%) Software Deployment
3 7 (63.64%) Puppet
3 7 (63.64%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
3 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
3 7 (63.64%) AWS

Infrastructure Support 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 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) IaaS
1 9 (81.82%) PaaS
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) DHCP
1 9 (81.82%) DNS
1 9 (81.82%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) SMTP
2 7 (63.64%) VPN
3 2 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (63.64%) Big Data
1 7 (63.64%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Clustering
1 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
1 7 (63.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
3 7 (63.64%) Software Deployment
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Logistics
4 2 (18.18%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
1 7 (63.64%) DV Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (63.64%) BitLocker
3 7 (63.64%) Docker
3 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
3 7 (63.64%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (63.64%) Terminal Services
3 7 (63.64%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (18.18%) DFS Replication
4 2 (18.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
1 7 (63.64%) Nagios
1 7 (63.64%) Puppet
1 7 (63.64%) vCenter Server
1 7 (63.64%) vMotion
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (81.82%) VMware
3 7 (63.64%) Citrix
3 7 (63.64%) Google
3 7 (63.64%) HP
3 7 (63.64%) Symantec