Infrastructure Support Contract Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Support
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Support daily rate in the South East is £260, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 175 197
Rank change year-on-year +36 +22 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 29 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.80% 0.047% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.051% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 1 4
10th Percentile - - £152
25th Percentile £219 £363 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £375 £229
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +63.93% -29.07%
75th Percentile £486 £388 £362
90th Percentile £527 - £469
England median daily rate £260 £313 £400
% change year-on-year -16.80% -21.88% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - -64.40%

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 3,240 3,953 5,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 92.23% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 2,365 3,519
10th Percentile £204 £250 £210
25th Percentile £370 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £615
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.48% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 236 255
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.65 £27.00 £21.61
Median hourly rate £23.00 £58.43 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.65% +11.30% +80.35%
75th Percentile £50.75 £74.90 £68.62
90th Percentile £71.13 £78.75 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Support' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Infrastructure Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support in the South East over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support in the South East

Infrastructure Support
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Infrastructure Support
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 Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 October 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 +23 23 £260 -30.67% 1
Berkshire +37 22 £260 -30.67% 1
Hampshire +11 2 £575 -
East Sussex - 2 £170 -
Kent - 1 £615 - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £250 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Infrastructure Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, Infrastructure Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 28 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (79.31%) VMware
3 21 (72.41%) Microsoft
4 20 (68.97%) Windows
5 19 (65.52%) ITIL
5 19 (65.52%) Linux
5 19 (65.52%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
6 16 (55.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (48.28%) DHCP
7 14 (48.28%) DNS
8 13 (44.83%) AWS
8 13 (44.83%) Azure
8 13 (44.83%) Hyper-V
8 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
9 12 (41.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
10 11 (37.93%) Azure Certification
10 11 (37.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (37.93%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (37.93%) Preventative Maintenance
10 11 (37.93%) Server+ Certification
10 11 (37.93%) Service Management
10 11 (37.93%) TCP/IP
10 11 (37.93%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 11 (37.93%) VLAN
11 8 (27.59%) Ansible
12 6 (20.69%) Architectural Design
12 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
12 6 (20.69%) Red Hat

Infrastructure Support 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 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) IaaS
2 4 (13.79%) OneDrive
3 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.34%) PaaS
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) DHCP
1 14 (48.28%) DNS
2 11 (37.93%) TCP/IP
2 11 (37.93%) VLAN
3 4 (13.79%) 4G
3 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 4 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (10.34%) VPN
5 2 (6.90%) SMTP
6 1 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) Big Data
1 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
General
1 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (10.34%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 19 (65.52%) Linux
3 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (65.52%) ITIL
2 19 (65.52%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (41.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (37.93%) Preventative Maintenance
4 11 (37.93%) Service Management
4 11 (37.93%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 6 (20.69%) Architectural Design
5 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
7 2 (6.90%) AI
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning
7 2 (6.90%) Software Deployment
8 1 (3.45%) Coaching
8 1 (3.45%) Logistics
8 1 (3.45%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 1 (3.45%) Migration
8 1 (3.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
3 11 (37.93%) Azure Certification
3 11 (37.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (37.93%) Network+ Certification
3 11 (37.93%) Server+ Certification
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (44.83%) Hyper-V
3 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.90%) BitLocker
4 2 (6.90%) Docker
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (6.90%) Terminal Services
4 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.45%) DFS Replication
5 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (13.79%) SCCM
4 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.90%) Nagios
4 2 (6.90%) Puppet
4 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.90%) vMotion
5 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (79.31%) VMware
2 21 (72.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
5 3 (10.34%) Citrix
6 2 (6.90%) Google
6 2 (6.90%) HP
6 2 (6.90%) Symantec