Lead Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South East is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.090% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £763 - -
90th Percentile £770 - -
England median daily rate £638 £625 £425
% change year-on-year +2.00% +47.06% -34.62%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 6,166 3,155 4,641
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 90.58% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,649 2,047 2,829
10th Percentile £305 £212 £255
25th Percentile £425 £376 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 711 250 391
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.00 £15.96
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £76.45 £59.69 £72.11
90th Percentile £87.96 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. 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
Hampshire - 6 £700 - 2
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 2026, Lead Infrastructure Engineer 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (33.33%) Becrypt
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (33.33%) NIST
4 2 (33.33%) NIST 800
4 2 (33.33%) UAG
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (16.67%) Avamar
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) NAS
5 1 (16.67%) NCSC
5 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (16.67%) PowerCLI

Lead Infrastructure Engineer 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) VSAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (33.33%) UAG
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (16.67%) Avamar
2 1 (16.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Becrypt
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) Zerto