Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 8 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.28% 2.68% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.35% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 16
10th Percentile £335 £355 £484
25th Percentile £358 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £444 £650 £656
90th Percentile £550 £665 £700
Wales median daily rate £425 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 269 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.34% 80.06% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 190 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £420 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bridgend - 3 £425 -
Newport +7 2 £365 -39.17% 2
Cardiff +1 2 £450 -21.74% 11
Monmouthshire - 1 £700 -
Infrastructure Engineering
Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) High Availability
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Coaching
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Dell