Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 77 80
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 41 83 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.44% 2.59% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 2.78% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 71 72
10th Percentile £352 £375 £270
25th Percentile £461 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% +2.48% +15.01%
75th Percentile £652 £600 £594
90th Percentile £740 £650 £723
England median daily rate £525 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £65.18 -
25th Percentile - £67.31 £82.00
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £84.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.39% -
75th Percentile - £76.31 £86.00
90th Percentile - £77.33 -
England median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South West 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
Wiltshire +21 18 £575 +8.49% 4
Bristol +5 8 £452 -7.28% 12
Gloucestershire +12 7 £700 +40.00% 17
Dorset +5 5 £550 -15.38% 2
Devon +2 1 - - 6
Somerset +1 1 £275 -54.17% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure 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 West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (97.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (68.29%) Security Cleared
3 25 (60.98%) Windows
4 18 (43.90%) Linux
4 18 (43.90%) Python
4 18 (43.90%) Windows Server
5 17 (41.46%) Active Directory
5 17 (41.46%) VMware
6 16 (39.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (39.02%) SC Cleared
7 15 (36.59%) Hyper-V
8 14 (34.15%) DV Cleared
8 14 (34.15%) DNS
9 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
9 13 (31.71%) Puppet
9 13 (31.71%) Ansible
9 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
10 12 (29.27%) AWS
10 12 (29.27%) Bash
10 12 (29.27%) PowerShell
11 11 (26.83%) Docker
12 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
12 10 (24.39%) Azure
13 9 (21.95%) Bitbucket
13 9 (21.95%) DHCP
13 9 (21.95%) Validation
13 9 (21.95%) Agile
13 9 (21.95%) Service Management
14 8 (19.51%) Cisco
14 8 (19.51%) VMware ESXi

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (4.88%) Confluence
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.88%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) OpenShift
4 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.88%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (34.15%) DNS
2 9 (21.95%) DHCP
3 6 (14.63%) HTTP
3 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (7.32%) VPN
4 3 (7.32%) VSAN
5 2 (4.88%) Firewall
5 2 (4.88%) Skype
5 2 (4.88%) SSL
5 2 (4.88%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Bitbucket
2 5 (12.20%) GitLab
3 4 (9.76%) Git
3 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Legal
2 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Military
3 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) REST
1 4 (9.76%) SOAP
2 3 (7.32%) Flash
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Clustering
1 5 (12.20%) PKI
2 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) CESG
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 18 (43.90%) Linux
2 18 (43.90%) Windows Server
3 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (9.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.88%) VMS
6 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.44%) Rocky
7 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.44%) Unix
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
3 9 (21.95%) Agile
3 9 (21.95%) Service Management
3 9 (21.95%) Validation
4 6 (14.63%) NsoIT
4 6 (14.63%) System Testing
5 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
5 5 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (9.76%) Change Management
6 4 (9.76%) Configuration Management
6 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.76%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (7.32%) High Availability
7 3 (7.32%) ITIL
7 3 (7.32%) Migration
7 3 (7.32%) Power Management
7 3 (7.32%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) Bash
2 12 (29.27%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.20%) Java
3 5 (12.20%) SQL
4 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) Perl
4 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (68.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) SC Cleared
3 14 (34.15%) DV Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (12.20%) CCNP
5 5 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (7.32%) Degree
6 3 (7.32%) OCA
6 3 (7.32%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (7.32%) RHCA
6 3 (7.32%) RHCE
7 2 (4.88%) CCNA
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.44%) MCSA
8 1 (2.44%) MCSE
8 1 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Active Directory
2 16 (39.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (36.59%) Hyper-V
4 11 (26.83%) Docker
5 8 (19.51%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (9.76%) VMware NSX
7 3 (7.32%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (4.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Ansible
1 13 (31.71%) Puppet
2 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.51%) Terraform
3 8 (19.51%) vCenter Server
4 6 (14.63%) SCCM
5 4 (9.76%) Progress Chef
6 3 (7.32%) WSUS
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.44%) Nessus
7 1 (2.44%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.44%) SCOM
7 1 (2.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) VMware
2 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (19.51%) Cisco
4 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.32%) F5
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle
6 2 (4.88%) Dell
6 2 (4.88%) Google
6 2 (4.88%) HP
6 2 (4.88%) Remedy
6 2 (4.88%) Veeam
7 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.44%) Veritas