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 13 June 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
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 81 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 40 78 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.26% 2.36% 3.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 2.55% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 62 84
10th Percentile £435 £383 £325
25th Percentile £461 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £652 £588 £616
90th Percentile £760 £625 £663
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
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.06% +62.44%
England median hourly rate £200.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +788.89% -65.38% +50.95%

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 1,597 3,056 3,142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 92.63% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1,896 2,308
10th Percentile £220 £216 £284
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £623 £620 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £721
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 456 252
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.85 £17.70
25th Percentile £19.27 £27.50 £48.68
Median hourly rate £40.42 £55.00 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year -26.51% -13.02% +32.74%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £29.00 £39.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.58% -12.22% +87.50%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +28 17 £575 +9.52% 10
Bristol +10 11 £452 -8.46% 25
Gloucestershire +12 7 £700 +40.00% 12
Dorset +4 3 £538 -17.31% 2
Somerset +2 2 £275 -54.17% 7
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 39 (97.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (70.00%) Security Cleared
3 24 (60.00%) Windows
4 19 (47.50%) Linux
4 19 (47.50%) VMware
5 17 (42.50%) Python
5 17 (42.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
5 17 (42.50%) Windows Server
6 16 (40.00%) DV Cleared
7 14 (35.00%) DNS
7 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
8 13 (32.50%) Hyper-V
8 13 (32.50%) Puppet
8 13 (32.50%) Ansible
9 12 (30.00%) Bash
9 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
10 11 (27.50%) AWS
10 11 (27.50%) Docker
10 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
10 11 (27.50%) DHCP
11 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
12 9 (22.50%) Azure
12 9 (22.50%) Cisco
12 9 (22.50%) Service Management
12 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
13 8 (20.00%) vCenter Server
13 8 (20.00%) Validation
13 8 (20.00%) Agile
13 8 (20.00%) Bitbucket

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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.50%) IaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) DNS
2 11 (27.50%) DHCP
3 6 (15.00%) HTTP
3 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (7.50%) VSAN
5 2 (5.00%) Firewall
5 2 (5.00%) Skype
5 2 (5.00%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.50%) Internet
6 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.50%) LAN
6 1 (2.50%) NGFW
6 1 (2.50%) SAN
6 1 (2.50%) VPN
6 1 (2.50%) WAN
6 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 5 (12.50%) GitLab
3 4 (10.00%) Git
3 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Military
2 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (2.50%) Legal
3 1 (2.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) REST
1 4 (10.00%) SOAP
2 3 (7.50%) Flash
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Clustering
1 5 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (2.50%) CESG
2 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (60.00%) Windows
2 19 (47.50%) Linux
3 17 (42.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.00%) VMS
6 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.50%) Rocky
7 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.50%) Unix
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (22.50%) Service Management
4 8 (20.00%) Agile
4 8 (20.00%) Validation
5 6 (15.00%) NsoIT
5 6 (15.00%) System Testing
6 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
8 3 (7.50%) High Availability
8 3 (7.50%) Power Management
9 2 (5.00%) Change Management
9 2 (5.00%) DevOps
9 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (5.00%) Project Management
9 2 (5.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) Bash
3 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) Perl
6 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.00%) CCNP
4 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (7.50%) CCNA
5 3 (7.50%) Degree
5 3 (7.50%) OCA
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (7.50%) RHCA
5 3 (7.50%) RHCE
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.50%) MCSA
7 1 (2.50%) MCSE
7 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
3 13 (32.50%) Hyper-V
4 11 (27.50%) Docker
5 8 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (12.50%) VMware NSX
7 3 (7.50%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (5.00%) vSphere
9 1 (2.50%) Firmware
9 1 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Ansible
1 13 (32.50%) Puppet
2 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 6 (15.00%) Terraform
5 4 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (7.50%) SCCM
6 3 (7.50%) WSUS
7 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.50%) Nessus
7 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.50%) SCOM
7 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) VMware
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (22.50%) Cisco
4 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.50%) F5
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) Veeam
7 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.50%) Google
7 1 (2.50%) Veritas