Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 55 64
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 109 65 94
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.76% 3.75% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 4.15% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 59 79
10th Percentile £421 £401 £175
25th Percentile £472 £522 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £600
90th Percentile £700 £755 £740
England median daily rate £510 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +7.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £89.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £74.00
90th Percentile - - £76.40
England median hourly rate £34.25 £63.14 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.76% +36.73% -16.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,339 1,566 2,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.68% 90.36% 84.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 1,003 1,723
10th Percentile £305 £225 £271
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.46%
75th Percentile £606 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 106 333
10th Percentile £16.44 £25.13 £14.43
25th Percentile £23.25 £55.00 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 March 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
Wiltshire +14 69 £551 +0.23% 15
Bristol -15 13 £500 -9.09% 5
Gloucestershire -10 8 £575 -17.86% 20
Somerset - 8 £575 - 8
Dorset -9 4 £449 -18.36% 2
Devon -4 3 £175 -70.83% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.61%) Azure
2 14 (12.84%) AWS
3 12 (11.01%) Azure Sentinel
3 12 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.17%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (6.42%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (6.42%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.42%) IaaS
5 7 (6.42%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.59%) GCP
8 4 (3.67%) PaaS
9 3 (2.75%) GitHub
9 3 (2.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.68%) VPN
2 13 (11.93%) Firewall
3 6 (5.50%) DNS
4 4 (3.67%) BGP
4 4 (3.67%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (3.67%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (3.67%) MPLS
4 4 (3.67%) Network Security
4 4 (3.67%) TACACS
5 3 (2.75%) DHCP
5 3 (2.75%) LAN
6 2 (1.83%) VSAN
6 2 (1.83%) WAN
7 1 (0.92%) NAS
7 1 (0.92%) PABX
7 1 (0.92%) SAN
7 1 (0.92%) VLAN
7 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.92%) Wireless
7 1 (0.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.75%) GitLab
2 3 (2.75%) JIRA
3 2 (1.83%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.92%) GoCD
4 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.83%) Military
6 1 (0.92%) Back Office
6 1 (0.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 80 (73.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (17.43%) Automation Engineer
3 9 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) Security Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Senior
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (3.67%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Architect
9 3 (2.75%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.09%) REST
2 10 (9.17%) SOAP
3 8 (7.34%) ARM Templates
4 6 (5.50%) OAuth
4 6 (5.50%) OAuth2
4 6 (5.50%) SAML
5 5 (4.59%) LDAP
5 5 (4.59%) Web Services
6 4 (3.67%) OpenID
7 3 (2.75%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (2.75%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.83%) Flash
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.92%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.59%) PKI
3 5 (4.59%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.59%) Replication
4 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Clustering
5 2 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) CCTV
6 1 (0.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.92%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.92%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (32.11%) Windows
2 22 (20.18%) Windows Server
3 20 (18.35%) Linux
4 8 (7.34%) Ubuntu
5 6 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.59%) Unix
7 2 (1.83%) Android
7 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.83%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.92%) CentOS
8 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.94%) Infrastructure Automation
2 21 (19.27%) DevOps
3 19 (17.43%) Agile
4 17 (15.60%) ITIL
4 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (10.09%) RBAC
6 11 (10.09%) Service Management
6 11 (10.09%) SIEM
7 9 (8.26%) Change Management
8 8 (7.34%) Analytics
8 8 (7.34%) Cloud Security
8 8 (7.34%) Configuration Management
8 8 (7.34%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (7.34%) High Availability
8 8 (7.34%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (7.34%) Validation
9 7 (6.42%) CI/CD
9 7 (6.42%) Critical Thinking
9 7 (6.42%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) PowerShell
2 19 (17.43%) Python
3 14 (12.84%) Bash
4 10 (9.17%) Bicep
5 9 (8.26%) PHP
6 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.75%) SQL
9 2 (1.83%) Java
9 2 (1.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 72 (66.06%) Security Cleared
2 44 (40.37%) SC Cleared
3 40 (36.70%) DV Cleared
4 15 (13.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (11.01%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.42%) CISM
6 7 (6.42%) CISSP
6 7 (6.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 5 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.67%) Degree
9 3 (2.75%) CCNP
9 3 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.75%) GIAC
9 3 (2.75%) GSEC
9 3 (2.75%) OCA
9 3 (2.75%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.75%) RHCA
9 3 (2.75%) RHCE
9 3 (2.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (10.09%) NIST
2 7 (6.42%) NIST 800
3 3 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.83%) QA
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.17%) Hyper-V
4 8 (7.34%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.42%) Docker
6 3 (2.75%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.83%) vSphere
8 1 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (24.77%) Terraform
2 25 (22.94%) Kubernetes
3 15 (13.76%) Ansible
4 9 (8.26%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (5.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (5.50%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.59%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (4.59%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (4.59%) SCCM
7 5 (4.59%) SCOM
8 4 (3.67%) Nessus
8 4 (3.67%) Packer
9 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.75%) Puppet
9 3 (2.75%) VxRail
10 2 (1.83%) Istio
11 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.92%) Kibana
11 1 (0.92%) logstash
Vendors
1 40 (36.70%) Microsoft
2 32 (29.36%) VMware
3 13 (11.93%) Red Hat
4 9 (8.26%) Dell
5 7 (6.42%) Cisco
5 7 (6.42%) IBM
6 5 (4.59%) Splunk
7 4 (3.67%) Google
8 3 (2.75%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.75%) Thales
9 2 (1.83%) Citrix
10 1 (0.92%) EMC
10 1 (0.92%) ESRI
10 1 (0.92%) F5
10 1 (0.92%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.92%) Juniper
10 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.92%) Remedy
10 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.92%) Sophos