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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 60 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -19 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 66 68 142
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.88% 3.07% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 3.56% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 45 112
10th Percentile £375 £352 £326
25th Percentile £450 £460 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £630
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
England median daily rate £487 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.24% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £43.00
25th Percentile - - £46.05
Median hourly rate £89.00 - £62.09
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £79.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.69% +8.33% +8.11%

All Process and 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 1,941 1,912 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.65% 86.36% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,168 1,799
10th Percentile £261 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £422 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 133 272
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.46 £20.61
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 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 -9 25 £514 -6.59% 17
Gloucestershire -6 15 £700 - 33
Somerset +3 8 £550 +41.94% 11
Bristol -2 8 £475 -13.64% 17
Devon 0 3 £175 -70.83% 7
Dorset -2 3 - - 7
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 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Maximo
2 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (42.42%) Azure
2 14 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (19.70%) Entra ID
4 11 (16.67%) AWS
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (9.09%) Azure Stack
7 5 (7.58%) IaaS
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub
8 4 (6.06%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (4.55%) GCP
10 2 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.15%) Firewall
2 8 (12.12%) VPN
3 7 (10.61%) DNS
4 2 (3.03%) DHCP
4 2 (3.03%) Network Security
4 2 (3.03%) SSL
4 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.03%) VLAN
5 1 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.52%) LAN
5 1 (1.52%) NGFW
5 1 (1.52%) PABX
5 1 (1.52%) Skype
5 1 (1.52%) WAN
5 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.03%) Power BI
2 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.52%) CMake
4 1 (1.52%) GoCD
4 1 (1.52%) Gradle
4 1 (1.52%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (10.61%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Electronics
4 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.03%) Marketing
4 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (68.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) Senior
3 10 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) IT Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Mobile Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
10 2 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) OAuth
1 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
1 5 (7.58%) SAML
2 4 (6.06%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (4.55%) OpenID
4 1 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.52%) Bazel
4 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.06%) Private Cloud
2 4 (6.06%) Replication
3 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) CCTV
5 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.52%) NHS
5 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
5 1 (1.52%) SCADA
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (40.91%) Windows
2 17 (25.76%) Windows Server
3 14 (21.21%) Linux
4 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.58%) Unix
5 4 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.55%) Android
6 3 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (4.55%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (16.67%) DevOps
2 11 (16.67%) ITIL
3 8 (12.12%) CI/CD
3 8 (12.12%) Storage Management
4 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 6 (9.09%) Migration
5 6 (9.09%) RBAC
6 5 (7.58%) Change Management
6 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (7.58%) High Availability
6 5 (7.58%) Load Balancing
6 5 (7.58%) Security Hardening
6 5 (7.58%) SIEM
7 4 (6.06%) GitOps
7 4 (6.06%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (6.06%) Server Management
7 4 (6.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (6.06%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 12 (18.18%) Python
3 9 (13.64%) Bash
4 5 (7.58%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.06%) Bicep
6 3 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (4.55%) Perl
7 1 (1.52%) C
7 1 (1.52%) C++
7 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) Azure Certification
4 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (4.55%) CISM
7 3 (4.55%) CISSP
7 3 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.52%) GIAC
8 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.55%) NIST
1 3 (4.55%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (13.64%) Docker
4 5 (7.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (7.58%) VMware NSX
4 5 (7.58%) vSphere
5 3 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (36.36%) Terraform
2 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (18.18%) Ansible
4 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (7.58%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (7.58%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (6.06%) Nessus
7 4 (6.06%) Packer
7 4 (6.06%) SCCM
7 4 (6.06%) vCenter Server
8 2 (3.03%) Istio
9 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.52%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.52%) Grafana
9 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.52%) Puppet
9 1 (1.52%) SCOM
9 1 (1.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (28.79%) VMware
3 9 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 6 (9.09%) Dell
4 6 (9.09%) Splunk
5 4 (6.06%) IBM
6 3 (4.55%) F5
7 2 (3.03%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.03%) Cisco
7 2 (3.03%) Google
7 2 (3.03%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.03%) SAP
8 1 (1.52%) Citrix
8 1 (1.52%) ESRI
8 1 (1.52%) Juniper
8 1 (1.52%) Logitech
8 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.52%) Sophos
8 1 (1.52%) Veeam