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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 60 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 -30 +22
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 46 78 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.25% 3.17% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 3.75% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 48 139
10th Percentile £375 £399 £406
25th Percentile £486 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% - +8.64%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £625
90th Percentile - £708 £706
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £46.11
25th Percentile - - £62.09
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £78.80
England median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% - +33.33%

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 1,835 2,080 2,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.69% 84.59% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,228 1,901
10th Percentile £223 £312 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 169 283
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.62 £20.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £36.00 £45.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 -4 13 £540 +1.65% 10
Gloucestershire -3 10 £700 +7.69% 22
Bristol 0 8 £481 -12.50% 19
Somerset +5 7 £550 +11.39% 7
Devon -2 3 £175 -70.83% 3
Dorset -3 3 - - 1
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 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Maximo
2 1 (2.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.04%) Azure Stack
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) DNS
2 7 (15.22%) Firewall
3 5 (10.87%) VPN
4 3 (6.52%) DHCP
5 2 (4.35%) LAN
5 2 (4.35%) Network Security
5 2 (4.35%) SSL
5 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.35%) WAN
6 1 (2.17%) Internet
6 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.17%) NGFW
6 1 (2.17%) PABX
6 1 (2.17%) Skype
6 1 (2.17%) VLAN
6 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) CMake
4 1 (2.17%) GoCD
4 1 (2.17%) Gradle
4 1 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Electronics
4 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.35%) Marketing
4 2 (4.35%) Military
4 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (78.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) IT Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Senior
3 8 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior IT Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.52%) Mobile Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) IT Support
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (6.52%) OAuth
1 3 (6.52%) OAuth2
1 3 (6.52%) OpenID
1 3 (6.52%) SAML
2 2 (4.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.17%) Bazel
3 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.35%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.17%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) SCADA
5 1 (2.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (39.13%) Windows
2 11 (23.91%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.22%) Linux
4 3 (6.52%) Android
4 3 (6.52%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
2 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
2 6 (13.04%) Migration
3 5 (10.87%) Change Management
3 5 (10.87%) ITIL
3 5 (10.87%) RBAC
4 4 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (8.70%) Data Management
4 4 (8.70%) DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) High Availability
4 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (8.70%) Storage Management
5 3 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (6.52%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (6.52%) DevSecOps
5 3 (6.52%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) Bash
4 3 (6.52%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) Perl
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) DV Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) Azure Certification
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (13.04%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) CISM
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.17%) CCNP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) GIAC
6 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.35%) NIST
1 2 (4.35%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 4 (8.70%) vSphere
5 3 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.17%) Firmware
6 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Ansible
3 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
6 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.17%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.17%) FreeIPA
7 1 (2.17%) Grafana
7 1 (2.17%) Istio
7 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.17%) Puppet
7 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.17%) SCCM
7 1 (2.17%) SCOM
7 1 (2.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (32.61%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) F5
3 3 (6.52%) IBM
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) Dell
4 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Citrix
5 1 (2.17%) ESRI
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Juniper
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.17%) Veeam