Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 47 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 63 125 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.75% 3.91% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.71% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 110 100
10th Percentile £448 £175 £275
25th Percentile £513 £281 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £634 £588 £650
90th Percentile £728 £625 £719
England median daily rate £525 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.31% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £47.13 £51.45
25th Percentile - £57.81 £72.38
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.86% -
75th Percentile - £72.94 -
90th Percentile - £75.98 £82.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £63.84
% change year-on-year +35.34% -27.66% +27.68%

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 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

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 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 +23 31 £575 +9.52% 9
Dorset -7 14 £550 +197.60% 2
Bristol +1 8 £452 +0.44% 17
Gloucestershire +8 7 £700 +55.56% 27
Somerset +1 1 £275 -54.17% 8
Devon +1 1 - - 7
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 17 (26.98%) Confluence
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.22%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) AWS
3 8 (12.70%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.52%) Google Workspace
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.76%) Serverless
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub
6 1 (1.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.98%) DNS
2 12 (19.05%) DHCP
3 6 (9.52%) HTTP
3 6 (9.52%) Skype
3 6 (9.52%) TCP/IP
4 5 (7.94%) Unified Communications
5 3 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (4.76%) SSL
5 3 (4.76%) VPN
5 3 (4.76%) VSAN
6 2 (3.17%) Firewall
6 2 (3.17%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
1 6 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) JIRA
2 13 (20.63%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.35%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) GitLab
4 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Public Sector
3 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Finance
5 1 (1.59%) Military
5 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (63.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (22.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 5 (7.94%) Senior
3 5 (7.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Site Engineer
5 2 (3.17%) Lead
5 2 (3.17%) Server Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Design Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) IT Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Python Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) Flash
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (6.35%) REST
3 4 (6.35%) SOAP
4 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Clustering
2 10 (15.87%) PKI
3 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.59%) CESG
4 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (47.62%) Windows
2 23 (36.51%) Windows Server
3 18 (28.57%) Linux
4 7 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 6 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (7.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (6.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (4.76%) VMS
9 1 (1.59%) Rocky
9 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.59%) Unix
9 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Agile
2 24 (38.10%) Service Management
2 24 (38.10%) Validation
3 20 (31.75%) System Testing
4 17 (26.98%) NsoIT
5 15 (23.81%) Critical Thinking
5 15 (23.81%) Waterfall
6 14 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 14 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 14 (22.22%) High Availability
6 14 (22.22%) Power Management
7 11 (17.46%) Network Virtualisation
8 8 (12.70%) Change Management
9 7 (11.11%) ITIL
9 7 (11.11%) Migration
10 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (7.94%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.75%) PowerShell
2 19 (30.16%) Python
3 13 (20.63%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) Bash
5 5 (7.94%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.59%) Perl
6 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (73.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (49.21%) SC Cleared
3 21 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 18 (28.57%) Degree
5 17 (26.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 16 (25.40%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (20.63%) CCNA
8 12 (19.05%) Master's Degree
9 6 (9.52%) CCNP
10 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (4.76%) OCA
11 3 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (4.76%) RHCA
11 3 (4.76%) RHCE
12 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
12 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (3.17%) MCSA
12 2 (3.17%) MCSE
13 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (39.68%) Active Directory
3 19 (30.16%) Hyper-V
3 19 (30.16%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (23.81%) VMware NSX
5 11 (17.46%) Docker
6 6 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (3.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (30.16%) vCenter Server
2 13 (20.63%) Ansible
2 13 (20.63%) Puppet
3 11 (17.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (17.46%) Terraform
4 7 (11.11%) SCCM
5 6 (9.52%) WSUS
6 4 (6.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.17%) SCOM
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.59%) Nessus
8 1 (1.59%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (46.03%) VMware
2 23 (36.51%) Microsoft
3 19 (30.16%) Cisco
4 15 (23.81%) Atlassian
5 6 (9.52%) Google
6 5 (7.94%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.94%) Veeam
7 4 (6.35%) Oracle
8 3 (4.76%) F5
9 2 (3.17%) Dell
9 2 (3.17%) HP
9 2 (3.17%) Remedy
10 1 (1.59%) Fujitsu
10 1 (1.59%) Veritas