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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 63 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 100 58 113
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.79% 3.09% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 3.49% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 49 94
10th Percentile £413 £366 £177
25th Percentile £501 £494 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +7.32%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £623
90th Percentile £700 £755 £726
England median daily rate £505 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -3.81% +7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £49.00
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £89.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -21.85%

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 2,152 1,662 2,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.52% 88.45% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 1,015 1,734
10th Percentile £275 £227 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -2.60% -0.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £706 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 100 332
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.69 £43.75 £32.65
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +18.18% -10.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +12 57 £550 - 16
Gloucestershire -7 14 £596 -14.89% 19
Somerset +6 10 £575 +48.39% 6
Bristol -10 8 £450 -5.26% 12
Devon +4 4 £175 -70.83% 5
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 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Maximo
2 1 (1.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.00%) Azure
2 15 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.00%) AWS
4 13 (13.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (11.00%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (9.00%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.00%) Azure AKS
7 8 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (8.00%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.00%) IaaS
9 6 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.00%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.00%) GCP
10 3 (3.00%) GitHub
10 3 (3.00%) PaaS
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.00%) VPN
2 14 (14.00%) Firewall
3 9 (9.00%) DNS
4 5 (5.00%) Network Security
5 4 (4.00%) BGP
5 4 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (4.00%) DHCP
5 4 (4.00%) LAN
5 4 (4.00%) MPLS
5 4 (4.00%) TACACS
6 3 (3.00%) WAN
7 2 (2.00%) VLAN
8 1 (1.00%) NAS
8 1 (1.00%) NGFW
8 1 (1.00%) PABX
8 1 (1.00%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.00%) Skype
8 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) GitLab
1 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.00%) Git
2 1 (1.00%) GoCD
2 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Finance
5 2 (2.00%) Military
6 1 (1.00%) Electronics
6 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.00%) Marketing
6 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (74.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (14.00%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (11.00%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) IT Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Senior
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.00%) ARM Templates
2 6 (6.00%) OAuth
2 6 (6.00%) OAuth2
2 6 (6.00%) SAML
3 5 (5.00%) LDAP
3 5 (5.00%) REST
4 4 (4.00%) OpenID
4 4 (4.00%) SOAP
4 4 (4.00%) Web Services
5 3 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.00%) Keycloak
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.00%) PKI
3 5 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.00%) Replication
4 4 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) CCTV
7 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.00%) SCADA
7 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.00%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (34.00%) Windows
2 23 (23.00%) Windows Server
3 20 (20.00%) Linux
4 8 (8.00%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.00%) Unix
7 3 (3.00%) Android
7 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.00%) CentOS
8 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.00%) DevOps
1 18 (18.00%) ITIL
2 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.00%) Agile
6 12 (12.00%) RBAC
6 12 (12.00%) SIEM
7 9 (9.00%) Analytics
7 9 (9.00%) Business Continuity
7 9 (9.00%) Change Management
7 9 (9.00%) High Availability
8 8 (8.00%) Cloud Security
8 8 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (8.00%) Log Analytics
8 8 (8.00%) Security Operations
8 8 (8.00%) Storage Management
8 8 (8.00%) TOGAF
9 7 (7.00%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.00%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (12.00%) Python
3 11 (11.00%) Bicep
4 8 (8.00%) Bash
4 8 (8.00%) PHP
5 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.00%) Java
6 3 (3.00%) Perl
7 2 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (42.00%) DV Cleared
3 35 (35.00%) SC Cleared
4 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (15.00%) Azure Certification
6 8 (8.00%) CISM
6 8 (8.00%) CISSP
6 8 (8.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (4.00%) GIAC
8 3 (3.00%) APMG
8 3 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.00%) GSEC
8 3 (3.00%) SSCP
9 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.00%) Degree
9 2 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.00%) CCNA
10 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (12.00%) NIST
2 8 (8.00%) NIST 800
3 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (23.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.00%) Hyper-V
4 8 (8.00%) Docker
4 8 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.00%) vSphere
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (30.00%) Terraform
2 23 (23.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.00%) Ansible
4 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (9.00%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (8.00%) vCenter Server
6 7 (7.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (4.00%) Nessus
8 4 (4.00%) Packer
8 4 (4.00%) SCCM
8 4 (4.00%) SCOM
9 3 (3.00%) VxRail
10 2 (2.00%) Istio
11 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
11 1 (1.00%) FreeIPA
11 1 (1.00%) Kibana
11 1 (1.00%) logstash
11 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (30.00%) VMware
3 14 (14.00%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.00%) Dell
5 8 (8.00%) Cisco
5 8 (8.00%) IBM
6 5 (5.00%) Splunk
7 3 (3.00%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) Thales
8 2 (2.00%) Citrix
8 2 (2.00%) F5
8 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.00%) Veeam
9 1 (1.00%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.00%) EMC
9 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.00%) Juniper
9 1 (1.00%) SAP