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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 63 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 +22
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 81 65 133
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.50% 3.08% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 3.54% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 47 105
10th Percentile £375 £357 £275
25th Percentile £450 £460 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -2.22% +18.42%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £630
90th Percentile - £730 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 - £58.09
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.94% +6.78%

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 1,938 1,835 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.64% 86.88% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,124 1,725
10th Percentile £263 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
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 £733 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 126 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.16 £20.48
25th Percentile £19.26 £48.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +8.33% -7.69%
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% +19.70%

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 18 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 18 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 -2 34 £550 - 14
Gloucestershire -9 15 £700 - 18
Somerset +7 11 £575 +48.39% 7
Bristol -1 10 £450 -18.18% 16
Devon +7 4 £175 -70.83% 7
Dorset +4 3 - - 6
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 (9.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Maximo
2 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.51%) Azure
2 15 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (17.28%) AWS
4 13 (16.05%) Entra ID
5 8 (9.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.64%) IaaS
7 6 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (7.41%) Azure Stack
8 4 (4.94%) GCP
8 4 (4.94%) GitHub
8 4 (4.94%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.70%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.70%) PaaS
10 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.05%) Firewall
2 11 (13.58%) VPN
3 9 (11.11%) DNS
4 4 (4.94%) DHCP
5 3 (3.70%) LAN
6 2 (2.47%) Network Security
6 2 (2.47%) SSL
6 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.47%) VLAN
6 2 (2.47%) WAN
7 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.23%) NGFW
7 1 (1.23%) PABX
7 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.23%) Skype
7 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.23%) Wireless
7 1 (1.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.94%) GitLab
3 2 (2.47%) Git
4 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.23%) CMake
4 1 (1.23%) GoCD
4 1 (1.23%) Gradle
4 1 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.47%) Electronics
5 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.47%) Marketing
5 2 (2.47%) Military
5 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (72.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (14.81%) Senior
3 11 (13.58%) IT Engineer
3 11 (13.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Senior IT Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Support
10 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) VMware Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Architect
11 3 (3.70%) Mobile Engineer
12 2 (2.47%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) OAuth
1 5 (6.17%) OAuth2
1 5 (6.17%) REST
1 5 (6.17%) SAML
2 4 (4.94%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.94%) SOAP
2 4 (4.94%) Web Services
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (3.70%) OpenID
4 1 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.23%) Bazel
4 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.23%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.94%) Private Cloud
2 4 (4.94%) Replication
3 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) CCTV
5 1 (1.23%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) PKI
5 1 (1.23%) SCADA
5 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (35.80%) Windows
2 19 (23.46%) Windows Server
3 15 (18.52%) Linux
4 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.17%) Unix
5 4 (4.94%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.70%) Android
6 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (17.28%) Infrastructure Automation
3 13 (16.05%) DevOps
3 13 (16.05%) ITIL
3 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 8 (9.88%) Storage Management
6 7 (8.64%) Business Continuity
6 7 (8.64%) Change Management
6 7 (8.64%) Critical Thinking
6 7 (8.64%) SIEM
7 6 (7.41%) Configuration Management
7 6 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (7.41%) Migration
7 6 (7.41%) RBAC
7 6 (7.41%) Service Management
7 6 (7.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (6.17%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 13 (16.05%) Python
3 10 (12.35%) Bash
4 6 (7.41%) Bicep
5 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.17%) PHP
5 5 (6.17%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.70%) Java
6 3 (3.70%) Perl
7 1 (1.23%) C
7 1 (1.23%) C++
7 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (49.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (29.63%) DV Cleared
3 21 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 15 (18.52%) Azure Certification
5 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (3.70%) CISM
7 3 (3.70%) CISSP
7 3 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.47%) Degree
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.23%) CCNA
9 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.23%) GIAC
9 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.70%) NIST
1 3 (3.70%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.35%) Docker
4 8 (9.88%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.17%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.17%) vSphere
6 3 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (33.33%) Terraform
2 18 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.05%) Ansible
4 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (6.17%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (6.17%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.94%) Nessus
7 4 (4.94%) Packer
7 4 (4.94%) SCCM
7 4 (4.94%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.47%) Istio
9 1 (1.23%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.23%) Grafana
9 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.23%) Puppet
9 1 (1.23%) SCOM
9 1 (1.23%) vRealize
9 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (25.93%) VMware
3 9 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.41%) Dell
4 6 (7.41%) Splunk
5 4 (4.94%) IBM
6 3 (3.70%) Cisco
6 3 (3.70%) F5
6 3 (3.70%) Google
6 3 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.47%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.47%) Citrix
7 2 (2.47%) SAP
7 2 (2.47%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.47%) Veeam
8 1 (1.23%) ESRI
8 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.23%) Juniper
8 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.23%) Sophos