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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 45 41
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 52 129 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.90% 3.92% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 4.75% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 102 128
10th Percentile £443 £175 £367
25th Percentile £513 £375 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £615 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £625 £709
England median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £65.18 £59.07
25th Percentile - £67.31 £76.13
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.73% +1.63%
75th Percentile - £76.31 -
90th Percentile - £77.33 £78.60
England median hourly rate £57.75 £54.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +5.24% -24.31% +53.15%

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 1,625 2,717 3,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.48% 82.61% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 1,711 2,211
10th Percentile £218 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 380 303
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £22.96
Median hourly rate £28.10 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.92% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.25 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +18 25 £575 +9.52% 13
Bristol +4 13 £452 -8.46% 30
Dorset -12 7 £550 +197.60% 3
Gloucestershire +16 5 £700 +43.59% 42
Somerset +1 2 £275 -54.17% 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 13 (25.00%) Confluence
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.54%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (26.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) AWS
2 6 (11.54%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub
4 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.92%) IaaS
5 1 (1.92%) OCI
5 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.85%) DNS
2 12 (23.08%) DHCP
3 6 (11.54%) Skype
4 5 (9.62%) Unified Communications
5 4 (7.69%) HTTP
5 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.77%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (5.77%) VSAN
7 2 (3.85%) Firewall
8 1 (1.92%) Internet
8 1 (1.92%) LAN
8 1 (1.92%) NGFW
8 1 (1.92%) VPN
8 1 (1.92%) WAN
8 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) JIRA
2 12 (23.08%) Bitbucket
3 4 (7.69%) Git
3 4 (7.69%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.92%) CMake
5 1 (1.92%) Gradle
5 1 (1.92%) Rational DOORS
General
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (67.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
3 6 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Network Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Architect
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Build Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Design Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) IT Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Server Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Software Architect
7 1 (1.92%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) Flash
2 4 (7.69%) REST
2 4 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (1.92%) Bazel
3 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Clustering
2 7 (13.46%) PKI
3 1 (1.92%) CESG
3 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (46.15%) Windows
2 17 (32.69%) Windows Server
3 16 (30.77%) Linux
4 6 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (9.62%) Windows 10
6 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.92%) Unix
8 1 (1.92%) VMS
8 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Agile
1 19 (36.54%) Service Management
2 17 (32.69%) System Testing
3 15 (28.85%) Validation
4 14 (26.92%) NsoIT
5 12 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
5 12 (23.08%) Waterfall
6 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
6 11 (21.15%) High Availability
6 11 (21.15%) Power Management
7 10 (19.23%) Computer Science
7 10 (19.23%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.62%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (7.69%) Reverse Engineering
11 3 (5.77%) Information Security
11 3 (5.77%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Python
2 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
3 10 (19.23%) Bash
4 7 (13.46%) SQL
5 3 (5.77%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) C
6 1 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) Perl
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (55.77%) SC Cleared
3 19 (36.54%) DV Cleared
4 15 (28.85%) Degree
5 14 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (26.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (21.15%) CCNA
7 9 (17.31%) Master's Degree
8 5 (9.62%) CCNP
9 3 (5.77%) OCA
9 3 (5.77%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (5.77%) RHCA
9 3 (5.77%) RHCE
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) JSP 440
System Software
1 24 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 16 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (26.92%) Hyper-V
4 13 (25.00%) VMware NSX
5 10 (19.23%) Docker
6 6 (11.54%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (3.85%) vSphere
9 1 (1.92%) Firmware
9 1 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) vCenter Server
2 11 (21.15%) Ansible
2 11 (21.15%) Puppet
3 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
4 6 (11.54%) Terraform
4 6 (11.54%) WSUS
5 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 4 (7.69%) SCCM
6 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Nessus
6 1 (1.92%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) VMware
2 17 (32.69%) Cisco
3 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (23.08%) Atlassian
5 5 (9.62%) Veeam
6 4 (7.69%) Oracle
7 3 (5.77%) F5
7 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.92%) Dell
8 1 (1.92%) Fujitsu
8 1 (1.92%) IBM
8 1 (1.92%) Veritas