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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 44 29
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 +33
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 43 115 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.18% 4.34% 5.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 5.18% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 82 145
10th Percentile £426 £318 £413
25th Percentile £474 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £676
England median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile - - £58.34
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% - +47.87%

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 1,783 2,219 2,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.37% 83.74% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 1,323 1,948
10th Percentile £220 £271 £310
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £701 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 214 254
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.18 £20.08
25th Percentile £18.51 £48.50 £41.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +7.14% +9.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -16 13 £563 +7.14% 5
Gloucestershire +4 10 £700 +7.69% 20
Bristol -6 9 £445 -11.05% 5
Somerset +6 7 £550 -8.33% 2
Dorset -11 3 £525 +184.08% 4
Devon -2 1 - - 6
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 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.98%) Skype for Business
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Maximo
1 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) AWS
3 6 (13.95%) Azure Stack
3 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.33%) IaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) DNS
2 5 (11.63%) Firewall
3 4 (9.30%) DHCP
3 4 (9.30%) VPN
4 3 (6.98%) Skype
5 2 (4.65%) LAN
5 2 (4.65%) Network Security
5 2 (4.65%) SSL
5 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.65%) WAN
6 1 (2.33%) Internet
6 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.33%) NGFW
6 1 (2.33%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.33%) VLAN
6 1 (2.33%) VSAN
6 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Power BI
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Bitbucket
2 6 (13.95%) GitLab
3 4 (9.30%) Git
4 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.65%) JIRA
6 1 (2.33%) CMake
6 1 (2.33%) GoCD
6 1 (2.33%) Gradle
6 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (11.63%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Electronics
3 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.65%) Marketing
3 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.33%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (2.33%) Military
4 1 (2.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (81.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (27.91%) Senior
2 12 (27.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) IT Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (4.65%) Mobile Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) IT Support
7 1 (2.33%) Software Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (4.65%) REST
1 2 (4.65%) SOAP
2 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.33%) Bazel
2 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Windows
2 10 (23.26%) Linux
3 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.98%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.65%) Android
5 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
2 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
3 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (9.30%) Agile
5 4 (9.30%) ITIL
5 4 (9.30%) Migration
6 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (6.98%) Change Management
6 3 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (6.98%) Configuration Management
6 3 (6.98%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (6.98%) Data Management
6 3 (6.98%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) DevSecOps
6 3 (6.98%) Load Balancing
6 3 (6.98%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Python
2 6 (13.95%) Bash
2 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.98%) SQL
4 2 (4.65%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) Perl
5 1 (2.33%) Bicep
5 1 (2.33%) C
5 1 (2.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 14 (32.56%) DV Cleared
3 8 (18.60%) Azure Certification
3 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.95%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) CCNP
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.33%) CCNA
6 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.33%) GIAC
6 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.33%) OCA
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.33%) RHCA
6 1 (2.33%) RHCE
6 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
1 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.28%) Docker
4 6 (13.95%) VMware NSX
5 5 (11.63%) vSphere
6 4 (9.30%) Hyper-V
6 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.33%) Firmware
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Ansible
2 8 (18.60%) Terraform
3 6 (13.95%) Puppet
3 6 (13.95%) vCenter Server
4 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.65%) SCCM
6 2 (4.65%) WSUS
7 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.33%) FreeIPA
7 1 (2.33%) Grafana
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Nessus
7 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.33%) SCOM
7 1 (2.33%) vRealize
7 1 (2.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
1 12 (27.91%) VMware
2 3 (6.98%) Cisco
2 3 (6.98%) F5
3 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
3 2 (4.65%) Dell
3 2 (4.65%) IBM
3 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
3 2 (4.65%) Veeam
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.33%) Citrix
4 1 (2.33%) ESRI
4 1 (2.33%) Fujitsu
4 1 (2.33%) Juniper
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.33%) Splunk