IT Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 133 151
Rank change year-on-year +25 +18 +24
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 7 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.35% 0.19% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.20% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile - £580 £283
25th Percentile - - £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +115.38% -27.78%
75th Percentile - - £440
90th Percentile - - £502
England median daily rate £700 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +40.00% +5.26% +8.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,757 2,449 3,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 92.42% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,483 2,114
10th Percentile £225 £220 £300
25th Percentile £373 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.43% +2.14%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £713
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 259 278
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.26 £17.92
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £39.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £72.50 £70.56
90th Percentile £69.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West

IT Infrastructure Engineer
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 IT Infrastructure Engineer 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
Gloucestershire +15 6 £700 -
Somerset - 1 - -
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, IT Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Azure Stack
2 6 (85.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
2 6 (85.71%) Azure Certification
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (85.71%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure Stack
2 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) BCP
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Certification
1 6 (85.71%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) VMware