Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

Infrastructure Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Sunderland is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 8.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £600 £650 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sunderland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sunderland. 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 Sunderland with a recognized job title 19 7 14
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.61% 100.00% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile £225 - £338
25th Percentile £325 £188 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -23.40% +30.56%
75th Percentile £400 £483 £619
90th Percentile £425 £530 £681
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £460 £470
% change year-on-year -2.17% -2.13% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.50 - -
75th Percentile £39.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £19.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +237.66% -61.50% +104.08%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sunderland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Sunderland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Sunderland

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sunderland region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Commvault
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam