Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

Infrastructure Engineering
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 17.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £347 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £422 - -
90th Percentile £431 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £600 £650 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland 60.87% 85.71% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £222 - £338
25th Percentile £250 £188 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £323 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -45.11% +38.24%
75th Percentile £413 £461 £619
90th Percentile £431 £520 £681
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -10.80%
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 £60.00 £19.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +211.69% +4.05% -6.33%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sunderland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Commvault
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) VMware