Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Infrastructure Engineering
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 7.29% - 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.97% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +97.18%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 77 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 81.25% 82.80% 83.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 47 93
10th Percentile £311 £211 £301
25th Percentile £409 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £614
90th Percentile £720 £738 £678
Wiltshire median daily rate £581 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +5.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.21%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.27 £12.79 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.08% -74.42% -23.66%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Swindon

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Packager
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
1 2 (28.57%) High Availability
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
1 2 (28.57%) F5
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Sophos