Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 67 90
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 34 79 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.25% 2.94% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 3.38% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 67 55
10th Percentile £250 £310 £300
25th Percentile £259 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £652 £608 £554
90th Percentile £675 - £705
South East median daily rate £550 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £12.00
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £57.44 £55.50
% change year-on-year -4.46% +3.49% -16.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +3 29 £594 +10.47% 24
Oxfordshire +2 3 £250 -33.33% 14
Buckinghamshire +2 2 £501 +11.70% 7
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.94%) IaaS
4 1 (2.94%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) DHCP
1 6 (17.65%) DNS
2 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.82%) Firewall
4 2 (5.88%) BIG-IP
4 2 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (5.88%) SSL
5 1 (2.94%) FTP
5 1 (2.94%) Internet
5 1 (2.94%) LAN
5 1 (2.94%) SMTP
5 1 (2.94%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (2.94%) Telnet
5 1 (2.94%) VLAN
5 1 (2.94%) WAN
5 1 (2.94%) Wireless
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (82.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Lead
2 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Desktop Support
4 2 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Cabling Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (70.59%) Windows
2 15 (44.12%) Windows Server
3 10 (29.41%) Linux
4 9 (26.47%) Windows 10
5 6 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.88%) AIX
6 2 (5.88%) Unix
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) High Availability
1 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (14.71%) DevSecOps
2 5 (14.71%) ITIL
3 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (8.82%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.88%) Coaching
5 2 (5.88%) Configuration Management
5 2 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (5.88%) Load Balancing
5 2 (5.88%) Logistics
5 2 (5.88%) Network Design
5 2 (5.88%) Project Management
6 1 (2.94%) Application Security
6 1 (2.94%) CI/CD
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security
6 1 (2.94%) Containerisation
6 1 (2.94%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) CCDP
4 2 (5.88%) CCNA
4 2 (5.88%) CCNP
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (44.12%) Active Directory
2 10 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (8.82%) Docker
3 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.94%) NFS
5 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.76%) Ansible
2 4 (11.76%) NetBackup
2 4 (11.76%) Progress Chef
2 4 (11.76%) Puppet
3 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) SCCM
4 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) VMware
2 13 (38.24%) Dell
3 9 (26.47%) Wyse
4 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
6 4 (11.76%) 3PAR
6 4 (11.76%) HP
6 4 (11.76%) Veritas
7 2 (5.88%) F5
8 1 (2.94%) Commvault
8 1 (2.94%) Computacenter
8 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.94%) Imperva
8 1 (2.94%) Netskope
8 1 (2.94%) Sophos
8 1 (2.94%) Splunk