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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 63 95
Rank change year-on-year -9 +32 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 41 72 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.47% 2.83% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.35% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 54 40
10th Percentile £251 £363 £323
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% +9.89%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £552
90th Percentile £673 - £649
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £12.00
75th Percentile £83.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £65.94 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.80% +27.27% +29.83%

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 1,529 2,150 2,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.11% 84.65% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,195 1,835
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £598 £608 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £515
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.68% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 139 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.37 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.84 £19.31 £21.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £53.03 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.57% +6.06% +190.53%
75th Percentile £54.69 £66.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.01 £75.20
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.78% +9.75% +105.25%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +11 32 £600 -0.83% 15
Buckinghamshire -11 5 £550 +14.58% 17
Oxfordshire -9 4 £250 -33.33% 9
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 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.20%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) AWS
5 2 (4.88%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.44%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) DNS
2 5 (12.20%) DHCP
2 5 (12.20%) Firewall
3 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.44%) MPLS
4 1 (2.44%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) VSAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) UniData
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (73.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) Lead
4 2 (4.88%) Desktop Support
4 2 (4.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Operations Specialist
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) FlexPod
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (68.29%) Windows
2 16 (39.02%) Windows Server
3 12 (29.27%) Windows 10
4 7 (17.07%) Linux
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.88%) CentOS
7 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.44%) Unix
8 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.07%) Validation
2 5 (12.20%) ITIL
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
3 4 (9.76%) DevSecOps
3 4 (9.76%) High Availability
3 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (4.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (4.88%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (4.88%) Logistics
5 2 (4.88%) Migration
5 2 (4.88%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (4.88%) Network Design
5 2 (4.88%) Patch Management
6 1 (2.44%) Identity Management
6 1 (2.44%) ITSM
6 1 (2.44%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 18 (43.90%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) Degree
5 3 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.88%) CCDP
6 2 (4.88%) CCNA
6 2 (4.88%) CCNP
6 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.44%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) VMware ESXi
2 18 (43.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (21.95%) vSphere
4 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (7.32%) NetBackup
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
2 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.88%) Puppet
2 2 (4.88%) SCCM
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (65.85%) VMware
2 14 (34.15%) Dell
3 11 (26.83%) Wyse
4 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.76%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.32%) 3PAR
6 3 (7.32%) HP
6 3 (7.32%) Veritas
7 2 (4.88%) Cisco
7 2 (4.88%) Commvault
8 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.44%) Citrix
8 1 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.44%) IBM
8 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.44%) NetApp
8 1 (2.44%) Netskope
8 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.44%) Splunk