Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Engineering
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 4 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.72% - 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% - 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile - - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile - - £646
90th Percentile - - £720
North East median daily rate £650 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 199 170 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 85.41% 93.41% 84.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 80 97
10th Percentile £200 £324 £350
25th Percentile £361 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -12.04% +2.86%
75th Percentile £570 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £653 £720
North East median daily rate £463 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £34.02 £20.00
% change year-on-year -49.15% +70.10% +14.29%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 4 £650 - 12
Infrastructure Engineering
North East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) ScriptRunner
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Atlassian