Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 93 122
Rank change year-on-year -43 +29 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 245 449 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.92% 2.16% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 2.33% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 346 396
10th Percentile £310 £313 £325
25th Percentile £375 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £466 £473
Median % change year-on-year +12.66% -1.38% +7.39%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £674 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile - £20.73 £31.05
25th Percentile £24.18 £21.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +398.18% -62.84% -3.87%
75th Percentile £200.00 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £73.95 £73.40
UK median hourly rate £112.09 £45.00 £63.84
% change year-on-year +149.09% -29.51% +5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East -19 72 £559 +24.28% 80
North of England 0 63 £413 -2.94% 73
South West +7 41 £575 +6.88% 46
Yorkshire +13 33 £413 -0.60% 19
Scotland -14 26 £550 +10.00% 20
North West -9 25 £525 +23.53% 46
Midlands +1 22 £375 -6.25% 45
East of England +28 20 £467 -25.36% 24
West Midlands -5 16 £300 -29.41% 24
North East +6 10 £650 +48.57% 11
East Midlands +9 6 £400 +18.52% 16
Wales -4 6 £425 -29.17% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 237 (96.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 152 (62.04%) Windows
3 124 (50.61%) VMware
4 113 (46.12%) Active Directory
5 110 (44.90%) Windows Server
6 96 (39.18%) Security Cleared
7 88 (35.92%) Microsoft
7 88 (35.92%) Linux
8 78 (31.84%) VMware Infrastructure
9 70 (28.57%) Azure
10 60 (24.49%) PowerShell
11 56 (22.86%) SC Cleared
12 54 (22.04%) Python
13 51 (20.82%) DNS
13 51 (20.82%) Ansible
14 49 (20.00%) Cisco
15 46 (18.78%) AWS
16 44 (17.96%) Microsoft 365
17 43 (17.55%) Social Skills
17 43 (17.55%) DV Cleared
17 43 (17.55%) Hyper-V
18 39 (15.92%) Agile
19 37 (15.10%) Firewall
20 36 (14.69%) vCenter Server
21 35 (14.29%) Terraform
22 33 (13.47%) Entra ID
23 31 (12.65%) DHCP
23 31 (12.65%) VMware ESXi
24 30 (12.24%) Kubernetes
25 29 (11.84%) Bash

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (10.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.53%) Confluence
3 11 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.22%) IIS
6 2 (0.82%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 70 (28.57%) Azure
2 46 (18.78%) AWS
3 44 (17.96%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (13.47%) Entra ID
5 25 (10.20%) OpenShift
6 23 (9.39%) IaaS
7 15 (6.12%) PaaS
8 10 (4.08%) Serverless
9 8 (3.27%) GCP
9 8 (3.27%) SaaS
10 6 (2.45%) GitHub
10 6 (2.45%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.04%) Cohesity
11 5 (2.04%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.04%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.22%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (0.82%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.82%) DNS
2 37 (15.10%) Firewall
3 31 (12.65%) DHCP
4 29 (11.84%) SAN
5 15 (6.12%) VPN
6 12 (4.90%) Network Security
7 10 (4.08%) LAN
8 9 (3.67%) NAS
8 9 (3.67%) VSAN
9 8 (3.27%) SMTP
10 7 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (2.86%) HTTP
10 7 (2.86%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.45%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (2.45%) SSL
11 6 (2.45%) WAN
12 4 (1.63%) Skype
12 4 (1.63%) VLAN
12 4 (1.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.08%) Oracle Database
2 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.86%) Big Data
5 6 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (7.35%) JIRA
2 17 (6.94%) Bitbucket
3 14 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.08%) Git
5 8 (3.27%) GitLab
6 4 (1.63%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.41%) TestNG
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (17.55%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.53%) Public Sector
3 7 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (2.86%) Legal
4 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
4 6 (2.45%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.04%) Finance
5 5 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.82%) Local Government
8 1 (0.41%) Advertising
8 1 (0.41%) Banking
8 1 (0.41%) Military
8 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.41%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.45%) REST
2 4 (1.63%) SOAP
3 3 (1.22%) Flash
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.82%) Kafka
4 2 (0.82%) Middleware
4 2 (0.82%) RESTful
5 1 (0.41%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.41%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.41%) LDAP
5 1 (0.41%) Loki
5 1 (0.41%) Node.js
5 1 (0.41%) pytest
5 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.53%) Clustering
3 16 (6.53%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (5.31%) PKI
5 10 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.27%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.86%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.45%) Replication
9 5 (2.04%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.63%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.82%) Smartcard
12 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.82%) YubiKey
13 1 (0.41%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 152 (62.04%) Windows
2 110 (44.90%) Windows Server
3 88 (35.92%) Linux
4 25 (10.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (9.39%) Windows 10
5 23 (9.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (8.16%) Unix
7 16 (6.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (4.08%) Ubuntu
10 9 (3.67%) CentOS
11 6 (2.45%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.63%) AIX
13 3 (1.22%) VMS
14 2 (0.82%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.41%) Android
15 1 (0.41%) Debian
15 1 (0.41%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (96.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (15.92%) Agile
3 28 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (11.02%) ITIL
5 25 (10.20%) Migration
6 21 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 21 (8.57%) Containerisation
6 21 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (7.35%) Data Protection
8 17 (6.94%) DevOps
8 17 (6.94%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (6.12%) Computer Science
10 14 (5.71%) Storage Management
11 13 (5.31%) Security Management
12 12 (4.90%) Roadmaps
13 11 (4.49%) Capacity Management
13 11 (4.49%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (4.49%) High Availability
13 11 (4.49%) Server Management
13 11 (4.49%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 60 (24.49%) PowerShell
2 54 (22.04%) Python
3 29 (11.84%) Bash
4 19 (7.76%) SQL
5 11 (4.49%) Perl
6 10 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.67%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.04%) Java
9 4 (1.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) VBA
10 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (39.18%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 43 (17.55%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.98%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (8.57%) Degree
6 13 (5.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.67%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.67%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.27%) CCNA
9 8 (3.27%) CCNP
10 6 (2.45%) MCSE
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.22%) OCA
11 3 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.22%) RHCA
11 3 (1.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (3.27%) SLA
2 3 (1.22%) NIST
3 2 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.82%) QA
3 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (46.12%) Active Directory
2 78 (31.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (17.55%) Hyper-V
4 31 (12.65%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (10.61%) Docker
6 24 (9.80%) vSphere
7 17 (6.94%) VMware NSX
8 11 (4.49%) BitLocker
8 11 (4.49%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.86%) Terminal Services
9 7 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (2.45%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.41%) Firmware
13 1 (0.41%) NFS
13 1 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (20.82%) Ansible
2 36 (14.69%) vCenter Server
3 35 (14.29%) Terraform
4 30 (12.24%) Kubernetes
5 28 (11.43%) Puppet
6 23 (9.39%) SCCM
7 16 (6.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (5.31%) Progress Chef
9 11 (4.49%) Nessus
10 9 (3.67%) WSUS
11 8 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (3.27%) VxRail
12 7 (2.86%) Nagios
12 7 (2.86%) vMotion
13 5 (2.04%) PowerCLI
14 4 (1.63%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (1.63%) NetBackup
14 4 (1.63%) Podman
14 4 (1.63%) vRealize
15 3 (1.22%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 124 (50.61%) VMware
2 88 (35.92%) Microsoft
3 49 (20.00%) Cisco
4 28 (11.43%) Dell
5 25 (10.20%) Citrix
6 23 (9.39%) HP
7 20 (8.16%) Red Hat
8 17 (6.94%) Veeam
9 14 (5.71%) Google
10 13 (5.31%) Oracle
11 10 (4.08%) Symantec
12 9 (3.67%) Wyse
13 7 (2.86%) Fortinet
14 6 (2.45%) Atlassian
15 5 (2.04%) CyberArk
15 5 (2.04%) F5
15 5 (2.04%) Meraki
15 5 (2.04%) SolarWinds
15 5 (2.04%) Veritas
16 4 (1.63%) Palo Alto