Infrastructure Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 352 393
Rank change year-on-year -8 +41 +95
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 17 24 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 18
10th Percentile £238 - £263
25th Percentile £256 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £340 £350
Median % change year-on-year +69.12% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £591 £388 £484
90th Percentile £623 £450 £588
UK median daily rate £575 £340 £375
% change year-on-year +69.12% -9.33% -6.25%

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 13,827 16,897 21,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.01% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,468 10,365 14,318
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £683 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,209 1,773 1,166
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.00 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +11.00% +86.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Support 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 Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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 +33 12 £575 +53.33% 5
North of England -9 3 £265 -41.11% 3
East of England +7 2 £225 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £265 -
North East - 1 - -
Infrastructure Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Infrastructure Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Windows
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (76.47%) Firewall
4 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
5 11 (64.71%) VMware
5 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (58.82%) PaaS
6 10 (58.82%) DevOps
6 10 (58.82%) DNS
6 10 (58.82%) DHCP
6 10 (58.82%) IaaS
7 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
8 7 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (41.18%) Clustering
8 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
8 7 (41.18%) BitLocker
8 7 (41.18%) vCenter Server
8 7 (41.18%) VPN
8 7 (41.18%) SMTP
8 7 (41.18%) Linux
8 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (41.18%) Terminal Services
8 7 (41.18%) HP
8 7 (41.18%) Citrix
8 7 (41.18%) Nagios
8 7 (41.18%) Symantec
8 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (41.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (41.18%) GCP

Infrastructure Support 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 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) IaaS
1 10 (58.82%) PaaS
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 7 (41.18%) OpenShift
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) Firewall
2 10 (58.82%) DHCP
2 10 (58.82%) DNS
3 7 (41.18%) SMTP
3 7 (41.18%) VPN
4 3 (17.65%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (17.65%) SAN
4 3 (17.65%) VLAN
5 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
6 1 (5.88%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (5.88%) VoIP
6 1 (5.88%) WAN
6 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (41.18%) Big Data
1 7 (41.18%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
2 7 (41.18%) Clustering
2 7 (41.18%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
3 7 (41.18%) Software Deployment
4 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Security Patching
5 2 (11.76%) Logistics
6 1 (5.88%) Biotechnology
6 1 (5.88%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (5.88%) Preventative Maintenance
6 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
1 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
2 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (41.18%) BitLocker
3 7 (41.18%) Docker
3 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (41.18%) Terminal Services
3 7 (41.18%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (17.65%) DFS Replication
4 3 (17.65%) vSphere
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Ansible
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
1 7 (41.18%) Nagios
1 7 (41.18%) Puppet
1 7 (41.18%) vCenter Server
1 7 (41.18%) vMotion
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (64.71%) VMware
3 7 (41.18%) Citrix
3 7 (41.18%) Google
3 7 (41.18%) HP
3 7 (41.18%) Symantec
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco