Lead Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 370 418
Rank change year-on-year +8 +48 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 4 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.039% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.043% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £205 - £624
25th Percentile £250 £375 £660
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £400 £720
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -44.44% +44.00%
75th Percentile £400 £475 -
90th Percentile £445 £535 -
UK median daily rate £325 £400 £650
% change year-on-year -18.75% -38.46% +30.00%

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 13,783 16,444 20,410
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 92.28% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 9,515 13,624
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £678 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,274 1,412 1,211
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.27 £14.03
25th Percentile £16.19 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.13 £43.90 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% +0.34% +98.86%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

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

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England -25 3 £475 +18.75%
North West -9 2 - -
South West +26 1 £175 -68.18% 3
North East - 1 £475 -
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) VMware

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) VMware