Network Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 357 419
Rank change year-on-year +17 +62 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 15 41 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.19% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.21% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 35 18
10th Percentile £368 £295 £395
25th Percentile £400 £306 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £405 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.80% -22.86% +42.86%
75th Percentile £575 £523 £552
90th Percentile £580 £538 £599
UK median daily rate £550 £405 £525
% change year-on-year +35.80% -22.86% +40.00%

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 12,351 19,848 21,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 92.45% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,722 11,791 14,900
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,571 1,111
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

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

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

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

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

Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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 +14 7 £550 +69.23%
Yorkshire - 5 £550 -
West Midlands +8 4 £400 -5.88% 1
Midlands +8 4 £400 -5.88% 1
South West +29 2 £440 -16.19% 5
North West +7 2 £475 +46.15%
South East +45 1 £550 +35.80% 13
East of England +15 1 £383 +27.50% 4
Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (86.67%) Cisco
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 7 (46.67%) Firewall
4 7 (46.67%) Windows
5 6 (40.00%) ITIL
5 6 (40.00%) DNS
5 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (40.00%) Migration
5 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (40.00%) SolarWinds
5 6 (40.00%) Ansible
6 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
6 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (33.33%) Linux
7 4 (26.67%) Perl
7 4 (26.67%) SQL
7 4 (26.67%) Oracle
7 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
7 4 (26.67%) BIG-IP
7 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
7 4 (26.67%) JIRA
7 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
7 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (26.67%) Network Security
7 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (26.67%) Cisco ASA

Network 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 3 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
2 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) DNS
3 4 (26.67%) BIG-IP
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security
4 3 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (13.33%) DHCP
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) MPLS
5 2 (13.33%) Wireless
6 1 (6.67%) BGP
6 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (6.67%) DMZ
6 1 (6.67%) DWDM
6 1 (6.67%) IPsec
6 1 (6.67%) L2TP
6 1 (6.67%) OSPF
6 1 (6.67%) VPN
6 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) ITIL
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
4 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Security Management
5 3 (20.00%) SOA
5 3 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
7 1 (6.67%) Product Management
7 1 (6.67%) SIEM
7 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Perl
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) CCNA
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
4 4 (26.67%) F5
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle
4 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 1 (6.67%) Arista
6 1 (6.67%) Aruba
6 1 (6.67%) Citrix
6 1 (6.67%) HP
6 1 (6.67%) McAfee
6 1 (6.67%) Meraki
6 1 (6.67%) Splunk