Infrastructure Services Engineer Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Service Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Service Engineer daily rate in the UK is £336, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 519 599
Rank change year-on-year -69 +80 +153
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Services Engineer 7 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.003% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.003% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £357
25th Percentile £315 £525 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% +8.16% -18.64%
75th Percentile £345 £575 £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £330 - £509
% change year-on-year - - -18.64%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 35,358 29,223 41,314
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.91% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,294 17,866 27,352
10th Percentile £300 £293 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £495
% change year-on-year -0.42% -3.64% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 859 2,166
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.98 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.90 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% -10.96% +4.29%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.89 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £37.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -15.31% +25.00%

Infrastructure Services Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Services Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Services Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Services Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Services Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Services Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Services Engineer
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Services Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
England -65 5 £330 -40.00% 11
North West - 4 £330 - 3
UK excluding London - 4 £330 - 11
North of England - 4 £330 - 10
Work from Home - 3 £341 - 8
London -27 1 - -

Infrastructure Services Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Infrastructure Services Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Infrastructure Services Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) Docker
3 3 (42.86%) F5
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (42.86%) NetScaler
3 3 (42.86%) Nutanix
3 3 (42.86%) Operational Stability
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) SCCM
3 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (42.86%) VMware

Infrastructure Services Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Nutanix
4 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) NetScaler
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Operational Stability
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) F5
1 3 (42.86%) Veeam
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike