IT Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £513, 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 496 564 696
Rank change year-on-year +68 +132 +110
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 24 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.041% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.045% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 16
10th Percentile £335 £259 £388
25th Percentile £368 £321 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £423 £488
Median % change year-on-year +21.30% -13.33% +26.62%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £568
90th Percentile £575 £638 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £423 £475
% change year-on-year +24.26% -11.05% +23.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.88
25th Percentile - - £49.06
Median hourly rate - - £54.38
75th Percentile - - £59.69
90th Percentile - - £62.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.38

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer.

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +69 21 £525 +24.26% 26
England +60 20 £525 +9.38% 31
North of England +29 13 £525 +54.41% 9
Yorkshire +16 9 £538 +58.09% 2
Work from Home +41 6 £365 +2.10% 14
South East +50 5 £525 +9.38% 10
Wales +3 3 £365 -
North East - 3 - - 1
South West +46 1 £700 - 2
London +36 1 £450 -7.88% 5
Midlands +19 1 £700 +180.00% 5
North West +16 1 £275 - 6
West Midlands +12 1 £700 +154.55% 1

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (70.83%) Windows
3 15 (62.50%) Cisco
4 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
5 13 (54.17%) Linux
5 13 (54.17%) VMware
6 12 (50.00%) Azure
6 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
7 9 (37.50%) Firewall
7 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (29.17%) Security Management
9 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
10 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 6 (25.00%) Bash
10 6 (25.00%) IaaS
11 5 (20.83%) PaaS
11 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
11 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
11 5 (20.83%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
11 5 (20.83%) Veeam
11 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
11 5 (20.83%) DNS
11 5 (20.83%) SQL
11 5 (20.83%) Oracle
12 4 (16.67%) Perl
12 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (25.00%) IaaS
4 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
4 5 (20.83%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) DNS
3 3 (12.50%) SAN
4 2 (8.33%) Network Security
4 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (8.33%) VSAN
4 2 (8.33%) WAN
5 1 (4.17%) DHCP
5 1 (4.17%) NAS
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
5 1 (4.17%) VPN
5 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (8.33%) Local Government
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Linux
3 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.17%) Rocky
6 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) Security Management
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 4 (16.67%) Microservices
3 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (16.67%) Server Management
3 4 (16.67%) SOA
3 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.50%) Information Security
4 3 (12.50%) Information Security Management
4 3 (12.50%) ISMS
4 3 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) ITIL
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) Perl
4 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.33%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Proxmox
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Cisco
2 13 (54.17%) VMware
3 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.83%) Oracle
4 5 (20.83%) Veeam
5 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 3 (12.50%) HP
5 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 2 (8.33%) Dell
6 2 (8.33%) Meraki
7 1 (4.17%) EMC
7 1 (4.17%) SonicWALL