Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575, 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 458 508 619
Rank change year-on-year +50 +111 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 62 74 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 57 85
10th Percentile £451 £403 £395
25th Percentile £513 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +8.27%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £625
90th Percentile £675 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +29.04% -11.43% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

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%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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
England +52 57 £575 +21.05% 71
London +48 31 £575 -5.15% 23
UK excluding London +40 24 £600 +29.04% 55
Work from Home +21 13 £575 +21.05% 34
North of England +18 8 £638 +41.67% 24
South East +29 7 £650 +40.17% 12
South West +49 5 £450 - 6
North West +13 5 £625 +38.89% 11
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 10
North East - 4 £650 - 4
East of England - 3 - - 3
Midlands +22 2 - - 7
West Midlands +14 2 - - 5
Scotland +7 1 - - 2

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

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

1 60 (96.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (58.06%) Windows
3 31 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 27 (43.55%) Azure
5 26 (41.94%) Windows Server
6 25 (40.32%) SC Cleared
7 24 (38.71%) Microsoft
8 20 (32.26%) Agile
8 20 (32.26%) VMware
9 18 (29.03%) Active Directory
9 18 (29.03%) Terraform
10 17 (27.42%) AWS
11 16 (25.81%) PowerShell
11 16 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (25.81%) Linux
12 15 (24.19%) VMware Infrastructure
13 14 (22.58%) Migration
13 14 (22.58%) Ansible
14 13 (20.97%) Python
14 13 (20.97%) JIRA
15 12 (19.35%) Atlassian
15 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
15 12 (19.35%) Firewall
15 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
16 11 (17.74%) Public Sector
16 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
16 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
16 11 (17.74%) IaaS
16 11 (17.74%) Confluence
17 10 (16.13%) Incident Management

Senior 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 11 (17.74%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.61%) Mattermost
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) AWS
3 16 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (17.74%) IaaS
5 9 (14.52%) Entra ID
5 9 (14.52%) OpenShift
6 8 (12.90%) SaaS
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.45%) GCP
7 4 (6.45%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.61%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.61%) OCI
9 1 (1.61%) PaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.61%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) Firewall
2 10 (16.13%) DNS
3 8 (12.90%) DHCP
3 8 (12.90%) VPN
4 7 (11.29%) Network Security
4 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
5 6 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (8.06%) LAN
7 4 (6.45%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (6.45%) WAN
8 3 (4.84%) 4G
8 3 (4.84%) Wireless
9 1 (1.61%) SNMP
9 1 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) JIRA
2 9 (14.52%) ScriptRunner
3 8 (12.90%) GitLab
4 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.29%) Finance
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Military
5 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Law
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (1.61%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.29%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.45%) PKI
3 4 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (58.06%) Windows
2 26 (41.94%) Windows Server
3 16 (25.81%) Linux
4 8 (12.90%) Ubuntu
4 8 (12.90%) Windows 10
5 7 (11.29%) CentOS
5 7 (11.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.23%) AIX
6 2 (3.23%) Unix
7 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (96.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (32.26%) Agile
3 14 (22.58%) Migration
4 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
5 10 (16.13%) Incident Management
6 9 (14.52%) Business Continuity
6 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Management
6 9 (14.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 8 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.90%) Service Delivery
8 7 (11.29%) Application Packaging
8 7 (11.29%) Change Control
8 7 (11.29%) DevSecOps
8 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (11.29%) High Availability
9 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (9.68%) Server Management
10 5 (8.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 13 (20.97%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) Groovy
4 4 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
5 1 (1.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (40.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) CCNA
4 4 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.84%) CCNP
6 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) NCSC
2 2 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 15 (24.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.52%) Hyper-V
4 8 (12.90%) vSphere
5 7 (11.29%) Docker
6 5 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (4.84%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Terraform
2 14 (22.58%) Ansible
3 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
5 8 (12.90%) Nessus
5 8 (12.90%) vCenter Server
6 6 (9.68%) Puppet
6 6 (9.68%) SCCM
7 4 (6.45%) Progress Chef
8 3 (4.84%) FortiGate
8 3 (4.84%) VxRail
9 2 (3.23%) Avamar
10 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (1.61%) Opsgenie
10 1 (1.61%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.61%) vRealize
10 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (32.26%) VMware
3 12 (19.35%) Atlassian
4 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.68%) Cisco
6 5 (8.06%) Google
7 4 (6.45%) Dell
8 2 (3.23%) Citrix
8 2 (3.23%) NetApp
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle
8 2 (3.23%) QAD
8 2 (3.23%) SAP
8 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.61%) Apple
9 1 (1.61%) Aruba
9 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.61%) HP
9 1 (1.61%) Juniper
9 1 (1.61%) New Relic
9 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds
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