Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 34 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 8 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.73% 2.53% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 3.22% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 20
10th Percentile £335 £355 £452
25th Percentile £358 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £444 £650 £656
90th Percentile £550 £665 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Wales region 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
South Wales +5 8 £425 -29.17% 7
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) High Availability
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Coaching
2 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Dell