Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.61% 2.19% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.56% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £395 £384 £141
25th Percentile £406 £416 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £145
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +236.21% -64.42%
75th Percentile £488 £566 £338
90th Percentile - £601 -
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 196 117 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 78.71% 85.40% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 80 159
10th Percentile £186 £199 £213
25th Percentile £274 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -10.68% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £720 £659 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £12.63 - £18.92
25th Percentile £12.84 - £28.92
Median hourly rate £17.41 £15.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -68.75% +120.89%
75th Percentile £49.25 - £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 - £68.04
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Crawley - 3 £425 - 2
Worthing -7 1 £475 +26.67%
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Aruba
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam