Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 66 42
Rank change year-on-year +26 -24 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 17 27 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.69% 2.79% 4.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.12% 3.15% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 41
10th Percentile £468 £503 -
25th Percentile £525 £504 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +8.64%
75th Percentile £651 £538 £625
90th Percentile £688 £585 £725
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 413 858 993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 88.64% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 642 804
10th Percentile £293 £304 £350
25th Percentile £463 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -0.45% +5.24%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 12
10th Percentile £18.83 £12.79 £23.55
25th Percentile £19.28 £14.25 £56.06
Median hourly rate £23.79 £16.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.17% -73.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £86.50
South West median hourly rate £54.99 £55.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -0.02% -14.06% +37.63%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Corsham +31 16 £575 +9.52%
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2025, 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 across the Wiltshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) Windows
3 10 (58.82%) VMware
4 9 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
5 8 (47.06%) Cisco
5 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
6 7 (41.18%) vCenter Server
6 7 (41.18%) Ansible
6 7 (41.18%) Python
6 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
6 7 (41.18%) Bash
6 7 (41.18%) Validation
7 6 (35.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (35.29%) System Testing
7 6 (35.29%) Linux
7 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
7 6 (35.29%) Service Management
7 6 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (35.29%) NsoIT
8 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
8 5 (29.41%) DNS
8 5 (29.41%) Agile
8 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (23.53%) Git
9 4 (23.53%) Reverse Engineering
9 4 (23.53%) Puppet
9 4 (23.53%) SOAP

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) Skype for Business
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (17.65%) VSAN
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) Skype
3 2 (11.76%) Unified Communications
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) Internet
4 1 (5.88%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.88%) NGFW
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) REST
1 4 (23.53%) SOAP
2 3 (17.65%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
1 3 (17.65%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
3 6 (35.29%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.88%) VMS
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) Validation
3 6 (35.29%) NsoIT
3 6 (35.29%) Service Management
3 6 (35.29%) System Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Reverse Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) High Availability
6 3 (17.65%) Power Management
7 1 (5.88%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.88%) Security Hardening
7 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 1 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Bash
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
4 6 (35.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (23.53%) CCNP
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (17.65%) Degree
6 3 (17.65%) OCA
6 3 (17.65%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (17.65%) RHCA
6 3 (17.65%) RHCE
7 1 (5.88%) CCNA
7 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (5.88%) MCSA
7 1 (5.88%) MCSE
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
1 9 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
3 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.88%) Firmware
5 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Ansible
1 7 (41.18%) vCenter Server
2 4 (23.53%) Progress Chef
2 4 (23.53%) Puppet
3 3 (17.65%) WSUS
4 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Nessus
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
4 1 (5.88%) SCOM
4 1 (5.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Cisco
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) F5
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
5 2 (11.76%) Veeam
6 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.88%) Dell