Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 39 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 33 18 42
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 5.58% 3.78% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 4.44% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 33
10th Percentile £425 £365 £280
25th Percentile £450 £432 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.33%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £600
90th Percentile £666 £696 £645
South West median daily rate £555 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +0.91% -2.22% +18.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 494 405 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.59% 85.08% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 276 502
10th Percentile £389 £340 £351
25th Percentile £513 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £713 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 13
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £13.75 £12.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £36.40 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.82% -27.21% -23.66%
75th Percentile £24.50 £60.00 £69.50
90th Percentile £25.15 - £75.50
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Corsham -11 17 £565 +2.73% 7
Swindon - 7 £550 - 8
Chippenham - 4 £494 -
Salisbury 0 3 - - 3
Infrastructure Engineering
South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.03%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (12.12%) IaaS
3 4 (12.12%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) VPN
2 5 (15.15%) DNS
2 5 (15.15%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) Network Security
3 2 (6.06%) SSL
3 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) NGFW
4 1 (3.03%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
1 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) GoCD
3 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (78.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.03%) Applications Packager
5 1 (3.03%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) ARM Templates
1 4 (12.12%) OAuth
1 4 (12.12%) OAuth2
1 4 (12.12%) REST
1 4 (12.12%) SAML
1 4 (12.12%) SOAP
1 4 (12.12%) Web Services
2 3 (9.09%) OpenID
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Private Cloud
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Windows
2 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (24.24%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) ITIL
4 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (18.18%) RBAC
4 6 (18.18%) Service Management
5 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.12%) Agile
6 4 (12.12%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (12.12%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (12.12%) GitOps
6 4 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Security Hardening
6 4 (12.12%) Server Management
6 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (9.09%) Analytics
7 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (9.09%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.15%) PHP
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
3 4 (12.12%) Python
4 3 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 18 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 14 (42.42%) DV Cleared
4 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
6 3 (9.09%) CISM
6 3 (9.09%) CISSP
6 3 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.06%) Degree
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.09%) NIST
1 3 (9.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) Docker
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.06%) vSphere
5 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Terraform
2 9 (27.27%) Ansible
2 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (12.12%) Nessus
4 4 (12.12%) Packer
4 4 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.03%) FreeIPA
6 1 (3.03%) Grafana
6 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) SCCM
6 1 (3.03%) SCOM
6 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) VMware
3 3 (9.09%) IBM
3 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) F5
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) Dell
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.03%) Sophos
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Veeam