Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £525, 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 188 147 168
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 348 599 770
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.43% 1.61% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.74% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 455 593
10th Percentile £303 £300 £333
25th Percentile £375 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile - £20.73 £34.23
25th Percentile £24.18 £21.25 £57.95
Median hourly rate £112.09 £22.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +398.18% -65.38% +3.20%
75th Percentile £200.00 £47.50 £80.60
90th Percentile - £73.95 £86.69
UK median hourly rate £112.09 £45.00 £63.84
% change year-on-year +149.09% -29.51% +5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London -31 125 £525 +16.67% 106
South East -19 72 £559 +24.28% 80
North of England 0 63 £413 -2.94% 76
South West +7 41 £575 +6.88% 47
Yorkshire +13 33 £413 -0.60% 19
North West -9 25 £525 +23.53% 48
Midlands +1 22 £375 -6.25% 41
East of England +28 20 £467 -25.36% 24
West Midlands -5 16 £300 -29.41% 22
North East +6 10 £650 +48.57% 11
East Midlands +9 6 £400 +18.52% 15
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 341 (97.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 216 (62.07%) Windows
3 168 (48.28%) Active Directory
4 159 (45.69%) VMware
5 144 (41.38%) Windows Server
6 143 (41.09%) Microsoft
7 129 (37.07%) Security Cleared
8 128 (36.78%) Azure
9 104 (29.89%) VMware Infrastructure
10 101 (29.02%) Linux
11 93 (26.72%) PowerShell
12 84 (24.14%) SC Cleared
13 83 (23.85%) DNS
14 79 (22.70%) Microsoft 365
15 77 (22.13%) Firewall
16 74 (21.26%) Cisco
17 67 (19.25%) Social Skills
18 59 (16.95%) Entra ID
19 58 (16.67%) Ansible
19 58 (16.67%) Hyper-V
20 55 (15.80%) AWS
21 53 (15.23%) DV Cleared
21 53 (15.23%) Python
22 51 (14.66%) DHCP
23 49 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
24 48 (13.79%) Agile
24 48 (13.79%) Terraform
25 47 (13.51%) Migration
26 45 (12.93%) Windows 10
27 41 (11.78%) Microsoft Intune

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 38 (10.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.47%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.60%) Confluence
4 8 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.86%) IIS
6 2 (0.57%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Alphatax
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 128 (36.78%) Azure
2 79 (22.70%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (16.95%) Entra ID
4 55 (15.80%) AWS
5 39 (11.21%) IaaS
6 23 (6.61%) OpenShift
7 19 (5.46%) PaaS
8 16 (4.60%) GCP
9 12 (3.45%) SaaS
10 10 (2.87%) GitHub
10 10 (2.87%) OneDrive
11 9 (2.59%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.72%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.15%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.15%) Serverless
15 3 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 83 (23.85%) DNS
2 77 (22.13%) Firewall
3 51 (14.66%) DHCP
4 32 (9.20%) VPN
5 29 (8.33%) SAN
6 26 (7.47%) Network Security
7 23 (6.61%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (5.46%) TCP/IP
9 17 (4.89%) LAN
9 17 (4.89%) WAN
10 11 (3.16%) NAS
10 11 (3.16%) Wireless
11 10 (2.87%) MPLS
12 9 (2.59%) Internet
12 9 (2.59%) SMTP
12 9 (2.59%) SSL
12 9 (2.59%) VSAN
13 8 (2.30%) HTTP
13 8 (2.30%) VLAN
14 7 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.02%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.30%) Big Data
6 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.29%) DB2
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (5.46%) JIRA
2 16 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.02%) GitLab
4 10 (2.87%) ScriptRunner
5 9 (2.59%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.01%) Git
7 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.29%) Maven
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.29%) TestNG
7 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.78%) Finance
3 33 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 12 (3.45%) Banking
5 11 (3.16%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.87%) Legal
7 8 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.44%) Military
10 5 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.15%) Electronics
11 4 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.15%) Marketing
11 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Law
12 3 (0.86%) Retail
13 2 (0.57%) Local Government
13 2 (0.57%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.72%) REST
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (1.15%) SOAP
3 3 (0.86%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (0.86%) Flash
3 3 (0.86%) LDAP
3 3 (0.86%) Node.js
4 2 (0.57%) Kafka
4 2 (0.57%) RESTful
4 2 (0.57%) YAML
5 1 (0.29%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.29%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) OAuth
5 1 (0.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.29%) OpenID
5 1 (0.29%) pytest
5 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.29%) SAML
5 1 (0.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.05%) Data Centre
2 27 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (6.03%) PKI
4 20 (5.75%) Clustering
5 18 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.16%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.01%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.72%) Replication
10 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.44%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
13 2 (0.57%) Smartcard
13 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.57%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 216 (62.07%) Windows
2 144 (41.38%) Windows Server
3 101 (29.02%) Linux
4 45 (12.93%) Windows 10
5 20 (5.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (5.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (4.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (3.16%) Ubuntu
8 11 (3.16%) Unix
9 9 (2.59%) CentOS
10 7 (2.01%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.86%) AIX
11 3 (0.86%) VMS
12 2 (0.57%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.29%) Android
13 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (97.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (13.79%) Agile
4 47 (13.51%) Migration
5 34 (9.77%) DevOps
6 32 (9.20%) ITIL
7 29 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 22 (6.32%) Infrastructure Management
8 22 (6.32%) Server Management
9 21 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (5.75%) Infrastructure Automation
11 19 (5.46%) Containerisation
11 19 (5.46%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (5.17%) High Availability
12 18 (5.17%) Project Delivery
13 17 (4.89%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (4.60%) ITSM
15 15 (4.31%) Configuration Management
15 15 (4.31%) Incident Management
15 15 (4.31%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (26.72%) PowerShell
2 53 (15.23%) Python
3 33 (9.48%) Bash
4 23 (6.61%) SQL
5 16 (4.60%) Perl
6 10 (2.87%) Groovy
7 9 (2.59%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.59%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.01%) Java
9 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) Bicep
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) VBA
11 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 129 (37.07%) Security Cleared
2 84 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 53 (15.23%) DV Cleared
4 33 (9.48%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (7.76%) Degree
6 16 (4.60%) CCNA
6 16 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (4.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (4.02%) CCNP
9 7 (2.01%) MCSE
10 5 (1.44%) VCAP
11 4 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.86%) CCIE
12 3 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.86%) OCA
12 3 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.86%) RHCA
12 3 (0.86%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.30%) SLA
3 5 (1.44%) NCSC
4 4 (1.15%) NIST
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.57%) DICOM
5 2 (0.57%) HL7
5 2 (0.57%) QA
5 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 168 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 104 (29.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 37 (10.63%) Docker
4 37 (10.63%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (7.47%) vSphere
6 18 (5.17%) VMware NSX
7 17 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (3.45%) BitLocker
9 10 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (2.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (2.30%) Terminal Services
11 6 (1.72%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.57%) Firmware
14 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.29%) NFS
14 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 58 (16.67%) Ansible
2 48 (13.79%) Terraform
3 41 (11.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (10.92%) Kubernetes
4 38 (10.92%) SCCM
4 38 (10.92%) vCenter Server
5 29 (8.33%) Puppet
6 12 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.16%) Nessus
8 10 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.59%) WSUS
10 8 (2.30%) Nagios
10 8 (2.30%) vMotion
10 8 (2.30%) VxRail
11 6 (1.72%) FortiGate
11 6 (1.72%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (1.15%) Podman
12 4 (1.15%) SCOM
12 4 (1.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 159 (45.69%) VMware
2 143 (41.09%) Microsoft
3 74 (21.26%) Cisco
4 32 (9.20%) Dell
5 26 (7.47%) Citrix
6 24 (6.90%) HP
7 20 (5.75%) Google
7 20 (5.75%) Red Hat
8 18 (5.17%) Veeam
9 16 (4.60%) Oracle
10 14 (4.02%) Atlassian
10 14 (4.02%) Fortinet
10 14 (4.02%) Meraki
11 11 (3.16%) Symantec
12 9 (2.59%) Wyse
13 8 (2.30%) Splunk
14 7 (2.01%) F5
14 7 (2.01%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.72%) NetApp
15 6 (1.72%) SolarWinds