Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 143 91
Rank change year-on-year -2 -52 +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 616 486 890
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.84% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.06% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 334 647
10th Percentile £313 £320 £310
25th Percentile £406 £388 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +9.38% -1.54%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 39
10th Percentile £26.13 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.19 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -14.08%
75th Percentile £70.50 £69.57 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £108.18 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +13.64% +2.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,150 23,642 32,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.29% 87.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,007 14,469 21,732
10th Percentile £304 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 768 1,647
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.89 £21.00 £17.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £75.00 £75.42
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -14.47% +16.92%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. 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 -33 196 £550 - 84
South East -2 118 £475 +5.56% 125
North of England -8 110 £472 -0.63% 83
South West +23 96 £553 -3.91% 74
Yorkshire -10 64 £475 -5.00% 40
East of England +4 44 £438 -27.08% 40
North West -14 43 £471 +12.48% 29
Midlands -37 34 £454 -9.30% 56
West Midlands -28 26 £487 -17.11% 26
East Midlands -27 8 £415 -17.00% 30
North East -12 4 £483 - 17
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 50 (8.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.27%) Apache
4 11 (1.79%) TPMS
5 10 (1.62%) Confluence
5 10 (1.62%) IIS
6 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.32%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.32%) JBoss
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.32%) Traefik
8 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 212 (34.42%) Azure
2 124 (20.13%) AWS
3 93 (15.10%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 37 (6.01%) GCP
6 34 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (4.71%) OpenShift
8 27 (4.38%) IaaS
9 26 (4.22%) GitHub
10 24 (3.90%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (3.73%) PaaS
12 21 (3.41%) Serverless
13 20 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
14 17 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.60%) Nutanix
16 15 (2.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 119 (19.32%) Firewall
2 79 (12.82%) DNS
3 61 (9.90%) VPN
4 55 (8.93%) TCP/IP
5 47 (7.63%) DHCP
6 41 (6.66%) WAN
7 36 (5.84%) Network Security
7 36 (5.84%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (5.52%) VLAN
9 31 (5.03%) LAN
9 31 (5.03%) SAN
10 28 (4.55%) SSL
11 14 (2.27%) MPLS
12 13 (2.11%) SSH
13 11 (1.79%) SNMP
14 10 (1.62%) 4G
14 10 (1.62%) BGP
14 10 (1.62%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (1.62%) Wireless
15 9 (1.46%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.06%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.62%) MongoDB
3 9 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.81%) Big Data
5 5 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.81%) Power BI
5 5 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.65%) MySQL
6 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.49%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 31 (5.03%) Jenkins
2 29 (4.71%) Git
3 25 (4.06%) GitLab
4 15 (2.44%) JIRA
5 4 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.32%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (0.32%) GoCD
6 2 (0.32%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.16%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 130 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.12%) Finance
3 61 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (4.38%) Banking
7 13 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.95%) Military
9 9 (1.46%) Billing
9 9 (1.46%) Legal
10 8 (1.30%) Local Government
10 8 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.14%) Retail
12 6 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.97%) Aviation
12 6 (0.97%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 398 (64.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (13.80%) Senior
3 67 (10.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (8.12%) Infrastructure Support
5 47 (7.63%) Support Engineer
6 43 (6.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 43 (6.98%) Network Engineer
7 41 (6.66%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (6.49%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (5.03%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (4.22%) VMware Engineer
11 25 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
13 23 (3.73%) Security Engineer
14 22 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.41%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
15 21 (3.41%) IT Engineer
15 21 (3.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (2.92%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.60%) SAML
2 15 (2.44%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.27%) OpenID
4 13 (2.11%) REST
5 10 (1.62%) Middleware
6 9 (1.46%) Kafka
6 9 (1.46%) OAuth
7 7 (1.14%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.81%) LDAP
9 5 (0.81%) RESTful
10 4 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.65%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.65%) gRPC
10 4 (0.65%) NumPy
10 4 (0.65%) Pandas
10 4 (0.65%) SOAP
10 4 (0.65%) Web Services
10 4 (0.65%) YAML
11 3 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.19%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.03%) Replication
3 29 (4.71%) PKI
4 28 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 16 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 13 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.79%) Clustering
11 10 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
11 10 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.14%) NHS
13 6 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.97%) Product Ownership
14 5 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 220 (35.71%) Windows
2 134 (21.75%) Linux
3 118 (19.16%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.25%) Unix
6 19 (3.08%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.27%) Ubuntu
8 13 (2.11%) VMS
9 10 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.14%) Android
11 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.81%) CentOS
13 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.32%) Debian
15 2 (0.32%) SUSE
15 2 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (19.97%) DevOps
2 114 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (16.72%) CI/CD
3 103 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (12.99%) ITIL
5 67 (10.88%) Migration
6 60 (9.74%) Agile
7 58 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (9.42%) High Availability
8 57 (9.25%) Containerisation
9 52 (8.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 52 (8.44%) Infrastructure Automation
10 49 (7.95%) Observability
11 45 (7.31%) Platform Engineering
12 37 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (5.68%) Project Delivery
14 32 (5.19%) Change Management
15 31 (5.03%) Analytics
15 31 (5.03%) RBAC
16 30 (4.87%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (16.23%) Python
2 95 (15.42%) PowerShell
3 49 (7.95%) Bash
4 23 (3.73%) Java
4 23 (3.73%) SQL
5 21 (3.41%) Bicep
6 13 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 12 (1.95%) Perl
8 9 (1.46%) Go
9 7 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.97%) PHP
10 6 (0.97%) Ruby
11 5 (0.81%) C++
12 4 (0.65%) C#
13 3 (0.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.32%) Groovy
14 2 (0.32%) Scala
15 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.16%) VB
15 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 190 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 119 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.69%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 37 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (4.38%) Degree
7 20 (3.25%) CISSP
8 19 (3.08%) CISM
9 17 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (1.95%) CCNP
11 12 (1.95%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.79%) FFIEC
13 10 (1.62%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.62%) CCNA
14 9 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.90%) NIST
2 22 (3.57%) GDPR
3 16 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.11%) SLA
6 11 (1.79%) GLBA
7 10 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.30%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.32%) COBIT
10 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) QA
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 140 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 115 (18.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (10.39%) Docker
4 62 (10.06%) Hyper-V
5 26 (4.22%) vSphere
6 16 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.46%) VMware NSX
10 8 (1.30%) NFS
11 4 (0.65%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.65%) Firmware
12 3 (0.49%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.32%) QEMU
13 2 (0.32%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 136 (22.08%) Terraform
2 93 (15.10%) Kubernetes
3 82 (13.31%) Ansible
4 63 (10.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 54 (8.77%) SCCM
6 27 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.25%) vCenter Server
8 18 (2.92%) Grafana
9 15 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
10 14 (2.27%) FortiGate
11 13 (2.11%) Prometheus
12 10 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (1.30%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (1.30%) VxRail
14 7 (1.14%) Istio
15 6 (0.97%) CASB
15 6 (0.97%) Nessus
15 6 (0.97%) SCOrch
15 6 (0.97%) vRealize
16 5 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 205 (33.28%) Microsoft
2 161 (26.14%) VMware
3 41 (6.66%) Palo Alto
4 40 (6.49%) Cisco
5 37 (6.01%) Red Hat
6 30 (4.87%) Dell
7 25 (4.06%) F5
7 25 (4.06%) Google
8 24 (3.90%) Splunk
9 22 (3.57%) ServiceNow
10 21 (3.41%) IBM
10 21 (3.41%) Veeam
11 19 (3.08%) Citrix
12 15 (2.44%) CheckPoint
12 15 (2.44%) Thales
13 14 (2.27%) Oracle
13 14 (2.27%) SolarWinds
14 12 (1.95%) Aruba
14 12 (1.95%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.95%) NetApp