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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 140 89
Rank change year-on-year -10 -51 +41
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 594 505 881
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.87% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.10% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 345 638
10th Percentile £311 £323 £310
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £605
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 35
10th Percentile £26.15 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £57.01 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +13.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile £74.26 £70.96 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £112.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.60% +8.70% +10.58%

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 27,667 24,065 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.37% 88.96% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,632 14,776 21,577
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £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 1,736 770 1,456
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.61 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.49 £18.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -20.73% +25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -22.62% -22.97% +23.04%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -36 190 £550 - 73
South East -1 124 £475 +5.56% 121
North of England -7 100 £450 +5.88% 80
South West +11 84 £558 +1.36% 81
Yorkshire -13 58 £450 +5.88% 42
East of England +1 45 £425 -29.17% 39
North West -22 40 £446 +4.94% 30
Midlands -41 32 £438 -16.67% 58
West Midlands -36 24 £482 -22.88% 31
East Midlands -19 8 £415 -17.00% 26
North East -8 3 £466 - 12
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 48 (8.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.02%) Apache
3 12 (2.02%) Confluence
4 10 (1.68%) IIS
5 9 (1.52%) TPMS
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.34%) iPlanet
6 2 (0.34%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.34%) Traefik
6 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.35%) Maximo
2 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 209 (35.19%) Azure
2 122 (20.54%) AWS
3 93 (15.66%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 35 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (5.39%) GCP
7 28 (4.71%) GitHub
7 28 (4.71%) OpenShift
8 27 (4.55%) IaaS
9 24 (4.04%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (3.87%) PaaS
11 20 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (3.37%) Serverless
12 18 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.69%) Nutanix
15 15 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 124 (20.88%) Firewall
2 80 (13.47%) DNS
3 60 (10.10%) VPN
4 57 (9.60%) TCP/IP
5 48 (8.08%) DHCP
6 40 (6.73%) WAN
7 36 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (5.72%) VLAN
9 31 (5.22%) Network Security
10 30 (5.05%) LAN
11 29 (4.88%) SAN
12 28 (4.71%) SSL
13 13 (2.19%) MPLS
14 12 (2.02%) Wireless
15 11 (1.85%) SSH
16 10 (1.68%) 4G
17 9 (1.52%) SD-WAN
17 9 (1.52%) SNMP
18 8 (1.35%) BGP
18 8 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.18%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.84%) Power BI
5 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.67%) MySQL
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.51%) Big Data
6 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.51%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (5.39%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.05%) Git
3 25 (4.21%) GitLab
4 17 (2.86%) JIRA
5 3 (0.51%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.34%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.17%) GoCD
7 1 (0.17%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.17%) MLflow
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 132 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.80%) Finance
3 60 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (4.38%) Banking
7 13 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.02%) Military
9 8 (1.35%) Billing
9 8 (1.35%) Local Government
9 8 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.18%) Legal
11 6 (1.01%) Aviation
11 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.01%) Retail
11 6 (1.01%) Spanish Language
12 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 390 (65.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 82 (13.80%) Senior
3 67 (11.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (8.25%) Infrastructure Support
5 46 (7.74%) Network Engineer
6 45 (7.58%) Support Engineer
7 43 (7.24%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 42 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
8 42 (7.07%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 32 (5.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.21%) VMware Engineer
12 24 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
14 22 (3.70%) IT Engineer
14 22 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.20%) Security Engineer
16 17 (2.86%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
16 17 (2.86%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.53%) ARM Templates
1 15 (2.53%) SAML
2 14 (2.36%) REST
3 13 (2.19%) OpenID
4 12 (2.02%) Middleware
5 8 (1.35%) Kafka
5 8 (1.35%) OAuth
6 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.01%) OAuth2
7 5 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.84%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.84%) RESTful
7 5 (0.84%) YAML
8 4 (0.67%) gRPC
8 4 (0.67%) NumPy
8 4 (0.67%) Pandas
8 4 (0.67%) SOAP
8 4 (0.67%) Web Services
9 3 (0.51%) ADO
9 3 (0.51%) AWT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.22%) Data Centre
2 30 (5.05%) Replication
3 28 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (4.55%) PKI
5 21 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.54%) Private Cloud
6 17 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.19%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.85%) Clustering
10 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.18%) NHS
13 6 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.01%) Equities
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 218 (36.70%) Windows
2 135 (22.73%) Linux
3 116 (19.53%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.87%) Unix
6 19 (3.20%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.36%) Ubuntu
8 13 (2.19%) VMS
9 10 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.18%) Android
12 6 (1.01%) CentOS
13 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.34%) Debian
15 2 (0.34%) SUSE
15 2 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (20.54%) DevOps
2 116 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (17.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 82 (13.80%) ITIL
6 65 (10.94%) Migration
7 58 (9.76%) Agile
8 54 (9.09%) Containerisation
9 53 (8.92%) High Availability
10 51 (8.59%) Infrastructure Automation
11 49 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (7.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 47 (7.91%) Observability
13 42 (7.07%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (5.72%) Project Delivery
16 30 (5.05%) RBAC
17 29 (4.88%) Change Management
17 29 (4.88%) Service Management
18 28 (4.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (17.00%) Python
2 95 (15.99%) PowerShell
3 50 (8.42%) Bash
4 23 (3.87%) Java
5 22 (3.70%) SQL
6 21 (3.54%) Bicep
7 14 (2.36%) Shell Script
8 13 (2.19%) Perl
9 10 (1.68%) Go
10 7 (1.18%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.01%) Ruby
12 5 (0.84%) C++
12 5 (0.84%) PHP
13 4 (0.67%) C#
14 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.34%) Groovy
16 1 (0.17%) Scala
16 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.17%) VB
16 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 178 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 117 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.44%) DV Cleared
4 42 (7.07%) Azure Certification
5 37 (6.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (4.71%) Degree
7 18 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (3.03%) CISSP
8 17 (2.86%) CISM
9 16 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
10 12 (2.02%) CCNP
10 12 (2.02%) Server+ Certification
11 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.68%) CCNA
13 9 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.52%) FFIEC
14 8 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.54%) GDPR
2 20 (3.37%) NIST
3 14 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.19%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.19%) SLA
5 9 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.52%) GLBA
6 8 (1.35%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.51%) QA
7 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.34%) COBIT
8 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 141 (23.74%) Active Directory
2 110 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (10.77%) Docker
4 59 (9.93%) Hyper-V
5 26 (4.38%) vSphere
6 15 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.52%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.01%) NFS
10 4 (0.67%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.51%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.51%) Firmware
11 3 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.34%) QEMU
12 2 (0.34%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.34%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 141 (23.74%) Terraform
2 91 (15.32%) Kubernetes
3 83 (13.97%) Ansible
4 62 (10.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 54 (9.09%) SCCM
6 23 (3.87%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.37%) Grafana
8 19 (3.20%) vCenter Server
9 15 (2.53%) FortiGate
9 15 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
10 14 (2.36%) Prometheus
11 9 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.35%) Dell DRAC
13 7 (1.18%) Istio
14 6 (1.01%) CASB
14 6 (1.01%) Nessus
14 6 (1.01%) SCOrch
14 6 (1.01%) vRealize
14 6 (1.01%) VxRail
15 5 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 200 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 154 (25.93%) VMware
3 43 (7.24%) Palo Alto
4 40 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 39 (6.57%) Cisco
6 28 (4.71%) Dell
7 27 (4.55%) Google
8 26 (4.38%) F5
9 23 (3.87%) ServiceNow
9 23 (3.87%) Splunk
10 22 (3.70%) Veeam
11 21 (3.54%) IBM
12 20 (3.37%) Citrix
13 16 (2.69%) CheckPoint
13 16 (2.69%) Oracle
14 14 (2.36%) SolarWinds
15 13 (2.19%) Aruba
15 13 (2.19%) Zscaler
16 12 (2.02%) Fortinet
16 12 (2.02%) NetApp