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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 147 98
Rank change year-on-year +58 -49 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,288 525 785
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.85% 1.90% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 2.10% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 335 587
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +6.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £610 £601 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £664
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 6 22
10th Percentile £47.20 £28.00 £48.98
25th Percentile £58.43 £35.27 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £65.94 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -4.09% -5.17%
75th Percentile £78.75 £170.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.15 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £65.94 £70.00
% change year-on-year +10.01% -5.80% -3.45%

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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +58 394 £550 +2.61% 364
North of England +35 286 £525 - 121
South East +28 280 £545 -0.97% 146
South West +16 132 £550 -2.22% 102
Midlands +6 127 £475 +15.15% 60
Yorkshire +6 124 £462 -7.60% 34
North West +18 119 £562 -6.29% 71
West Midlands -13 86 £475 +18.75% 40
East of England +10 56 £500 +11.11% 52
North East 0 53 £600 -7.69% 18
East Midlands +18 39 £450 - 19
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 57 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.33%) Confluence
4 13 (1.01%) CICS
5 8 (0.62%) Apache
5 8 (0.62%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.47%) SAS
7 5 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.23%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.078%) JBoss
10 1 (0.078%) nginx
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.078%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.078%) Houdini
4 1 (0.078%) NUKE
4 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Primavera
1 3 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.078%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 456 (35.40%) Azure
2 238 (18.48%) AWS
3 124 (9.63%) Entra ID
4 105 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (8.00%) GitHub
6 101 (7.84%) GCP
7 72 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (5.36%) IaaS
9 62 (4.81%) OCI
10 44 (3.42%) SaaS
11 41 (3.18%) PaaS
12 36 (2.80%) Azure AKS
12 36 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (2.17%) Serverless
14 24 (1.86%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
16 20 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (1.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 208 (16.15%) DNS
2 195 (15.14%) Firewall
3 129 (10.02%) DHCP
4 77 (5.98%) VPN
5 68 (5.28%) TCP/IP
6 65 (5.05%) Network Security
7 60 (4.66%) SAN
8 59 (4.58%) WAN
9 58 (4.50%) VLAN
10 41 (3.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 33 (2.56%) BIG-IP
11 33 (2.56%) LAN
11 33 (2.56%) SD-WAN
12 30 (2.33%) BGP
12 30 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (2.17%) OSPF
14 27 (2.10%) VXLAN
15 26 (2.02%) Ethernet VPN
15 26 (2.02%) SSL
16 22 (1.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.55%) Oracle Exadata
3 16 (1.24%) Oracle Database
4 14 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.01%) RDBMS
6 12 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.93%) Power BI
7 9 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.70%) Metadata
8 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.62%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.47%) Db2
10 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.39%) Pentaho
11 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.31%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (5.20%) GitLab
2 51 (3.96%) Git
2 51 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.80%) JIRA
4 8 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.23%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.078%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.078%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.078%) CMake
7 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.078%) Gradle
7 1 (0.078%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.078%) Introscope
7 1 (0.078%) Maven
7 1 (0.078%) MSI
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.078%) Robot Framework
General
1 211 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 111 (8.62%) Finance
3 102 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 67 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (3.73%) Banking
7 19 (1.48%) Military
7 19 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 17 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.32%) Retail
9 16 (1.24%) Legal
10 13 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 11 (0.85%) Law
11 11 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (0.78%) Marketing
13 7 (0.54%) Automotive
14 5 (0.39%) Billing
14 5 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 855 (66.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 254 (19.72%) Senior
3 199 (15.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 132 (10.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 96 (7.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 93 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (5.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 59 (4.58%) Network Engineer
9 53 (4.11%) Lead
10 46 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
11 42 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 39 (3.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (2.95%) Architect
14 37 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (2.64%) Infrastructure Support
16 33 (2.56%) IT Engineer
16 33 (2.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (2.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 32 (2.48%) Support Engineer
18 31 (2.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.25%) REST
2 22 (1.71%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.09%) SOAP
4 13 (1.01%) JSON
4 13 (1.01%) Middleware
4 13 (1.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 11 (0.85%) YAML
6 10 (0.78%) Loki
6 10 (0.78%) OpenID
6 10 (0.78%) SAML
7 9 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (0.70%) OAuth
8 8 (0.62%) LDAP
9 7 (0.54%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.54%) Flash
9 7 (0.54%) Kafka
9 7 (0.54%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.54%) Web Services
10 6 (0.47%) .NET
10 6 (0.47%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.48%) Data Centre
2 84 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 51 (3.96%) PKI
5 50 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 39 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.03%) Replication
7 34 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (1.94%) Clustering
9 24 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 22 (1.71%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.09%) Mainframe
14 14 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 345 (26.79%) Windows
2 231 (17.93%) Linux
3 223 (17.31%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.32%) Unix
5 17 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.24%) CentOS
7 15 (1.16%) Android
7 15 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.09%) AIX
9 13 (1.01%) zOS
10 12 (0.93%) VMS
11 11 (0.85%) Rocky
12 8 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.47%) Debian
14 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 253 (19.64%) DevOps
3 238 (18.48%) CI/CD
4 164 (12.73%) Migration
5 145 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
7 118 (9.16%) Agile
8 107 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (8.31%) High Availability
9 100 (7.76%) Infrastructure Automation
10 91 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
11 86 (6.68%) AI
12 82 (6.37%) Project Delivery
13 80 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 77 (5.98%) Containerisation
14 77 (5.98%) Observability
15 72 (5.59%) Zero Trust
16 71 (5.51%) ITIL
16 71 (5.51%) Validation
17 68 (5.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 225 (17.47%) PowerShell
2 214 (16.61%) Python
3 115 (8.93%) Bash
4 57 (4.43%) SQL
5 53 (4.11%) Bicep
6 25 (1.94%) Java
7 21 (1.63%) C#
8 20 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.70%) Go
10 8 (0.62%) ActionScript
11 7 (0.54%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.47%) JCL
12 6 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.31%) C++
14 3 (0.23%) C
14 3 (0.23%) Groovy
14 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 499 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 330 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 171 (13.28%) DV Cleared
4 54 (4.19%) Degree
5 43 (3.34%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.55%) CCNA
10 18 (1.40%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.32%) CCNP
11 17 (1.32%) CISSP
12 13 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.01%) MCSE
12 13 (1.01%) VCAP
13 9 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.62%) CISM
15 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.54%) PMP
15 7 (0.54%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (2.48%) QA
3 23 (1.79%) NIST
4 16 (1.24%) SLA
5 15 (1.16%) NCSC
6 14 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.54%) PMO
8 6 (0.47%) GRC
8 6 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.31%) GDPR
9 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.16%) IASME
10 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.078%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.078%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 236 (18.32%) Active Directory
2 232 (18.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (7.53%) Hyper-V
4 76 (5.90%) VMware ESXi
5 73 (5.67%) Docker
6 70 (5.43%) vSphere
7 57 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (3.42%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.09%) NFS
11 13 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.70%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.70%) Firmware
12 9 (0.70%) KVM
13 8 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.39%) GPFS
15 5 (0.39%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.31%) Ceph
17 2 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 283 (21.97%) Terraform
2 181 (14.05%) Ansible
3 162 (12.58%) Kubernetes
4 68 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (3.88%) vCenter Server
6 38 (2.95%) SCCM
7 29 (2.25%) Grafana
8 25 (1.94%) Puppet
9 24 (1.86%) Prometheus
10 20 (1.55%) WSUS
11 19 (1.48%) Argo
12 18 (1.40%) NetBackup
13 15 (1.16%) Packer
14 14 (1.09%) Nessus
14 14 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (1.01%) Data Guard
15 13 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
16 10 (0.78%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.78%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 320 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 298 (23.14%) VMware
3 74 (5.75%) Citrix
4 71 (5.51%) Cisco
5 52 (4.04%) Oracle
6 48 (3.73%) F5
7 46 (3.57%) NetApp
8 45 (3.49%) Google
9 36 (2.80%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.64%) Palo Alto
11 32 (2.48%) Veeam
12 28 (2.17%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.79%) Aruba
14 22 (1.71%) Arista
14 22 (1.71%) Dell
15 20 (1.55%) Tenable
16 19 (1.48%) Juniper
17 18 (1.40%) Zscaler
18 15 (1.16%) CyberArk
19 13 (1.01%) IBM