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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 137 90
Rank change year-on-year -10 -47 +39
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 596 490 885
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.84% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.07% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 341 646
10th Percentile £312 £321 £311
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £605
90th Percentile £675 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 34
10th Percentile £26.13 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £57.01 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +11.11% +8.17%
75th Percentile £70.50 £70.96 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £112.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £57.75
% change year-on-year -45.60% +8.23% +11.05%

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 27,653 23,679 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.08% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,613 14,524 21,598
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
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 1,731 761 1,481
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -52 192 £550 - 69
South East +8 121 £470 +4.44% 114
North of England -10 104 £466 +3.56% 79
South West +3 84 £558 +1.36% 64
Yorkshire -4 61 £463 -2.63% 45
East of England +4 44 £438 -27.08% 32
North West -15 41 £446 +4.94% 27
Midlands -40 33 £450 -18.18% 41
West Midlands -32 25 £485 -26.03% 17
East Midlands -17 8 £415 -17.00% 23
North East -10 3 £466 - 10
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 49 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.01%) Apache
3 12 (2.01%) Confluence
4 10 (1.68%) IIS
4 10 (1.68%) TPMS
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
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%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Maximo
2 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (35.23%) Azure
2 123 (20.64%) AWS
3 93 (15.60%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (11.07%) Entra ID
5 34 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (5.54%) GCP
7 28 (4.70%) GitHub
8 27 (4.53%) IaaS
8 27 (4.53%) OpenShift
9 24 (4.03%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (3.86%) PaaS
11 20 (3.36%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (3.36%) Serverless
12 18 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.68%) Nutanix
14 16 (2.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (20.47%) Firewall
2 79 (13.26%) DNS
3 59 (9.90%) VPN
4 56 (9.40%) TCP/IP
5 47 (7.89%) DHCP
6 40 (6.71%) WAN
7 36 (6.04%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (5.70%) VLAN
9 31 (5.20%) Network Security
10 30 (5.03%) LAN
11 29 (4.87%) SAN
12 28 (4.70%) SSL
13 13 (2.18%) MPLS
14 12 (2.01%) SSH
15 11 (1.85%) Wireless
16 10 (1.68%) 4G
16 10 (1.68%) SNMP
17 9 (1.51%) SD-WAN
18 8 (1.34%) BGP
18 8 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.03%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.34%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.17%) 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
5 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.50%) Big Data
6 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.50%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (5.20%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.03%) Git
3 24 (4.03%) GitLab
4 16 (2.68%) JIRA
5 3 (0.50%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.50%) 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
1 130 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.93%) Finance
3 59 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (4.53%) Banking
7 13 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.01%) Military
9 8 (1.34%) Billing
9 8 (1.34%) Local Government
9 8 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.17%) Legal
11 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.01%) Aviation
11 6 (1.01%) Retail
11 6 (1.01%) Spanish Language
12 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 390 (65.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 83 (13.93%) Senior
3 67 (11.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (8.39%) Infrastructure Support
5 46 (7.72%) Support Engineer
6 45 (7.55%) Network Engineer
7 43 (7.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 42 (7.05%) Azure Engineer
8 42 (7.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (5.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.19%) VMware Engineer
12 24 (4.03%) Automation Engineer
13 23 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.69%) IT Engineer
14 22 (3.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Security Engineer
17 17 (2.85%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
17 17 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.52%) ARM Templates
1 15 (2.52%) SAML
2 14 (2.35%) REST
3 13 (2.18%) OpenID
4 12 (2.01%) Middleware
5 9 (1.51%) Kafka
6 8 (1.34%) OAuth
7 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (1.01%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.84%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.84%) RESTful
8 5 (0.84%) YAML
9 4 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.67%) gRPC
9 4 (0.67%) NumPy
9 4 (0.67%) Pandas
9 4 (0.67%) SOAP
9 4 (0.67%) Web Services
10 3 (0.50%) ADO
10 3 (0.50%) AWT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.37%) Data Centre
2 30 (5.03%) Replication
3 28 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (4.53%) PKI
5 22 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.52%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.85%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.18%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.85%) Clustering
11 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.17%) NHS
14 6 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.01%) Equities
14 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 215 (36.07%) Windows
2 132 (22.15%) Linux
3 114 (19.13%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.86%) Unix
6 19 (3.19%) Windows 10
7 13 (2.18%) VMS
8 12 (2.01%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (1.17%) Android
10 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.67%) CentOS
12 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.34%) Debian
14 2 (0.34%) SUSE
14 2 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (20.13%) DevOps
2 114 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (16.78%) CI/CD
5 80 (13.42%) ITIL
6 66 (11.07%) Migration
7 59 (9.90%) Agile
8 54 (9.06%) Containerisation
9 53 (8.89%) High Availability
10 50 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (8.39%) Infrastructure Automation
11 48 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 47 (7.89%) Observability
13 41 (6.88%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (5.70%) Project Delivery
16 30 (5.03%) Change Management
16 30 (5.03%) RBAC
17 29 (4.87%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (4.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (16.95%) Python
2 94 (15.77%) PowerShell
3 49 (8.22%) Bash
4 24 (4.03%) Java
5 23 (3.86%) SQL
6 21 (3.52%) Bicep
7 13 (2.18%) Perl
7 13 (2.18%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.68%) Go
9 7 (1.17%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.01%) Ruby
11 5 (0.84%) C++
11 5 (0.84%) PHP
12 4 (0.67%) C#
13 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.34%) Groovy
14 2 (0.34%) Scala
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.17%) VB
15 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 176 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 116 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.23%) DV Cleared
4 41 (6.88%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (4.53%) Degree
7 18 (3.02%) CISSP
8 17 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (2.85%) CISM
9 16 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
10 12 (2.01%) CCNP
10 12 (2.01%) Server+ Certification
11 11 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.68%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.68%) CCNA
12 10 (1.68%) FFIEC
13 9 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.52%) GDPR
1 21 (3.52%) NIST
2 14 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.35%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.18%) SLA
4 10 (1.68%) GLBA
5 9 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.34%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.34%) COBIT
8 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.34%) QA
9 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 140 (23.49%) Active Directory
2 110 (18.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (10.57%) Docker
4 59 (9.90%) Hyper-V
5 25 (4.19%) vSphere
6 15 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.51%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.01%) NFS
11 4 (0.67%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.50%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.50%) Firmware
12 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.34%) QEMU
13 2 (0.34%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.34%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 141 (23.66%) Terraform
2 90 (15.10%) Kubernetes
3 82 (13.76%) Ansible
4 62 (10.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 54 (9.06%) SCCM
6 23 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (3.19%) Grafana
8 18 (3.02%) vCenter Server
9 15 (2.52%) FortiGate
9 15 (2.52%) Red Hat Satellite
10 13 (2.18%) Prometheus
11 9 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.34%) Dell DRAC
13 7 (1.17%) Istio
14 6 (1.01%) CASB
14 6 (1.01%) Nessus
14 6 (1.01%) SCOrch
14 6 (1.01%) vRealize
15 5 (0.84%) Packer
15 5 (0.84%) VxRail
Vendors
1 199 (33.39%) Microsoft
2 153 (25.67%) VMware
3 42 (7.05%) Palo Alto
4 38 (6.38%) Cisco
5 37 (6.21%) Red Hat
6 28 (4.70%) Dell
7 27 (4.53%) Google
8 26 (4.36%) F5
9 23 (3.86%) Splunk
10 22 (3.69%) ServiceNow
10 22 (3.69%) Veeam
11 21 (3.52%) IBM
12 20 (3.36%) Citrix
13 15 (2.52%) CheckPoint
13 15 (2.52%) Oracle
14 14 (2.35%) SolarWinds
15 13 (2.18%) Aruba
15 13 (2.18%) Zscaler
16 12 (2.01%) Fortinet
16 12 (2.01%) NetApp