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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 141 94
Rank change year-on-year +44 -47 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,135 513 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.59% 2.01% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.21% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 342 670
10th Percentile £350 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 4 33
10th Percentile £38.58 £52.36 £39.10
25th Percentile £58.43 £54.30 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £128.88 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -43.71% +134.85% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £128.88 £54.88
% change year-on-year -43.71% +134.85% -24.31%

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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +19 330 £550 +4.76% 124
North of England +17 265 £500 -4.76% 97
South East +11 219 £515 -6.36% 82
South West +26 130 £539 -4.22% 64
Yorkshire 0 123 £500 -4.76% 29
Midlands -2 121 £475 +15.15% 52
North West -2 96 £513 -2.38% 55
West Midlands -14 77 £525 +31.25% 31
North East +6 54 £600 -7.69% 16
East of England -1 54 £475 +3.66% 20
East Midlands +11 43 £450 - 21
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 55 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.67%) Confluence
4 11 (0.97%) CICS
5 9 (0.79%) Apache
6 6 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.35%) SAS
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) TPMS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.088%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.088%) IIS
10 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.088%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.088%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Maximo
2 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.088%) Primavera
2 1 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 369 (32.51%) Azure
2 205 (18.06%) AWS
3 96 (8.46%) GCP
4 85 (7.49%) Entra ID
5 84 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (7.14%) GitHub
7 57 (5.02%) IaaS
8 54 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (3.79%) SaaS
11 38 (3.35%) OCI
12 37 (3.26%) PaaS
13 36 (3.17%) Azure AKS
14 27 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (2.29%) Serverless
16 22 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 18 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.59%) OpenShift
18 16 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 163 (14.36%) Firewall
2 158 (13.92%) DNS
3 93 (8.19%) DHCP
4 63 (5.55%) VPN
5 60 (5.29%) Network Security
6 55 (4.85%) SAN
7 51 (4.49%) WAN
8 46 (4.05%) VLAN
9 41 (3.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 37 (3.26%) TCP/IP
11 33 (2.91%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.82%) BGP
13 31 (2.73%) SD-WAN
14 28 (2.47%) LAN
14 28 (2.47%) OSPF
15 26 (2.29%) VXLAN
16 25 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (2.03%) SSL
18 22 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (1.85%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 9 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 8 (0.70%) DynamoDB
5 8 (0.70%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.62%) Metadata
6 7 (0.62%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.62%) Power BI
7 6 (0.53%) Db2
8 5 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.44%) Big Data
8 5 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (0.35%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (5.64%) GitLab
2 50 (4.41%) JIRA
3 49 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.56%) Git
5 8 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.088%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.088%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.088%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.088%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.088%) CMake
6 1 (0.088%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.088%) GoCD
6 1 (0.088%) Gradle
6 1 (0.088%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.088%) Introscope
6 1 (0.088%) MLflow
6 1 (0.088%) MSI
6 1 (0.088%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.088%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 165 (14.54%) Social Skills
2 104 (9.16%) Finance
3 83 (7.31%) Public Sector
4 49 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (4.05%) Banking
6 41 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.03%) Military
8 21 (1.85%) Legal
9 16 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.41%) Retail
10 13 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 10 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 10 (0.88%) Marketing
11 10 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.53%) Law
13 5 (0.44%) Billing
13 5 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 773 (68.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 205 (18.06%) Senior
3 161 (14.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 91 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
5 66 (5.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 64 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (4.41%) Network Engineer
8 48 (4.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (3.17%) VMware Engineer
11 35 (3.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 33 (2.91%) Architect
13 32 (2.82%) IT Engineer
13 32 (2.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 31 (2.73%) Infrastructure Support
14 31 (2.73%) Support Engineer
15 28 (2.47%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 28 (2.47%) Security Engineer
16 27 (2.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 27 (2.38%) Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.29%) REST
2 14 (1.23%) SOAP
3 11 (0.97%) ARM Templates
3 11 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (0.97%) JSON
3 11 (0.97%) LDAP
3 11 (0.97%) OAuth
4 10 (0.88%) Middleware
4 10 (0.88%) OpenID
5 9 (0.79%) Kafka
5 9 (0.79%) SAML
6 8 (0.70%) YAML
7 7 (0.62%) Flash
7 7 (0.62%) Web Services
8 6 (0.53%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.53%) RESTful
8 6 (0.53%) WSDL
9 5 (0.44%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.44%) Keycloak
9 5 (0.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.93%) Data Centre
2 73 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.05%) PKI
4 46 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 36 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 26 (2.29%) Replication
8 23 (2.03%) Private Cloud
9 18 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.50%) Clustering
10 17 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.06%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 302 (26.61%) Windows
2 191 (16.83%) Windows Server
3 182 (16.04%) Linux
4 39 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.50%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.41%) Unix
7 16 (1.41%) Windows 10
8 15 (1.32%) Android
8 15 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.23%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.97%) zOS
11 10 (0.88%) CentOS
12 9 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.70%) VMS
13 8 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.62%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.53%) AIX
15 6 (0.53%) Debian
16 4 (0.35%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (20.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 218 (19.21%) DevOps
3 194 (17.09%) CI/CD
4 129 (11.37%) Migration
5 124 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (9.16%) Agile
7 99 (8.72%) High Availability
8 97 (8.55%) Platform Engineering
9 78 (6.87%) Infrastructure Automation
10 77 (6.78%) Containerisation
11 73 (6.43%) AI
12 71 (6.26%) Disaster Recovery
12 71 (6.26%) Zero Trust
13 68 (5.99%) Project Delivery
14 66 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (5.46%) Validation
16 59 (5.20%) Observability
17 58 (5.11%) ITIL
18 53 (4.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 50 (4.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 174 (15.33%) Python
2 166 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 69 (6.08%) Bash
4 48 (4.23%) SQL
5 32 (2.82%) Bicep
6 21 (1.85%) Java
7 20 (1.76%) C#
7 20 (1.76%) Shell Script
8 10 (0.88%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.70%) Go
10 7 (0.62%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.53%) JCL
11 6 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.44%) PHP
13 4 (0.35%) Groovy
14 3 (0.26%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) C
15 2 (0.18%) Korn
15 2 (0.18%) Ruby
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 415 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 260 (22.91%) SC Cleared
3 158 (13.92%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.70%) Degree
5 33 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.67%) CCNA
8 19 (1.67%) CISSP
8 19 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.15%) CCNP
11 12 (1.06%) MCSE
12 11 (0.97%) CISM
13 8 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.62%) VCAP
15 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.53%) RHCA
16 5 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (2.64%) NIST
3 26 (2.29%) QA
4 17 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.15%) NCSC
6 11 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.79%) SLA
8 7 (0.62%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.62%) GDPR
9 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.44%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.26%) GLBA
12 3 (0.26%) PMO
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.088%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.088%) ISO 19650
14 1 (0.088%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 197 (17.36%) Active Directory
2 195 (17.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (6.96%) Hyper-V
4 72 (6.34%) VMware ESXi
5 62 (5.46%) Docker
6 61 (5.37%) vSphere
7 39 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (3.00%) VMware NSX
9 24 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.32%) NFS
11 11 (0.97%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.79%) Firmware
12 9 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.44%) GPFS
13 5 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.44%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.35%) KVM
14 4 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.18%) UAG
15 2 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 217 (19.12%) Terraform
2 146 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 128 (11.28%) Ansible
4 55 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (3.96%) vCenter Server
6 29 (2.56%) SCCM
7 23 (2.03%) Grafana
7 23 (2.03%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.76%) Puppet
9 19 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.67%) WSUS
10 13 (1.15%) Nessus
11 12 (1.06%) Packer
11 12 (1.06%) SCOM
12 10 (0.88%) Argo
12 10 (0.88%) vRealize
12 10 (0.88%) VxRail
13 9 (0.79%) vMotion
14 8 (0.70%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 262 (23.08%) VMware
2 247 (21.76%) Microsoft
3 68 (5.99%) Cisco
3 68 (5.99%) Citrix
4 50 (4.41%) F5
5 44 (3.88%) Google
6 43 (3.79%) ServiceNow
7 40 (3.52%) NetApp
8 36 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 28 (2.47%) Veeam
10 25 (2.20%) Dell
11 24 (2.11%) Oracle
11 24 (2.11%) Red Hat
12 23 (2.03%) Arista
12 23 (2.03%) Aruba
12 23 (2.03%) Fortinet
13 16 (1.41%) Juniper
14 15 (1.32%) Tenable
15 14 (1.23%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.15%) IBM