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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 145 95
Rank change year-on-year +48 -50 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,032 488 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 2.03% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.22% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 332 664
10th Percentile £340 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 6 32
10th Percentile £44.20 £53.22 £37.63
25th Percentile £58.43 £57.16 £45.00
Median hourly rate £72.54 £67.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% +23.01% -20.18%
75th Percentile £77.06 £168.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £67.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +7.47% +23.01% -15.58%

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +16 280 £550 +4.76% 85
North of England +10 232 £500 -4.76% 69
South East +12 208 £525 -2.33% 83
South West +10 121 £550 -4.35% 53
Yorkshire -10 121 £428 -18.48% 13
Midlands 0 110 £475 +18.75% 45
North West -10 78 £575 +9.52% 43
West Midlands -28 71 £525 +40.00% 29
East of England -5 58 £475 +1.82% 20
East Midlands +3 38 £450 - 16
North East +1 37 £600 -7.69% 13
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 61 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.45%) Confluence
4 10 (0.97%) Apache
5 7 (0.68%) CICS
6 5 (0.48%) TPMS
7 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 4 (0.39%) SAS
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.097%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.097%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.097%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Maximo
2 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.097%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 333 (32.27%) Azure
2 183 (17.73%) AWS
3 92 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (7.85%) GCP
5 72 (6.98%) GitHub
6 71 (6.88%) Entra ID
7 54 (5.23%) IaaS
8 50 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (3.68%) SaaS
11 36 (3.49%) PaaS
12 33 (3.20%) Azure AKS
12 33 (3.20%) OpenShift
13 32 (3.10%) OCI
14 28 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (2.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 27 (2.62%) Serverless
16 19 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (1.65%) Nutanix
18 14 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 144 (13.95%) Firewall
2 138 (13.37%) DNS
3 83 (8.04%) DHCP
4 61 (5.91%) VPN
5 51 (4.94%) Network Security
6 49 (4.75%) WAN
7 46 (4.46%) SAN
8 36 (3.49%) VLAN
9 34 (3.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 31 (3.00%) BGP
10 31 (3.00%) LAN
10 31 (3.00%) TCP/IP
11 28 (2.71%) SD-WAN
12 27 (2.62%) BIG-IP
12 27 (2.62%) OSPF
13 23 (2.23%) NAS
13 23 (2.23%) VXLAN
14 22 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
15 21 (2.03%) SSL
16 18 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.78%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.78%) Power BI
4 7 (0.68%) Metadata
4 7 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.58%) DB2
6 4 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.39%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.29%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (5.04%) GitLab
2 42 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.68%) JIRA
4 26 (2.52%) Git
5 8 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.097%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.097%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.097%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.097%) CMake
6 1 (0.097%) GoCD
6 1 (0.097%) Gradle
6 1 (0.097%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.097%) Introscope
6 1 (0.097%) MSI
6 1 (0.097%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.097%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 153 (14.83%) Social Skills
2 90 (8.72%) Finance
3 80 (7.75%) Public Sector
4 56 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.07%) Banking
6 33 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.03%) Military
8 18 (1.74%) Legal
9 13 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.26%) Retail
10 12 (1.16%) Aerospace
11 10 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.87%) Billing
12 9 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.78%) Marketing
14 7 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.39%) Advertising
15 4 (0.39%) Local Government
15 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 691 (66.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 179 (17.34%) Senior
3 140 (13.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 70 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 58 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (5.14%) Network Engineer
7 49 (4.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 41 (3.97%) VMware Engineer
10 40 (3.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 36 (3.49%) Automation Engineer
12 32 (3.10%) Architect
12 32 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (3.10%) Support Engineer
13 31 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (2.91%) IT Engineer
14 30 (2.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (2.81%) Infrastructure Support
15 29 (2.81%) Security Engineer
16 28 (2.71%) Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.52%) REST
2 18 (1.74%) SOAP
3 13 (1.26%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.07%) Web Services
5 9 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.87%) LDAP
6 8 (0.78%) JSON
6 8 (0.78%) Kafka
7 7 (0.68%) Flash
7 7 (0.68%) Middleware
7 7 (0.68%) OAuth
8 6 (0.58%) RESTful
8 6 (0.58%) WSDL
9 5 (0.48%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.48%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.48%) OpenID
9 5 (0.48%) YAML
10 4 (0.39%) ADO
10 4 (0.39%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 65 (6.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (3.97%) PKI
4 40 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 37 (3.59%) Cloud Native
6 32 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 29 (2.81%) Replication
9 27 (2.62%) Private Cloud
10 19 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.16%) Clustering
13 11 (1.07%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (0.78%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 284 (27.52%) Windows
2 172 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 164 (15.89%) Linux
4 32 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.65%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.55%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.45%) Android
10 14 (1.36%) Windows 10
11 13 (1.26%) Unix
11 13 (1.26%) VMS
12 8 (0.78%) CentOS
12 8 (0.78%) Debian
12 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.68%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.68%) zOS
14 2 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (20.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 203 (19.67%) DevOps
3 181 (17.54%) CI/CD
4 130 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (11.24%) Migration
6 97 (9.40%) Agile
7 89 (8.62%) High Availability
8 85 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
9 82 (7.95%) Infrastructure Automation
10 75 (7.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 73 (7.07%) Containerisation
12 69 (6.69%) Zero Trust
13 67 (6.49%) ITIL
14 62 (6.01%) Project Delivery
15 56 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (5.04%) Observability
17 50 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
18 49 (4.75%) Cybersecurity
19 48 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 48 (4.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 148 (14.34%) Python
2 141 (13.66%) PowerShell
3 60 (5.81%) Bash
4 42 (4.07%) SQL
5 34 (3.29%) Bicep
6 20 (1.94%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.74%) C#
7 18 (1.74%) Java
8 10 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.97%) PHP
9 7 (0.68%) ActionScript
9 7 (0.68%) Go
10 6 (0.58%) JCL
11 4 (0.39%) C++
11 4 (0.39%) Groovy
11 4 (0.39%) Ruby
12 2 (0.19%) C
12 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.097%) VB
Qualifications
1 378 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 244 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 142 (13.76%) DV Cleared
4 36 (3.49%) Degree
5 29 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.94%) CISSP
9 18 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (1.65%) CCNA
11 15 (1.45%) CISM
12 14 (1.36%) CCNP
13 12 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.87%) MCSE
15 7 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.68%) VCAP
16 6 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.58%) RHCA
17 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.00%) NIST
2 27 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.55%) QA
4 14 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.36%) SLA
5 13 (1.26%) GDPR
5 13 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.97%) NCSC
7 8 (0.78%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.68%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.48%) GLBA
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.19%) PMO
12 1 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.097%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.097%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.097%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.097%) RMADS
System Software
1 177 (17.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 176 (17.05%) Active Directory
3 75 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 61 (5.91%) vSphere
5 60 (5.81%) Docker
6 55 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (3.20%) VMware NSX
9 21 (2.03%) NFS
10 20 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.87%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.78%) Firmware
13 7 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.48%) GPFS
15 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
17 2 (0.19%) Postfix
17 2 (0.19%) SRDF
17 2 (0.19%) UAG
17 2 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 199 (19.28%) Terraform
2 146 (14.15%) Kubernetes
3 114 (11.05%) Ansible
4 57 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (3.68%) vCenter Server
6 28 (2.71%) SCCM
7 19 (1.84%) Grafana
8 17 (1.65%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.45%) Puppet
9 15 (1.45%) WSUS
10 14 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.16%) SCOM
12 11 (1.07%) Nessus
12 11 (1.07%) Packer
13 10 (0.97%) vRealize
14 9 (0.87%) Argo
14 9 (0.87%) VxRail
15 8 (0.78%) Istio
15 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
16 7 (0.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 248 (24.03%) VMware
2 236 (22.87%) Microsoft
3 65 (6.30%) Citrix
4 62 (6.01%) Cisco
5 44 (4.26%) F5
5 44 (4.26%) NetApp
6 41 (3.97%) Palo Alto
7 37 (3.59%) ServiceNow
8 35 (3.39%) Google
9 33 (3.20%) Veeam
10 30 (2.91%) Red Hat
11 27 (2.62%) Dell
12 23 (2.23%) Fortinet
13 22 (2.13%) Aruba
14 21 (2.03%) Arista
15 17 (1.65%) IBM
16 16 (1.55%) Oracle
17 15 (1.45%) SolarWinds
18 13 (1.26%) Splunk
19 12 (1.16%) Tenable