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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 138 94
Rank change year-on-year +37 -44 +28
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 972 494 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.04% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.23% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 344 653
10th Percentile £335 £326 £288
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -7.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £699
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 33
10th Percentile £44.20 £40.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £53.22 £45.00
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -12.45%
75th Percentile £77.06 £136.88 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -9.37%

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 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +6 261 £550 +4.76% 108
North of England +4 211 £496 -5.52% 69
South East +20 201 £514 -2.10% 97
South West +8 119 £540 -6.09% 54
Yorkshire -7 112 £428 -18.48% 13
Midlands 0 104 £466 +16.50% 53
North West -9 71 £575 +9.52% 43
West Midlands -20 66 £525 +45.83% 27
East of England +2 54 £475 +1.17% 25
East Midlands -2 37 £450 - 25
North East -4 30 £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 63 (6.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.54%) Confluence
4 10 (1.03%) Apache
5 6 (0.62%) TPMS
6 5 (0.51%) CICS
7 4 (0.41%) IIS
7 4 (0.41%) SAS
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.21%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 310 (31.89%) Azure
2 167 (17.18%) AWS
3 88 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (7.20%) GCP
5 68 (7.00%) Entra ID
6 67 (6.89%) GitHub
7 50 (5.14%) IaaS
8 49 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (3.70%) PaaS
11 35 (3.60%) SaaS
12 34 (3.50%) Azure AKS
13 33 (3.40%) OpenShift
14 28 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
14 28 (2.88%) OCI
14 28 (2.88%) Serverless
15 24 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 20 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (1.75%) Nutanix
18 16 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 138 (14.20%) Firewall
2 123 (12.65%) DNS
3 74 (7.61%) DHCP
4 57 (5.86%) VPN
5 48 (4.94%) Network Security
6 45 (4.63%) WAN
7 43 (4.42%) SAN
8 35 (3.60%) VLAN
9 30 (3.09%) LAN
10 29 (2.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 28 (2.88%) TCP/IP
12 27 (2.78%) BGP
13 25 (2.57%) SD-WAN
14 23 (2.37%) OSPF
15 22 (2.26%) BIG-IP
15 22 (2.26%) NAS
16 20 (2.06%) VXLAN
17 19 (1.95%) Ethernet VPN
17 19 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
18 18 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 9 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.72%) Metadata
4 7 (0.72%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.72%) Power BI
5 6 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.41%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.41%) DB2
6 4 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.31%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (4.94%) GitLab
2 39 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.19%) JIRA
4 28 (2.88%) Git
5 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.10%) CMake
6 1 (0.10%) GoCD
6 1 (0.10%) Gradle
6 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.10%) Introscope
6 1 (0.10%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.10%) MSI
6 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 88 (9.05%) Finance
3 79 (8.13%) Public Sector
4 53 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.12%) Banking
6 28 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.26%) Military
8 17 (1.75%) Legal
9 12 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.13%) Retail
11 10 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.82%) Marketing
14 7 (0.72%) Billing
15 6 (0.62%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.41%) Front Office
17 4 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 649 (66.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 161 (16.56%) Senior
3 124 (12.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 58 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
6 49 (5.04%) Network Engineer
7 45 (4.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.53%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (3.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (3.81%) VMware Engineer
10 35 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
11 32 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 32 (3.29%) Support Engineer
12 31 (3.19%) Architect
13 30 (3.09%) Infrastructure Support
13 30 (3.09%) IT Engineer
13 30 (3.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (2.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 28 (2.88%) Security Engineer
15 27 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.57%) REST
2 16 (1.65%) SOAP
3 13 (1.34%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (0.93%) LDAP
4 9 (0.93%) Web Services
5 8 (0.82%) Kafka
6 7 (0.72%) Flash
6 7 (0.72%) Middleware
6 7 (0.72%) OAuth
7 6 (0.62%) OpenID
8 5 (0.51%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.51%) JSON
8 5 (0.51%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.51%) SAML
9 4 (0.41%) ADO
9 4 (0.41%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.41%) RESTful
9 4 (0.41%) WSDL
9 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (8.23%) Data Centre
2 57 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (4.12%) PKI
4 36 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 34 (3.50%) Cloud Native
6 29 (2.98%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.57%) Private Cloud
8 25 (2.57%) Replication
9 19 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.23%) Clustering
13 11 (1.13%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.72%) Mobile App
16 7 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 272 (27.98%) Windows
2 166 (17.08%) Windows Server
3 157 (16.15%) Linux
4 28 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.75%) Apple iOS
8 15 (1.54%) Android
9 14 (1.44%) Windows 10
10 13 (1.34%) VMS
11 12 (1.23%) Unix
12 9 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.82%) CentOS
13 8 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.72%) Debian
14 7 (0.72%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.51%) zOS
16 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
17 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (20.37%) DevOps
2 193 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 173 (17.80%) CI/CD
4 126 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (11.11%) Migration
6 92 (9.47%) Agile
7 83 (8.54%) Platform Engineering
8 80 (8.23%) High Availability
9 78 (8.02%) Infrastructure Automation
10 73 (7.51%) Containerisation
11 70 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 67 (6.89%) ITIL
13 65 (6.69%) Zero Trust
14 59 (6.07%) Project Delivery
15 52 (5.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (5.35%) Observability
16 47 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
16 47 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 44 (4.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 137 (14.09%) PowerShell
2 135 (13.89%) Python
3 55 (5.66%) Bash
4 40 (4.12%) SQL
5 34 (3.50%) Bicep
6 20 (2.06%) C#
7 18 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 17 (1.75%) Java
9 10 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.03%) PHP
10 6 (0.62%) C++
11 5 (0.51%) Go
11 5 (0.51%) Ruby
12 4 (0.41%) Groovy
12 4 (0.41%) JCL
13 3 (0.31%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.21%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.10%) C
15 1 (0.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 359 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 232 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 137 (14.09%) DV Cleared
4 39 (4.01%) Degree
5 27 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.95%) CISSP
9 15 (1.54%) CCNA
9 15 (1.54%) CISM
10 14 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 13 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.23%) CCNP
13 8 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.72%) MCSE
15 6 (0.62%) FFIEC
15 6 (0.62%) RHCA
16 5 (0.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.19%) NIST
2 26 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.65%) QA
4 14 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.44%) GDPR
4 14 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.23%) SLA
6 10 (1.03%) NCSC
7 8 (0.82%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.62%) GLBA
10 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.21%) PMO
11 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 168 (17.28%) Active Directory
2 164 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (7.51%) Hyper-V
4 63 (6.48%) Docker
5 56 (5.76%) vSphere
6 46 (4.73%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (2.67%) VMware NSX
9 21 (2.16%) NFS
9 21 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.93%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.72%) Firmware
11 7 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.51%) GPFS
13 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.21%) Postfix
14 2 (0.21%) SRDF
14 2 (0.21%) UAG
Systems Management
1 189 (19.44%) Terraform
2 148 (15.23%) Kubernetes
3 106 (10.91%) Ansible
4 58 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (3.50%) vCenter Server
6 31 (3.19%) SCCM
7 19 (1.95%) Grafana
8 17 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.65%) Puppet
10 15 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.54%) WSUS
11 12 (1.23%) SCOM
12 11 (1.13%) Packer
13 10 (1.03%) Nessus
13 10 (1.03%) vRealize
14 9 (0.93%) Argo
14 9 (0.93%) Istio
14 9 (0.93%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.93%) VxRail
15 7 (0.72%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 234 (24.07%) VMware
2 224 (23.05%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.48%) Citrix
4 61 (6.28%) Cisco
5 44 (4.53%) NetApp
6 39 (4.01%) F5
7 38 (3.91%) Palo Alto
8 34 (3.50%) Veeam
9 33 (3.40%) ServiceNow
10 32 (3.29%) Google
11 28 (2.88%) Red Hat
12 27 (2.78%) Dell
13 25 (2.57%) Fortinet
14 20 (2.06%) Arista
14 20 (2.06%) Aruba
15 17 (1.75%) IBM
16 16 (1.65%) Oracle
17 15 (1.54%) SolarWinds
17 15 (1.54%) Splunk
18 11 (1.13%) Tenable