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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 154 104
Rank change year-on-year +68 -50 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,365 505 760
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 1.83% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.02% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 328 564
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £430 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £622 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £657 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 7 22
10th Percentile £48.40 £27.80 £48.98
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £30.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.80% -53.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £129.80 -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%

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 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +45 425 £550 +2.61% 588
North of England +48 310 £517 +1.37% 161
South East +35 276 £550 +4.76% 168
North West +43 146 £525 -8.70% 92
South West +35 141 £550 -0.90% 112
Midlands +26 140 £475 +5.56% 68
Yorkshire +9 120 £474 -5.20% 41
West Midlands +3 100 £525 +16.67% 44
East of England +13 63 £510 +27.50% 86
North East +1 54 £600 -7.69% 28
East Midlands +11 38 £450 - 24
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 58 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.90%) Confluence
4 11 (0.81%) Apache
4 11 (0.81%) CICS
5 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.51%) SAS
7 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.29%) nginx
8 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.073%) IIS
11 1 (0.073%) JBoss
11 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.073%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.073%) Houdini
7 1 (0.073%) NUKE
7 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 469 (34.36%) Azure
2 247 (18.10%) AWS
3 125 (9.16%) Entra ID
4 117 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (7.33%) GCP
6 97 (7.11%) GitHub
7 75 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (4.98%) IaaS
9 67 (4.91%) OCI
10 64 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.30%) SaaS
12 40 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (2.56%) PaaS
14 34 (2.49%) Azure AKS
15 26 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
16 23 (1.68%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.68%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.61%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 223 (16.34%) DNS
2 210 (15.38%) Firewall
3 139 (10.18%) DHCP
4 87 (6.37%) VPN
5 77 (5.64%) TCP/IP
6 76 (5.57%) Network Security
7 65 (4.76%) WAN
8 62 (4.54%) SAN
9 60 (4.40%) VLAN
10 44 (3.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (2.78%) LAN
12 36 (2.64%) SD-WAN
13 34 (2.49%) BIG-IP
13 34 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
14 33 (2.42%) BGP
15 28 (2.05%) OSPF
15 28 (2.05%) SSL
16 27 (1.98%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
18 21 (1.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
3 18 (1.32%) Oracle Database
4 17 (1.25%) Power BI
5 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.81%) Metadata
8 11 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.66%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.51%) Pentaho
13 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.29%) Db2
15 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (4.91%) GitLab
2 54 (3.96%) Git
3 45 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.15%) JIRA
5 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.073%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.073%) CMake
8 1 (0.073%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.073%) Gradle
8 1 (0.073%) Introscope
8 1 (0.073%) Maven
8 1 (0.073%) MSI
8 1 (0.073%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.073%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 124 (9.08%) Finance
3 102 (7.47%) Public Sector
4 81 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (3.74%) Banking
7 22 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 19 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 19 (1.39%) Retail
10 18 (1.32%) Military
11 16 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.95%) Law
12 13 (0.95%) Legal
13 10 (0.73%) Automotive
13 10 (0.73%) Marketing
13 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.37%) Aviation
14 5 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 890 (65.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 267 (19.56%) Senior
3 211 (15.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 144 (10.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 104 (7.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 95 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (4.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 67 (4.91%) Network Engineer
9 63 (4.62%) Lead
10 53 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 52 (3.81%) VMware Engineer
12 48 (3.52%) Architect
13 43 (3.15%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 38 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.56%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.56%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.49%) Infrastructure Support
16 34 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.27%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (21.25%) Terraform
2 26 (1.90%) ARM Templates
3 24 (1.76%) REST
4 16 (1.17%) YAML
5 14 (1.03%) Kafka
5 14 (1.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 11 (0.81%) JSON
6 11 (0.81%) Middleware
6 11 (0.81%) OpenID
6 11 (0.81%) SAML
7 10 (0.73%) 802.1X
7 10 (0.73%) Loki
7 10 (0.73%) OAuth
7 10 (0.73%) SOAP
8 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.51%) LDAP
10 6 (0.44%) .NET
11 5 (0.37%) ADO
11 5 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.11%) Data Centre
2 95 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 58 (4.25%) PKI
5 45 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 41 (3.00%) Replication
7 38 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
8 32 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 29 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
11 23 (1.68%) Clustering
12 21 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
13 20 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 12 (0.88%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.88%) Product Ownership
15 12 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 372 (27.25%) Windows
2 252 (18.46%) Linux
3 248 (18.17%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.47%) Unix
5 20 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (1.39%) CentOS
6 19 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.17%) Android
9 16 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.10%) AIX
10 15 (1.10%) VMS
11 12 (0.88%) Rocky
12 11 (0.81%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.81%) zOS
13 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 275 (20.15%) DevOps
3 258 (18.90%) CI/CD
4 176 (12.89%) Migration
5 159 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
7 121 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 112 (8.21%) Agile
9 110 (8.06%) Infrastructure Automation
10 107 (7.84%) High Availability
11 102 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 98 (7.18%) AI
12 98 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
13 95 (6.96%) Observability
14 90 (6.59%) Technical Leadership
15 87 (6.37%) ITIL
16 85 (6.23%) Project Delivery
17 83 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
18 80 (5.86%) Validation
19 75 (5.49%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 245 (17.95%) PowerShell
2 229 (16.78%) Python
3 120 (8.79%) Bash
4 64 (4.69%) SQL
5 57 (4.18%) Bicep
6 29 (2.12%) Java
7 21 (1.54%) C#
8 12 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.73%) Go
10 9 (0.66%) C++
11 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
11 8 (0.59%) Perl
12 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.44%) C
14 5 (0.37%) JavaScript
15 4 (0.29%) JCL
15 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.22%) PHP
17 2 (0.15%) Groovy
17 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 527 (38.61%) Security Cleared
2 338 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 188 (13.77%) DV Cleared
4 56 (4.10%) Degree
5 42 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 21 (1.54%) CISSP
10 18 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.32%) CCNA
11 17 (1.25%) CCNP
12 15 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (0.95%) MCSE
13 13 (0.95%) VCAP
14 9 (0.66%) CISM
14 9 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.51%) MCSA
15 7 (0.51%) PMP
16 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (2.93%) QA
2 38 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.83%) NIST
4 20 (1.47%) NCSC
5 16 (1.17%) SLA
6 14 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.51%) GRC
8 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.51%) PMO
9 6 (0.44%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.22%) GDPR
11 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.15%) IASME
12 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.073%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.073%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 260 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 245 (17.95%) Active Directory
3 106 (7.77%) Hyper-V
4 77 (5.64%) vSphere
5 74 (5.42%) VMware ESXi
6 69 (5.05%) Docker
7 58 (4.25%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (3.15%) VMware NSX
9 27 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
11 13 (0.95%) NFS
12 12 (0.88%) Firmware
13 11 (0.81%) KVM
14 10 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
15 8 (0.59%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.37%) Ceph
17 5 (0.37%) GPFS
17 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
18 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 190 (13.92%) Ansible
2 173 (12.67%) Kubernetes
3 72 (5.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (3.66%) vCenter Server
5 43 (3.15%) SCCM
6 31 (2.27%) Grafana
7 26 (1.90%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.61%) Puppet
8 22 (1.61%) WSUS
9 19 (1.39%) Argo
9 19 (1.39%) NetBackup
10 17 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
11 15 (1.10%) SCOM
12 14 (1.03%) Data Guard
12 14 (1.03%) Nessus
12 14 (1.03%) Packer
13 11 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.81%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 339 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 328 (24.03%) VMware
3 79 (5.79%) Cisco
4 67 (4.91%) Citrix
5 58 (4.25%) Oracle
6 52 (3.81%) F5
7 44 (3.22%) Google
7 44 (3.22%) NetApp
8 37 (2.71%) Palo Alto
9 35 (2.56%) Red Hat
10 34 (2.49%) Veeam
11 31 (2.27%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.68%) Arista
12 23 (1.68%) Aruba
13 21 (1.54%) Dell
13 21 (1.54%) Juniper
14 18 (1.32%) Tenable
15 17 (1.25%) Zscaler
16 16 (1.17%) CyberArk
17 14 (1.03%) IBM