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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 153 96
Rank change year-on-year +63 -57 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,303 524 783
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.86% 1.90% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.09% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 336 586
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +4.90% -2.34%
75th Percentile £610 £601 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £666
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 7 22
10th Percentile £47.20 £27.80 £48.98
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.50 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £54.88 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.19% -20.18% -5.17%
75th Percentile £78.75 £141.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.15 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £54.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.19% -21.61% -3.45%

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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +56 399 £550 +2.61% 356
North of England +34 288 £525 - 107
South East +32 281 £545 -0.97% 150
South West +14 132 £550 -2.22% 90
Midlands +9 132 £475 +11.76% 58
Yorkshire +4 125 £462 -7.60% 29
North West +17 120 £562 +2.23% 62
West Midlands -7 91 £525 +27.27% 39
East of England +10 59 £510 +13.33% 54
North East 0 53 £600 -7.69% 18
East Midlands +19 39 £450 - 19
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 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.38%) Confluence
4 13 (1.00%) CICS
5 8 (0.61%) Apache
5 8 (0.61%) SAS
5 8 (0.61%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.23%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.077%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.077%) JBoss
9 1 (0.077%) nginx
9 1 (0.077%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.077%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.077%) Houdini
4 1 (0.077%) NUKE
4 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.23%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.077%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 457 (35.07%) Azure
2 239 (18.34%) AWS
3 124 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 105 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (7.90%) GitHub
6 101 (7.75%) GCP
7 72 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.37%) IaaS
9 69 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
10 62 (4.76%) OCI
11 44 (3.38%) SaaS
12 41 (3.15%) PaaS
13 36 (2.76%) Azure AKS
13 36 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
14 28 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (2.15%) Serverless
15 24 (1.84%) Amazon S3
16 23 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
17 20 (1.53%) OpenShift
17 20 (1.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 211 (16.19%) DNS
2 196 (15.04%) Firewall
3 130 (9.98%) DHCP
4 77 (5.91%) VPN
5 69 (5.30%) TCP/IP
6 67 (5.14%) Network Security
7 60 (4.60%) SAN
8 59 (4.53%) WAN
9 58 (4.45%) VLAN
10 42 (3.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 33 (2.53%) BIG-IP
11 33 (2.53%) LAN
11 33 (2.53%) SD-WAN
12 30 (2.30%) BGP
12 30 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (2.15%) OSPF
14 27 (2.07%) SSL
14 27 (2.07%) VXLAN
15 26 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
16 22 (1.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.53%) Oracle Exadata
3 16 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.15%) Power BI
5 14 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.00%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.92%) Metadata
7 12 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.54%) Pentaho
11 6 (0.46%) Db2
12 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.31%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 67 (5.14%) GitLab
2 52 (3.99%) Git
3 51 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 50 (3.84%) JIRA
5 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.23%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.077%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.077%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.077%) CMake
8 1 (0.077%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.077%) Gradle
8 1 (0.077%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.077%) Introscope
8 1 (0.077%) Maven
8 1 (0.077%) MSI
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.077%) Robot Framework
General
1 215 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 112 (8.60%) Finance
3 102 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 69 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (3.68%) Banking
7 19 (1.46%) Military
7 19 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.30%) Aerospace
8 17 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.30%) Retail
9 16 (1.23%) Legal
10 15 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 12 (0.92%) Law
13 11 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.77%) Marketing
15 7 (0.54%) Automotive
16 5 (0.38%) Billing
16 5 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 861 (66.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 255 (19.57%) Senior
3 200 (15.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 132 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 96 (7.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 94 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (5.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 59 (4.53%) Network Engineer
9 53 (4.07%) Lead
10 48 (3.68%) VMware Engineer
11 44 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 41 (3.15%) Architect
13 39 (2.99%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (2.61%) Infrastructure Support
15 34 (2.61%) IT Engineer
15 34 (2.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 33 (2.53%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 32 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.23%) REST
2 22 (1.69%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.07%) SOAP
4 13 (1.00%) JSON
4 13 (1.00%) Middleware
4 13 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 11 (0.84%) YAML
6 10 (0.77%) Loki
6 10 (0.77%) OpenID
6 10 (0.77%) SAML
7 9 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (0.69%) OAuth
8 8 (0.61%) LDAP
9 7 (0.54%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.54%) Flash
9 7 (0.54%) Kafka
9 7 (0.54%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.54%) Web Services
10 6 (0.46%) RESTful
10 6 (0.46%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 136 (10.44%) Data Centre
2 84 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 51 (3.91%) PKI
5 50 (3.84%) Public Cloud
6 39 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.99%) Replication
7 34 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
8 26 (2.00%) Clustering
9 24 (1.84%) Private Cloud
10 23 (1.77%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.07%) Mainframe
14 14 (1.07%) Security Posture
14 14 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 351 (26.94%) Windows
2 234 (17.96%) Linux
3 227 (17.42%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.38%) Unix
7 17 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.23%) CentOS
9 15 (1.15%) Android
9 15 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (1.07%) AIX
10 14 (1.07%) VMS
11 13 (1.00%) zOS
12 11 (0.84%) Rocky
13 8 (0.61%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 259 (19.88%) DevOps
3 245 (18.80%) CI/CD
4 170 (13.05%) Migration
5 148 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (10.36%) Platform Engineering
7 123 (9.44%) Agile
8 110 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 108 (8.29%) High Availability
10 102 (7.83%) Infrastructure Automation
11 92 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 89 (6.83%) AI
13 84 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 83 (6.37%) Project Delivery
15 80 (6.14%) Observability
16 77 (5.91%) Containerisation
17 73 (5.60%) Validation
18 72 (5.53%) ITIL
18 72 (5.53%) Zero Trust
19 70 (5.37%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 228 (17.50%) PowerShell
2 217 (16.65%) Python
3 117 (8.98%) Bash
4 59 (4.53%) SQL
5 53 (4.07%) Bicep
6 27 (2.07%) Java
7 21 (1.61%) C#
8 20 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.69%) Go
10 8 (0.61%) ActionScript
11 7 (0.54%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.46%) JCL
12 6 (0.46%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.31%) C++
13 4 (0.31%) Perl
14 3 (0.23%) C
14 3 (0.23%) Groovy
14 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 506 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 336 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 173 (13.28%) DV Cleared
4 54 (4.14%) Degree
5 43 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.53%) CCNA
10 18 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.30%) CCNP
11 17 (1.30%) CISSP
12 13 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.00%) MCSE
12 13 (1.00%) VCAP
13 9 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.61%) CISM
15 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.54%) MCSA
15 7 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (2.53%) QA
3 23 (1.77%) NIST
4 16 (1.23%) SLA
5 15 (1.15%) NCSC
6 14 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.54%) PMO
9 6 (0.46%) GRC
9 6 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.31%) GDPR
10 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.15%) IASME
11 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.077%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.077%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 239 (18.34%) Active Directory
2 237 (18.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (7.60%) Hyper-V
4 76 (5.83%) VMware ESXi
5 73 (5.60%) Docker
6 71 (5.45%) vSphere
7 57 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (3.38%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.07%) NFS
11 13 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.69%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.69%) Firmware
12 9 (0.69%) KVM
13 8 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.38%) GPFS
14 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.31%) Ceph
16 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 285 (21.87%) Terraform
2 183 (14.04%) Ansible
3 163 (12.51%) Kubernetes
4 68 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (3.91%) vCenter Server
6 38 (2.92%) SCCM
7 29 (2.23%) Grafana
8 25 (1.92%) Puppet
9 24 (1.84%) Prometheus
10 21 (1.61%) WSUS
11 19 (1.46%) Argo
11 19 (1.46%) NetBackup
12 15 (1.15%) Packer
13 14 (1.07%) Nessus
13 14 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (1.00%) Data Guard
14 13 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
15 11 (0.84%) SCOM
16 10 (0.77%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 321 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 303 (23.25%) VMware
3 74 (5.68%) Citrix
4 71 (5.45%) Cisco
5 53 (4.07%) Oracle
6 50 (3.84%) F5
7 46 (3.53%) NetApp
8 45 (3.45%) Google
9 36 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.61%) Palo Alto
11 33 (2.53%) Veeam
12 28 (2.15%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.77%) Aruba
13 23 (1.77%) Dell
14 22 (1.69%) Arista
15 20 (1.53%) Tenable
16 19 (1.46%) Juniper
17 18 (1.38%) Zscaler
18 15 (1.15%) CyberArk
19 13 (1.00%) SolarWinds