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

 6 months to
18 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 128 90
Rank change year-on-year -15 -38 +36
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 677 519 886
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 2.01% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.24% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 351 642
10th Percentile £315 £319 £300
25th Percentile £413 £398 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £589 £623 £608
90th Percentile £668 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 40
10th Percentile - £27.30 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £58.39 £29.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £63.14 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +36.73% -21.85%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.80 £112.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.25 £63.14 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.76% +36.73% -21.85%

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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -37 209 £550 +4.76% 85
North of England -14 128 £475 -9.52% 86
South East -5 126 £483 -3.50% 94
South West +10 103 £550 -4.35% 55
Yorkshire -3 75 £463 -11.90% 31
Midlands -38 54 £450 -5.26% 42
North West -27 46 £481 -8.38% 47
East of England -13 42 £475 +0.53% 30
West Midlands -41 32 £500 +5.26% 29
East Midlands -13 22 £450 -5.26% 13
North East -11 7 £500 +36.99% 9
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 (8.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.92%) Apache
4 11 (1.62%) Confluence
4 11 (1.62%) TPMS
5 10 (1.48%) IIS
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.59%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.30%) iPlanet
7 2 (0.30%) JBoss
7 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.30%) Traefik
7 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.18%) Maximo
2 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 228 (33.68%) Azure
2 125 (18.46%) AWS
3 97 (14.33%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 46 (6.79%) GCP
6 34 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (5.02%) GitHub
6 34 (5.02%) IaaS
7 31 (4.58%) OpenShift
7 31 (4.58%) PaaS
8 27 (3.99%) Serverless
9 25 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (2.95%) Azure AKS
12 20 (2.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 20 (2.95%) Nutanix
13 19 (2.81%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 118 (17.43%) Firewall
2 85 (12.56%) DNS
3 56 (8.27%) VPN
4 53 (7.83%) DHCP
5 44 (6.50%) TCP/IP
6 41 (6.06%) Network Security
7 39 (5.76%) WAN
8 35 (5.17%) VLAN
9 33 (4.87%) LAN
10 31 (4.58%) SAN
10 31 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (2.66%) SSL
12 17 (2.51%) MPLS
13 14 (2.07%) SSH
14 13 (1.92%) BGP
14 13 (1.92%) SNMP
15 10 (1.48%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (1.48%) NAS
16 9 (1.33%) 4G
17 8 (1.18%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.48%) MongoDB
2 10 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.89%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.89%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.74%) Big Data
5 5 (0.74%) Power BI
5 5 (0.74%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.59%) MySQL
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.30%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.28%) Jenkins
2 27 (3.99%) GitLab
3 20 (2.95%) Git
4 19 (2.81%) JIRA
5 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.15%) GoCD
8 1 (0.15%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.15%) MSI
General
1 134 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.29%) Finance
3 59 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 30 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
5 27 (3.99%) Banking
6 22 (3.25%) Military
7 17 (2.51%) Legal
8 13 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.33%) Billing
10 8 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.89%) Aviation
11 6 (0.89%) Local Government
11 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.89%) Spanish Language
12 5 (0.74%) Retail
13 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.44%) Front Office
15 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 426 (62.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 80 (11.82%) Senior
3 61 (9.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
4 48 (7.09%) Infrastructure Support
5 45 (6.65%) Support Engineer
6 41 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 37 (5.47%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (5.32%) Network Engineer
9 33 (4.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.14%) VMware Engineer
12 27 (3.99%) Security Engineer
13 24 (3.55%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 23 (3.40%) IT Engineer
14 23 (3.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (3.25%) Automation Engineer
16 21 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.81%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.36%) ARM Templates
1 16 (2.36%) SAML
2 14 (2.07%) OpenID
2 14 (2.07%) REST
3 11 (1.62%) OAuth
4 9 (1.33%) LDAP
4 9 (1.33%) OAuth2
5 8 (1.18%) Kafka
6 6 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (0.74%) Middleware
8 4 (0.59%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.59%) NumPy
8 4 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (0.59%) Pandas
8 4 (0.59%) SOAP
8 4 (0.59%) Web Services
8 4 (0.59%) YAML
9 3 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.44%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (4.73%) PKI
3 31 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 29 (4.28%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.55%) Replication
6 22 (3.25%) Private Cloud
6 22 (3.25%) Public Cloud
7 18 (2.66%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
11 11 (1.62%) Clustering
12 10 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.18%) NHS
14 7 (1.03%) Product Ownership
15 6 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.89%) Operational Technology
16 5 (0.74%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 235 (34.71%) Windows
2 141 (20.83%) Linux
3 128 (18.91%) Windows Server
4 26 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.81%) Windows 10
6 17 (2.51%) Unix
7 15 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.22%) VMS
8 13 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.89%) Android
11 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.59%) CentOS
12 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.30%) Debian
13 2 (0.30%) SUSE
13 2 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (19.79%) DevOps
2 118 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 118 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (16.54%) CI/CD
4 83 (12.26%) ITIL
5 73 (10.78%) Migration
6 71 (10.49%) Agile
7 65 (9.60%) Containerisation
8 63 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
9 59 (8.71%) Platform Engineering
10 58 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 52 (7.68%) High Availability
12 51 (7.53%) Observability
13 47 (6.94%) Infrastructure Automation
13 47 (6.94%) Project Delivery
14 39 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (5.61%) Cloud Security
16 35 (5.17%) Change Management
17 34 (5.02%) Analytics
17 34 (5.02%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 103 (15.21%) PowerShell
2 95 (14.03%) Python
3 44 (6.50%) Bash
4 26 (3.84%) Bicep
5 19 (2.81%) Shell Script
6 16 (2.36%) SQL
7 14 (2.07%) Java
8 8 (1.18%) Perl
8 8 (1.18%) PHP
9 7 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.89%) Go
10 6 (0.89%) Ruby
11 5 (0.74%) Groovy
12 4 (0.59%) C++
13 3 (0.44%) C#
14 2 (0.30%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.15%) VB
15 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 221 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 126 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 96 (14.18%) DV Cleared
4 44 (6.50%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (4.14%) Degree
7 23 (3.40%) CISSP
8 22 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.25%) CISM
9 16 (2.36%) AWS Certification
10 14 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (1.92%) CCNP
12 12 (1.77%) CCNA
12 12 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.77%) Server+ Certification
13 11 (1.62%) FFIEC
14 10 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.43%) NIST
2 22 (3.25%) GDPR
3 20 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.51%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.62%) GLBA
7 10 (1.48%) SLA
8 9 (1.33%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.15%) QA
11 1 (0.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 154 (22.75%) Active Directory
2 132 (19.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (10.19%) Docker
4 65 (9.60%) Hyper-V
5 36 (5.32%) vSphere
6 24 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.18%) NFS
9 8 (1.18%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.89%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.74%) Firmware
12 3 (0.44%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.30%) QEMU
13 2 (0.30%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.30%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 1 (0.15%) UAG
14 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 146 (21.57%) Terraform
2 108 (15.95%) Kubernetes
3 71 (10.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 68 (10.04%) Ansible
5 55 (8.12%) SCCM
6 28 (4.14%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (3.40%) vCenter Server
8 20 (2.95%) Grafana
9 15 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
10 14 (2.07%) Prometheus
11 12 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (1.77%) Istio
12 10 (1.48%) FortiGate
12 10 (1.48%) VxRail
13 8 (1.18%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (1.18%) SCOM
14 6 (0.89%) AirWatch
14 6 (0.89%) CASB
14 6 (0.89%) Packer
14 6 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 220 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 183 (27.03%) VMware
3 47 (6.94%) Cisco
4 37 (5.47%) Red Hat
5 36 (5.32%) Dell
6 33 (4.87%) ServiceNow
7 30 (4.43%) Google
8 29 (4.28%) Palo Alto
9 27 (3.99%) Fortinet
10 26 (3.84%) NetApp
10 26 (3.84%) Splunk
11 24 (3.55%) Veeam
12 23 (3.40%) Citrix
13 21 (3.10%) IBM
14 20 (2.95%) F5
15 16 (2.36%) Thales
16 15 (2.22%) SolarWinds
17 13 (1.92%) CyberArk
18 12 (1.77%) Oracle
19 10 (1.48%) Aruba
370 Infrastructure Engineering jobs in England