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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 133 89
Rank change year-on-year -15 -44 +45
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 573 562 929
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 1.93% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.18% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 390 669
10th Percentile £304 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £711
UK median daily rate £494 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.95% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 40
10th Percentile £27.20 £29.09 £23.00
25th Percentile £29.50 £54.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +5.94% +6.30%
75th Percentile £77.13 £70.00 £72.05
90th Percentile £84.80 £103.60 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +4.17% +8.11%

All Process and 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 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -36 201 £550 - 61
South East -20 110 £450 - 89
North of England -20 92 £475 - 84
South West +12 81 £555 +0.91% 49
Yorkshire -17 49 £485 +2.00% 44
Midlands -26 42 £450 -16.28% 37
North West -28 40 £472 -5.70% 33
East of England +3 36 £425 -29.17% 25
West Midlands -26 32 £466 -28.85% 26
East Midlands -26 10 £433 -13.50% 11
North East -5 4 £466 - 10
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 43 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.09%) Confluence
4 9 (1.57%) Apache
5 7 (1.22%) IIS
6 6 (1.05%) TPMS
7 5 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.35%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.35%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) nginx
8 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.35%) Traefik
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.52%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 213 (37.17%) Azure
2 129 (22.51%) AWS
3 83 (14.49%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (10.99%) Entra ID
5 35 (6.11%) GitHub
6 33 (5.76%) GCP
7 29 (5.06%) Amazon S3
7 29 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (4.54%) IaaS
10 24 (4.19%) PaaS
11 23 (4.01%) OpenShift
11 23 (4.01%) Serverless
12 22 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (3.66%) SaaS
14 20 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 118 (20.59%) Firewall
2 86 (15.01%) DNS
3 60 (10.47%) TCP/IP
4 55 (9.60%) VPN
5 49 (8.55%) DHCP
6 42 (7.33%) WAN
7 35 (6.11%) VLAN
7 35 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
8 30 (5.24%) LAN
9 29 (5.06%) Network Security
9 29 (5.06%) SAN
9 29 (5.06%) SSL
10 13 (2.27%) Wireless
11 12 (2.09%) MPLS
12 11 (1.92%) NAS
12 11 (1.92%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.75%) 4G
13 10 (1.75%) BGP
14 9 (1.57%) iSCSI
15 8 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.87%) Oracle Database
4 5 (0.87%) Power BI
5 4 (0.70%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.70%) MySQL
6 3 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.52%) Big Data
6 3 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.52%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.35%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.35%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (5.93%) Jenkins
2 31 (5.41%) Git
3 27 (4.71%) GitLab
4 18 (3.14%) JIRA
5 5 (0.87%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.35%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) CMake
8 1 (0.17%) GoCD
8 1 (0.17%) Gradle
8 1 (0.17%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.17%) MLflow
8 1 (0.17%) MSI
8 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 136 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 83 (14.49%) Finance
3 60 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.06%) Banking
6 27 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.27%) Military
9 9 (1.57%) Local Government
9 9 (1.57%) Retail
10 7 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.22%) Legal
10 7 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.05%) Aviation
11 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.05%) Spanish Language
12 5 (0.87%) Front Office
13 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 360 (62.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 86 (15.01%) Senior
3 66 (11.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (7.85%) Infrastructure Support
5 39 (6.81%) Network Engineer
5 39 (6.81%) Support Engineer
6 38 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
6 38 (6.63%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 37 (6.46%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 34 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (5.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (4.36%) IT Engineer
10 25 (4.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (4.19%) VMware Engineer
12 21 (3.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.14%) Windows Engineer
14 17 (2.97%) Automation Engineer
14 17 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (2.97%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.62%) Middleware
1 15 (2.62%) REST
1 15 (2.62%) SAML
2 13 (2.27%) OpenID
3 10 (1.75%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.40%) Kafka
4 8 (1.40%) OAuth
5 7 (1.22%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.05%) OAuth2
6 6 (1.05%) YAML
7 5 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.87%) RESTful
8 4 (0.70%) gRPC
8 4 (0.70%) NumPy
8 4 (0.70%) Pandas
8 4 (0.70%) SOAP
8 4 (0.70%) Web Services
9 3 (0.52%) ADO
9 3 (0.52%) AWT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.46%) Data Centre
2 34 (5.93%) Replication
3 32 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (4.54%) PKI
5 21 (3.66%) Private Cloud
6 20 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.09%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.57%) Clustering
11 8 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.22%) NHS
12 7 (1.22%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.05%) Equities
13 6 (1.05%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 217 (37.87%) Windows
2 135 (23.56%) Linux
3 118 (20.59%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.19%) Unix
6 21 (3.66%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 13 (2.27%) VMS
9 9 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.22%) Android
12 6 (1.05%) CentOS
13 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.70%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.52%) SUSE
16 2 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.17%) AIX
17 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (20.07%) DevOps
1 115 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (18.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (17.10%) CI/CD
4 72 (12.57%) Migration
5 67 (11.69%) ITIL
6 57 (9.95%) Containerisation
6 57 (9.95%) High Availability
7 53 (9.25%) Agile
8 52 (9.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 51 (8.90%) Infrastructure Automation
10 42 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
11 41 (7.16%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (6.81%) Observability
13 33 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (5.06%) Change Management
15 28 (4.89%) Project Delivery
15 28 (4.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (4.71%) Task Automation
17 26 (4.54%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (20.59%) Python
2 102 (17.80%) PowerShell
3 58 (10.12%) Bash
4 26 (4.54%) Java
5 25 (4.36%) SQL
6 16 (2.79%) Bicep
6 16 (2.79%) Go
6 16 (2.79%) Shell Script
7 14 (2.44%) Perl
8 7 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.05%) C++
9 6 (1.05%) Ruby
10 5 (0.87%) PHP
11 4 (0.70%) C#
12 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 1 (0.17%) C
14 1 (0.17%) Scala
14 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 175 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 116 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.95%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.11%) Degree
6 33 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
9 17 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.27%) CCNA
10 13 (2.27%) CCNP
11 12 (2.09%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.09%) CISSP
11 12 (2.09%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (1.92%) CISM
13 9 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.05%) FFIEC
14 6 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.97%) GDPR
2 12 (2.09%) NIST
3 10 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.22%) SLA
6 6 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.05%) GLBA
7 5 (0.87%) QA
8 3 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.35%) COBIT
9 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 142 (24.78%) Active Directory
2 109 (19.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (10.99%) Docker
4 58 (10.12%) Hyper-V
5 24 (4.19%) vSphere
6 22 (3.84%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (1.92%) VMware NSX
9 8 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.05%) NFS
11 4 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.52%) Firmware
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.35%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.35%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 1 (0.17%) etcd
14 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 142 (24.78%) Terraform
2 84 (14.66%) Kubernetes
3 80 (13.96%) Ansible
4 57 (9.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 57 (9.95%) SCCM
5 23 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (3.84%) Grafana
7 20 (3.49%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.79%) Prometheus
9 15 (2.62%) FortiGate
10 14 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 12 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
13 7 (1.22%) CASB
13 7 (1.22%) SCOrch
13 7 (1.22%) vRealize
14 6 (1.05%) Nessus
15 5 (0.87%) Packer
15 5 (0.87%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.87%) SCOM
Vendors
1 189 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 153 (26.70%) VMware
3 38 (6.63%) Palo Alto
4 36 (6.28%) Cisco
5 34 (5.93%) Google
5 34 (5.93%) Red Hat
6 28 (4.89%) Dell
6 28 (4.89%) F5
7 20 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.49%) Splunk
8 19 (3.32%) IBM
8 19 (3.32%) Veeam
9 18 (3.14%) Citrix
10 16 (2.79%) CheckPoint
10 16 (2.79%) Fortinet
11 14 (2.44%) Oracle
11 14 (2.44%) Zscaler
12 12 (2.09%) Aruba
13 11 (1.92%) HP
14 10 (1.75%) NetApp