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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 164 127
Rank change year-on-year +74 -37 -35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,451 505 637
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 1.79% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 1.97% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 337 447
10th Percentile £363 £300 £329
25th Percentile £450 £381 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £608
90th Percentile £691 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 10 16
10th Percentile £25.67 £25.70 £57.01
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £67.50
Median hourly rate £70.95 £32.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.70% -54.29% -
75th Percentile £92.11 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £40.16 £91.00
UK median hourly rate £70.95 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +121.70% -54.29% -

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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +48 438 £550 +2.61% 72
North of England +68 332 £533 +6.50% 100
South East +19 289 £570 +26.56% 106
North West +47 165 £550 +16.53% 60
South West +36 151 £575 +3.60% 49
Midlands +31 139 £475 +3.83% 44
Yorkshire +22 112 £500 - 28
West Midlands +15 102 £488 +8.33% 29
East of England +28 86 £513 +28.13% 21
North East +13 65 £600 -7.69% 14
East Midlands +16 35 £456 -1.88% 15
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 56 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.62%) Confluence
4 12 (0.83%) Apache
4 12 (0.83%) CICS
5 7 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.48%) SAS
5 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.41%) nginx
7 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.28%) CMS
9 3 (0.21%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.069%) JBoss
11 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) MicroStation
6 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.069%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.069%) Houdini
7 1 (0.069%) NUKE
7 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.21%) Primavera
3 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.069%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 496 (34.18%) Azure
2 248 (17.09%) AWS
3 176 (12.13%) Entra ID
4 132 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (7.10%) GCP
6 96 (6.62%) GitHub
7 85 (5.86%) IaaS
8 70 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (4.69%) OCI
10 60 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (2.48%) SaaS
13 35 (2.41%) OpenShift
14 32 (2.21%) PaaS
15 30 (2.07%) Azure AKS
16 29 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
17 28 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
18 27 (1.86%) Power Platform
19 23 (1.59%) Amazon S3
20 22 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 238 (16.40%) DNS
2 233 (16.06%) Firewall
3 141 (9.72%) DHCP
4 95 (6.55%) VPN
5 91 (6.27%) Network Security
6 89 (6.13%) TCP/IP
7 64 (4.41%) WAN
8 63 (4.34%) SAN
9 57 (3.93%) VLAN
10 48 (3.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 44 (3.03%) BIG-IP
12 42 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
13 39 (2.69%) LAN
14 35 (2.41%) SD-WAN
15 34 (2.34%) BGP
16 31 (2.14%) SSL
17 28 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 28 (1.93%) OSPF
18 27 (1.86%) VXLAN
19 26 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.65%) Oracle Database
3 22 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
4 21 (1.45%) Power BI
5 20 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 19 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 15 (1.03%) RDBMS
8 12 (0.83%) Metadata
9 11 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.48%) Pentaho
13 6 (0.41%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.28%) Big Data
15 4 (0.28%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (5.24%) GitLab
2 65 (4.48%) JIRA
3 61 (4.20%) Git
4 59 (4.07%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 6 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.28%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.21%) JUnit
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.14%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.14%) MLflow
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.069%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.069%) Vagrant
General
1 261 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 167 (11.51%) Finance
3 106 (7.31%) Public Sector
4 95 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (3.86%) Banking
6 55 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 15 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.03%) Military
9 15 (1.03%) Retail
10 13 (0.90%) Legal
10 13 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 12 (0.83%) Automotive
11 12 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (0.76%) Law
13 10 (0.69%) Marketing
14 7 (0.48%) Billing
14 7 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 887 (61.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 281 (19.37%) Senior
3 223 (15.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 157 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 119 (8.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 103 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
7 74 (5.10%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 74 (5.10%) Lead
8 67 (4.62%) Network Engineer
9 62 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 56 (3.86%) Architect
11 53 (3.65%) Security Engineer
12 46 (3.17%) VMware Engineer
13 44 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (2.62%) Test Engineer
15 36 (2.48%) Support Engineer
16 33 (2.27%) Infrastructure Support
16 33 (2.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.07%) IT Engineer
17 30 (2.07%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (22.33%) Terraform
2 35 (2.41%) ARM Templates
3 32 (2.21%) REST
4 22 (1.52%) Kafka
5 15 (1.03%) YAML
6 14 (0.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (0.90%) Middleware
8 12 (0.83%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.83%) JSON
8 12 (0.83%) LDAP
9 11 (0.76%) .NET
9 11 (0.76%) Loki
9 11 (0.76%) OAuth
9 11 (0.76%) OpenID
9 11 (0.76%) SAML
10 10 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (0.69%) Web Services
11 9 (0.62%) SOAP
12 8 (0.55%) ModSecurity
13 5 (0.34%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 159 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 105 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 74 (5.10%) Cloud Native
4 61 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.14%) PKI
6 54 (3.72%) Public Cloud
7 43 (2.96%) Replication
8 32 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 31 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
10 29 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
10 29 (2.00%) Private Cloud
11 28 (1.93%) Security Posture
12 27 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
12 27 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
13 22 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.45%) Clustering
14 21 (1.45%) Product Ownership
15 19 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 15 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 373 (25.71%) Windows
2 288 (19.85%) Linux
3 254 (17.51%) Windows Server
4 61 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.59%) Unix
6 20 (1.38%) VMS
6 20 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.31%) CentOS
7 19 (1.31%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.96%) AIX
8 14 (0.96%) Rocky
9 12 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.83%) zOS
10 11 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.55%) Android
11 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.41%) macOS
14 5 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 306 (21.09%) CI/CD
3 296 (20.40%) DevOps
4 198 (13.65%) Migration
5 179 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
6 173 (11.92%) Platform Engineering
7 153 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 151 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 142 (9.79%) Agile
10 122 (8.41%) Infrastructure Automation
11 120 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
12 119 (8.20%) Observability
13 114 (7.86%) Disaster Recovery
14 110 (7.58%) ITIL
15 101 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
16 100 (6.89%) AI
17 99 (6.82%) High Availability
18 96 (6.62%) Project Delivery
19 88 (6.06%) Configuration Management
20 85 (5.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 261 (17.99%) PowerShell
2 251 (17.30%) Python
3 126 (8.68%) Bash
4 72 (4.96%) SQL
5 64 (4.41%) Bicep
6 37 (2.55%) Java
7 19 (1.31%) C#
8 16 (1.10%) ActionScript
8 16 (1.10%) Go
9 13 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.69%) C++
11 9 (0.62%) Perl
12 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.34%) C
14 5 (0.34%) JavaScript
14 5 (0.34%) JCL
15 2 (0.14%) COBOL
15 2 (0.14%) Korn
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 551 (37.97%) Security Cleared
2 332 (22.88%) SC Cleared
3 211 (14.54%) DV Cleared
4 64 (4.41%) Degree
5 44 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.59%) CISSP
9 22 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 21 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.24%) CCNP
12 16 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.10%) CCNA
13 14 (0.96%) VCAP
14 12 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.76%) MCSE
15 11 (0.76%) PMP
16 10 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.72%) QA
2 37 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (1.65%) NIST
4 19 (1.31%) SLA
5 18 (1.24%) NCSC
6 14 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.69%) PMO
9 9 (0.62%) GRC
10 8 (0.55%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) GDPR
13 2 (0.14%) IASME
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.069%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 272 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 269 (18.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (7.17%) Hyper-V
4 83 (5.72%) vSphere
5 81 (5.58%) Docker
6 74 (5.10%) VMware ESXi
7 69 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (2.27%) VMware NSX
9 28 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
12 12 (0.83%) Firmware
13 11 (0.76%) KVM
13 11 (0.76%) NFS
14 6 (0.41%) oVirt
15 5 (0.34%) Ceph
15 5 (0.34%) GPFS
15 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 203 (13.99%) Ansible
2 188 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (3.72%) SCCM
5 40 (2.76%) Grafana
5 40 (2.76%) vCenter Server
6 32 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.45%) Puppet
8 19 (1.31%) Nessus
9 17 (1.17%) Argo
9 17 (1.17%) NetBackup
9 17 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.10%) Progress Chef
11 15 (1.03%) Data Guard
11 15 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
11 15 (1.03%) WSUS
12 13 (0.90%) VxRail
13 12 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.83%) SCOM
14 10 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 376 (25.91%) Microsoft
2 337 (23.23%) VMware
3 81 (5.58%) Cisco
4 63 (4.34%) Oracle
5 62 (4.27%) F5
6 52 (3.58%) Citrix
7 48 (3.31%) NetApp
8 47 (3.24%) Google
8 47 (3.24%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.96%) Palo Alto
10 42 (2.89%) Veeam
11 29 (2.00%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.72%) Dell
13 23 (1.59%) Arista
13 23 (1.59%) Aruba
14 22 (1.52%) Tenable
15 19 (1.31%) Commvault
15 19 (1.31%) CyberArk
16 17 (1.17%) IBM
16 17 (1.17%) Juniper