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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 126 90
Rank change year-on-year +9 -36 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 862 531 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 2.16% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.37% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 373 661
10th Percentile £356 £310 £286
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 35
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -27.66%
75th Percentile £78.75 £73.75 £60.59
90th Percentile £79.38 £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -25.05%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -15 245 £550 +4.76% 68
South East -8 165 £515 -6.36% 90
North of England -18 164 £487 -7.24% 82
South West +5 123 £550 -2.22% 35
Yorkshire -11 107 £475 -9.52% 23
Midlands -9 89 £450 +12.50% 44
East of England -9 57 £475 -10.38% 29
West Midlands -30 52 £500 +44.93% 33
North West -35 50 £525 - 40
East Midlands -9 37 £450 - 10
North East -23 7 £500 -23.08% 20
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 64 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.39%) Confluence
4 11 (1.28%) Apache
5 8 (0.93%) TPMS
6 6 (0.70%) IIS
7 4 (0.46%) CICS
7 4 (0.46%) SAS
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Maximo
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 274 (31.79%) Azure
2 132 (15.31%) AWS
3 91 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (8.58%) Entra ID
5 61 (7.08%) GCP
6 58 (6.73%) GitHub
7 46 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (5.34%) IaaS
8 40 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (4.64%) PaaS
9 33 (3.83%) OpenShift
9 33 (3.83%) Serverless
10 32 (3.71%) Azure AKS
11 30 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (3.25%) SaaS
13 23 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (2.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 22 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (2.32%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 116 (13.46%) Firewall
2 110 (12.76%) DNS
3 66 (7.66%) DHCP
4 61 (7.08%) VPN
5 45 (5.22%) Network Security
6 38 (4.41%) SAN
7 31 (3.60%) WAN
8 28 (3.25%) LAN
8 28 (3.25%) VLAN
9 27 (3.13%) TCP/IP
10 18 (2.09%) NAS
11 17 (1.97%) SSL
12 16 (1.86%) MPLS
13 13 (1.51%) Fibre Channel
13 13 (1.51%) iSCSI
14 12 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 11 (1.28%) SMTP
15 11 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.16%) BGP
16 10 (1.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.04%) DynamoDB
4 8 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.81%) Power BI
6 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.70%) Metadata
7 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.46%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.46%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.46%) DB2
9 3 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.35%) Pentaho
9 3 (0.35%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (3.83%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.60%) GitLab
3 28 (3.25%) Git
3 28 (3.25%) JIRA
4 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.12%) GoCD
6 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.12%) Introscope
6 1 (0.12%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.12%) MSI
6 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 140 (16.24%) Social Skills
2 88 (10.21%) Finance
3 73 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 52 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (4.76%) Banking
6 31 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.44%) Military
8 17 (1.97%) Legal
9 13 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.16%) Retail
12 9 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.81%) Billing
13 7 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.81%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Front Office
15 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.35%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 555 (64.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 117 (13.57%) Senior
3 82 (9.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 59 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
5 58 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 45 (5.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (4.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (4.64%) Network Engineer
8 37 (4.29%) VMware Engineer
9 33 (3.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (3.71%) Automation Engineer
10 32 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (3.60%) Architect
12 26 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (2.90%) IT Engineer
13 25 (2.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (2.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 22 (2.55%) Support Engineer
15 21 (2.44%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.44%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.90%) REST
2 16 (1.86%) SOAP
3 14 (1.62%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.04%) Web Services
5 8 (0.93%) Kafka
5 8 (0.93%) LDAP
5 8 (0.93%) OAuth
5 8 (0.93%) SAML
6 6 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.70%) OAuth2
6 6 (0.70%) OpenID
7 5 (0.58%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.58%) Middleware
8 4 (0.46%) ADO
8 4 (0.46%) Flash
8 4 (0.46%) JSON
8 4 (0.46%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.46%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (0.46%) RESTful
8 4 (0.46%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.10%) Data Centre
2 43 (4.99%) PKI
3 41 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (3.60%) Public Cloud
5 28 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 26 (3.02%) Enterprise Storage
6 26 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.02%) Private Cloud
6 26 (3.02%) Replication
7 21 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.51%) Clustering
10 11 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.93%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.81%) CCTV
12 7 (0.81%) DataPower
12 7 (0.81%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 258 (29.93%) Windows
2 155 (17.98%) Windows Server
3 141 (16.36%) Linux
4 23 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.86%) Apple iOS
8 15 (1.74%) VMS
8 15 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (1.62%) Android
9 14 (1.62%) Unix
10 12 (1.39%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.81%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.70%) CentOS
13 4 (0.46%) Debian
13 4 (0.46%) zOS
14 2 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (20.88%) DevOps
2 158 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 150 (17.40%) CI/CD
4 125 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (12.06%) Migration
6 88 (10.21%) Agile
7 77 (8.93%) Containerisation
7 77 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
8 70 (8.12%) Infrastructure Automation
9 66 (7.66%) High Availability
9 66 (7.66%) ITIL
10 65 (7.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 55 (6.38%) Project Delivery
12 52 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
13 51 (5.92%) Observability
14 44 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
15 43 (4.99%) Cloud Security
16 42 (4.87%) Zero Trust
17 37 (4.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 141 (16.36%) PowerShell
2 113 (13.11%) Python
3 55 (6.38%) Bash
4 36 (4.18%) SQL
5 31 (3.60%) Bicep
6 24 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 18 (2.09%) C#
8 14 (1.62%) Java
9 9 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.04%) PHP
10 7 (0.81%) Ruby
11 5 (0.58%) C++
12 4 (0.46%) Go
12 4 (0.46%) Groovy
12 4 (0.46%) JCL
13 2 (0.23%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 322 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 204 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 127 (14.73%) DV Cleared
4 37 (4.29%) Degree
5 28 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (2.09%) CISSP
9 15 (1.74%) CCNA
9 15 (1.74%) CISM
9 15 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.16%) CCNP
12 9 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.93%) FFIEC
14 7 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.71%) NIST
2 25 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.97%) GDPR
4 15 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.51%) QA
7 10 (1.16%) NCSC
7 10 (1.16%) SLA
8 8 (0.93%) GLBA
8 8 (0.93%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 168 (19.49%) Active Directory
2 164 (19.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 69 (8.00%) Docker
5 48 (5.57%) vSphere
6 43 (4.99%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
8 24 (2.78%) VMware NSX
9 20 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.74%) NFS
11 10 (1.16%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.93%) Firmware
13 7 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.46%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.35%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.23%) GPFS
16 2 (0.23%) Postfix
16 2 (0.23%) QEMU
16 2 (0.23%) SRDF
16 2 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 167 (19.37%) Terraform
2 146 (16.94%) Kubernetes
3 88 (10.21%) Ansible
4 68 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (4.87%) SCCM
6 36 (4.18%) vCenter Server
7 19 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.97%) Grafana
8 17 (1.97%) Puppet
9 15 (1.74%) Prometheus
10 14 (1.62%) SCOM
11 13 (1.51%) WSUS
12 11 (1.28%) Packer
13 10 (1.16%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.04%) Nessus
14 9 (1.04%) VxRail
15 8 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.93%) Argo
15 8 (0.93%) Istio
15 8 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 227 (26.33%) Microsoft
2 218 (25.29%) VMware
3 54 (6.26%) Cisco
4 49 (5.68%) Citrix
5 39 (4.52%) NetApp
6 33 (3.83%) Dell
6 33 (3.83%) Veeam
7 29 (3.36%) Google
7 29 (3.36%) Red Hat
7 29 (3.36%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.90%) Fortinet
9 20 (2.32%) F5
10 19 (2.20%) Splunk
11 18 (2.09%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.97%) IBM
12 17 (1.97%) SolarWinds
13 14 (1.62%) Oracle
14 12 (1.39%) Thales
15 10 (1.16%) EMC
16 8 (0.93%) Juniper