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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 148 93
Rank change year-on-year +57 -55 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,265 522 809
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.82% 1.90% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 2.09% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 336 609
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.79% -2.00%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £596
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £528 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 5 22
10th Percentile £50.00 £38.43 £48.98
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +12.00% -5.17%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.84% +10.00% -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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +57 375 £550 +3.19% 223
North of England +26 288 £525 - 95
South East +30 274 £538 -2.14% 132
South West +19 132 £550 -2.22% 60
Midlands +4 128 £475 +5.56% 62
Yorkshire +5 122 £490 -2.00% 33
North West +11 121 £550 +2.33% 48
West Midlands -15 84 £500 +17.65% 41
East of England +8 55 £500 +11.11% 41
North East -4 54 £600 -7.69% 15
East Midlands +13 42 £450 - 21
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 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.29%) Confluence
4 13 (1.03%) CICS
5 8 (0.63%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.47%) Apache
6 6 (0.47%) SAS
7 4 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.079%) JBoss
10 1 (0.079%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.079%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.079%) Houdini
5 1 (0.079%) NUKE
5 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Primavera
1 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.079%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 440 (34.78%) Azure
2 230 (18.18%) AWS
3 116 (9.17%) Entra ID
4 100 (7.91%) GitHub
5 99 (7.83%) GCP
6 97 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (5.14%) IaaS
10 54 (4.27%) OCI
11 43 (3.40%) SaaS
12 40 (3.16%) PaaS
13 38 (3.00%) Azure AKS
14 36 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (2.13%) Serverless
17 22 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
18 21 (1.66%) Amazon S3
18 21 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
19 19 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 201 (15.89%) DNS
2 189 (14.94%) Firewall
3 122 (9.64%) DHCP
4 72 (5.69%) VPN
5 65 (5.14%) Network Security
5 65 (5.14%) TCP/IP
6 59 (4.66%) SAN
7 58 (4.58%) WAN
8 57 (4.51%) VLAN
9 44 (3.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (2.69%) BIG-IP
11 33 (2.61%) SD-WAN
12 32 (2.53%) LAN
13 29 (2.29%) BGP
13 29 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
14 28 (2.21%) OSPF
15 27 (2.13%) VXLAN
16 26 (2.06%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (1.82%) SSL
18 21 (1.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.26%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (1.11%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 13 (1.03%) Power BI
5 12 (0.95%) RDBMS
6 9 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.71%) Metadata
7 8 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.47%) Db2
9 5 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.40%) Pentaho
10 4 (0.32%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 68 (5.38%) GitLab
2 51 (4.03%) JIRA
3 50 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 47 (3.72%) Git
5 8 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.16%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.079%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.079%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.079%) CMake
7 1 (0.079%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.079%) Gradle
7 1 (0.079%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.079%) Introscope
7 1 (0.079%) MLflow
7 1 (0.079%) MSI
7 1 (0.079%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.079%) Snyk
General
1 200 (15.81%) Social Skills
2 114 (9.01%) Finance
3 99 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 63 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.87%) Banking
6 45 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.90%) Military
8 20 (1.58%) Legal
9 18 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 16 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.26%) Retail
11 13 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.79%) Marketing
15 8 (0.63%) Law
16 5 (0.40%) Automotive
17 4 (0.32%) Advertising
17 4 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 841 (66.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 242 (19.13%) Senior
3 191 (15.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 127 (10.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 91 (7.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 89 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
7 63 (4.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 57 (4.51%) Network Engineer
9 50 (3.95%) Lead
10 42 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (3.24%) VMware Engineer
12 38 (3.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (2.92%) Architect
14 36 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
15 34 (2.69%) Infrastructure Support
16 33 (2.61%) IT Engineer
16 33 (2.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (2.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 32 (2.53%) Support Engineer
18 31 (2.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.29%) REST
2 19 (1.50%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.11%) SOAP
4 13 (1.03%) JSON
4 13 (1.03%) Middleware
5 12 (0.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 10 (0.79%) OAuth
6 10 (0.79%) YAML
7 9 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (0.71%) Loki
7 9 (0.71%) OpenID
8 8 (0.63%) SAML
9 7 (0.55%) Flash
9 7 (0.55%) Kafka
9 7 (0.55%) LDAP
9 7 (0.55%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.55%) Web Services
10 6 (0.47%) .NET
10 6 (0.47%) 802.1X
10 6 (0.47%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.67%) Data Centre
2 79 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 54 (4.27%) Public Cloud
5 51 (4.03%) PKI
6 42 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 37 (2.92%) Replication
8 33 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
9 23 (1.82%) Clustering
9 23 (1.82%) Private Cloud
10 21 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.11%) Mainframe
14 14 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.03%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 339 (26.80%) Windows
2 220 (17.39%) Linux
3 217 (17.15%) Windows Server
4 49 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.26%) CentOS
6 16 (1.26%) Unix
6 16 (1.26%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.11%) Android
9 13 (1.03%) AIX
9 13 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.03%) VMS
9 13 (1.03%) zOS
10 11 (0.87%) Rocky
11 7 (0.55%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.47%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (23.72%) Infrastructure as Code
2 247 (19.53%) DevOps
3 235 (18.58%) CI/CD
4 155 (12.25%) Migration
5 139 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
6 127 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
7 120 (9.49%) Agile
8 104 (8.22%) High Availability
9 102 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (7.51%) Infrastructure Automation
11 83 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 82 (6.48%) AI
12 82 (6.48%) Project Delivery
13 78 (6.17%) Containerisation
14 76 (6.01%) Observability
15 73 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 72 (5.69%) Validation
17 70 (5.53%) Zero Trust
18 67 (5.30%) ITIL
19 64 (5.06%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 216 (17.08%) PowerShell
2 209 (16.52%) Python
3 110 (8.70%) Bash
4 57 (4.51%) SQL
5 52 (4.11%) Bicep
6 25 (1.98%) Java
7 21 (1.66%) C#
8 20 (1.58%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.71%) ActionScript
9 9 (0.71%) Go
10 7 (0.55%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.47%) JCL
11 6 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.32%) Groovy
13 3 (0.24%) C++
13 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.24%) PHP
14 2 (0.16%) C
14 2 (0.16%) Perl
14 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 488 (38.58%) Security Cleared
2 319 (25.22%) SC Cleared
3 176 (13.91%) DV Cleared
4 53 (4.19%) Degree
5 38 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.50%) CCNA
10 18 (1.42%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.42%) CISSP
11 16 (1.26%) CCNP
12 14 (1.11%) MCSE
13 12 (0.95%) VCAP
14 11 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.71%) CISM
17 8 (0.63%) PMP
18 7 (0.55%) RHCA
19 6 (0.47%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (2.53%) QA
3 25 (1.98%) NIST
4 16 (1.26%) SLA
5 15 (1.19%) NCSC
6 12 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.55%) PMO
9 5 (0.40%) GRC
10 4 (0.32%) GDPR
10 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.079%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.079%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.079%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.079%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 229 (18.10%) Active Directory
2 223 (17.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (7.04%) Hyper-V
4 75 (5.93%) VMware ESXi
5 72 (5.69%) Docker
6 69 (5.45%) vSphere
7 55 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
8 42 (3.32%) VMware NSX
9 29 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.11%) NFS
11 12 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.71%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.71%) KVM
13 8 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.55%) Firmware
15 6 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.40%) GPFS
16 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.24%) Ceph
18 2 (0.16%) UAG
Systems Management
1 280 (22.13%) Terraform
2 172 (13.60%) Ansible
3 160 (12.65%) Kubernetes
4 66 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (3.87%) vCenter Server
6 37 (2.92%) SCCM
7 29 (2.29%) Grafana
8 25 (1.98%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.82%) Puppet
10 20 (1.58%) WSUS
11 18 (1.42%) Argo
12 17 (1.34%) NetBackup
13 15 (1.19%) Packer
14 14 (1.11%) Nessus
15 13 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
16 12 (0.95%) Data Guard
16 12 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
17 10 (0.79%) SCOM
18 9 (0.71%) vRealize
19 8 (0.63%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 305 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 289 (22.85%) VMware
3 72 (5.69%) Citrix
4 68 (5.38%) Cisco
5 53 (4.19%) F5
6 51 (4.03%) NetApp
7 45 (3.56%) Google
8 44 (3.48%) Oracle
9 41 (3.24%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.69%) Veeam
11 32 (2.53%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.98%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.82%) Dell
14 22 (1.74%) Arista
14 22 (1.74%) Aruba
15 19 (1.50%) Tenable
16 18 (1.42%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.42%) Juniper
16 18 (1.42%) Zscaler
17 14 (1.11%) CyberArk