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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 122 95
Rank change year-on-year -8 -27 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 753 549 884
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.05% 2.22% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.45% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 372 639
10th Percentile £325 £329 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £613 £606
90th Percentile £667 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £503 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.19% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 38
10th Percentile - £29.56 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.38 £36.90
Median hourly rate £47.00 £63.79 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +38.12% -16.79%
75th Percentile £74.26 £112.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.80 £182.40 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £63.79 £46.18
% change year-on-year -23.96% +38.12% -20.41%

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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
10th Percentile £313 £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 £614 £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 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -34 232 £550 +0.92% 80
North of England -28 146 £480 -8.57% 82
South East -2 144 £500 -4.76% 77
South West +12 120 £545 -5.22% 54
Yorkshire -12 89 £450 -14.29% 37
Midlands -37 54 £450 +5.88% 32
North West -31 50 £525 +0.02% 37
East of England -19 42 £450 -18.18% 19
West Midlands -57 28 £487 +18.06% 24
East Midlands -17 26 £450 - 8
North East -15 7 £500 +36.99% 8
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 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.26%) Confluence
2 17 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.59%) Apache
4 10 (1.33%) TPMS
5 8 (1.06%) IIS
6 4 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.40%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.27%) CICS
8 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Maximo
2 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 249 (33.07%) Azure
2 121 (16.07%) AWS
3 97 (12.88%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (9.69%) Entra ID
5 51 (6.77%) GCP
6 48 (6.37%) GitHub
7 42 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (4.91%) IaaS
8 37 (4.91%) PaaS
9 33 (4.38%) Serverless
10 30 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
11 29 (3.85%) OpenShift
12 23 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.05%) Azure AKS
13 22 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (2.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 20 (2.66%) Nutanix
16 18 (2.39%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 125 (16.60%) Firewall
2 88 (11.69%) DNS
3 58 (7.70%) VPN
4 53 (7.04%) DHCP
5 39 (5.18%) WAN
6 38 (5.05%) Network Security
7 34 (4.52%) TCP/IP
8 32 (4.25%) LAN
9 30 (3.98%) SAN
10 29 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (3.59%) VLAN
12 17 (2.26%) MPLS
12 17 (2.26%) SSL
13 13 (1.73%) SSH
14 12 (1.59%) BGP
14 12 (1.59%) SNMP
15 11 (1.46%) NAS
16 10 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
16 10 (1.33%) iSCSI
17 9 (1.20%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 8 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.66%) Big Data
7 5 (0.66%) MySQL
7 5 (0.66%) Power BI
7 5 (0.66%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.27%) DB2
9 2 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 29 (3.85%) GitLab
2 29 (3.85%) JIRA
3 24 (3.19%) Git
4 6 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.13%) GoCD
6 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.13%) Introscope
6 1 (0.13%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.13%) MLflow
6 1 (0.13%) MSI
6 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 143 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 91 (12.08%) Finance
3 66 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 57 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.05%) Banking
6 34 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.66%) Military
8 19 (2.52%) Legal
9 13 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.06%) Billing
11 7 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.80%) Aviation
12 6 (0.80%) Retail
12 6 (0.80%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 468 (62.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (12.75%) Senior
3 73 (9.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 57 (7.57%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (5.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 42 (5.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (4.78%) Network Engineer
8 35 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support
9 34 (4.52%) Support Engineer
10 33 (4.38%) VMware Engineer
11 31 (4.12%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
13 29 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 27 (3.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.19%) Architect
16 24 (3.19%) Security Engineer
17 23 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
18 22 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
19 21 (2.79%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.32%) REST
2 16 (2.12%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.86%) SAML
3 14 (1.86%) SOAP
4 12 (1.59%) OpenID
5 11 (1.46%) OAuth
6 9 (1.20%) Kafka
6 9 (1.20%) OAuth2
7 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.93%) LDAP
7 7 (0.93%) Web Services
8 6 (0.80%) Middleware
9 5 (0.66%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.53%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.53%) NumPy
10 4 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.53%) Pandas
11 3 (0.40%) SciPy
11 3 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.31%) Data Centre
1 40 (5.31%) PKI
2 35 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.59%) Public Cloud
5 25 (3.32%) Replication
6 22 (2.92%) Private Cloud
7 21 (2.79%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.39%) Enterprise Storage
9 17 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.99%) Clustering
11 12 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.93%) Product Ownership
14 6 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.80%) DataPower
14 6 (0.80%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.80%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.66%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 239 (31.74%) Windows
2 135 (17.93%) Windows Server
3 133 (17.66%) Linux
4 28 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.39%) Unix
6 17 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.12%) Windows 10
8 15 (1.99%) VMS
9 14 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.80%) CentOS
11 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.53%) Android
12 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.27%) Debian
14 2 (0.27%) SUSE
14 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (19.65%) DevOps
2 133 (17.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 125 (16.60%) CI/CD
4 112 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (12.08%) Migration
6 82 (10.89%) Agile
7 71 (9.43%) Containerisation
8 68 (9.03%) ITIL
9 66 (8.76%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (8.63%) High Availability
11 62 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
12 60 (7.97%) Disaster Recovery
13 57 (7.57%) Infrastructure Automation
14 53 (7.04%) Project Delivery
15 51 (6.77%) Observability
16 44 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (5.58%) Cloud Security
18 37 (4.91%) Change Management
18 37 (4.91%) RBAC
19 34 (4.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 130 (17.26%) PowerShell
2 122 (16.20%) Python
3 58 (7.70%) Bash
4 31 (4.12%) SQL
5 25 (3.32%) Bicep
6 23 (3.05%) Shell Script
7 12 (1.59%) Java
8 11 (1.46%) C#
9 9 (1.20%) PHP
10 8 (1.06%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.93%) Ruby
12 6 (0.80%) Perl
13 4 (0.53%) C++
13 4 (0.53%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) Groovy
15 2 (0.27%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.27%) JCL
15 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 260 (34.53%) Security Cleared
2 154 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 104 (13.81%) DV Cleared
4 38 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 32 (4.25%) Degree
6 27 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.05%) CISSP
8 21 (2.79%) CISM
9 18 (2.39%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.12%) CCNP
11 15 (1.99%) CCNA
12 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.33%) FFIEC
14 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.80%) PMI Certification
17 5 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.98%) NIST
2 24 (3.19%) GDPR
2 24 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.26%) PCI DSS
4 14 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.46%) SLA
6 10 (1.33%) GLBA
7 8 (1.06%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.66%) QA
9 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.40%) NCSC
11 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 167 (22.18%) Active Directory
2 148 (19.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (8.90%) Docker
4 60 (7.97%) Hyper-V
5 42 (5.58%) vSphere
6 36 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.86%) VMware NSX
10 9 (1.20%) NFS
11 8 (1.06%) BitLocker
12 6 (0.80%) Firmware
12 6 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.40%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.27%) QEMU
14 2 (0.27%) SRDF
15 1 (0.13%) Postfix
15 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 153 (20.32%) Terraform
2 125 (16.60%) Kubernetes
3 82 (10.89%) Ansible
4 68 (9.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (6.91%) SCCM
6 32 (4.25%) vCenter Server
7 29 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.66%) Grafana
9 16 (2.12%) Prometheus
9 16 (2.12%) Puppet
10 11 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.33%) Istio
11 10 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (1.33%) VxRail
12 9 (1.20%) SCOM
13 8 (1.06%) FortiGate
13 8 (1.06%) Packer
14 7 (0.93%) Dell DRAC
14 7 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 230 (30.54%) Microsoft
2 192 (25.50%) VMware
3 44 (5.84%) Cisco
4 36 (4.78%) Citrix
4 36 (4.78%) Red Hat
4 36 (4.78%) ServiceNow
5 34 (4.52%) Dell
6 31 (4.12%) Google
6 31 (4.12%) NetApp
7 29 (3.85%) Fortinet
8 27 (3.59%) Veeam
9 23 (3.05%) Splunk
10 20 (2.66%) Palo Alto
11 18 (2.39%) IBM
12 16 (2.12%) Thales
13 15 (1.99%) F5
14 14 (1.86%) SolarWinds
15 13 (1.73%) Oracle
16 12 (1.59%) Aruba
17 11 (1.46%) CyberArk
323 Infrastructure Engineering jobs in England