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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 150 105
Rank change year-on-year +64 -45 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,367 517 752
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 1.86% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.05% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 337 557
10th Percentile £350 £327 £313
25th Percentile £434 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £622 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £659 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +5.37% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 7 20
10th Percentile £48.70 £27.80 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.23% -56.36% -5.17%
75th Percentile £79.33 £70.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £129.80 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +58 422 £550 +2.61% 330
North of England +53 309 £522 +2.35% 130
South East +28 279 £550 +13.99% 129
North West +40 147 £525 -8.70% 69
South West +27 143 £550 -0.90% 73
Midlands +26 140 £475 +5.56% 49
Yorkshire +13 118 £500 - 39
West Midlands +13 100 £525 +16.67% 27
East of England +13 63 £510 +20.00% 65
North East +4 54 £600 -7.69% 23
East Midlands +14 38 £450 - 22
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 58 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.90%) Confluence
4 11 (0.80%) Apache
4 11 (0.80%) CICS
5 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.51%) SAS
7 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.29%) nginx
8 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.073%) CMS
11 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.073%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.073%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.073%) Houdini
7 1 (0.073%) NUKE
7 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 469 (34.31%) Azure
2 249 (18.22%) AWS
3 126 (9.22%) Entra ID
4 118 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (7.32%) GCP
6 95 (6.95%) GitHub
7 74 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (5.05%) IaaS
9 68 (4.97%) OCI
10 65 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.29%) SaaS
12 39 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (2.56%) PaaS
14 32 (2.34%) Azure AKS
15 26 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
16 23 (1.68%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.61%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.61%) OpenShift
17 22 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 224 (16.39%) DNS
2 210 (15.36%) Firewall
3 141 (10.31%) DHCP
4 87 (6.36%) VPN
5 78 (5.71%) TCP/IP
6 74 (5.41%) Network Security
7 65 (4.75%) WAN
8 62 (4.54%) SAN
8 62 (4.54%) VLAN
9 44 (3.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 38 (2.78%) LAN
11 36 (2.63%) SD-WAN
12 34 (2.49%) BIG-IP
12 34 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (2.41%) BGP
14 28 (2.05%) OSPF
14 28 (2.05%) SSL
15 27 (1.98%) VXLAN
16 26 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
17 21 (1.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.39%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
3 19 (1.39%) Oracle Database
4 17 (1.24%) Power BI
5 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.02%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.80%) Metadata
8 11 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.66%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.51%) Pentaho
13 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (4.97%) GitLab
2 53 (3.88%) Git
3 44 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.00%) JIRA
5 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.073%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.073%) CMake
8 1 (0.073%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.073%) Gradle
8 1 (0.073%) Introscope
8 1 (0.073%) Maven
8 1 (0.073%) MSI
8 1 (0.073%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.073%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.073%) Vagrant
General
1 232 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 124 (9.07%) Finance
3 103 (7.53%) Public Sector
4 81 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 50 (3.66%) Banking
7 22 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 19 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 19 (1.39%) Military
10 18 (1.32%) Retail
11 16 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.95%) Law
13 13 (0.95%) Legal
14 10 (0.73%) Automotive
14 10 (0.73%) Marketing
14 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.37%) Aviation
15 5 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 890 (65.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 271 (19.82%) Senior
3 215 (15.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 143 (10.46%) Cloud Engineer
5 103 (7.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 95 (6.95%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (4.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 67 (4.90%) Network Engineer
9 64 (4.68%) Lead
10 52 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 52 (3.80%) VMware Engineer
11 50 (3.66%) Architect
12 43 (3.15%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (2.63%) IT Engineer
14 36 (2.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.56%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.49%) Infrastructure Support
16 34 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (2.34%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (21.07%) Terraform
2 26 (1.90%) ARM Templates
3 23 (1.68%) REST
4 16 (1.17%) YAML
5 14 (1.02%) Kafka
5 14 (1.02%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 11 (0.80%) 802.1X
6 11 (0.80%) JSON
6 11 (0.80%) Middleware
6 11 (0.80%) OpenID
6 11 (0.80%) SAML
7 10 (0.73%) Loki
7 10 (0.73%) OAuth
8 9 (0.66%) SOAP
9 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.51%) LDAP
11 6 (0.44%) .NET
12 5 (0.37%) ADO
12 5 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.95%) Data Centre
2 95 (6.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (4.61%) Cloud Native
4 59 (4.32%) PKI
5 45 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.29%) Public Cloud
6 42 (3.07%) Replication
7 36 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
8 32 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 29 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.76%) Clustering
10 24 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
12 20 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.02%) Security Posture
15 12 (0.88%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.88%) Product Ownership
15 12 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 374 (27.36%) Windows
2 253 (18.51%) Linux
3 251 (18.36%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.54%) Unix
6 20 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.39%) CentOS
7 19 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 18 (1.32%) Windows 10
9 17 (1.24%) Apple iOS
10 16 (1.17%) Android
10 16 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (1.10%) AIX
11 15 (1.10%) VMS
12 12 (0.88%) Rocky
13 11 (0.80%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.80%) zOS
14 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (23.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 273 (19.97%) DevOps
3 258 (18.87%) CI/CD
4 179 (13.09%) Migration
5 160 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
6 151 (11.05%) Platform Engineering
7 119 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 112 (8.19%) Agile
8 112 (8.19%) Infrastructure Automation
9 107 (7.83%) High Availability
10 105 (7.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 99 (7.24%) AI
11 99 (7.24%) Disaster Recovery
12 96 (7.02%) Observability
13 92 (6.73%) Technical Leadership
14 88 (6.44%) ITIL
15 85 (6.22%) Project Delivery
16 83 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
17 77 (5.63%) Validation
18 76 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 243 (17.78%) PowerShell
2 228 (16.68%) Python
3 119 (8.71%) Bash
4 61 (4.46%) SQL
5 57 (4.17%) Bicep
6 29 (2.12%) Java
7 18 (1.32%) C#
8 12 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.73%) Go
10 9 (0.66%) C++
11 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
11 8 (0.59%) Perl
12 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.44%) C
14 5 (0.37%) JavaScript
15 4 (0.29%) JCL
15 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.22%) PHP
17 2 (0.15%) Groovy
17 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 530 (38.77%) Security Cleared
2 337 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 192 (14.05%) DV Cleared
4 57 (4.17%) Degree
5 42 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 21 (1.54%) CISSP
10 19 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.39%) CCNA
11 18 (1.32%) CCNP
12 15 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (0.95%) MCSE
13 13 (0.95%) VCAP
14 10 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.66%) CISM
16 8 (0.59%) PMP
17 7 (0.51%) MCSA
18 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.07%) QA
2 39 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.83%) NIST
4 22 (1.61%) NCSC
5 16 (1.17%) SLA
6 15 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.51%) GRC
8 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
8 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.51%) PMO
9 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.22%) GDPR
10 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) IASME
11 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.073%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.073%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 260 (19.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 247 (18.07%) Active Directory
3 108 (7.90%) Hyper-V
4 77 (5.63%) vSphere
5 74 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
6 69 (5.05%) Docker
7 57 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (3.15%) VMware NSX
9 27 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
11 13 (0.95%) NFS
12 12 (0.88%) Firmware
13 11 (0.80%) KVM
14 10 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
15 8 (0.59%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.37%) Ceph
17 5 (0.37%) GPFS
17 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
18 3 (0.22%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 191 (13.97%) Ansible
2 173 (12.66%) Kubernetes
3 74 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (3.66%) vCenter Server
5 44 (3.22%) SCCM
6 31 (2.27%) Grafana
7 26 (1.90%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.61%) Puppet
8 22 (1.61%) WSUS
9 19 (1.39%) Argo
9 19 (1.39%) NetBackup
10 17 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
11 15 (1.10%) SCOM
12 14 (1.02%) Data Guard
12 14 (1.02%) Nessus
13 13 (0.95%) Packer
14 11 (0.80%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.80%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 343 (25.09%) Microsoft
2 330 (24.14%) VMware
3 80 (5.85%) Cisco
4 67 (4.90%) Citrix
5 58 (4.24%) Oracle
6 52 (3.80%) F5
7 44 (3.22%) NetApp
8 42 (3.07%) Google
9 37 (2.71%) Palo Alto
10 34 (2.49%) Veeam
11 33 (2.41%) Red Hat
12 31 (2.27%) ServiceNow
13 23 (1.68%) Arista
13 23 (1.68%) Aruba
14 21 (1.54%) Dell
15 19 (1.39%) Juniper
16 18 (1.32%) Tenable
17 17 (1.24%) Zscaler
18 16 (1.17%) CyberArk
19 14 (1.02%) IBM