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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 138 92
Rank change year-on-year +41 -46 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,169 537 907
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.63% 2.02% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.22% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 351 681
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £596
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 32
10th Percentile £47.20 £38.43 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £57.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year +25.61% +5.24% -24.31%

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 37,874 24,162 31,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.93% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,840 15,529 20,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,216 2,288
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +24 346 £550 +4.76% 155
North of England +18 272 £513 -2.38% 139
South East +16 226 £525 -4.55% 106
South West +25 133 £545 -3.20% 100
Midlands -1 126 £475 +18.75% 65
Yorkshire -2 120 £500 -4.76% 51
North West +10 105 £519 -1.19% 72
West Midlands -21 81 £525 +35.48% 35
North East +4 56 £600 -7.69% 19
East of England -6 53 £485 +3.97% 25
East Midlands +13 43 £450 - 30
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 53 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.31%) Confluence
3 21 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 11 (0.94%) CICS
5 8 (0.68%) Apache
6 6 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.34%) SAS
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) TPMS
10 1 (0.086%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.086%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.086%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.086%) Primavera
1 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.086%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 383 (32.76%) Azure
2 217 (18.56%) AWS
3 94 (8.04%) GCP
4 92 (7.87%) GitHub
5 85 (7.27%) Entra ID
6 81 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (4.88%) IaaS
9 54 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (4.19%) OCI
11 41 (3.51%) SaaS
12 39 (3.34%) PaaS
13 34 (2.91%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (2.22%) Serverless
15 20 (1.71%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 18 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 169 (14.46%) DNS
2 162 (13.86%) Firewall
3 96 (8.21%) DHCP
4 65 (5.56%) Network Security
5 62 (5.30%) VPN
6 57 (4.88%) SAN
7 53 (4.53%) WAN
8 47 (4.02%) VLAN
9 43 (3.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 38 (3.25%) TCP/IP
11 34 (2.91%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.74%) BGP
12 32 (2.74%) SD-WAN
13 28 (2.40%) LAN
13 28 (2.40%) OSPF
14 26 (2.22%) VXLAN
15 25 (2.14%) Ethernet VPN
16 22 (1.88%) SSL
16 22 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (1.80%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 11 (0.94%) RDBMS
6 10 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
8 8 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.60%) Metadata
9 7 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.60%) Power BI
10 6 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.51%) Db2
11 5 (0.43%) Big Data
11 5 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.34%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (5.82%) GitLab
2 51 (4.36%) JIRA
3 48 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.08%) Git
5 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.086%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.086%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.086%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.086%) CMake
7 1 (0.086%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.086%) GoCD
7 1 (0.086%) Gradle
7 1 (0.086%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.086%) Introscope
7 1 (0.086%) MLflow
7 1 (0.086%) MSI
7 1 (0.086%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.086%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 179 (15.31%) Social Skills
2 108 (9.24%) Finance
3 89 (7.61%) Public Sector
4 51 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (4.02%) Banking
6 44 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.97%) Military
8 21 (1.80%) Legal
9 16 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.37%) Retail
10 13 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 11 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.86%) Marketing
12 10 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.60%) Law
14 5 (0.43%) Billing
14 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.34%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 786 (67.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 209 (17.88%) Senior
3 165 (14.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 100 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 72 (6.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 66 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
7 48 (4.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 47 (4.02%) Network Engineer
9 38 (3.25%) VMware Engineer
10 36 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (2.91%) Lead
12 33 (2.82%) Architect
12 33 (2.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 32 (2.74%) IT Engineer
13 32 (2.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (2.57%) Infrastructure Support
15 29 (2.48%) Support Engineer
16 28 (2.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 28 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
16 28 (2.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.31%) REST
2 14 (1.20%) SOAP
3 12 (1.03%) JSON
4 11 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (0.94%) LDAP
4 11 (0.94%) OAuth
5 10 (0.86%) Middleware
5 10 (0.86%) OpenID
6 9 (0.77%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.77%) Kafka
6 9 (0.77%) SAML
7 8 (0.68%) Loki
7 8 (0.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 8 (0.68%) YAML
8 7 (0.60%) Flash
8 7 (0.60%) Web Services
9 6 (0.51%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.51%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.51%) RESTful
9 6 (0.51%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 128 (10.95%) Data Centre
2 70 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 48 (4.11%) Public Cloud
5 45 (3.85%) PKI
6 34 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.65%) Enterprise Storage
8 28 (2.40%) Replication
9 23 (1.97%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.45%) Clustering
10 17 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.03%) Mainframe
13 11 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (0.86%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 312 (26.69%) Windows
2 198 (16.94%) Windows Server
3 189 (16.17%) Linux
4 41 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.37%) Windows 10
8 15 (1.28%) Android
8 15 (1.28%) Unix
8 15 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (1.20%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.03%) CentOS
11 11 (0.94%) zOS
12 9 (0.77%) AIX
12 9 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.68%) VMS
13 8 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.60%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.51%) Debian
15 6 (0.51%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (21.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 220 (18.82%) DevOps
3 210 (17.96%) CI/CD
4 137 (11.72%) Migration
5 125 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (8.98%) Agile
7 102 (8.73%) Platform Engineering
8 100 (8.55%) High Availability
9 80 (6.84%) Infrastructure Automation
10 79 (6.76%) Containerisation
11 75 (6.42%) AI
11 75 (6.42%) Disaster Recovery
12 71 (6.07%) Project Delivery
13 70 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 70 (5.99%) Zero Trust
14 67 (5.73%) Observability
15 66 (5.65%) Validation
16 54 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
17 53 (4.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 52 (4.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 186 (15.91%) Python
2 174 (14.88%) PowerShell
3 81 (6.93%) Bash
4 51 (4.36%) SQL
5 34 (2.91%) Bicep
6 24 (2.05%) Java
7 20 (1.71%) C#
7 20 (1.71%) Shell Script
8 10 (0.86%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.68%) Go
10 7 (0.60%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.51%) JCL
11 6 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.43%) PHP
13 4 (0.34%) Groovy
14 3 (0.26%) C++
14 3 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.17%) C
15 2 (0.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 433 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 270 (23.10%) SC Cleared
3 162 (13.86%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.59%) Degree
5 33 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.63%) CCNA
8 19 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.45%) CISSP
11 13 (1.11%) CCNP
12 12 (1.03%) MCSE
13 9 (0.77%) CISM
14 8 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.60%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.60%) VCAP
16 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.51%) RHCA
17 5 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.40%) NIST
3 27 (2.31%) QA
4 16 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.11%) NCSC
6 10 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.68%) SLA
8 7 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.51%) GDPR
10 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.26%) PMO
12 2 (0.17%) GLBA
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.086%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.086%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.086%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.086%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 202 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 200 (17.11%) Active Directory
3 80 (6.84%) Hyper-V
4 74 (6.33%) VMware ESXi
5 69 (5.90%) Docker
6 63 (5.39%) vSphere
7 40 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
8 35 (2.99%) VMware NSX
9 26 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.37%) NFS
11 11 (0.94%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.77%) Firmware
12 9 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.43%) GPFS
14 5 (0.43%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.34%) KVM
15 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.17%) UAG
16 2 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 233 (19.93%) Terraform
2 146 (12.49%) Kubernetes
3 136 (11.63%) Ansible
4 55 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (4.02%) vCenter Server
6 30 (2.57%) SCCM
7 29 (2.48%) Grafana
8 23 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.97%) Puppet
9 19 (1.63%) WSUS
10 18 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
11 17 (1.45%) Argo
12 13 (1.11%) Nessus
12 13 (1.11%) SCOM
13 12 (1.03%) Packer
14 11 (0.94%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.86%) vRealize
16 9 (0.77%) vMotion
16 9 (0.77%) VxRail
17 8 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 269 (23.01%) VMware
2 256 (21.90%) Microsoft
3 69 (5.90%) Citrix
4 65 (5.56%) Cisco
5 52 (4.45%) F5
6 44 (3.76%) NetApp
6 44 (3.76%) ServiceNow
7 42 (3.59%) Google
8 34 (2.91%) Oracle
9 33 (2.82%) Palo Alto
10 28 (2.40%) Veeam
11 25 (2.14%) Dell
12 23 (1.97%) Arista
12 23 (1.97%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.88%) Aruba
13 22 (1.88%) Red Hat
14 17 (1.45%) Tenable
15 16 (1.37%) Juniper
16 14 (1.20%) Zscaler
17 13 (1.11%) SolarWinds