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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 131 91
Rank change year-on-year -24 -40 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 561 596 946
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.95% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.22% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 407 686
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £487 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.74% +2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 38
10th Percentile £27.20 £34.01 £23.00
25th Percentile £29.50 £57.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% +10.18% +6.30%
75th Percentile £77.13 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £84.80 £95.20 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £64.39 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.20% +7.32% +8.11%

All Process and 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 27,869 26,864 33,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.46% 87.86% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 16,503 22,915
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 957 1,425
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -37 211 £536 -2.55% 91
South East -24 105 £450 - 122
North of England -19 90 £487 +2.53% 106
South West -7 66 £550 - 68
Yorkshire -5 48 £487 +8.22% 44
Midlands -29 44 £450 -20.00% 43
North West -23 39 £500 - 44
East of England -2 34 £406 -29.35% 40
West Midlands -22 34 £482 -16.17% 32
East Midlands -21 10 £433 -13.50% 10
North East -6 4 £466 - 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 40 (7.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.14%) Confluence
3 11 (1.96%) Apache
3 11 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.43%) IIS
5 7 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.07%) TPMS
7 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.36%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.36%) Traefik
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.53%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 217 (38.68%) Azure
2 126 (22.46%) AWS
3 80 (14.26%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (12.48%) Entra ID
5 38 (6.77%) GitHub
6 37 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (5.53%) GCP
8 29 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 28 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (4.63%) IaaS
11 24 (4.28%) PaaS
12 22 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (3.92%) Serverless
13 21 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (3.74%) SaaS
14 20 (3.57%) OpenShift
15 19 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.85%) Google Workspace
16 16 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 115 (20.50%) Firewall
2 85 (15.15%) DNS
3 58 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 49 (8.73%) VPN
5 48 (8.56%) DHCP
6 40 (7.13%) WAN
7 36 (6.42%) VLAN
8 34 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (5.35%) Network Security
10 29 (5.17%) SSL
11 28 (4.99%) SAN
12 26 (4.63%) LAN
13 12 (2.14%) Wireless
14 11 (1.96%) SD-WAN
15 10 (1.78%) 4G
15 10 (1.78%) BGP
15 10 (1.78%) MPLS
16 8 (1.43%) NAS
16 8 (1.43%) OSPF
16 8 (1.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.89%) Oracle Database
4 5 (0.89%) Power BI
5 4 (0.71%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.71%) MySQL
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.53%) Big Data
6 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.35%) Git
3 28 (4.99%) GitLab
4 17 (3.03%) JIRA
5 5 (0.89%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.36%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) CMake
8 1 (0.18%) GoCD
8 1 (0.18%) Gradle
8 1 (0.18%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.18%) Log4j
8 1 (0.18%) MLflow
8 1 (0.18%) MSI
8 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 133 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.51%) Finance
3 55 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.99%) Banking
6 24 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.67%) Military
9 8 (1.43%) Legal
9 8 (1.43%) Retail
10 7 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.25%) Law
10 7 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.07%) Aviation
11 6 (1.07%) Local Government
11 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.07%) Spanish Language
12 5 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.71%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 347 (61.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (15.51%) Senior
3 64 (11.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (8.56%) Infrastructure Support
5 43 (7.66%) Support Engineer
6 42 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (7.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 37 (6.60%) Network Engineer
9 35 (6.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (6.24%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (3.92%) VMware Engineer
12 21 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.74%) IT Engineer
12 21 (3.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.21%) Security Engineer
15 16 (2.85%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
15 16 (2.85%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.85%) SAML
2 15 (2.67%) Middleware
3 14 (2.50%) ARM Templates
4 13 (2.32%) OpenID
5 12 (2.14%) YAML
6 9 (1.60%) Kafka
6 9 (1.60%) OAuth
6 9 (1.60%) REST
7 7 (1.25%) ADO
7 7 (1.25%) RESTful
8 6 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.07%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.89%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.71%) gRPC
10 4 (0.71%) JMS
11 3 (0.53%) AWT
11 3 (0.53%) LDAP
11 3 (0.53%) NumPy
11 3 (0.53%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.06%) Data Centre
1 34 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 31 (5.53%) Replication
3 27 (4.81%) PKI
4 20 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 14 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.60%) Clustering
9 8 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.25%) NHS
10 7 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.07%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 215 (38.32%) Windows
2 137 (24.42%) Linux
3 110 (19.61%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.28%) Unix
6 21 (3.74%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.50%) Ubuntu
8 12 (2.14%) VMS
9 9 (1.60%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (1.25%) Android
12 6 (1.07%) Apple iOS
12 6 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.89%) CentOS
13 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.53%) SUSE
15 2 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.18%) AIX
16 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (21.93%) DevOps
2 114 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (19.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (18.72%) CI/CD
5 71 (12.66%) Migration
6 65 (11.59%) ITIL
7 55 (9.80%) Agile
7 55 (9.80%) Containerisation
8 54 (9.63%) High Availability
9 45 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (8.02%) Infrastructure Automation
10 42 (7.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 41 (7.31%) Observability
12 38 (6.77%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (4.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (4.99%) Task Automation
15 27 (4.81%) DevSecOps
16 26 (4.63%) Analytics
16 26 (4.63%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (23.17%) Python
2 103 (18.36%) PowerShell
3 66 (11.76%) Bash
4 25 (4.46%) SQL
5 24 (4.28%) Java
6 18 (3.21%) Bicep
7 16 (2.85%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.50%) Go
8 14 (2.50%) Perl
9 6 (1.07%) Ruby
10 5 (0.89%) C++
11 3 (0.53%) C#
11 3 (0.53%) Groovy
11 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.36%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.18%) C
13 1 (0.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.18%) VB
13 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 166 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 107 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.70%) DV Cleared
4 38 (6.77%) Azure Certification
5 33 (5.88%) Degree
6 32 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.21%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.32%) CCNP
11 12 (2.14%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.14%) CCNA
11 12 (2.14%) CISSP
11 12 (2.14%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (1.96%) CISM
13 10 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.07%) FFIEC
14 6 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.03%) GDPR
2 12 (2.14%) NIST
3 11 (1.96%) SLA
4 10 (1.78%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.07%) GLBA
7 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.89%) QA
8 3 (0.53%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.36%) COBIT
9 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 142 (25.31%) Active Directory
2 105 (18.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (10.87%) Docker
4 55 (9.80%) Hyper-V
5 26 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (4.63%) vSphere
6 20 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.78%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.53%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.53%) Firmware
10 3 (0.53%) NFS
10 3 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.36%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.36%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 1 (0.18%) etcd
12 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 147 (26.20%) Terraform
2 83 (14.80%) Ansible
3 77 (13.73%) Kubernetes
4 58 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 56 (9.98%) SCCM
6 23 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (3.92%) Grafana
8 19 (3.39%) vCenter Server
9 17 (3.03%) Prometheus
10 15 (2.67%) FortiGate
11 14 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (1.25%) CASB
15 7 (1.25%) SCOrch
15 7 (1.25%) vRealize
16 6 (1.07%) SCOM
17 5 (0.89%) Nessus
17 5 (0.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 183 (32.62%) Microsoft
2 147 (26.20%) VMware
3 37 (6.60%) Palo Alto
4 36 (6.42%) Cisco
5 34 (6.06%) Google
5 34 (6.06%) Red Hat
6 28 (4.99%) Dell
7 27 (4.81%) F5
8 22 (3.92%) Splunk
9 19 (3.39%) ServiceNow
10 18 (3.21%) IBM
11 17 (3.03%) Citrix
12 16 (2.85%) CheckPoint
12 16 (2.85%) Veeam
13 15 (2.67%) Fortinet
14 14 (2.50%) Oracle
14 14 (2.50%) Zscaler
15 13 (2.32%) Aruba
16 12 (2.14%) HP
17 10 (1.78%) Juniper