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

 6 months to
28 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 130 92
Rank change year-on-year -19 -38 +44
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 600 545 900
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.92% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.16% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 377 644
10th Percentile £310 £325 £310
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +4.75% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 36
10th Percentile £26.13 £27.22 £22.13
25th Percentile £29.00 £58.20 £29.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £63.14 £50.59
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +24.81% -5.44%
75th Percentile £75.70 £70.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £108.18 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -45.60% +11.11% +5.14%

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 27,947 25,226 32,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.49% 88.70% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 15,552 22,007
10th Percentile £301 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 831 1,432
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -37 197 £550 - 162
South East -5 123 £470 +4.44% 205
North of England -6 99 £466 +9.65% 165
South West +15 85 £558 -0.89% 137
Yorkshire -11 57 £463 +23.33% 76
East of England -1 42 £425 -29.17% 84
North West -19 39 £446 +1.94% 74
Midlands -36 38 £438 -16.67% 137
West Midlands -22 30 £482 -22.88% 78
East Midlands -21 8 £415 -17.00% 53
North East -7 4 £466 - 17
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 46 (7.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.00%) Confluence
4 11 (1.83%) Apache
5 9 (1.50%) IIS
6 7 (1.17%) TPMS
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.33%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Maximo
2 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 221 (36.83%) Azure
2 128 (21.33%) AWS
3 89 (14.83%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (11.83%) Entra ID
5 34 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (5.67%) GitHub
6 33 (5.50%) GCP
7 31 (5.17%) IaaS
8 27 (4.50%) Amazon S3
8 27 (4.50%) PaaS
9 26 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (4.33%) OpenShift
10 23 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (3.83%) Serverless
11 22 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
14 17 (2.83%) SaaS
15 16 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 125 (20.83%) Firewall
2 87 (14.50%) DNS
3 60 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 58 (9.67%) VPN
5 52 (8.67%) DHCP
6 40 (6.67%) WAN
7 35 (5.83%) VLAN
7 35 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
8 31 (5.17%) SAN
9 30 (5.00%) LAN
9 30 (5.00%) Network Security
10 27 (4.50%) SSL
11 13 (2.17%) MPLS
11 13 (2.17%) Wireless
12 10 (1.67%) 4G
12 10 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
12 10 (1.67%) NAS
13 9 (1.50%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.50%) SSH
14 8 (1.33%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.17%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.00%) Power BI
4 5 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.67%) MySQL
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.50%) Big Data
6 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (5.67%) Jenkins
2 33 (5.50%) Git
3 26 (4.33%) GitLab
4 17 (2.83%) JIRA
5 5 (0.83%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.33%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) CMake
8 1 (0.17%) GoCD
8 1 (0.17%) Gradle
8 1 (0.17%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.17%) MLflow
8 1 (0.17%) MSI
8 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 136 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.67%) Finance
3 62 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.67%) Banking
6 27 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.00%) Military
9 9 (1.50%) Local Government
9 9 (1.50%) Retail
10 8 (1.33%) Legal
10 8 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.17%) Billing
12 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.00%) Aviation
12 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 381 (63.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (14.67%) Senior
3 68 (11.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (8.17%) Infrastructure Support
5 44 (7.33%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (7.33%) Support Engineer
6 43 (7.17%) Network Engineer
6 43 (7.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (7.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 36 (6.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (4.33%) IT Engineer
10 26 (4.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (4.33%) VMware Engineer
11 22 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (3.50%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (3.00%) Security Engineer
13 18 (3.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.50%) Middleware
1 15 (2.50%) REST
1 15 (2.50%) SAML
2 14 (2.33%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.17%) OpenID
4 8 (1.33%) Kafka
4 8 (1.33%) OAuth
5 7 (1.17%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.00%) OAuth2
6 6 (1.00%) YAML
7 5 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.83%) RESTful
8 4 (0.67%) ADO
8 4 (0.67%) gRPC
8 4 (0.67%) NumPy
8 4 (0.67%) Pandas
8 4 (0.67%) SOAP
8 4 (0.67%) Web Services
9 3 (0.50%) AWT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.67%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.17%) Replication
3 29 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (4.17%) PKI
5 22 (3.67%) Private Cloud
6 21 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.67%) Clustering
11 9 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (1.17%) NHS
14 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.00%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 222 (37.00%) Windows
2 137 (22.83%) Linux
3 118 (19.67%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.83%) Unix
6 20 (3.33%) Windows 10
7 15 (2.50%) VMS
8 14 (2.33%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.17%) Android
12 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.83%) CentOS
13 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.33%) Debian
15 2 (0.33%) SUSE
15 2 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (20.83%) DevOps
2 119 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (17.17%) CI/CD
5 78 (13.00%) ITIL
6 68 (11.33%) Migration
7 59 (9.83%) Containerisation
8 57 (9.50%) Agile
9 56 (9.33%) High Availability
10 54 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 51 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 47 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (7.50%) Observability
14 42 (7.00%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (5.33%) Project Delivery
17 29 (4.83%) Change Management
18 28 (4.67%) Stakeholder Management
19 27 (4.50%) RBAC
19 27 (4.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (19.17%) Python
2 104 (17.33%) PowerShell
3 55 (9.17%) Bash
4 26 (4.33%) Java
5 24 (4.00%) SQL
6 21 (3.50%) Bicep
7 15 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.33%) Go
8 14 (2.33%) Perl
9 7 (1.17%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.00%) C++
10 6 (1.00%) Ruby
11 5 (0.83%) PHP
12 4 (0.67%) C#
13 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.33%) Groovy
15 1 (0.17%) C
15 1 (0.17%) Scala
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 176 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 114 (19.00%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.17%) DV Cleared
4 42 (7.00%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (5.33%) Degree
7 19 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.00%) Network+ Certification
9 16 (2.67%) CISSP
10 15 (2.50%) CISM
10 15 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.00%) CCNP
11 12 (2.00%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.83%) CCNA
13 9 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.17%) FFIEC
15 6 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.17%) GDPR
2 16 (2.67%) NIST
3 12 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.83%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.83%) SLA
5 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.17%) GLBA
6 6 (1.00%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.50%) QA
7 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.33%) COBIT
8 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (24.50%) Active Directory
2 111 (18.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (11.17%) Docker
4 59 (9.83%) Hyper-V
5 29 (4.83%) vSphere
6 18 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (1.67%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.00%) NFS
11 3 (0.50%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.50%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.50%) Firmware
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.33%) QEMU
12 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 147 (24.50%) Terraform
2 91 (15.17%) Kubernetes
3 84 (14.00%) Ansible
4 62 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 55 (9.17%) SCCM
6 22 (3.67%) Grafana
6 22 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.33%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.67%) Prometheus
9 15 (2.50%) FortiGate
10 14 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
13 7 (1.17%) vRealize
14 6 (1.00%) CASB
14 6 (1.00%) Istio
14 6 (1.00%) Nessus
14 6 (1.00%) SCOrch
15 5 (0.83%) Packer
15 5 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 200 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 154 (25.67%) VMware
3 40 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 37 (6.17%) Cisco
4 37 (6.17%) Red Hat
5 29 (4.83%) F5
6 28 (4.67%) Google
7 27 (4.50%) Dell
8 22 (3.67%) IBM
9 21 (3.50%) ServiceNow
9 21 (3.50%) Splunk
9 21 (3.50%) Veeam
10 20 (3.33%) Citrix
11 16 (2.67%) CheckPoint
11 16 (2.67%) Oracle
12 14 (2.33%) Fortinet
13 13 (2.17%) Aruba
13 13 (2.17%) Zscaler
14 12 (2.00%) NetApp
14 12 (2.00%) SolarWinds
874 Infrastructure Engineering jobs in England