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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 157 104
Rank change year-on-year +69 -53 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,347 501 759
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 1.82% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.00% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 327 565
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £430 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £618 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £668 £674
UK median daily rate £539 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.62% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 7 23
10th Percentile £48.10 £27.80 £49.21
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £129.80 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +146.67% -56.36% -5.17%

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 38,748 25,020 28,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.83% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,949 15,925 18,341
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £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 2,582 1,471 1,520
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +54 418 £550 +2.47% 330
North of England +45 306 £519 -0.19% 97
South East +33 278 £550 +4.76% 102
North West +36 142 £525 -4.55% 53
South West +25 138 £550 -2.22% 87
Midlands +12 136 £475 +5.56% 46
Yorkshire +15 120 £500 - 29
West Midlands +5 97 £525 +16.67% 33
East of England +8 60 £510 +20.00% 64
North East +2 54 £600 -7.69% 16
East Midlands +9 37 £450 - 13
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 57 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.00%) Confluence
4 12 (0.89%) CICS
5 11 (0.82%) Apache
6 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.52%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.22%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.074%) CMS
12 1 (0.074%) IIS
12 1 (0.074%) JBoss
12 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.074%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.074%) Houdini
7 1 (0.074%) NUKE
7 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 469 (34.82%) Azure
2 246 (18.26%) AWS
3 124 (9.21%) Entra ID
4 114 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (7.42%) GCP
6 95 (7.05%) GitHub
7 74 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (5.12%) IaaS
9 66 (4.90%) OCI
10 64 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.41%) SaaS
12 39 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
13 37 (2.75%) PaaS
14 35 (2.60%) Azure AKS
15 25 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
16 23 (1.71%) Serverless
17 22 (1.63%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.63%) Power Platform
18 21 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.41%) DNS
2 208 (15.44%) Firewall
3 137 (10.17%) DHCP
4 86 (6.38%) VPN
5 77 (5.72%) Network Security
6 75 (5.57%) TCP/IP
7 64 (4.75%) WAN
8 60 (4.45%) VLAN
9 59 (4.38%) SAN
10 44 (3.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 37 (2.75%) LAN
12 36 (2.67%) SD-WAN
13 34 (2.52%) BIG-IP
13 34 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
14 33 (2.45%) BGP
15 28 (2.08%) OSPF
15 28 (2.08%) SSL
16 27 (2.00%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.93%) Ethernet VPN
18 21 (1.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.56%) Oracle Exadata
3 17 (1.26%) Oracle Database
4 16 (1.19%) Power BI
5 14 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.97%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.82%) Metadata
9 9 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.52%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.37%) Db2
13 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 66 (4.90%) GitLab
2 52 (3.86%) Git
3 47 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 44 (3.27%) JIRA
5 4 (0.30%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.074%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.074%) CMake
8 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.074%) Gradle
8 1 (0.074%) Introscope
8 1 (0.074%) Maven
8 1 (0.074%) MSI
8 1 (0.074%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.074%) Snyk
8 1 (0.074%) Vagrant
General
1 224 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 123 (9.13%) Finance
3 100 (7.42%) Public Sector
4 78 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (4.01%) Banking
6 52 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.34%) Aerospace
8 18 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 18 (1.34%) Retail
9 17 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.26%) Military
10 13 (0.97%) Law
10 13 (0.97%) Legal
11 12 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.74%) Marketing
12 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.67%) Automotive
14 5 (0.37%) Advertising
14 5 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 880 (65.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 261 (19.38%) Senior
3 206 (15.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 143 (10.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 103 (7.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 97 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (5.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 66 (4.90%) Network Engineer
9 61 (4.53%) Lead
10 52 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 50 (3.71%) VMware Engineer
12 48 (3.56%) Architect
13 42 (3.12%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.60%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.60%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.52%) Infrastructure Support
16 34 (2.52%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.30%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (21.16%) Terraform
2 26 (1.93%) REST
3 25 (1.86%) ARM Templates
4 16 (1.19%) YAML
5 13 (0.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 12 (0.89%) JSON
6 12 (0.89%) Kafka
6 12 (0.89%) SOAP
7 11 (0.82%) Middleware
7 11 (0.82%) OpenID
7 11 (0.82%) SAML
8 10 (0.74%) 802.1X
8 10 (0.74%) Loki
8 10 (0.74%) OAuth
9 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.52%) LDAP
11 6 (0.45%) .NET
11 6 (0.45%) Web Services
12 5 (0.37%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.17%) Data Centre
2 91 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 61 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 57 (4.23%) PKI
5 45 (3.34%) Public Cloud
6 44 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 41 (3.04%) Replication
8 37 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
9 30 (2.23%) Private Cloud
10 28 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 24 (1.78%) Clustering
12 21 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
12 21 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.97%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 364 (27.02%) Windows
2 246 (18.26%) Linux
3 241 (17.89%) Windows Server
4 55 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.48%) Unix
6 19 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.34%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 17 (1.26%) CentOS
9 16 (1.19%) Android
9 16 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.11%) VMS
11 14 (1.04%) AIX
12 12 (0.89%) zOS
13 11 (0.82%) Rocky
14 10 (0.74%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.45%) Debian
16 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 267 (19.82%) DevOps
3 251 (18.63%) CI/CD
4 174 (12.92%) Migration
5 156 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
7 117 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (8.24%) Agile
9 110 (8.17%) High Availability
10 108 (8.02%) Infrastructure Automation
11 97 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 96 (7.13%) Disaster Recovery
13 95 (7.05%) AI
14 91 (6.76%) Observability
15 86 (6.38%) Technical Leadership
16 85 (6.31%) Project Delivery
17 84 (6.24%) ITIL
18 81 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
19 79 (5.86%) Validation
20 74 (5.49%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 241 (17.89%) PowerShell
2 225 (16.70%) Python
3 120 (8.91%) Bash
4 64 (4.75%) SQL
5 56 (4.16%) Bicep
6 29 (2.15%) Java
7 21 (1.56%) C#
8 14 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.67%) Go
10 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
10 8 (0.59%) C++
11 7 (0.52%) Perl
12 6 (0.45%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.37%) C
13 5 (0.37%) JavaScript
13 5 (0.37%) JCL
14 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.15%) Groovy
15 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 516 (38.31%) Security Cleared
2 335 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 181 (13.44%) DV Cleared
4 54 (4.01%) Degree
5 41 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.56%) CISSP
8 21 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.34%) CCNA
10 17 (1.26%) CCNP
11 13 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.97%) MCSE
11 13 (0.97%) VCAP
12 9 (0.67%) CISM
12 9 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.52%) MCSA
13 7 (0.52%) PMP
14 6 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 38 (2.82%) QA
2 25 (1.86%) NIST
3 20 (1.48%) NCSC
4 16 (1.19%) SLA
5 13 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.52%) GRC
7 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.52%) PMO
8 6 (0.45%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.074%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.074%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 251 (18.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 239 (17.74%) Active Directory
3 102 (7.57%) Hyper-V
4 74 (5.49%) vSphere
5 72 (5.35%) VMware ESXi
6 67 (4.97%) Docker
7 58 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
8 41 (3.04%) VMware NSX
9 27 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.04%) NFS
10 14 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.82%) Firmware
11 11 (0.82%) KVM
12 10 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.59%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.37%) Ceph
15 5 (0.37%) GPFS
15 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 189 (14.03%) Ansible
2 167 (12.40%) Kubernetes
3 73 (5.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (3.56%) vCenter Server
5 42 (3.12%) SCCM
6 30 (2.23%) Grafana
7 25 (1.86%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.63%) Puppet
8 22 (1.63%) WSUS
9 19 (1.41%) Argo
9 19 (1.41%) NetBackup
10 17 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.11%) SCOM
12 14 (1.04%) Nessus
12 14 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
12 14 (1.04%) Packer
13 13 (0.97%) Data Guard
14 11 (0.82%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.67%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 337 (25.02%) Microsoft
2 315 (23.39%) VMware
3 77 (5.72%) Cisco
4 69 (5.12%) Citrix
5 57 (4.23%) Oracle
6 53 (3.93%) F5
7 43 (3.19%) Google
8 41 (3.04%) NetApp
9 37 (2.75%) Palo Alto
10 33 (2.45%) Veeam
11 31 (2.30%) Red Hat
11 31 (2.30%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.71%) Arista
12 23 (1.71%) Aruba
13 21 (1.56%) Juniper
14 20 (1.48%) Dell
15 18 (1.34%) Tenable
15 18 (1.34%) Zscaler
16 16 (1.19%) CyberArk
17 14 (1.04%) IBM