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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 135 88
Rank change year-on-year -17 -47 +45
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 584 555 929
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 1.93% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 2.17% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 382 666
10th Percentile £308 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £395 £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 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 40
10th Percentile £27.20 £29.09 £23.00
25th Percentile £29.50 £54.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +5.94% +6.78%
75th Percentile £77.13 £70.00 £72.05
90th Percentile £84.80 £103.60 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -45.60% +4.17% +8.60%

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 27,831 25,521 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.70% 88.62% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,689 15,759 22,371
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 840 1,378
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -32 198 £550 - 50
South East -16 117 £465 +3.33% 82
North of England -5 98 £475 +5.56% 75
South West +7 82 £558 +1.36% 58
Yorkshire -16 51 £479 +12.59% 42
North West -21 44 £472 +4.89% 28
Midlands -32 39 £450 -16.28% 35
East of England -6 36 £425 -29.17% 16
West Midlands -23 31 £450 -28.00% 23
East Midlands -22 8 £433 -13.50% 12
North East -5 4 £466 - 7
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 44 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.05%) Confluence
4 9 (1.54%) Apache
5 7 (1.20%) IIS
6 6 (1.03%) TPMS
7 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.34%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.34%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.34%) Traefik
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.51%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 218 (37.33%) Azure
2 130 (22.26%) AWS
3 86 (14.73%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (11.30%) Entra ID
5 33 (5.65%) GitHub
6 32 (5.48%) GCP
7 31 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (5.31%) IaaS
8 28 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 27 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (4.45%) PaaS
11 24 (4.11%) Serverless
12 23 (3.94%) OpenShift
13 22 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (3.77%) SaaS
14 21 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 121 (20.72%) Firewall
2 89 (15.24%) DNS
3 61 (10.45%) TCP/IP
4 56 (9.59%) VPN
5 51 (8.73%) DHCP
6 40 (6.85%) WAN
7 34 (5.82%) VLAN
7 34 (5.82%) Wi-Fi
8 31 (5.31%) SAN
9 29 (4.97%) LAN
9 29 (4.97%) Network Security
10 27 (4.62%) SSL
11 14 (2.40%) MPLS
12 13 (2.23%) Wireless
13 11 (1.88%) SD-WAN
14 10 (1.71%) 4G
14 10 (1.71%) BGP
14 10 (1.71%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (1.71%) NAS
15 9 (1.54%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.20%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.86%) Oracle Database
4 5 (0.86%) Power BI
5 4 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.68%) MySQL
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.51%) Big Data
6 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.51%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (5.65%) Jenkins
2 31 (5.31%) Git
3 26 (4.45%) GitLab
4 17 (2.91%) JIRA
5 5 (0.86%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.34%) 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
1 135 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 82 (14.04%) Finance
3 62 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.79%) Banking
6 26 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.23%) Military
8 9 (1.54%) Local Government
8 9 (1.54%) Retail
9 8 (1.37%) Legal
10 7 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.03%) Aviation
11 6 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.03%) Spanish Language
12 5 (0.86%) Front Office
13 4 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 372 (63.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (15.07%) Senior
3 69 (11.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 46 (7.88%) Infrastructure Support
5 41 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
6 40 (6.85%) Support Engineer
7 39 (6.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 38 (6.51%) Network Engineer
8 38 (6.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 36 (6.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (4.62%) VMware Engineer
12 26 (4.45%) IT Engineer
12 26 (4.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (3.08%) Security Engineer
15 18 (3.08%) Windows Engineer
16 17 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.57%) Middleware
1 15 (2.57%) REST
1 15 (2.57%) SAML
2 13 (2.23%) OpenID
3 11 (1.88%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.37%) Kafka
4 8 (1.37%) OAuth
5 7 (1.20%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.03%) OAuth2
6 6 (1.03%) YAML
7 5 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.86%) RESTful
8 4 (0.68%) ADO
8 4 (0.68%) gRPC
8 4 (0.68%) NumPy
8 4 (0.68%) Pandas
8 4 (0.68%) SOAP
8 4 (0.68%) Web Services
9 3 (0.51%) AWT
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.99%) Data Centre
2 32 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (5.48%) Replication
3 24 (4.11%) PKI
4 22 (3.77%) Private Cloud
5 19 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.23%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.54%) Clustering
9 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.20%) NHS
10 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.03%) Equities
11 6 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.03%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 220 (37.67%) Windows
2 133 (22.77%) Linux
3 118 (20.21%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.94%) Unix
6 20 (3.42%) Windows 10
7 13 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.23%) VMS
8 10 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.20%) Android
11 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.86%) CentOS
12 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.51%) SUSE
14 2 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.17%) AIX
15 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (20.55%) DevOps
2 116 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (16.95%) CI/CD
5 71 (12.16%) ITIL
6 69 (11.82%) Migration
7 57 (9.76%) Containerisation
8 56 (9.59%) High Availability
9 54 (9.25%) Agile
10 52 (8.90%) Infrastructure Automation
11 51 (8.73%) Disaster Recovery
12 46 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (7.02%) Observability
13 41 (7.02%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (5.14%) Project Delivery
16 29 (4.97%) Change Management
17 26 (4.45%) Service Management
17 26 (4.45%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (4.45%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (19.69%) Python
2 103 (17.64%) PowerShell
3 56 (9.59%) Bash
4 26 (4.45%) Java
5 25 (4.28%) SQL
6 18 (3.08%) Bicep
7 15 (2.57%) Go
7 15 (2.57%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.40%) Perl
9 7 (1.20%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.03%) C++
10 6 (1.03%) Ruby
11 5 (0.86%) PHP
12 4 (0.68%) C#
13 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.34%) Groovy
15 1 (0.17%) C
15 1 (0.17%) Scala
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 173 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 115 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.42%) DV Cleared
4 39 (6.68%) Azure Certification
5 34 (5.82%) Degree
6 33 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.08%) Network+ Certification
9 16 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.23%) CCNA
10 13 (2.23%) CCNP
10 13 (2.23%) CISSP
11 12 (2.05%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.05%) CISM
11 12 (2.05%) Server+ Certification
12 9 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.03%) FFIEC
13 6 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.08%) GDPR
2 12 (2.05%) NIST
3 10 (1.71%) PCI DSS
3 10 (1.71%) SLA
4 9 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.03%) GLBA
7 3 (0.51%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.51%) QA
7 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.34%) COBIT
8 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 146 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 109 (18.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (11.13%) Docker
4 57 (9.76%) Hyper-V
5 28 (4.79%) vSphere
6 19 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 10 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.03%) NFS
11 3 (0.51%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.51%) Firmware
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.34%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.34%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.34%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 142 (24.32%) Terraform
2 86 (14.73%) Kubernetes
3 79 (13.53%) Ansible
4 61 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 55 (9.42%) SCCM
6 22 (3.77%) Grafana
6 22 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.42%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.74%) Prometheus
9 15 (2.57%) FortiGate
10 14 (2.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
13 7 (1.20%) vRealize
14 6 (1.03%) CASB
14 6 (1.03%) Nessus
14 6 (1.03%) SCOrch
15 5 (0.86%) Istio
15 5 (0.86%) Packer
16 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 193 (33.05%) Microsoft
2 155 (26.54%) VMware
3 38 (6.51%) Palo Alto
4 35 (5.99%) Cisco
5 34 (5.82%) Google
6 33 (5.65%) Red Hat
7 29 (4.97%) F5
8 27 (4.62%) Dell
9 20 (3.42%) ServiceNow
9 20 (3.42%) Splunk
10 19 (3.25%) Citrix
10 19 (3.25%) IBM
10 19 (3.25%) Veeam
11 16 (2.74%) CheckPoint
11 16 (2.74%) Fortinet
11 16 (2.74%) Oracle
12 14 (2.40%) Zscaler
13 12 (2.05%) Aruba
14 11 (1.88%) HP
15 10 (1.71%) NetApp