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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 150 98
Rank change year-on-year +62 -52 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,323 510 778
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.90% 1.84% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 2.03% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 322 578
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £610 £603 £588
90th Percentile £687 £666 £653
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 8 23
10th Percentile £47.60 £28.10 £49.21
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £42.44 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.93% -37.13% -6.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £112.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £42.44 £70.00
% change year-on-year +72.65% -39.38% -3.45%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +52 409 £550 +2.33% 627
North of England +42 293 £525 +2.44% 137
South East +31 286 £545 -0.97% 161
South West +29 135 £550 -1.12% 128
Midlands +16 129 £475 +11.76% 76
North West +28 127 £550 -8.33% 75
Yorkshire +9 123 £474 -5.20% 42
West Midlands +1 90 £525 +27.27% 48
East of England +12 59 £510 +13.33% 83
North East -2 53 £600 -7.69% 22
East Midlands +18 37 £450 - 28
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 59 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.34%) Confluence
4 13 (0.98%) CICS
5 9 (0.68%) Apache
6 8 (0.60%) SAS
6 8 (0.60%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.23%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.076%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.076%) JBoss
10 1 (0.076%) nginx
10 1 (0.076%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.076%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.076%) Houdini
6 1 (0.076%) NUKE
6 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.23%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.076%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 463 (35.00%) Azure
2 243 (18.37%) AWS
3 129 (9.75%) Entra ID
4 109 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (7.71%) GCP
5 102 (7.71%) GitHub
6 73 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (5.29%) IaaS
9 64 (4.84%) OCI
10 43 (3.25%) SaaS
11 39 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (2.87%) PaaS
13 36 (2.72%) Azure AKS
14 28 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (2.04%) Serverless
16 24 (1.81%) Amazon S3
17 23 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
18 22 (1.66%) Power Platform
19 20 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 214 (16.18%) DNS
2 199 (15.04%) Firewall
3 133 (10.05%) DHCP
4 79 (5.97%) VPN
5 72 (5.44%) TCP/IP
6 68 (5.14%) Network Security
7 63 (4.76%) WAN
8 60 (4.54%) SAN
9 59 (4.46%) VLAN
10 42 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 35 (2.65%) LAN
11 35 (2.65%) SD-WAN
12 34 (2.57%) BIG-IP
13 32 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (2.34%) BGP
15 28 (2.12%) OSPF
15 28 (2.12%) SSL
16 27 (2.04%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
18 22 (1.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
3 17 (1.28%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.13%) Power BI
5 14 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.98%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.91%) Metadata
7 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.60%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.53%) Pentaho
11 6 (0.45%) Db2
11 6 (0.45%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.38%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 69 (5.22%) GitLab
2 56 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 54 (4.08%) Git
4 49 (3.70%) JIRA
5 8 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.23%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.076%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.076%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.076%) CMake
8 1 (0.076%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.076%) Gradle
8 1 (0.076%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.076%) Introscope
8 1 (0.076%) Maven
8 1 (0.076%) MSI
8 1 (0.076%) Robot Framework
General
1 222 (16.78%) Social Skills
2 117 (8.84%) Finance
3 104 (7.86%) Public Sector
4 74 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 50 (3.78%) Banking
7 20 (1.51%) Telecoms
8 19 (1.44%) Retail
9 17 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.21%) Military
11 15 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.13%) Legal
12 14 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.91%) Law
14 11 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.76%) Marketing
16 9 (0.68%) Automotive
17 5 (0.38%) Billing
17 5 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 874 (66.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 258 (19.50%) Senior
3 204 (15.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 134 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 101 (7.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 93 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (5.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 60 (4.54%) Network Engineer
9 53 (4.01%) Lead
10 48 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 47 (3.55%) VMware Engineer
12 43 (3.25%) Architect
13 40 (3.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.65%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.57%) Infrastructure Support
16 34 (2.57%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 31 (2.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.19%) REST
2 25 (1.89%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.06%) SOAP
4 13 (0.98%) JSON
4 13 (0.98%) Middleware
4 13 (0.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 13 (0.98%) YAML
5 10 (0.76%) Loki
5 10 (0.76%) OpenID
5 10 (0.76%) SAML
6 9 (0.68%) Kafka
6 9 (0.68%) OAuth
7 8 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.60%) ModSecurity
8 7 (0.53%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.53%) Flash
8 7 (0.53%) LDAP
8 7 (0.53%) Web Services
9 6 (0.45%) .NET
9 6 (0.45%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.36%) Data Centre
2 89 (6.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 53 (4.01%) PKI
5 48 (3.63%) Public Cloud
6 40 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 40 (3.02%) Replication
7 34 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (1.89%) Clustering
8 25 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 20 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 20 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.06%) Mainframe
14 13 (0.98%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 359 (27.14%) Windows
2 239 (18.07%) Linux
3 232 (17.54%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.66%) Unix
6 19 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.28%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.21%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.21%) CentOS
9 15 (1.13%) Android
9 15 (1.13%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (1.06%) AIX
10 14 (1.06%) VMS
11 13 (0.98%) zOS
12 11 (0.83%) Rocky
13 10 (0.76%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.45%) Debian
15 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 264 (19.95%) DevOps
3 250 (18.90%) CI/CD
4 172 (13.00%) Migration
5 156 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (10.36%) Platform Engineering
7 122 (9.22%) Agile
8 116 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (8.24%) High Availability
10 105 (7.94%) Infrastructure Automation
11 93 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
12 91 (6.88%) AI
13 87 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 86 (6.50%) Project Delivery
15 83 (6.27%) Observability
16 78 (5.90%) ITIL
17 76 (5.74%) Containerisation
17 76 (5.74%) Validation
18 74 (5.59%) Technical Leadership
19 72 (5.44%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 236 (17.84%) PowerShell
2 225 (17.01%) Python
3 119 (8.99%) Bash
4 61 (4.61%) SQL
5 54 (4.08%) Bicep
6 27 (2.04%) Java
7 21 (1.59%) C#
8 20 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.68%) Go
10 8 (0.60%) ActionScript
11 7 (0.53%) C++
11 7 (0.53%) Perl
12 6 (0.45%) JCL
12 6 (0.45%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.38%) C
13 5 (0.38%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.23%) Groovy
14 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 514 (38.85%) Security Cleared
2 341 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 176 (13.30%) DV Cleared
4 54 (4.08%) Degree
5 41 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.51%) CCNA
10 18 (1.36%) CCNP
10 18 (1.36%) CISSP
11 15 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.98%) MCSE
12 13 (0.98%) VCAP
13 12 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (0.68%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.60%) CISM
16 7 (0.53%) MCSA
16 7 (0.53%) PMP
16 7 (0.53%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 36 (2.72%) QA
2 23 (1.74%) NIST
3 17 (1.28%) NCSC
4 16 (1.21%) SLA
5 14 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.53%) GRC
7 7 (0.53%) PMO
8 6 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.30%) GDPR
9 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.15%) IASME
11 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.076%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.076%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.076%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 243 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 242 (18.29%) Active Directory
3 98 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 75 (5.67%) VMware ESXi
5 71 (5.37%) vSphere
6 69 (5.22%) Docker
7 57 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (3.40%) VMware NSX
9 31 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.06%) NFS
11 13 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.68%) Firmware
12 9 (0.68%) KVM
13 8 (0.60%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.38%) GPFS
15 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.30%) Ceph
17 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 285 (21.54%) Terraform
2 185 (13.98%) Ansible
3 163 (12.32%) Kubernetes
4 72 (5.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (3.78%) vCenter Server
6 40 (3.02%) SCCM
7 29 (2.19%) Grafana
8 26 (1.97%) Puppet
9 24 (1.81%) Prometheus
10 22 (1.66%) WSUS
11 19 (1.44%) Argo
11 19 (1.44%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (1.06%) Nessus
13 14 (1.06%) Packer
13 14 (1.06%) SCOM
14 13 (0.98%) Data Guard
14 13 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
15 12 (0.91%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.83%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 332 (25.09%) Microsoft
2 309 (23.36%) VMware
3 73 (5.52%) Citrix
4 71 (5.37%) Cisco
5 55 (4.16%) Oracle
6 51 (3.85%) F5
7 46 (3.48%) Google
8 41 (3.10%) NetApp
9 34 (2.57%) Palo Alto
10 33 (2.49%) ServiceNow
10 33 (2.49%) Veeam
11 31 (2.34%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.74%) Aruba
12 23 (1.74%) Dell
13 22 (1.66%) Arista
14 20 (1.51%) Tenable
15 19 (1.44%) Juniper
15 19 (1.44%) Zscaler
16 16 (1.21%) CyberArk
17 13 (0.98%) IBM