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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 125 90
Rank change year-on-year +7 -35 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 854 524 898
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 2.14% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.35% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 372 669
10th Percentile £350 £310 £286
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +9.38% -4.95%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 9 35
10th Percentile £38.80 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -28.95%
75th Percentile £78.75 £73.75 £60.59
90th Percentile £79.25 £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -26.32%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -14 243 £540 +2.86% 88
North of England -9 169 £487 -7.24% 92
South East -9 160 £525 -4.55% 90
South West +9 123 £550 -2.22% 46
Yorkshire -11 107 £475 -9.52% 28
Midlands -19 84 £450 +12.50% 51
East of England +2 58 £475 -10.38% 24
North West -35 55 £525 +0.02% 46
West Midlands -36 48 £500 +44.93% 37
East Midlands -10 36 £450 - 12
North East -14 8 £500 +36.99% 19
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 63 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.41%) Confluence
4 11 (1.29%) Apache
5 8 (0.94%) TPMS
6 6 (0.70%) IIS
7 4 (0.47%) CICS
7 4 (0.47%) SAS
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Maximo
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 262 (30.68%) Azure
2 130 (15.22%) AWS
3 92 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (8.55%) Entra ID
5 61 (7.14%) GCP
6 55 (6.44%) GitHub
7 46 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (5.39%) IaaS
8 40 (4.68%) PaaS
9 35 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (3.98%) Serverless
11 33 (3.86%) OpenShift
12 29 (3.40%) Azure AKS
13 28 (3.28%) SaaS
14 26 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (2.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 24 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 20 (2.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 123 (14.40%) Firewall
2 111 (13.00%) DNS
3 66 (7.73%) DHCP
4 62 (7.26%) VPN
5 45 (5.27%) Network Security
6 36 (4.22%) SAN
7 32 (3.75%) WAN
8 30 (3.51%) VLAN
9 29 (3.40%) LAN
10 28 (3.28%) TCP/IP
11 18 (2.11%) NAS
12 17 (1.99%) SSL
13 16 (1.87%) MPLS
14 13 (1.52%) BGP
14 13 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
14 13 (1.52%) iSCSI
15 12 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 12 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (1.17%) SNMP
16 10 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.17%) DynamoDB
2 10 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.82%) Power BI
5 6 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.47%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.47%) DB2
7 4 (0.47%) Metadata
8 3 (0.35%) Big Data
8 3 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.35%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.35%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (3.98%) Jenkins
2 33 (3.86%) GitLab
3 28 (3.28%) Git
3 28 (3.28%) JIRA
4 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.12%) GoCD
6 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.12%) Introscope
6 1 (0.12%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.12%) MSI
6 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 142 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 87 (10.19%) Finance
3 75 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.92%) Banking
6 30 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.58%) Military
8 18 (2.11%) Legal
9 12 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.29%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.17%) Retail
12 9 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.82%) Billing
13 7 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.47%) Front Office
16 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.35%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 543 (63.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 122 (14.29%) Senior
3 84 (9.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 59 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 45 (5.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 38 (4.45%) Network Engineer
8 37 (4.33%) VMware Engineer
9 34 (3.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
10 32 (3.75%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (3.63%) Architect
11 31 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (2.93%) IT Engineer
13 25 (2.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (2.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 22 (2.58%) Support Engineer
15 21 (2.46%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.04%) REST
2 16 (1.87%) SOAP
3 14 (1.64%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.29%) OAuth
4 11 (1.29%) SAML
5 9 (1.05%) OAuth2
5 9 (1.05%) OpenID
5 9 (1.05%) Web Services
6 8 (0.94%) Kafka
6 8 (0.94%) LDAP
7 7 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.59%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.59%) Middleware
9 4 (0.47%) ADO
9 4 (0.47%) JSON
9 4 (0.47%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.47%) RESTful
9 4 (0.47%) WSDL
10 3 (0.35%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.27%) Data Centre
2 44 (5.15%) PKI
3 40 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 31 (3.63%) Private Cloud
6 29 (3.40%) Cloud Native
7 27 (3.16%) Replication
8 26 (3.04%) Enterprise Storage
9 25 (2.93%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.52%) Clustering
13 11 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.05%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.94%) DataPower
16 7 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.82%) CCTV
16 7 (0.82%) Operational Technology
16 7 (0.82%) Product Ownership
17 6 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 256 (29.98%) Windows
2 155 (18.15%) Windows Server
3 141 (16.51%) Linux
4 24 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.87%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.87%) VMS
7 15 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (1.64%) Android
8 14 (1.64%) Unix
9 13 (1.52%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.94%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.59%) CentOS
13 4 (0.47%) Debian
13 4 (0.47%) zOS
14 2 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (20.84%) DevOps
2 155 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 146 (17.10%) CI/CD
4 128 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (12.41%) Migration
6 89 (10.42%) Agile
7 82 (9.60%) Platform Engineering
8 78 (9.13%) Containerisation
9 70 (8.20%) Infrastructure Automation
10 68 (7.96%) High Availability
11 65 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
11 65 (7.61%) ITIL
12 59 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
13 53 (6.21%) Project Delivery
14 49 (5.74%) Observability
15 48 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
16 44 (5.15%) Zero Trust
17 43 (5.04%) Cloud Security
18 40 (4.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 141 (16.51%) PowerShell
2 118 (13.82%) Python
3 56 (6.56%) Bash
4 34 (3.98%) SQL
5 31 (3.63%) Bicep
6 25 (2.93%) Shell Script
7 15 (1.76%) C#
8 14 (1.64%) Java
9 9 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.05%) PHP
10 7 (0.82%) Ruby
11 4 (0.47%) C++
11 4 (0.47%) Go
11 4 (0.47%) Groovy
11 4 (0.47%) JCL
11 4 (0.47%) Perl
12 2 (0.23%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 319 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 199 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 127 (14.87%) DV Cleared
4 38 (4.45%) Degree
5 28 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.11%) CISSP
8 17 (1.99%) CCNA
9 15 (1.76%) CISM
9 15 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.41%) CCNP
12 9 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.94%) FFIEC
14 6 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.59%) GIAC
15 5 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.75%) NIST
2 25 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.99%) GDPR
4 16 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.76%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.17%) NCSC
6 10 (1.17%) SLA
7 9 (1.05%) QA
8 8 (0.94%) GLBA
8 8 (0.94%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 171 (20.02%) Active Directory
2 170 (19.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (8.67%) Hyper-V
4 69 (8.08%) Docker
5 48 (5.62%) vSphere
6 43 (5.04%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (2.81%) VMware NSX
8 20 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.52%) NFS
10 10 (1.17%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.94%) Firmware
12 7 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.47%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.35%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.23%) Postfix
15 2 (0.23%) SRDF
15 2 (0.23%) UAG
15 2 (0.23%) Varnish
15 2 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 166 (19.44%) Terraform
2 142 (16.63%) Kubernetes
3 88 (10.30%) Ansible
4 67 (7.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (5.04%) SCCM
6 37 (4.33%) vCenter Server
7 22 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.99%) Grafana
8 17 (1.99%) Puppet
9 15 (1.76%) Prometheus
10 13 (1.52%) SCOM
10 13 (1.52%) WSUS
11 11 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (1.29%) Packer
12 10 (1.17%) Istio
12 10 (1.17%) Progress Chef
13 9 (1.05%) Nessus
13 9 (1.05%) VxRail
14 8 (0.94%) Argo
14 8 (0.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 231 (27.05%) Microsoft
2 220 (25.76%) VMware
3 55 (6.44%) Cisco
4 53 (6.21%) Citrix
5 38 (4.45%) NetApp
6 32 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 31 (3.63%) Dell
7 31 (3.63%) Google
7 31 (3.63%) Veeam
8 28 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 26 (3.04%) Fortinet
10 20 (2.34%) F5
11 19 (2.22%) Palo Alto
11 19 (2.22%) Splunk
12 17 (1.99%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.87%) IBM
14 12 (1.41%) Oracle
14 12 (1.41%) Thales
15 10 (1.17%) EMC
16 9 (1.05%) Juniper