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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 121 85
Rank change year-on-year -49 -36 +45
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 528 626 1,003
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 2.02% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.33% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 429 727
10th Percentile £294 £329 £319
25th Percentile £381 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 41
10th Percentile £26.30 £51.69 £23.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £59.85 £37.08
Median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% +4.07% +22.30%
75th Percentile £43.86 - £76.53
90th Percentile £73.76 £91.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% - +27.27%

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 27,308 26,910 34,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.41% 86.73% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,359 16,435 23,883
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,779 970 1,470
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.70 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.87 £74.04 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -45 202 £525 -4.55% 229
South East -16 107 £450 -3.90% 154
North of England -21 76 £500 +5.26% 71
South West -12 58 £553 +0.45% 78
Midlands -46 44 £450 -11.76% 73
Yorkshire -15 37 £500 +5.26% 29
North West -27 36 £472 +2.05% 35
West Midlands -27 35 £450 -21.74% 51
East of England -16 26 £406 -4.41% 46
East Midlands -24 9 £415 -7.78% 22
North East -6 4 £466 - 8
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 36 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.03%) Confluence
3 11 (2.08%) Apache
4 9 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.52%) IIS
6 7 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.95%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.76%) TPMS
9 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.38%) iPlanet
9 2 (0.38%) JBoss
9 2 (0.38%) nginx
9 2 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.38%) Traefik
10 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.57%) Maximo
2 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 207 (39.20%) Azure
2 107 (20.27%) AWS
3 72 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (12.69%) Entra ID
5 37 (7.01%) GitHub
6 35 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (5.68%) GCP
8 25 (4.73%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (4.36%) PaaS
11 22 (4.17%) SaaS
12 21 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.98%) IaaS
13 20 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (3.03%) Google Workspace
15 16 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (2.84%) Serverless
17 13 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (2.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 111 (21.02%) Firewall
2 85 (16.10%) DNS
3 57 (10.80%) TCP/IP
4 51 (9.66%) VPN
5 47 (8.90%) DHCP
6 38 (7.20%) VLAN
6 38 (7.20%) WAN
7 32 (6.06%) Network Security
7 32 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
8 31 (5.87%) SSL
9 25 (4.73%) LAN
10 22 (4.17%) SAN
11 13 (2.46%) Wireless
12 11 (2.08%) 4G
12 11 (2.08%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.33%) BGP
14 6 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (1.14%) HTTP
14 6 (1.14%) SMTP
14 6 (1.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.14%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.14%) Power BI
3 5 (0.95%) Oracle Database
3 5 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.76%) MySQL
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.57%) Big Data
5 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (0.57%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.19%) Looker
Development Applications
1 36 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.30%) JIRA
3 24 (4.55%) Git
3 24 (4.55%) GitLab
4 5 (0.95%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.57%) Log4j
5 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.38%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.19%) CMake
7 1 (0.19%) GoCD
7 1 (0.19%) Gradle
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) MSI
7 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 83 (15.72%) Finance
3 51 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.36%) Banking
6 21 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.65%) Military
9 9 (1.70%) Legal
10 8 (1.52%) Law
11 7 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.33%) Retail
11 7 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.14%) Local Government
12 6 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.95%) Aviation
13 5 (0.95%) Marketing
13 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.95%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 344 (65.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 73 (13.83%) Senior
3 52 (9.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (8.90%) Infrastructure Support
5 45 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (8.52%) Support Engineer
6 40 (7.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 39 (7.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 38 (7.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 36 (6.82%) Network Engineer
10 34 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (4.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
13 20 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.79%) Windows Engineer
14 19 (3.60%) IT Engineer
14 19 (3.60%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (3.60%) Security Engineer
15 17 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.22%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.41%) SAML
2 17 (3.22%) Middleware
3 14 (2.65%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.65%) YAML
4 12 (2.27%) OAuth
4 12 (2.27%) OpenID
5 10 (1.89%) Kafka
6 8 (1.52%) REST
7 7 (1.33%) ADO
7 7 (1.33%) LDAP
7 7 (1.33%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.33%) RESTful
8 6 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.14%) JMS
8 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.95%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.76%) gRPC
11 3 (0.57%) AWT
11 3 (0.57%) JDBC
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.06%) Data Centre
1 32 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (4.73%) Replication
3 22 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.60%) PKI
5 17 (3.22%) Private Cloud
6 13 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.52%) Clustering
9 8 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.33%) NHS
11 6 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 205 (38.83%) Windows
2 123 (23.30%) Linux
3 101 (19.13%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.73%) Windows 10
6 24 (4.55%) Unix
7 13 (2.46%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.89%) VMS
9 9 (1.70%) CentOS
9 9 (1.70%) Mac OS
10 7 (1.33%) Android
11 6 (1.14%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.57%) SUSE
15 2 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.19%) AIX
16 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (20.64%) DevOps
1 109 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (16.48%) CI/CD
4 65 (12.31%) Migration
5 61 (11.55%) ITIL
6 58 (10.98%) Agile
7 45 (8.52%) High Availability
8 44 (8.33%) Containerisation
9 41 (7.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 36 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
12 31 (5.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (5.87%) Observability
13 30 (5.68%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (5.30%) RBAC
15 26 (4.92%) Identity Access Management
15 26 (4.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (4.73%) Analytics
17 23 (4.36%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (21.02%) Python
2 98 (18.56%) PowerShell
3 58 (10.98%) Bash
4 23 (4.36%) SQL
5 22 (4.17%) Java
6 17 (3.22%) Bicep
7 14 (2.65%) Go
7 14 (2.65%) Perl
8 12 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.57%) C++
9 3 (0.57%) Groovy
9 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.19%) PHP
11 1 (0.19%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 101 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 63 (11.93%) DV Cleared
4 36 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 30 (5.68%) Degree
6 29 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.41%) Network+ Certification
9 14 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.46%) CCNA
10 13 (2.46%) CCNP
11 12 (2.27%) Server+ Certification
12 9 (1.70%) CISSP
13 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.52%) CISM
14 7 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.76%) FFIEC
17 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.46%) GDPR
2 12 (2.27%) SLA
3 10 (1.89%) NIST
4 9 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.14%) QA
6 5 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.76%) GLBA
8 3 (0.57%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) COBIT
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (24.05%) Active Directory
2 91 (17.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (10.42%) Docker
4 48 (9.09%) Hyper-V
5 38 (7.20%) vSphere
6 28 (5.30%) VMware ESXi
7 26 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.70%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.57%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.38%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.38%) Firmware
12 2 (0.38%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 1 (0.19%) etcd
13 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.19%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 124 (23.48%) Terraform
2 73 (13.83%) Ansible
3 58 (10.98%) Kubernetes
4 55 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (9.85%) SCCM
6 24 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (3.98%) vCenter Server
8 19 (3.60%) Grafana
9 17 (3.22%) FortiGate
9 17 (3.22%) Prometheus
10 12 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
11 11 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (1.52%) SCOM
14 7 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
14 7 (1.33%) vRealize
15 6 (1.14%) CASB
15 6 (1.14%) SCOrch
15 6 (1.14%) Tivoli
16 5 (0.95%) Argo
Vendors
1 164 (31.06%) Microsoft
2 142 (26.89%) VMware
3 36 (6.82%) Palo Alto
4 35 (6.63%) Cisco
5 34 (6.44%) Red Hat
6 33 (6.25%) Google
7 30 (5.68%) F5
8 29 (5.49%) Dell
9 24 (4.55%) ServiceNow
10 20 (3.79%) CheckPoint
10 20 (3.79%) Citrix
11 18 (3.41%) Splunk
11 18 (3.41%) Veeam
12 16 (3.03%) SolarWinds
13 15 (2.84%) IBM
14 14 (2.65%) Oracle
15 13 (2.46%) Aruba
15 13 (2.46%) Fortinet
15 13 (2.46%) Zscaler
16 11 (2.08%) HP