Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 91 121
Rank change year-on-year -44 +30 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 518 881 1,090
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.13% 2.37% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.74% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 655 829
10th Percentile £310 £286 £332
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -6.31% +6.74%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £707
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 35 18
10th Percentile £24.18 £21.25 £40.34
25th Percentile £51.06 £37.63 £52.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £63.84
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% -27.66% +27.68%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.59 £78.00
90th Percentile £200.00 £70.00 £80.96
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £61.62
% change year-on-year +35.34% -25.05% +23.23%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -43 190 £525 +0.48% 214
North of England +7 101 £525 +23.53% 104
South East -24 90 £550 +22.22% 140
South West -3 63 £569 +13.75% 68
Yorkshire +25 51 £525 +38.16% 30
North West -15 44 £525 +23.53% 63
Midlands +3 34 £400 -4.48% 63
East of England +17 26 £473 -10.00% 59
West Midlands -7 23 £323 -24.12% 38
East Midlands +13 11 £450 +33.33% 20
North East +6 11 £650 +48.57% 14
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 70 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (8.88%) SharePoint
3 36 (6.95%) Confluence
4 15 (2.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.16%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.58%) IIS
7 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) Apache
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
8 2 (0.39%) Traefik
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Mattermost
Applications
1 36 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (37.64%) Azure
2 120 (23.17%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (19.31%) Entra ID
4 93 (17.95%) AWS
5 56 (10.81%) IaaS
6 23 (4.44%) OpenShift
6 23 (4.44%) PaaS
7 22 (4.25%) GCP
8 19 (3.67%) SaaS
9 17 (3.28%) GitHub
10 14 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.51%) OneDrive
12 10 (1.93%) Google Workspace
12 10 (1.93%) Nutanix
13 8 (1.54%) Serverless
14 6 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.16%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 128 (24.71%) DNS
2 100 (19.31%) Firewall
3 74 (14.29%) DHCP
4 37 (7.14%) VPN
5 33 (6.37%) Network Security
5 33 (6.37%) SAN
6 32 (6.18%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (5.41%) TCP/IP
8 27 (5.21%) WAN
9 25 (4.83%) LAN
10 18 (3.47%) MPLS
11 14 (2.70%) Wireless
12 13 (2.51%) NAS
13 11 (2.12%) SSL
14 10 (1.93%) Internet
14 10 (1.93%) SD-WAN
14 10 (1.93%) VLAN
15 9 (1.74%) HTTP
15 9 (1.74%) SMTP
15 9 (1.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.83%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.05%) Oracle Database
3 15 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.54%) Big Data
5 8 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.58%) DB2
6 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.39%) Power BI
7 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.19%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.19%) MySQL
8 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (7.72%) JIRA
2 30 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.25%) GitLab
4 16 (3.09%) Git
5 15 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.93%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.58%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.39%) GoogleTest
8 2 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) TestNG
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.32%) Finance
3 54 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.86%) Banking
6 15 (2.90%) Legal
7 14 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.93%) Military
11 6 (1.16%) Marketing
11 6 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.97%) Spanish Language
13 4 (0.77%) Electronics
13 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Retail
14 3 (0.58%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 341 (65.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 67 (12.93%) Senior
3 55 (10.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (4.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 24 (4.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (4.63%) Lead
5 24 (4.63%) Network Engineer
6 23 (4.44%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (4.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (4.25%) Infrastructure Support
7 22 (4.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 22 (4.25%) Support Engineer
8 21 (4.05%) IT Engineer
9 20 (3.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 20 (3.86%) Linux Engineer
10 19 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (3.67%) VMware Engineer
10 19 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (3.47%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.70%) Flash
2 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (1.35%) Kafka
4 6 (1.16%) REST
4 6 (1.16%) SOAP
5 5 (0.97%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.77%) .NET
7 3 (0.58%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.58%) HTML
7 3 (0.58%) LDAP
7 3 (0.58%) Middleware
7 3 (0.58%) Node.js
8 2 (0.39%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.39%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.39%) CSS
8 2 (0.39%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.39%) pytest
8 2 (0.39%) RESTful
8 2 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.07%) Data Centre
2 33 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (5.98%) Clustering
4 28 (5.41%) PKI
5 19 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.54%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.16%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.16%) Replication
13 6 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.58%) NHS
15 3 (0.58%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 280 (54.05%) Windows
2 196 (37.84%) Windows Server
3 136 (26.25%) Linux
4 49 (9.46%) Windows 10
5 27 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (3.28%) Unix
8 16 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.70%) VMS
10 12 (2.32%) CentOS
10 12 (2.32%) Ubuntu
11 7 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.58%) AIX
12 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.39%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.19%) Android
14 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (19.50%) Agile
2 75 (14.48%) Migration
2 75 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (14.29%) DevOps
4 59 (11.39%) ITIL
5 55 (10.62%) CI/CD
6 42 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (7.53%) High Availability
8 36 (6.95%) Project Delivery
9 34 (6.56%) Server Management
10 33 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (6.18%) Containerisation
12 31 (5.98%) Validation
13 29 (5.60%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (5.60%) Microservices
14 27 (5.21%) ITSM
14 27 (5.21%) Service Management
15 25 (4.83%) Computer Science
15 25 (4.83%) Waterfall
16 24 (4.63%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (26.83%) PowerShell
2 79 (15.25%) Python
3 52 (10.04%) Bash
4 48 (9.27%) SQL
5 26 (5.02%) Perl
6 17 (3.28%) PL/SQL
7 11 (2.12%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.93%) Groovy
8 10 (1.93%) Java
9 7 (1.35%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.97%) C#
10 5 (0.97%) C++
11 3 (0.58%) Bicep
11 3 (0.58%) Go
11 3 (0.58%) Ruby
12 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) VBA
13 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 178 (34.36%) Security Cleared
2 125 (24.13%) SC Cleared
3 67 (12.93%) DV Cleared
4 56 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
5 52 (10.04%) Degree
6 27 (5.21%) CCNA
7 26 (5.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 21 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (3.28%) CCNP
10 14 (2.70%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.32%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.54%) MCSE
13 7 (1.35%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.97%) VCAP
15 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (1.74%) QA
2 8 (1.54%) SLA
3 7 (1.35%) NCSC
3 7 (1.35%) NIST
4 3 (0.58%) PMO
5 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.39%) DICOM
5 2 (0.39%) GDPR
5 2 (0.39%) HL7
5 2 (0.39%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.19%) GRC
6 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 228 (44.02%) Active Directory
2 130 (25.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (12.55%) Hyper-V
4 49 (9.46%) VMware ESXi
5 48 (9.27%) Docker
6 33 (6.37%) vSphere
7 32 (6.18%) VMware NSX
8 20 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (2.51%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (2.32%) BitLocker
11 9 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (1.54%) Terminal Services
13 6 (1.16%) DFS Replication
13 6 (1.16%) Firmware
13 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.19%) NFS
14 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 76 (14.67%) Terraform
2 72 (13.90%) Ansible
3 66 (12.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (10.62%) Kubernetes
5 53 (10.23%) vCenter Server
6 40 (7.72%) SCCM
7 32 (6.18%) Puppet
8 23 (4.44%) WSUS
9 14 (2.70%) Progress Chef
9 14 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.12%) Nessus
11 9 (1.74%) Nagios
11 9 (1.74%) VxRail
12 8 (1.54%) vMotion
13 7 (1.35%) FortiGate
13 7 (1.35%) NetBackup
13 7 (1.35%) vRealize
14 6 (1.16%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.97%) SCOM
16 4 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 206 (39.77%) VMware
2 191 (36.87%) Microsoft
3 104 (20.08%) Cisco
4 39 (7.53%) Dell
5 30 (5.79%) Atlassian
6 29 (5.60%) Google
7 28 (5.41%) Citrix
7 28 (5.41%) Oracle
7 28 (5.41%) Red Hat
8 27 (5.21%) HP
9 20 (3.86%) Veeam
10 17 (3.28%) Meraki
11 13 (2.51%) Fortinet
12 12 (2.32%) Symantec
13 11 (2.12%) Palo Alto
13 11 (2.12%) Splunk
14 9 (1.74%) SolarWinds
14 9 (1.74%) Wyse
15 8 (1.54%) F5
16 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow