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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 157 105
Rank change year-on-year +67 -52 -17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,372 499 729
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 1.82% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.01% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 329 541
10th Percentile £356 £325 £313
25th Percentile £450 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% - -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 7 19
10th Percentile £49.10 £27.80 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £84.01 £46.84 -
90th Percentile £99.60 £68.41 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.67% -57.14% -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 38,940 24,864 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 90.76% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,004 15,800 17,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,613 1,459 1,377
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.24 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.88
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.35% +3.33%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +46 420 £550 +4.76% 500
North of England +57 313 £525 +5.00% 146
South East +12 272 £550 +13.99% 158
North West +32 148 £525 - 76
Midlands +28 144 £475 +5.56% 78
South West +31 142 £555 -0.05% 90
Yorkshire +22 119 £500 - 40
West Midlands +8 102 £525 +16.67% 50
East of England +14 67 £510 +27.50% 62
North East +4 56 £600 -7.69% 31
East Midlands +12 40 £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 60 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.90%) Confluence
4 12 (0.87%) Apache
4 12 (0.87%) CICS
5 7 (0.51%) SAS
5 7 (0.51%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.29%) nginx
8 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.073%) CMS
11 1 (0.073%) IIS
11 1 (0.073%) JBoss
11 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.073%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.073%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.073%) Houdini
6 1 (0.073%) NUKE
6 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 472 (34.40%) Azure
2 253 (18.44%) AWS
3 133 (9.69%) Entra ID
4 123 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (7.51%) GCP
6 93 (6.78%) GitHub
7 72 (5.25%) IaaS
8 70 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (4.96%) OCI
10 60 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.35%) SaaS
12 35 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (2.55%) PaaS
13 29 (2.11%) Azure AKS
14 25 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
15 24 (1.75%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.68%) Power Platform
17 21 (1.53%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 225 (16.40%) DNS
2 214 (15.60%) Firewall
3 138 (10.06%) DHCP
4 91 (6.63%) VPN
5 77 (5.61%) Network Security
5 77 (5.61%) TCP/IP
6 64 (4.66%) WAN
7 63 (4.59%) SAN
8 61 (4.45%) VLAN
9 46 (3.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 38 (2.77%) LAN
11 36 (2.62%) BIG-IP
12 35 (2.55%) SD-WAN
12 35 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (2.48%) BGP
14 29 (2.11%) OSPF
15 28 (2.04%) SSL
16 27 (1.97%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
18 23 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.60%) Oracle Exadata
3 19 (1.38%) Oracle Database
4 17 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 17 (1.24%) Power BI
4 17 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.02%) RDBMS
6 12 (0.87%) Metadata
6 12 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.51%) Pentaho
11 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.29%) Db2
13 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (5.10%) GitLab
2 54 (3.94%) Git
3 46 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 44 (3.21%) JIRA
5 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.073%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.073%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.073%) Gradle
8 1 (0.073%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.073%) Maven
8 1 (0.073%) MLflow
8 1 (0.073%) MSI
8 1 (0.073%) Snyk
8 1 (0.073%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
General
1 229 (16.69%) Social Skills
2 126 (9.18%) Finance
3 103 (7.51%) Public Sector
4 79 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (3.72%) Banking
7 22 (1.60%) Manufacturing
7 22 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.46%) Military
9 19 (1.38%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.24%) Retail
11 15 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.95%) Law
14 11 (0.80%) Legal
15 10 (0.73%) Automotive
15 10 (0.73%) Marketing
15 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.36%) Aviation
16 5 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 879 (64.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 271 (19.75%) Senior
3 214 (15.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 142 (10.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 102 (7.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 91 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (5.03%) Network Engineer
8 67 (4.88%) Lead
9 65 (4.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 55 (4.01%) Architect
11 53 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 50 (3.64%) VMware Engineer
13 43 (3.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 43 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (2.55%) IT Engineer
14 35 (2.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 34 (2.48%) Security Engineer
15 34 (2.48%) Support Engineer
16 32 (2.33%) Infrastructure Support
16 32 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (21.06%) Terraform
2 25 (1.82%) ARM Templates
3 21 (1.53%) REST
4 16 (1.17%) Kafka
4 16 (1.17%) YAML
5 14 (1.02%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 12 (0.87%) 802.1X
7 11 (0.80%) JSON
7 11 (0.80%) OpenID
7 11 (0.80%) SAML
8 10 (0.73%) Loki
8 10 (0.73%) Middleware
8 10 (0.73%) OAuth
9 8 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.58%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.51%) LDAP
11 6 (0.44%) .NET
11 6 (0.44%) SOAP
12 5 (0.36%) Flash
13 4 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.77%) Data Centre
2 96 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 58 (4.23%) PKI
5 47 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 46 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 43 (3.13%) Replication
8 35 (2.55%) Enterprise Storage
9 33 (2.41%) Private Cloud
10 29 (2.11%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.68%) Clustering
13 22 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
14 20 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (1.02%) Product Ownership
16 14 (1.02%) Security Posture
17 13 (0.95%) Mainframe
18 12 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 371 (27.04%) Windows
2 252 (18.37%) Windows Server
3 251 (18.29%) Linux
4 55 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.46%) Unix
6 19 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.31%) CentOS
7 18 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.31%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.24%) Android
8 17 (1.24%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.09%) VMS
10 14 (1.02%) AIX
10 14 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.95%) Rocky
12 12 (0.87%) zOS
13 11 (0.80%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.44%) Debian
15 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 273 (19.90%) DevOps
3 266 (19.39%) CI/CD
4 182 (13.27%) Migration
5 161 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (11.37%) Platform Engineering
7 120 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 114 (8.31%) Infrastructure Automation
9 112 (8.16%) Agile
10 109 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 104 (7.58%) High Availability
12 103 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
13 100 (7.29%) AI
13 100 (7.29%) Observability
14 97 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
15 92 (6.71%) ITIL
16 87 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
17 84 (6.12%) Project Delivery
18 76 (5.54%) Validation
18 76 (5.54%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 237 (17.27%) PowerShell
2 226 (16.47%) Python
3 117 (8.53%) Bash
4 61 (4.45%) SQL
5 58 (4.23%) Bicep
6 29 (2.11%) Java
7 15 (1.09%) C#
8 11 (0.80%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.73%) ActionScript
9 10 (0.73%) Go
10 9 (0.66%) C++
11 8 (0.58%) Perl
12 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.44%) C
14 5 (0.36%) JCL
15 4 (0.29%) JavaScript
15 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.15%) Groovy
16 2 (0.15%) Korn
16 2 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 528 (38.48%) Security Cleared
2 334 (24.34%) SC Cleared
3 195 (14.21%) DV Cleared
4 58 (4.23%) Degree
5 41 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.53%) CISSP
8 21 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.31%) CCNA
10 18 (1.31%) CCNP
11 16 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.95%) MCSE
13 12 (0.87%) VCAP
14 10 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.66%) CISM
15 9 (0.66%) PMP
16 7 (0.51%) MCSA
17 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.99%) QA
2 39 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.82%) NIST
4 23 (1.68%) NCSC
5 18 (1.31%) SLA
6 15 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.58%) JSP 440
9 7 (0.51%) GRC
9 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.51%) PMO
10 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.22%) GDPR
11 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.15%) IASME
12 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.073%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.073%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 262 (19.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 248 (18.08%) Active Directory
3 109 (7.94%) Hyper-V
4 76 (5.54%) vSphere
5 75 (5.47%) VMware ESXi
6 71 (5.17%) Docker
7 57 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
8 42 (3.06%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
11 13 (0.95%) NFS
12 11 (0.80%) Firmware
12 11 (0.80%) KVM
13 10 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.51%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.36%) Ceph
16 5 (0.36%) GPFS
16 5 (0.36%) oVirt
16 5 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 189 (13.78%) Ansible
2 175 (12.76%) Kubernetes
3 78 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (3.43%) SCCM
4 47 (3.43%) vCenter Server
5 31 (2.26%) Grafana
6 26 (1.90%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.60%) WSUS
8 21 (1.53%) NetBackup
9 19 (1.38%) Argo
9 19 (1.38%) Puppet
10 18 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.09%) Nessus
11 15 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
11 15 (1.09%) SCOM
12 14 (1.02%) Data Guard
13 12 (0.87%) Packer
14 11 (0.80%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.73%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.58%) systemd
Vendors
1 345 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 335 (24.42%) VMware
3 79 (5.76%) Cisco
4 66 (4.81%) Citrix
5 57 (4.15%) Oracle
6 54 (3.94%) F5
7 44 (3.21%) NetApp
8 43 (3.13%) Google
9 38 (2.77%) Palo Alto
10 36 (2.62%) Veeam
11 34 (2.48%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.19%) ServiceNow
13 24 (1.75%) Arista
14 22 (1.60%) Aruba
15 21 (1.53%) Dell
16 20 (1.46%) Juniper
17 19 (1.38%) Tenable
18 18 (1.31%) Zscaler
19 16 (1.17%) CyberArk
20 15 (1.09%) IBM