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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 158 109
Rank change year-on-year +68 -49 -17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,394 493 719
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 1.77% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 1.95% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 327 528
10th Percentile £356 £325 £313
25th Percentile £450 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% - -
75th Percentile £625 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £671 £685
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 7 17
10th Percentile £49.30 £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 £85.00 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £98.80 £54.20 -
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 39,332 25,280 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.86% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,139 16,057 17,805
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,708 1,495 1,348
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.36 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.88 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +55 421 £550 +3.97% 462
North of England +56 320 £525 +5.00% 165
South East +21 274 £560 +16.06% 175
North West +44 150 £525 - 93
Midlands +31 150 £475 +5.56% 79
South West +31 138 £563 +1.35% 84
Yorkshire +23 120 £500 - 42
West Midlands +9 106 £525 +23.53% 49
East of England +26 77 £513 +33.99% 62
North East +4 60 £600 -7.69% 30
East Midlands +16 42 £450 - 30
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 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.01%) Confluence
4 12 (0.86%) Apache
4 12 (0.86%) CICS
5 8 (0.57%) SAS
6 7 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.29%) nginx
9 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.072%) CMS
12 1 (0.072%) JBoss
12 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.072%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.00%) 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 (0.072%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.072%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.072%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.072%) Houdini
6 1 (0.072%) NUKE
6 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.072%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 477 (34.22%) Azure
2 256 (18.36%) AWS
3 142 (10.19%) Entra ID
4 123 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (7.39%) GCP
6 91 (6.53%) GitHub
7 74 (5.31%) IaaS
8 68 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (4.81%) OCI
10 60 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (3.23%) SaaS
12 37 (2.65%) PaaS
13 36 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
14 30 (2.15%) Azure AKS
15 26 (1.87%) Power Platform
16 25 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
16 25 (1.79%) OpenShift
17 21 (1.51%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 228 (16.36%) DNS
2 218 (15.64%) Firewall
3 141 (10.11%) DHCP
4 91 (6.53%) VPN
5 81 (5.81%) Network Security
6 79 (5.67%) TCP/IP
7 65 (4.66%) SAN
8 64 (4.59%) WAN
9 63 (4.52%) VLAN
10 46 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (2.73%) LAN
12 36 (2.58%) BIG-IP
12 36 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
13 35 (2.51%) SD-WAN
14 34 (2.44%) BGP
15 30 (2.15%) SSL
16 29 (2.08%) OSPF
17 27 (1.94%) VXLAN
18 26 (1.87%) Ethernet VPN
19 23 (1.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.58%) Oracle Exadata
3 20 (1.43%) Power BI
4 19 (1.36%) Data Lake
4 19 (1.36%) Oracle Database
5 17 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.00%) RDBMS
7 13 (0.93%) Metadata
8 12 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.57%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.43%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.29%) Db2
14 4 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 69 (4.95%) GitLab
2 56 (4.02%) Git
3 50 (3.59%) JIRA
4 46 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.14%) Subversion
9 1 (0.072%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.072%) CMake
9 1 (0.072%) Gradle
9 1 (0.072%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.072%) MLflow
9 1 (0.072%) Snyk
9 1 (0.072%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.072%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 236 (16.93%) Social Skills
2 134 (9.61%) Finance
3 102 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 81 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (3.66%) Banking
7 23 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 22 (1.58%) Telecoms
9 19 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.29%) Military
11 17 (1.22%) Retail
12 15 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.93%) Law
15 12 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.79%) Legal
17 10 (0.72%) Automotive
17 10 (0.72%) Marketing
18 5 (0.36%) Billing
18 5 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 885 (63.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 270 (19.37%) Senior
3 214 (15.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 145 (10.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 105 (7.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 92 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (4.95%) Lead
8 68 (4.88%) Network Engineer
9 63 (4.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 58 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 57 (4.09%) Architect
12 51 (3.66%) VMware Engineer
13 45 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
14 41 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (2.65%) Security Engineer
16 36 (2.58%) IT Engineer
16 36 (2.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (2.51%) Support Engineer
18 33 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
19 32 (2.30%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (21.09%) Terraform
2 27 (1.94%) ARM Templates
3 21 (1.51%) REST
4 16 (1.15%) Kafka
5 15 (1.08%) YAML
6 14 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (0.93%) JSON
8 12 (0.86%) 802.1X
8 12 (0.86%) Middleware
8 12 (0.86%) SAML
9 11 (0.79%) LDAP
9 11 (0.79%) OpenID
10 10 (0.72%) Loki
10 10 (0.72%) OAuth
11 8 (0.57%) ModSecurity
12 7 (0.50%) .NET
12 7 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.36%) Flash
13 5 (0.36%) Web Services
14 4 (0.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.90%) Data Centre
2 98 (7.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 58 (4.16%) PKI
5 49 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.44%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.23%) Replication
8 36 (2.58%) Enterprise Storage
9 33 (2.37%) Private Cloud
10 30 (2.15%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.65%) Clustering
12 23 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
13 22 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.15%) Security Posture
17 14 (1.00%) Product Ownership
17 14 (1.00%) Virtual Team
18 13 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 382 (27.40%) Windows
2 268 (19.23%) Linux
3 257 (18.44%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.51%) Unix
6 19 (1.36%) CentOS
6 19 (1.36%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.22%) Android
7 17 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.15%) VMS
9 14 (1.00%) AIX
9 14 (1.00%) Rocky
9 14 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.86%) zOS
11 11 (0.79%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.43%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (25.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 284 (20.37%) DevOps
3 280 (20.09%) CI/CD
4 186 (13.34%) Migration
5 171 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (11.62%) Platform Engineering
7 124 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 120 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 116 (8.32%) Agile
10 115 (8.25%) Infrastructure Automation
11 104 (7.46%) Observability
12 103 (7.39%) High Availability
13 102 (7.32%) AI
13 102 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
14 100 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
15 95 (6.81%) ITIL
16 94 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
17 91 (6.53%) Project Delivery
18 76 (5.45%) Validation
19 75 (5.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 242 (17.36%) PowerShell
2 227 (16.28%) Python
3 117 (8.39%) Bash
4 67 (4.81%) SQL
5 60 (4.30%) Bicep
6 30 (2.15%) Java
7 14 (1.00%) C#
8 12 (0.86%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.72%) ActionScript
9 10 (0.72%) Go
10 9 (0.65%) C++
10 9 (0.65%) Perl
11 7 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.43%) C
13 5 (0.36%) JCL
13 5 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.29%) JavaScript
15 3 (0.22%) Groovy
16 2 (0.14%) Korn
16 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 538 (38.59%) Security Cleared
2 337 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 203 (14.56%) DV Cleared
4 58 (4.16%) Degree
5 41 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.43%) CISSP
10 17 (1.22%) CCNA
10 17 (1.22%) CCNP
10 17 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.93%) MCSE
12 12 (0.86%) VCAP
13 11 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.72%) PMP
15 9 (0.65%) CISM
16 7 (0.50%) MCSA
17 6 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.01%) QA
2 39 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (1.87%) NIST
4 22 (1.58%) NCSC
5 17 (1.22%) SLA
6 15 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (1.00%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.65%) PMO
9 8 (0.57%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.50%) GRC
10 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) GDPR
13 2 (0.14%) IASME
13 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.072%) ISO 19650
14 1 (0.072%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 269 (19.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 260 (18.65%) Active Directory
3 111 (7.96%) Hyper-V
4 80 (5.74%) vSphere
5 79 (5.67%) VMware ESXi
6 73 (5.24%) Docker
7 61 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
8 42 (3.01%) VMware NSX
9 27 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.08%) NFS
10 15 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.79%) Firmware
11 11 (0.79%) KVM
11 11 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.50%) BitLocker
13 6 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.43%) oVirt
14 5 (0.36%) Ceph
14 5 (0.36%) GPFS
14 5 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 193 (13.85%) Ansible
2 179 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 82 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (3.59%) SCCM
5 48 (3.44%) vCenter Server
6 32 (2.30%) Grafana
7 27 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.51%) NetBackup
8 21 (1.51%) Puppet
8 21 (1.51%) WSUS
9 19 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (1.29%) Argo
11 17 (1.22%) Nessus
12 15 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
13 14 (1.00%) Data Guard
13 14 (1.00%) SCOM
14 12 (0.86%) Packer
15 10 (0.72%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.72%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 354 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 344 (24.68%) VMware
3 80 (5.74%) Cisco
4 66 (4.73%) Citrix
5 56 (4.02%) Oracle
6 54 (3.87%) F5
7 48 (3.44%) NetApp
8 43 (3.08%) Google
9 38 (2.73%) Palo Alto
9 38 (2.73%) Red Hat
10 37 (2.65%) Veeam
11 30 (2.15%) ServiceNow
12 24 (1.72%) Arista
12 24 (1.72%) Dell
13 22 (1.58%) Aruba
14 20 (1.43%) Juniper
14 20 (1.43%) Tenable
15 18 (1.29%) Zscaler
16 16 (1.15%) CyberArk
16 16 (1.15%) IBM