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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 111 90
Rank change year-on-year -52 -21 +39
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 481 700 1,112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.75% 2.15% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.50% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 510 819
10th Percentile £325 £320 £325
25th Percentile £385 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £614
90th Percentile £669 £685 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 37
10th Percentile £27.80 - £33.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% - +47.87%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £78.00
90th Percentile £54.20 - £78.80
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% - +47.87%

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 25,024 27,970 37,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.03% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,893 17,419 26,295
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,490 1,309 1,438
10th Percentile £14.37 £14.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%
75th Percentile £49.31 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -33 183 £525 - 111
South East -10 103 £483 +3.43% 125
North of England -12 73 £500 +11.11% 97
Midlands -19 46 £450 -10.89% 54
South West -28 42 £555 +5.71% 45
West Midlands -7 39 £425 -24.44% 22
Yorkshire -1 38 £500 +11.11% 30
North West -21 36 £525 +20.00% 52
East of England +7 21 £379 +4.48% 33
East Midlands -17 7 £465 +0.54% 31
North East - 5 £650 - 16
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 35 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (5.82%) Confluence
3 10 (2.08%) Apache
3 10 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.46%) IIS
5 5 (1.04%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.62%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.42%) iPlanet
7 2 (0.42%) JBoss
7 2 (0.42%) Traefik
8 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) TPMS
Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Maximo
1 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 172 (35.76%) Azure
2 97 (20.17%) AWS
3 63 (13.10%) Entra ID
4 56 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (8.94%) IaaS
6 34 (7.07%) GCP
7 28 (5.82%) GitHub
8 27 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (5.41%) PaaS
9 26 (5.41%) SaaS
10 19 (3.95%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (3.33%) OpenShift
13 15 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.12%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (2.91%) Google Workspace
15 11 (2.29%) Serverless
16 10 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 107 (22.25%) Firewall
2 97 (20.17%) DNS
3 59 (12.27%) VPN
4 58 (12.06%) DHCP
5 53 (11.02%) TCP/IP
6 35 (7.28%) Network Security
7 33 (6.86%) WAN
8 30 (6.24%) SAN
8 30 (6.24%) SSL
9 26 (5.41%) VLAN
10 24 (4.99%) LAN
11 17 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (3.12%) Wireless
13 14 (2.91%) SMTP
14 11 (2.29%) SD-WAN
15 9 (1.87%) NAS
16 6 (1.25%) 4G
16 6 (1.25%) HTTP
16 6 (1.25%) VSAN
17 5 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.66%) Big Data
2 8 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.25%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.83%) Power BI
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Looker
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.21%) Parquet
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.21%) UniData
Development Applications
1 41 (8.52%) JIRA
2 36 (7.48%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.82%) Git
4 23 (4.78%) GitLab
5 10 (2.08%) ScriptRunner
6 7 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.04%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.62%) Log4j
8 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.42%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (0.42%) Postman
9 2 (0.42%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.21%) CMake
10 1 (0.21%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.21%) GoCD
10 1 (0.21%) Gradle
10 1 (0.21%) JIRA Agile
10 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 117 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 74 (15.38%) Finance
3 56 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.33%) Banking
6 14 (2.91%) Military
7 12 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.66%) Law
8 8 (1.66%) Retail
9 7 (1.46%) Legal
9 7 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.46%) Marketing
10 6 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.04%) Local Government
11 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 331 (68.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 78 (16.22%) Senior
3 62 (12.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (8.73%) Support Engineer
5 41 (8.52%) Infrastructure Support
6 36 (7.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 36 (7.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (7.28%) Azure Engineer
8 30 (6.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 29 (6.03%) Network Engineer
10 25 (5.20%) VMware Engineer
11 22 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 19 (3.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (3.95%) IT Engineer
14 17 (3.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (3.33%) Security Engineer
15 16 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
16 15 (3.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.12%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.95%) Middleware
2 12 (2.49%) YAML
3 11 (2.29%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.87%) Kafka
4 9 (1.87%) REST
5 7 (1.46%) ADO
5 7 (1.46%) LDAP
5 7 (1.46%) OAuth
5 7 (1.46%) RESTful
5 7 (1.46%) SAML
6 6 (1.25%) JMS
7 5 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.04%) GraphQL
8 4 (0.83%) SOAP
9 3 (0.62%) AWT
9 3 (0.62%) gRPC
9 3 (0.62%) JDBC
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 3 (0.62%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 31 (6.44%) Data Centre
3 27 (5.61%) PKI
4 17 (3.53%) Replication
5 15 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.70%) Clustering
7 11 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.08%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.83%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 195 (40.54%) Windows
2 116 (24.12%) Linux
3 106 (22.04%) Windows Server
4 23 (4.78%) Windows 10
5 16 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (3.12%) Unix
7 14 (2.91%) Ubuntu
8 13 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (2.49%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (1.87%) CentOS
12 7 (1.46%) Mac OS
13 5 (1.04%) VMS
14 4 (0.83%) Android
14 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.21%) AIX
16 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.21%) SUSE
16 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (20.37%) DevOps
2 94 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (16.42%) Agile
4 72 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (14.76%) CI/CD
6 67 (13.93%) Migration
7 59 (12.27%) ITIL
8 42 (8.73%) Infrastructure Automation
9 41 (8.52%) High Availability
10 39 (8.11%) Containerisation
11 31 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
12 29 (6.03%) Infrastructure Management
13 27 (5.61%) Incident Management
14 26 (5.41%) Computer Science
15 25 (5.20%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (4.78%) Mentoring
17 22 (4.57%) Mobile Device Management
17 22 (4.57%) Platform Engineering
17 22 (4.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (4.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 100 (20.79%) PowerShell
2 94 (19.54%) Python
3 42 (8.73%) Bash
4 23 (4.78%) SQL
5 20 (4.16%) Java
6 16 (3.33%) Bicep
7 14 (2.91%) Go
8 13 (2.70%) Groovy
8 13 (2.70%) Perl
9 10 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.42%) C#
11 2 (0.42%) C++
11 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) PHP
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) Scala
12 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 151 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 90 (18.71%) SC Cleared
3 62 (12.89%) DV Cleared
4 43 (8.94%) Degree
5 25 (5.20%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (2.70%) CCNA
10 12 (2.49%) CCNP
11 9 (1.87%) Server+ Certification
12 5 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.42%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.91%) SLA
2 9 (1.87%) QA
3 8 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.25%) NIST
5 5 (1.04%) NCSC
6 4 (0.83%) GDPR
7 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.42%) COBIT
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.21%) GLBA
9 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 131 (27.23%) Active Directory
2 85 (17.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (11.85%) Docker
4 49 (10.19%) Hyper-V
5 42 (8.73%) vSphere
6 41 (8.52%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (2.70%) VMware NSX
9 10 (2.08%) BitLocker
10 9 (1.87%) Terminal Services
11 8 (1.66%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (1.04%) DFS Replication
12 5 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.42%) Firmware
14 2 (0.42%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.21%) etcd
15 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 101 (21.00%) Terraform
2 77 (16.01%) Ansible
3 50 (10.40%) Kubernetes
4 46 (9.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (7.07%) vCenter Server
6 31 (6.44%) SCCM
7 16 (3.33%) Puppet
8 15 (3.12%) FortiGate
9 14 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (2.70%) Grafana
11 12 (2.49%) Prometheus
12 9 (1.87%) vRealize
13 8 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (1.66%) Nagios
13 8 (1.66%) SCOM
13 8 (1.66%) vMotion
14 7 (1.46%) Tivoli
15 6 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
16 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 142 (29.52%) VMware
2 132 (27.44%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.73%) Cisco
4 38 (7.90%) Google
4 38 (7.90%) Palo Alto
5 29 (6.03%) F5
6 27 (5.61%) Citrix
7 25 (5.20%) Red Hat
8 22 (4.57%) Dell
8 22 (4.57%) Veeam
9 21 (4.37%) CheckPoint
10 19 (3.95%) HP
11 18 (3.74%) SolarWinds
12 14 (2.91%) Atlassian
13 13 (2.70%) Oracle
14 12 (2.49%) IBM
14 12 (2.49%) ServiceNow
15 11 (2.29%) Symantec
16 10 (2.08%) Splunk
17 9 (1.87%) Zscaler