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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 145 94
Rank change year-on-year +52 -51 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,233 533 852
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.75% 1.96% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 2.16% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 346 643
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 5 25
10th Percentile £55.90 £38.43 £45.47
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% +23.20% -13.79%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £77.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -3.90% +14.07% -6.90%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +43 361 £550 +4.76% 205
North of England +24 281 £525 - 93
South East +16 259 £536 -2.47% 128
South West +18 132 £549 -2.40% 56
Midlands +13 131 £463 +5.71% 54
Yorkshire -2 120 £490 -2.00% 34
North West +10 115 £550 +4.76% 44
West Midlands -13 83 £488 +21.88% 33
North East -2 55 £600 -7.69% 16
East of England +2 54 £500 +11.11% 32
East Midlands +18 46 £450 - 21
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 57 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.27%) Confluence
4 13 (1.05%) CICS
5 8 (0.65%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.49%) Apache
7 4 (0.32%) SAS
8 3 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.081%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.081%) JBoss
10 1 (0.081%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Primavera
2 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 422 (34.23%) Azure
2 228 (18.49%) AWS
3 108 (8.76%) Entra ID
4 94 (7.62%) GCP
4 94 (7.62%) GitHub
5 93 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
7 63 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (5.11%) IaaS
8 53 (4.30%) OCI
9 42 (3.41%) SaaS
10 41 (3.33%) PaaS
11 36 (2.92%) Azure AKS
12 35 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (2.19%) Serverless
15 22 (1.78%) Amazon S3
16 20 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
17 19 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 196 (15.90%) DNS
2 186 (15.09%) Firewall
3 117 (9.49%) DHCP
4 71 (5.76%) VPN
5 66 (5.35%) Network Security
6 61 (4.95%) TCP/IP
7 58 (4.70%) SAN
8 55 (4.46%) VLAN
9 54 (4.38%) WAN
10 44 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 34 (2.76%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.60%) SD-WAN
13 31 (2.51%) BGP
14 29 (2.35%) LAN
15 28 (2.27%) OSPF
16 26 (2.11%) VXLAN
17 25 (2.03%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
18 23 (1.87%) SSL
19 20 (1.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.22%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.14%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 11 (0.89%) RDBMS
6 10 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.57%) Metadata
9 7 (0.57%) Power BI
10 6 (0.49%) Db2
11 5 (0.41%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.32%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.24%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 68 (5.52%) GitLab
2 49 (3.97%) JIRA
3 47 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 44 (3.57%) Git
5 8 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.081%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.081%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.081%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.081%) CMake
7 1 (0.081%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.081%) Gradle
7 1 (0.081%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.081%) Introscope
7 1 (0.081%) MLflow
7 1 (0.081%) MSI
7 1 (0.081%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.081%) Snyk
7 1 (0.081%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 194 (15.73%) Social Skills
2 112 (9.08%) Finance
3 97 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 60 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.97%) Banking
6 44 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.03%) Military
8 22 (1.78%) Legal
9 16 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.22%) Retail
11 14 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.81%) Marketing
15 8 (0.65%) Law
16 5 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.32%) Advertising
17 4 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 829 (67.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 233 (18.90%) Senior
3 184 (14.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 121 (9.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 87 (7.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 82 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
7 59 (4.79%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 52 (4.22%) Network Engineer
9 42 (3.41%) Lead
10 41 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (3.24%) VMware Engineer
12 36 (2.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 36 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
13 34 (2.76%) Infrastructure Support
13 34 (2.76%) IT Engineer
13 34 (2.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 32 (2.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 32 (2.60%) Architect
14 32 (2.60%) Support Engineer
15 31 (2.51%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.19%) REST
2 17 (1.38%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.14%) SOAP
4 12 (0.97%) JSON
4 12 (0.97%) Middleware
5 11 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 10 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (0.81%) OAuth
7 9 (0.73%) LDAP
7 9 (0.73%) Loki
7 9 (0.73%) OpenID
7 9 (0.73%) YAML
8 8 (0.65%) SAML
9 7 (0.57%) Flash
9 7 (0.57%) Kafka
9 7 (0.57%) Web Services
10 6 (0.49%) ModSecurity
10 6 (0.49%) RESTful
10 6 (0.49%) WSDL
11 5 (0.41%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 135 (10.95%) Data Centre
2 81 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 53 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 49 (3.97%) PKI
6 39 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
7 32 (2.60%) Replication
8 22 (1.78%) Private Cloud
9 20 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.54%) Clustering
11 18 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
13 16 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.14%) Mainframe
16 13 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.73%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 329 (26.68%) Windows
2 213 (17.27%) Linux
3 208 (16.87%) Windows Server
4 46 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.30%) Unix
6 16 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (1.22%) Android
8 14 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.05%) CentOS
9 13 (1.05%) zOS
10 12 (0.97%) AIX
10 12 (0.97%) VMS
11 8 (0.65%) Rocky
11 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (0.49%) Debian
13 6 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 235 (19.06%) DevOps
3 225 (18.25%) CI/CD
4 144 (11.68%) Migration
5 132 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
7 113 (9.16%) Agile
8 99 (8.03%) High Availability
9 87 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 86 (6.97%) Infrastructure Automation
11 79 (6.41%) Project Delivery
12 78 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
13 77 (6.24%) Containerisation
14 76 (6.16%) AI
15 72 (5.84%) Observability
15 72 (5.84%) Validation
16 69 (5.60%) Zero Trust
17 62 (5.03%) ITIL
17 62 (5.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 61 (4.95%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 202 (16.38%) PowerShell
1 202 (16.38%) Python
2 103 (8.35%) Bash
3 53 (4.30%) SQL
4 50 (4.06%) Bicep
5 22 (1.78%) Java
6 21 (1.70%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.62%) C#
8 9 (0.73%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.65%) Go
10 7 (0.57%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.49%) JCL
11 6 (0.49%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.41%) PHP
13 4 (0.32%) Groovy
14 3 (0.24%) C++
14 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.16%) C
15 2 (0.16%) Perl
15 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 468 (37.96%) Security Cleared
2 297 (24.09%) SC Cleared
3 176 (14.27%) DV Cleared
4 48 (3.89%) Degree
5 35 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.54%) CCNA
11 16 (1.30%) CISSP
12 15 (1.22%) CCNP
13 12 (0.97%) MCSE
14 11 (0.89%) VCAP
15 10 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.65%) CISM
17 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
18 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.49%) MCSA
18 6 (0.49%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (2.35%) QA
3 25 (2.03%) NIST
4 15 (1.22%) NCSC
5 14 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.89%) SLA
7 8 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.41%) GRC
8 5 (0.41%) PMO
9 4 (0.32%) GDPR
9 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.081%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.081%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.081%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.081%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.081%) RMADS
System Software
1 221 (17.92%) Active Directory
2 219 (17.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 85 (6.89%) Hyper-V
4 77 (6.24%) VMware ESXi
5 73 (5.92%) Docker
6 70 (5.68%) vSphere
7 52 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
8 40 (3.24%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.14%) NFS
11 11 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.73%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.65%) Firmware
13 8 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.57%) KVM
15 5 (0.41%) GPFS
15 5 (0.41%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.16%) Ceph
17 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 266 (21.57%) Terraform
2 157 (12.73%) Ansible
2 157 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 66 (5.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 51 (4.14%) vCenter Server
5 34 (2.76%) SCCM
6 30 (2.43%) Grafana
7 24 (1.95%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.78%) Puppet
9 19 (1.54%) WSUS
10 18 (1.46%) Argo
11 14 (1.14%) Nessus
11 14 (1.14%) Packer
11 14 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.05%) NetBackup
13 11 (0.89%) Data Guard
13 11 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (0.89%) SCOM
14 9 (0.73%) vRealize
15 8 (0.65%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 291 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 284 (23.03%) VMware
3 70 (5.68%) Citrix
4 67 (5.43%) Cisco
5 53 (4.30%) F5
6 48 (3.89%) NetApp
7 44 (3.57%) Google
7 44 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 42 (3.41%) Oracle
9 32 (2.60%) Palo Alto
9 32 (2.60%) Veeam
10 25 (2.03%) Dell
11 24 (1.95%) Arista
11 24 (1.95%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.87%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.78%) Aruba
14 18 (1.46%) Juniper
14 18 (1.46%) Tenable
15 16 (1.30%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.05%) CyberArk