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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 160 107
Rank change year-on-year +73 -53 -17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,387 496 716
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.99% 1.80% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 1.98% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 328 527
10th Percentile £356 £325 £313
25th Percentile £450 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% - -
75th Percentile £622 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £670 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 6 17
10th Percentile £49.20 £27.50 -
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 £34.00 -
90th Percentile £99.20 £59.00 -
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 39,321 25,058 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.80% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,195 15,905 17,612
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 £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,661 1,475 1,343
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.27 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.83 £20.24
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +48 423 £550 +3.19% 556
North of England +60 318 £525 +5.00% 173
South East +16 274 £555 +15.03% 181
North West +41 150 £525 - 100
Midlands +28 146 £475 +5.56% 81
South West +30 142 £555 -0.05% 100
Yorkshire +29 120 £500 - 48
West Midlands +12 103 £525 +16.67% 50
East of England +15 69 £518 +29.38% 64
North East +1 58 £600 -7.69% 26
East Midlands +15 41 £450 - 31
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 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.95%) Confluence
4 12 (0.87%) Apache
4 12 (0.87%) CICS
5 7 (0.50%) SAS
5 7 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 1 (0.072%) CMS
11 1 (0.072%) JBoss
11 1 (0.072%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.072%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.94%) 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 (34.39%) Azure
2 258 (18.60%) AWS
3 136 (9.81%) Entra ID
4 124 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (7.57%) GCP
6 93 (6.71%) GitHub
7 74 (5.34%) IaaS
8 70 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (4.90%) OCI
10 60 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (3.32%) SaaS
12 37 (2.67%) PaaS
13 36 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
14 29 (2.09%) Azure AKS
15 26 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (1.73%) Azure Sentinel
16 24 (1.73%) OpenShift
16 24 (1.73%) Power Platform
17 22 (1.59%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 228 (16.44%) DNS
2 216 (15.57%) Firewall
3 139 (10.02%) DHCP
4 93 (6.71%) VPN
5 78 (5.62%) Network Security
6 77 (5.55%) TCP/IP
7 64 (4.61%) WAN
8 63 (4.54%) SAN
9 62 (4.47%) VLAN
10 46 (3.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (2.74%) LAN
12 36 (2.60%) BIG-IP
13 35 (2.52%) SD-WAN
13 35 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
14 34 (2.45%) BGP
15 29 (2.09%) OSPF
16 28 (2.02%) SSL
17 27 (1.95%) VXLAN
18 26 (1.87%) Ethernet VPN
19 23 (1.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.25%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
3 19 (1.37%) Oracle Database
4 18 (1.30%) Power BI
5 17 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 17 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.87%) Metadata
7 12 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.50%) Pentaho
13 6 (0.43%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.29%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.29%) Db2
15 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (5.05%) GitLab
2 54 (3.89%) Git
3 46 (3.32%) JIRA
4 45 (3.24%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.29%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.14%) Subversion
8 1 (0.072%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.072%) CMake
8 1 (0.072%) Gradle
8 1 (0.072%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.072%) Maven
8 1 (0.072%) MLflow
8 1 (0.072%) MSI
8 1 (0.072%) Snyk
8 1 (0.072%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.072%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (16.65%) Social Skills
2 129 (9.30%) Finance
3 103 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 79 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (3.68%) Banking
7 22 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 22 (1.59%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.44%) Military
9 19 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.23%) Retail
11 15 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.94%) Law
14 12 (0.87%) Legal
15 11 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.72%) Automotive
16 10 (0.72%) Marketing
17 5 (0.36%) Billing
17 5 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 888 (64.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 272 (19.61%) Senior
3 215 (15.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 145 (10.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 105 (7.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 93 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
7 70 (5.05%) Lead
8 69 (4.97%) Network Engineer
9 67 (4.83%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 56 (4.04%) Architect
11 55 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 52 (3.75%) VMware Engineer
13 45 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (3.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.52%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (2.52%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.52%) Support Engineer
16 34 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (2.31%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (21.20%) Terraform
2 26 (1.87%) ARM Templates
3 19 (1.37%) REST
4 16 (1.15%) Kafka
4 16 (1.15%) YAML
5 14 (1.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 12 (0.87%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.87%) JSON
7 11 (0.79%) OpenID
7 11 (0.79%) SAML
8 10 (0.72%) Loki
8 10 (0.72%) Middleware
8 10 (0.72%) OAuth
9 8 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.58%) LDAP
9 8 (0.58%) ModSecurity
10 6 (0.43%) .NET
11 5 (0.36%) Flash
12 4 (0.29%) SOAP
12 4 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.88%) Data Centre
2 98 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 67 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 57 (4.11%) PKI
5 48 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 48 (3.46%) Public Cloud
6 44 (3.17%) Replication
7 36 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 33 (2.38%) Private Cloud
9 29 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 26 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
11 23 (1.66%) Clustering
12 22 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
13 21 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.01%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.01%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
16 13 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 379 (27.33%) Windows
2 257 (18.53%) Linux
3 255 (18.39%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.44%) Unix
6 19 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.30%) CentOS
7 18 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.23%) Android
8 17 (1.23%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.08%) VMS
10 14 (1.01%) AIX
10 14 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.94%) Rocky
12 12 (0.87%) zOS
13 11 (0.79%) Mac OS
14 9 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.43%) Debian
15 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 278 (20.04%) DevOps
3 272 (19.61%) CI/CD
4 184 (13.27%) Migration
5 165 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
6 158 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
7 121 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 115 (8.29%) Agile
8 115 (8.29%) Infrastructure Automation
9 114 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 105 (7.57%) High Availability
11 104 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 102 (7.35%) AI
12 102 (7.35%) Observability
13 98 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
14 94 (6.78%) ITIL
15 89 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
16 88 (6.34%) Project Delivery
17 77 (5.55%) Validation
18 76 (5.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (17.23%) PowerShell
2 226 (16.29%) Python
3 115 (8.29%) Bash
4 63 (4.54%) SQL
5 59 (4.25%) Bicep
6 29 (2.09%) Java
7 15 (1.08%) C#
8 12 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.72%) ActionScript
9 10 (0.72%) Go
10 9 (0.65%) C++
11 8 (0.58%) Perl
12 7 (0.50%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.43%) C
14 5 (0.36%) JCL
15 4 (0.29%) JavaScript
15 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.14%) Groovy
16 2 (0.14%) Korn
16 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 532 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 335 (24.15%) SC Cleared
3 198 (14.28%) DV Cleared
4 58 (4.18%) Degree
5 41 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.51%) CISSP
8 21 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.30%) CCNA
10 18 (1.30%) CCNP
11 16 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.94%) MCSE
13 12 (0.87%) VCAP
14 11 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.72%) PMP
16 9 (0.65%) CISM
17 7 (0.50%) MCSA
18 6 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.96%) QA
2 39 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.80%) NIST
4 23 (1.66%) NCSC
5 18 (1.30%) SLA
6 15 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.58%) JSP 440
8 8 (0.58%) PMO
9 7 (0.50%) GRC
9 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.22%) GDPR
11 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) IASME
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.072%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.072%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 268 (19.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 253 (18.24%) Active Directory
3 111 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 79 (5.70%) vSphere
5 76 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
6 71 (5.12%) Docker
7 60 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
8 42 (3.03%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (1.01%) NFS
12 11 (0.79%) Firmware
12 11 (0.79%) KVM
13 10 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.50%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.43%) oVirt
16 5 (0.36%) Ceph
16 5 (0.36%) GPFS
16 5 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 189 (13.63%) Ansible
2 179 (12.91%) Kubernetes
3 79 (5.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (3.46%) SCCM
5 47 (3.39%) vCenter Server
6 31 (2.24%) Grafana
7 26 (1.87%) Prometheus
8 22 (1.59%) WSUS
9 21 (1.51%) NetBackup
10 19 (1.37%) Argo
10 19 (1.37%) Puppet
11 18 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (1.08%) Nessus
12 15 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
12 15 (1.08%) SCOM
13 14 (1.01%) Data Guard
14 12 (0.87%) Packer
15 11 (0.79%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.72%) Progress Chef
17 8 (0.58%) systemd
Vendors
1 349 (25.16%) Microsoft
2 342 (24.66%) VMware
3 80 (5.77%) Cisco
4 66 (4.76%) Citrix
5 57 (4.11%) Oracle
6 54 (3.89%) F5
7 46 (3.32%) NetApp
8 44 (3.17%) Google
9 38 (2.74%) Palo Alto
9 38 (2.74%) Veeam
10 35 (2.52%) Red Hat
11 30 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 24 (1.73%) Arista
13 22 (1.59%) Aruba
14 21 (1.51%) Dell
15 20 (1.44%) Juniper
16 19 (1.37%) Tenable
17 18 (1.30%) Zscaler
18 16 (1.15%) CyberArk
19 15 (1.08%) IBM