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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 136 93
Rank change year-on-year +41 -43 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,072 502 882
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.53% 2.06% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.26% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 342 671
10th Percentile £335 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £597
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £488
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 30
10th Percentile £46.40 £52.79 £35.99
25th Percentile £58.43 £55.38 £45.30
Median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -20.18%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -15.58%

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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +14 299 £550 +4.76% 109
North of England +19 247 £500 -4.76% 76
South East +10 208 £515 -6.36% 93
South West +19 123 £545 -4.18% 76
Yorkshire -4 120 £425 -19.05% 19
Midlands -3 111 £450 +12.50% 42
North West +7 87 £550 +4.79% 43
West Midlands -18 72 £525 +40.00% 29
East of England -2 60 £475 +1.82% 24
North East +2 46 £600 -7.69% 14
East Midlands -2 38 £450 - 13
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 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.59%) Confluence
4 10 (0.93%) Apache
5 7 (0.65%) CICS
6 5 (0.47%) TPMS
7 4 (0.37%) SAS
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.19%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.093%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.093%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.19%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Maximo
2 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 351 (32.74%) Azure
2 188 (17.54%) AWS
3 93 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (8.21%) GCP
5 79 (7.37%) Entra ID
6 75 (7.00%) GitHub
7 56 (5.22%) IaaS
8 52 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (3.82%) SaaS
11 36 (3.36%) PaaS
12 34 (3.17%) Azure AKS
12 34 (3.17%) OCI
13 29 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 25 (2.33%) Serverless
16 22 (2.05%) OpenShift
17 19 (1.77%) Nutanix
18 17 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
19 15 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 154 (14.37%) Firewall
2 145 (13.53%) DNS
3 90 (8.40%) DHCP
4 64 (5.97%) VPN
5 51 (4.76%) Network Security
6 50 (4.66%) WAN
7 45 (4.20%) SAN
8 40 (3.73%) VLAN
9 37 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 33 (3.08%) TCP/IP
11 32 (2.99%) BGP
12 31 (2.89%) SD-WAN
13 30 (2.80%) BIG-IP
14 28 (2.61%) LAN
14 28 (2.61%) OSPF
15 26 (2.43%) VXLAN
16 25 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
17 21 (1.96%) SSL
18 20 (1.87%) NAS
18 20 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (0.75%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.75%) Power BI
4 7 (0.65%) Metadata
4 7 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.56%) Db2
6 4 (0.37%) Big Data
6 4 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.37%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.37%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.28%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (5.13%) GitLab
2 43 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.92%) JIRA
4 26 (2.43%) Git
5 8 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.093%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.093%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.093%) CMake
6 1 (0.093%) GoCD
6 1 (0.093%) Gradle
6 1 (0.093%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.093%) Introscope
6 1 (0.093%) MSI
6 1 (0.093%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.093%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 155 (14.46%) Social Skills
2 91 (8.49%) Finance
3 80 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 54 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.92%) Banking
6 38 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (1.96%) Military
8 18 (1.68%) Legal
9 14 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.31%) Retail
10 13 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.93%) Marketing
13 9 (0.84%) Billing
13 9 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Local Government
15 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 735 (68.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 190 (17.72%) Senior
3 150 (13.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 75 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 60 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
6 54 (5.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 54 (5.04%) Network Engineer
7 45 (4.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (4.01%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (3.73%) VMware Engineer
10 37 (3.45%) Support Engineer
11 35 (3.26%) Infrastructure Support
12 34 (3.17%) Architect
13 33 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
13 33 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 33 (3.08%) IT Engineer
13 33 (3.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 32 (2.99%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 30 (2.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 30 (2.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.24%) REST
2 15 (1.40%) SOAP
3 13 (1.21%) ARM Templates
4 10 (0.93%) LDAP
5 9 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.84%) OAuth
6 8 (0.75%) JSON
6 8 (0.75%) Kafka
6 8 (0.75%) Web Services
7 7 (0.65%) Flash
7 7 (0.65%) Middleware
7 7 (0.65%) OpenID
8 6 (0.56%) RESTful
8 6 (0.56%) SAML
8 6 (0.56%) WSDL
9 5 (0.47%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.47%) Keycloak
9 5 (0.47%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.47%) YAML
10 4 (0.37%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 69 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 41 (3.82%) PKI
4 41 (3.82%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
6 28 (2.61%) Private Cloud
7 25 (2.33%) Replication
8 20 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.31%) Clustering
9 14 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 10 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 295 (27.52%) Windows
2 181 (16.88%) Windows Server
3 163 (15.21%) Linux
4 32 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.40%) Android
8 15 (1.40%) Windows 10
9 14 (1.31%) Ubuntu
9 14 (1.31%) Unix
10 10 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.84%) VMS
11 9 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.75%) CentOS
12 8 (0.75%) Debian
13 7 (0.65%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.65%) zOS
14 2 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.093%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (19.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 205 (19.12%) DevOps
3 181 (16.88%) CI/CD
4 126 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (10.45%) Migration
6 97 (9.05%) Agile
7 89 (8.30%) High Availability
8 86 (8.02%) Platform Engineering
9 81 (7.56%) Infrastructure Automation
10 71 (6.62%) Zero Trust
11 69 (6.44%) Containerisation
11 69 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
12 64 (5.97%) ITIL
12 64 (5.97%) Project Delivery
13 58 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (5.32%) AI
15 52 (4.85%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (4.85%) Observability
15 52 (4.85%) Validation
16 48 (4.48%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 152 (14.18%) Python
2 151 (14.09%) PowerShell
3 60 (5.60%) Bash
4 42 (3.92%) SQL
5 33 (3.08%) Bicep
6 20 (1.87%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.77%) Java
8 18 (1.68%) C#
9 8 (0.75%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.75%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.65%) Go
10 7 (0.65%) PHP
11 6 (0.56%) JCL
12 4 (0.37%) Groovy
13 3 (0.28%) C++
13 3 (0.28%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.19%) C
14 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.19%) Ruby
14 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 384 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 244 (22.76%) SC Cleared
3 143 (13.34%) DV Cleared
4 37 (3.45%) Degree
5 29 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (1.77%) CISSP
8 18 (1.68%) CCNA
9 17 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.21%) CISM
11 12 (1.12%) CCNP
12 9 (0.84%) MCSE
13 7 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.56%) RHCA
14 6 (0.56%) VCAP
15 5 (0.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.99%) NIST
2 29 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (1.77%) QA
4 15 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.31%) SLA
6 12 (1.12%) NCSC
7 11 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.93%) GDPR
9 8 (0.75%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.65%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.47%) GLBA
12 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 19650
14 2 (0.19%) PMO
15 1 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.093%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.093%) FedRAMP
15 1 (0.093%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 189 (17.63%) Active Directory
2 185 (17.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (7.37%) Hyper-V
4 61 (5.69%) vSphere
5 60 (5.60%) VMware ESXi
6 59 (5.50%) Docker
7 36 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (3.08%) VMware NSX
9 22 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (1.59%) NFS
11 11 (1.03%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.75%) Firmware
14 5 (0.47%) GPFS
15 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.28%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.28%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.19%) Postfix
17 2 (0.19%) Sendmail
17 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 200 (18.66%) Terraform
2 138 (12.87%) Kubernetes
3 118 (11.01%) Ansible
4 59 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (3.73%) vCenter Server
6 29 (2.71%) SCCM
7 19 (1.77%) Grafana
8 18 (1.68%) Puppet
9 17 (1.59%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.40%) WSUS
11 12 (1.12%) SCOM
12 11 (1.03%) Nessus
12 11 (1.03%) Packer
13 10 (0.93%) vRealize
14 9 (0.84%) Argo
14 9 (0.84%) vMotion
14 9 (0.84%) VxRail
15 8 (0.75%) Istio
15 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 258 (24.07%) VMware
2 244 (22.76%) Microsoft
3 66 (6.16%) Citrix
4 61 (5.69%) Cisco
5 47 (4.38%) F5
6 41 (3.82%) NetApp
6 41 (3.82%) Palo Alto
7 40 (3.73%) ServiceNow
8 38 (3.54%) Google
9 31 (2.89%) Veeam
10 27 (2.52%) Red Hat
11 25 (2.33%) Dell
12 24 (2.24%) Aruba
13 23 (2.15%) Arista
13 23 (2.15%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.49%) Oracle
15 14 (1.31%) SolarWinds
16 13 (1.21%) IBM
17 12 (1.12%) Splunk
17 12 (1.12%) Tenable