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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 153 95
Rank change year-on-year +64 -58 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,326 513 776
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 1.86% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 2.04% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 324 578
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £428 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +4.90% -2.34%
75th Percentile £610 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £663 £653
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.18% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 8 23
10th Percentile £47.60 £28.10 £49.21
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £42.44 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.93% -37.13% -6.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £112.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £42.44 £70.00
% change year-on-year +72.65% -39.38% -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 38,759 25,103 28,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.80% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,089 16,021 18,628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,424 1,656
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +50 409 £550 +2.09% 398
North of England +41 296 £525 +2.44% 99
South East +35 286 £545 -0.94% 139
South West +23 136 £550 -0.90% 93
North West +30 130 £550 -8.33% 50
Midlands +15 129 £475 +11.76% 57
Yorkshire +8 123 £500 - 30
West Midlands +2 91 £525 +27.27% 35
East of England +10 59 £510 +13.33% 68
North East -2 53 £600 -7.69% 20
East Midlands +8 36 £450 - 22
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 59 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.34%) Confluence
4 13 (0.98%) CICS
5 9 (0.68%) Apache
6 8 (0.60%) SAS
6 8 (0.60%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.075%) JBoss
11 1 (0.075%) nginx
11 1 (0.075%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.075%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.075%) Houdini
6 1 (0.075%) NUKE
6 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.23%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.075%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.075%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 464 (34.99%) Azure
2 245 (18.48%) AWS
3 129 (9.73%) Entra ID
4 110 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (7.62%) GCP
6 98 (7.39%) GitHub
7 72 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.28%) IaaS
9 67 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
10 65 (4.90%) OCI
11 43 (3.24%) SaaS
12 38 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (2.87%) PaaS
13 35 (2.64%) Azure AKS
14 26 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (1.89%) Serverless
16 23 (1.73%) Azure Sentinel
17 22 (1.66%) Amazon S3
17 22 (1.66%) Power Platform
18 20 (1.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (16.21%) DNS
2 200 (15.08%) Firewall
3 133 (10.03%) DHCP
4 79 (5.96%) VPN
5 72 (5.43%) TCP/IP
6 70 (5.28%) Network Security
7 63 (4.75%) WAN
8 59 (4.45%) SAN
8 59 (4.45%) VLAN
9 43 (3.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 36 (2.71%) LAN
11 35 (2.64%) SD-WAN
12 34 (2.56%) BIG-IP
13 33 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (2.34%) BGP
15 29 (2.19%) SSL
16 28 (2.11%) OSPF
17 27 (2.04%) VXLAN
18 26 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
19 22 (1.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.45%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.58%) Oracle Exadata
3 17 (1.28%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.13%) Power BI
5 14 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.98%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.90%) Metadata
7 12 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.60%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.53%) Pentaho
11 6 (0.45%) Db2
11 6 (0.45%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.38%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 67 (5.05%) GitLab
2 56 (4.22%) Git
3 52 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 49 (3.70%) JIRA
5 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.23%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.075%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.075%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.075%) CMake
8 1 (0.075%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.075%) Gradle
8 1 (0.075%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.075%) Introscope
8 1 (0.075%) Maven
8 1 (0.075%) MSI
8 1 (0.075%) Robot Framework
General
1 223 (16.82%) Social Skills
2 117 (8.82%) Finance
3 103 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 75 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 50 (3.77%) Banking
7 21 (1.58%) Telecoms
8 19 (1.43%) Retail
9 18 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.21%) Military
12 15 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.13%) Legal
13 14 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.98%) Law
15 10 (0.75%) Marketing
15 10 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.68%) Automotive
17 5 (0.38%) Billing
17 5 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 875 (65.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 258 (19.46%) Senior
3 204 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 134 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 101 (7.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 92 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (5.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 61 (4.60%) Network Engineer
9 54 (4.07%) Lead
10 48 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 48 (3.62%) VMware Engineer
11 44 (3.32%) Architect
12 40 (3.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (2.64%) IT Engineer
13 35 (2.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 35 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (2.56%) Infrastructure Support
14 34 (2.56%) Support Engineer
15 32 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (2.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.11%) REST
2 25 (1.89%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.06%) SOAP
4 13 (0.98%) JSON
4 13 (0.98%) Middleware
4 13 (0.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 13 (0.98%) YAML
5 10 (0.75%) Loki
5 10 (0.75%) OpenID
5 10 (0.75%) SAML
6 9 (0.68%) Kafka
6 9 (0.68%) OAuth
7 8 (0.60%) 802.1X
7 8 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.60%) ModSecurity
8 7 (0.53%) Flash
8 7 (0.53%) LDAP
8 7 (0.53%) Web Services
9 6 (0.45%) .NET
9 6 (0.45%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.41%) Data Centre
2 89 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 53 (4.00%) PKI
5 48 (3.62%) Public Cloud
6 41 (3.09%) Replication
7 40 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 35 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
9 26 (1.96%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.89%) Clustering
11 24 (1.81%) Private Cloud
12 20 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
12 20 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.06%) Mainframe
16 13 (0.98%) Security Posture
17 12 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 359 (27.07%) Windows
2 240 (18.10%) Linux
3 231 (17.42%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.66%) Unix
6 19 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.28%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.21%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.21%) CentOS
9 15 (1.13%) Android
9 15 (1.13%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.13%) VMS
10 14 (1.06%) AIX
10 14 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.98%) zOS
12 11 (0.83%) Rocky
13 10 (0.75%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.45%) Debian
15 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 262 (19.76%) DevOps
3 251 (18.93%) CI/CD
4 174 (13.12%) Migration
5 158 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
7 120 (9.05%) Agile
8 115 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 112 (8.45%) High Availability
10 107 (8.07%) Infrastructure Automation
11 94 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
12 93 (7.01%) AI
13 90 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 86 (6.49%) Project Delivery
15 83 (6.26%) Observability
16 79 (5.96%) ITIL
17 76 (5.73%) Technical Leadership
17 76 (5.73%) Validation
18 74 (5.58%) Containerisation
19 72 (5.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 235 (17.72%) PowerShell
2 225 (16.97%) Python
3 118 (8.90%) Bash
4 61 (4.60%) SQL
5 54 (4.07%) Bicep
6 27 (2.04%) Java
7 21 (1.58%) C#
8 18 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.68%) Go
10 8 (0.60%) ActionScript
11 7 (0.53%) C++
11 7 (0.53%) Perl
11 7 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.45%) JCL
13 5 (0.38%) C
13 5 (0.38%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.15%) Korn
15 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 511 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 339 (25.57%) SC Cleared
3 175 (13.20%) DV Cleared
4 54 (4.07%) Degree
5 41 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.51%) CCNA
10 18 (1.36%) CCNP
10 18 (1.36%) CISSP
11 16 (1.21%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.98%) MCSE
12 13 (0.98%) VCAP
13 12 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.60%) CISM
15 8 (0.60%) PMP
16 7 (0.53%) MCSA
16 7 (0.53%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 36 (2.71%) QA
2 23 (1.73%) NIST
3 17 (1.28%) NCSC
4 16 (1.21%) SLA
5 14 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.53%) GRC
7 7 (0.53%) PMO
8 6 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.30%) GDPR
9 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) IASME
11 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.075%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.075%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 244 (18.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 242 (18.25%) Active Directory
3 98 (7.39%) Hyper-V
4 74 (5.58%) VMware ESXi
5 71 (5.35%) vSphere
6 67 (5.05%) Docker
7 59 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (3.39%) VMware NSX
9 31 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.06%) NFS
11 13 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.75%) KVM
13 9 (0.68%) Firmware
14 8 (0.60%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.38%) Ceph
16 5 (0.38%) GPFS
16 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 284 (21.42%) Terraform
2 189 (14.25%) Ansible
3 163 (12.29%) Kubernetes
4 72 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (3.77%) vCenter Server
6 40 (3.02%) SCCM
7 29 (2.19%) Grafana
8 26 (1.96%) Puppet
9 24 (1.81%) Prometheus
10 22 (1.66%) WSUS
11 19 (1.43%) Argo
11 19 (1.43%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (1.06%) Nessus
13 14 (1.06%) Packer
13 14 (1.06%) SCOM
14 13 (0.98%) Data Guard
14 13 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
15 12 (0.90%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.83%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 333 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 310 (23.38%) VMware
3 73 (5.51%) Cisco
3 73 (5.51%) Citrix
4 55 (4.15%) Oracle
5 52 (3.92%) F5
6 44 (3.32%) Google
7 41 (3.09%) NetApp
8 34 (2.56%) Palo Alto
9 33 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 33 (2.49%) Veeam
10 31 (2.34%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.73%) Aruba
11 23 (1.73%) Dell
12 22 (1.66%) Arista
13 20 (1.51%) Juniper
13 20 (1.51%) Tenable
14 19 (1.43%) Zscaler
15 16 (1.21%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.98%) IBM