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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 131 89
Rank change year-on-year -8 -42 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 662 501 923
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 1.92% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.14% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 340 676
10th Percentile £313 £324 £300
25th Percentile £407 £395 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 43
10th Percentile £26.25 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £27.63 £55.19 £27.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -21.85%
75th Percentile £71.76 £69.57 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.60 £108.18 £75.60
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.60% +35.34% -21.85%

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 29,221 23,402 33,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.60% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,693 14,362 22,190
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,820 750 1,958
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.01 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -45 201 £550 +3.53% 84
South East -4 125 £483 -2.28% 94
North of England -11 125 £475 -9.52% 103
South West +18 101 £550 -6.38% 56
Yorkshire -5 70 £475 +7.04% 42
North West -23 48 £471 -10.29% 48
East of England -5 46 £463 -15.91% 28
Midlands -40 46 £450 -10.00% 42
West Midlands -35 31 £494 -1.30% 26
East Midlands -22 15 £433 -8.95% 16
North East -11 7 £500 - 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 54 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.11%) Apache
4 11 (1.66%) Confluence
4 11 (1.66%) TPMS
5 10 (1.51%) IIS
6 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.60%) nginx
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.30%) iPlanet
9 2 (0.30%) JBoss
9 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.30%) Traefik
9 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Maximo
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 227 (34.29%) Azure
2 121 (18.28%) AWS
3 98 (14.80%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (10.27%) Entra ID
5 43 (6.50%) GCP
6 33 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.68%) OpenShift
8 29 (4.38%) IaaS
9 25 (3.78%) GitHub
9 25 (3.78%) PaaS
10 24 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (3.17%) Serverless
12 20 (3.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 20 (3.02%) Nutanix
13 18 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.72%) Azure AKS
14 17 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.57%) Amazon S3
15 16 (2.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 15 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 121 (18.28%) Firewall
2 85 (12.84%) DNS
3 56 (8.46%) VPN
4 53 (8.01%) DHCP
5 48 (7.25%) TCP/IP
6 41 (6.19%) WAN
7 39 (5.89%) Network Security
8 36 (5.44%) VLAN
9 35 (5.29%) SAN
10 33 (4.98%) LAN
10 33 (4.98%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (2.87%) SSL
12 17 (2.57%) MPLS
13 14 (2.11%) SSH
14 13 (1.96%) BGP
14 13 (1.96%) SNMP
15 10 (1.51%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (1.51%) NAS
16 9 (1.36%) 4G
16 9 (1.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.51%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.91%) Power BI
6 5 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.76%) Big Data
6 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.60%) MySQL
7 4 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.45%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (3.78%) GitLab
2 24 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.17%) Git
4 18 (2.72%) JIRA
5 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) GoCD
7 1 (0.15%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.15%) MLflow
7 1 (0.15%) MSI
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 133 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 95 (14.35%) Finance
3 61 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (4.38%) Banking
7 16 (2.42%) Military
8 14 (2.11%) Legal
9 13 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.36%) Billing
11 8 (1.21%) Local Government
11 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.91%) Aviation
12 6 (0.91%) Retail
12 6 (0.91%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.60%) Front Office
15 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 426 (64.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 78 (11.78%) Senior
3 61 (9.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 52 (7.85%) Infrastructure Support
5 49 (7.40%) Support Engineer
6 45 (6.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 43 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
8 38 (5.74%) Network Engineer
9 37 (5.59%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (4.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (3.93%) Security Engineer
12 26 (3.93%) VMware Engineer
13 24 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
13 24 (3.63%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 22 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.32%) IT Engineer
14 22 (3.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (3.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.42%) SAML
2 15 (2.27%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.11%) OpenID
4 13 (1.96%) REST
5 11 (1.66%) OAuth
6 9 (1.36%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.21%) Kafka
7 8 (1.21%) LDAP
7 8 (1.21%) Middleware
8 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.76%) RESTful
10 4 (0.60%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.60%) NumPy
10 4 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.60%) Pandas
10 4 (0.60%) SOAP
10 4 (0.60%) Web Services
10 4 (0.60%) YAML
11 3 (0.45%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.14%) Data Centre
2 32 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (4.68%) PKI
4 27 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 27 (4.08%) Replication
5 22 (3.32%) Private Cloud
5 22 (3.32%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.57%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.66%) Clustering
9 11 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
10 10 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.21%) NHS
13 7 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 6 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.91%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 236 (35.65%) Windows
2 141 (21.30%) Linux
3 127 (19.18%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.02%) Windows 10
6 16 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 16 (2.42%) Unix
7 15 (2.27%) VMS
8 13 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (1.06%) Android
10 7 (1.06%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.76%) CentOS
12 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.30%) Debian
13 2 (0.30%) SUSE
13 2 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (19.49%) DevOps
2 122 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (15.86%) CI/CD
5 85 (12.84%) ITIL
6 75 (11.33%) Migration
7 70 (10.57%) Agile
8 63 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 62 (9.37%) Containerisation
10 56 (8.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 56 (8.46%) High Availability
11 52 (7.85%) Platform Engineering
12 50 (7.55%) Observability
13 47 (7.10%) Infrastructure Automation
14 44 (6.65%) Project Delivery
15 39 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (5.14%) RBAC
17 33 (4.98%) Analytics
17 33 (4.98%) Change Management
17 33 (4.98%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 102 (15.41%) PowerShell
2 94 (14.20%) Python
3 44 (6.65%) Bash
4 24 (3.63%) Bicep
5 21 (3.17%) SQL
6 20 (3.02%) Java
7 15 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.36%) Perl
9 8 (1.21%) Go
9 8 (1.21%) PHP
10 7 (1.06%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.91%) Ruby
12 4 (0.60%) C++
13 3 (0.45%) C#
13 3 (0.45%) Groovy
14 2 (0.30%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.30%) Scala
15 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 205 (30.97%) Security Cleared
2 119 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 88 (13.29%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.04%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (4.53%) Degree
7 22 (3.32%) CISSP
8 21 (3.17%) CISM
9 20 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (1.96%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.96%) CCNP
11 13 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.81%) Server+ Certification
13 11 (1.66%) CCNA
13 11 (1.66%) FFIEC
14 9 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.91%) GIAC
17 5 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.23%) NIST
2 22 (3.32%) GDPR
3 18 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.57%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.11%) SLA
6 13 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.66%) GLBA
8 9 (1.36%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.30%) COBIT
10 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) QA
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.15%) RMADS
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 152 (22.96%) Active Directory
2 131 (19.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (10.12%) Hyper-V
4 64 (9.67%) Docker
5 35 (5.29%) vSphere
6 23 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.36%) VMware NSX
10 8 (1.21%) NFS
11 5 (0.76%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.76%) Firmware
12 3 (0.45%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.30%) QEMU
13 2 (0.30%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.30%) Tivoli Directory Server
14 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.15%) UAG
Systems Management
1 136 (20.54%) Terraform
2 104 (15.71%) Kubernetes
3 72 (10.88%) Ansible
4 71 (10.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 58 (8.76%) SCCM
6 28 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (3.63%) vCenter Server
8 20 (3.02%) Grafana
9 15 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 14 (2.11%) Prometheus
11 13 (1.96%) FortiGate
12 12 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (1.51%) Istio
13 10 (1.51%) VxRail
14 8 (1.21%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (1.21%) SCOM
15 7 (1.06%) AirWatch
16 6 (0.91%) CASB
16 6 (0.91%) Nessus
16 6 (0.91%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 219 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 184 (27.79%) VMware
3 47 (7.10%) Cisco
4 38 (5.74%) Red Hat
5 36 (5.44%) Dell
6 32 (4.83%) Palo Alto
7 28 (4.23%) ServiceNow
8 26 (3.93%) Google
8 26 (3.93%) Splunk
9 25 (3.78%) Veeam
10 21 (3.17%) F5
10 21 (3.17%) Fortinet
10 21 (3.17%) IBM
11 20 (3.02%) Citrix
12 18 (2.72%) NetApp
13 16 (2.42%) Thales
14 15 (2.27%) SolarWinds
15 14 (2.11%) Oracle
16 13 (1.96%) CyberArk
17 11 (1.66%) HP