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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 134 95
Rank change year-on-year +29 -39 +26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 929 498 862
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 2.06% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 2.26% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 346 651
10th Percentile £335 £313 £285
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -6.31%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £651 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 7 32
10th Percentile £46.80 £40.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £53.22 £43.75
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +23.70% -22.27%
75th Percentile £78.75 £136.88 £62.81
90th Percentile - £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -12.45%

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 34,498 22,079 31,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 91.24% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 14,439 20,650
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 933 2,247
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.44 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -10 248 £550 +4.76% 115
North of England 0 200 £489 -6.95% 78
South East +5 184 £510 -2.86% 97
South West +11 119 £540 -5.05% 50
Yorkshire -9 110 £427 -18.76% 17
Midlands -8 99 £450 +12.50% 52
North West -10 67 £575 +9.52% 48
West Midlands -26 61 £525 +52.17% 29
East of England -2 57 £475 +0.26% 28
East Midlands -3 37 £450 - 22
North East -5 25 £600 -7.69% 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 61 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.61%) Confluence
4 12 (1.29%) Apache
5 7 (0.75%) TPMS
6 6 (0.65%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) CICS
8 4 (0.43%) SAS
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) CloudStack
11 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 296 (31.86%) Azure
2 160 (17.22%) AWS
3 88 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.21%) Entra ID
5 66 (7.10%) GCP
6 62 (6.67%) GitHub
7 46 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (4.95%) IaaS
8 43 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (3.88%) PaaS
10 34 (3.66%) SaaS
11 32 (3.44%) OpenShift
12 31 (3.34%) Azure AKS
13 29 (3.12%) Serverless
14 26 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (2.58%) OCI
16 23 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 22 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (2.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 135 (14.53%) Firewall
2 121 (13.02%) DNS
3 73 (7.86%) DHCP
4 58 (6.24%) VPN
5 47 (5.06%) Network Security
6 43 (4.63%) SAN
6 43 (4.63%) WAN
7 34 (3.66%) VLAN
8 31 (3.34%) LAN
9 30 (3.23%) TCP/IP
10 25 (2.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 24 (2.58%) BGP
12 22 (2.37%) SD-WAN
13 21 (2.26%) NAS
14 20 (2.15%) OSPF
15 18 (1.94%) BIG-IP
15 18 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (1.83%) SSL
16 17 (1.83%) VXLAN
17 16 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.86%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.75%) Metadata
4 7 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.75%) Power BI
5 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.43%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.43%) DB2
7 4 (0.43%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.32%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.32%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 46 (4.95%) GitLab
2 35 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.12%) Git
3 29 (3.12%) JIRA
4 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.11%) GoCD
6 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.11%) Introscope
6 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.11%) MSI
6 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 142 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 85 (9.15%) Finance
3 78 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 52 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.09%) Banking
6 29 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.37%) Military
8 17 (1.83%) Legal
9 13 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.18%) Retail
11 10 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.75%) Billing
14 6 (0.65%) Marketing
14 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.43%) Front Office
16 4 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 613 (65.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 143 (15.39%) Senior
3 108 (11.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 57 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 54 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
6 49 (5.27%) Network Engineer
7 41 (4.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 40 (4.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 39 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
10 35 (3.77%) VMware Engineer
11 32 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (3.34%) Architect
13 29 (3.12%) IT Engineer
13 29 (3.12%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (3.12%) Support Engineer
14 27 (2.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 27 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
15 26 (2.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.80%) REST
2 16 (1.72%) SOAP
3 11 (1.18%) ARM Templates
4 9 (0.97%) LDAP
4 9 (0.97%) Web Services
5 8 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (0.86%) Kafka
6 7 (0.75%) Flash
6 7 (0.75%) OAuth
7 6 (0.65%) Middleware
7 6 (0.65%) OpenID
8 5 (0.54%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.54%) JSON
8 5 (0.54%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.54%) SAML
9 4 (0.43%) ADO
9 4 (0.43%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.43%) RESTful
9 4 (0.43%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.64%) Data Centre
2 52 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (4.31%) PKI
4 34 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 33 (3.55%) Public Cloud
6 28 (3.01%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.80%) Replication
9 25 (2.69%) Private Cloud
10 20 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.29%) Clustering
14 10 (1.08%) Management Information System
15 9 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.86%) Mainframe
17 7 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
17 7 (0.75%) Mobile App
18 6 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
18 6 (0.65%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 263 (28.31%) Windows
2 159 (17.12%) Windows Server
3 148 (15.93%) Linux
4 26 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.94%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.83%) Apple iOS
8 15 (1.61%) Android
9 13 (1.40%) VMS
10 12 (1.29%) Windows 10
11 10 (1.08%) Unix
12 9 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.86%) CentOS
13 8 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.75%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.54%) Debian
15 5 (0.54%) zOS
16 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
17 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (20.56%) DevOps
2 183 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 166 (17.87%) CI/CD
4 128 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (10.98%) Migration
6 93 (10.01%) Agile
7 83 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
8 79 (8.50%) High Availability
9 78 (8.40%) Containerisation
10 75 (8.07%) Infrastructure Automation
11 67 (7.21%) ITIL
12 65 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 59 (6.35%) Zero Trust
14 56 (6.03%) Project Delivery
15 51 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (5.38%) Observability
17 45 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
18 44 (4.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 42 (4.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 136 (14.64%) PowerShell
2 134 (14.42%) Python
3 57 (6.14%) Bash
4 38 (4.09%) SQL
5 30 (3.23%) Bicep
6 20 (2.15%) Shell Script
7 19 (2.05%) C#
8 16 (1.72%) Java
9 10 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.08%) PHP
10 6 (0.65%) C++
10 6 (0.65%) Ruby
11 5 (0.54%) Go
12 4 (0.43%) Groovy
12 4 (0.43%) JCL
13 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.11%) C
14 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 345 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 221 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 131 (14.10%) DV Cleared
4 40 (4.31%) Degree
5 26 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.83%) CISSP
9 16 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.61%) CCNA
11 14 (1.51%) CISM
12 11 (1.18%) CCNP
13 9 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.75%) FFIEC
14 7 (0.75%) MCSE
15 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.65%) RHCA
16 5 (0.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.34%) NIST
2 26 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (1.61%) GDPR
3 15 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 15 (1.61%) QA
4 10 (1.08%) NCSC
4 10 (1.08%) SLA
5 7 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.75%) GLBA
5 7 (0.75%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.22%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 167 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 162 (17.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (8.18%) Hyper-V
4 67 (7.21%) Docker
5 53 (5.71%) vSphere
6 44 (4.74%) VMware ESXi
7 30 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
8 24 (2.58%) VMware NSX
9 21 (2.26%) NFS
10 19 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.97%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.75%) Firmware
12 7 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.54%) GPFS
14 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.22%) Postfix
15 2 (0.22%) SRDF
15 2 (0.22%) UAG
15 2 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 185 (19.91%) Terraform
2 146 (15.72%) Kubernetes
3 111 (11.95%) Ansible
4 58 (6.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (3.66%) vCenter Server
6 32 (3.44%) SCCM
7 19 (2.05%) Grafana
8 17 (1.83%) Puppet
9 16 (1.72%) Prometheus
10 15 (1.61%) WSUS
11 14 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.29%) SCOM
13 11 (1.18%) Packer
14 10 (1.08%) Nessus
14 10 (1.08%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.08%) vRealize
15 9 (0.97%) Argo
15 9 (0.97%) VxRail
16 8 (0.86%) Istio
17 7 (0.75%) vMotion
Vendors
1 223 (24.00%) VMware
2 219 (23.57%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.57%) Cisco
4 53 (5.71%) Citrix
5 44 (4.74%) NetApp
6 36 (3.88%) Palo Alto
7 35 (3.77%) F5
8 34 (3.66%) Veeam
9 31 (3.34%) ServiceNow
10 29 (3.12%) Google
11 28 (3.01%) Red Hat
12 26 (2.80%) Dell
13 24 (2.58%) Fortinet
14 19 (2.05%) IBM
15 18 (1.94%) SolarWinds
16 17 (1.83%) Arista
16 17 (1.83%) Aruba
17 16 (1.72%) Oracle
17 16 (1.72%) Splunk
18 11 (1.18%) Thales