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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 150 94
Rank change year-on-year +60 -56 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,262 527 816
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.80% 1.92% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.12% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 341 618
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £592
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 5 22
10th Percentile £50.00 £38.43 £48.98
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £77.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +12.00% -5.17%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £77.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.84% +10.00% -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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +50 372 £550 +3.97% 229
North of England +27 287 £525 - 100
South East +26 270 £536 -2.47% 143
South West +20 133 £550 -2.31% 69
Midlands +12 131 £475 +5.56% 59
Yorkshire +9 122 £490 -2.00% 36
North West +12 120 £550 +4.76% 50
West Midlands -11 86 £500 +21.21% 37
East of England +5 56 £500 +9.11% 45
North East -2 54 £600 -7.69% 16
East Midlands +14 43 £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 56 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.22%) Confluence
4 13 (1.03%) CICS
5 8 (0.63%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.48%) Apache
6 6 (0.48%) SAS
7 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.24%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.079%) JBoss
10 1 (0.079%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.079%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.079%) Houdini
5 1 (0.079%) NUKE
5 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Primavera
2 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.079%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 437 (34.63%) Azure
2 230 (18.23%) AWS
3 115 (9.11%) Entra ID
4 99 (7.84%) GitHub
5 98 (7.77%) GCP
5 98 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
7 65 (5.15%) IaaS
8 56 (4.44%) OCI
9 43 (3.41%) SaaS
10 40 (3.17%) PaaS
11 38 (3.01%) Azure AKS
12 36 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (2.14%) Serverless
15 22 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
16 21 (1.66%) Amazon S3
16 21 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 197 (15.61%) DNS
2 187 (14.82%) Firewall
3 119 (9.43%) DHCP
4 74 (5.86%) VPN
5 68 (5.39%) Network Security
6 63 (4.99%) TCP/IP
7 58 (4.60%) SAN
7 58 (4.60%) WAN
8 57 (4.52%) VLAN
9 44 (3.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (2.69%) BIG-IP
11 33 (2.61%) SD-WAN
12 32 (2.54%) LAN
13 31 (2.46%) BGP
14 29 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
15 28 (2.22%) OSPF
16 27 (2.14%) VXLAN
17 26 (2.06%) Ethernet VPN
18 23 (1.82%) SSL
19 20 (1.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.27%) Oracle Database
2 16 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 12 (0.95%) Power BI
4 12 (0.95%) RDBMS
5 9 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.71%) Metadata
6 8 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 6 (0.48%) Db2
8 5 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.40%) Pentaho
9 4 (0.32%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 70 (5.55%) GitLab
2 50 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 50 (3.96%) JIRA
3 47 (3.72%) Git
4 8 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.16%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.079%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.079%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.079%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.079%) CMake
6 1 (0.079%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.079%) Gradle
6 1 (0.079%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.079%) MLflow
6 1 (0.079%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.079%) Snyk
6 1 (0.079%) Terragrunt
General
1 198 (15.69%) Social Skills
2 116 (9.19%) Finance
3 102 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 62 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.88%) Banking
6 44 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.90%) Military
8 20 (1.58%) Legal
9 18 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.27%) Retail
11 15 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.79%) Marketing
16 8 (0.63%) Law
17 5 (0.40%) Automotive
18 4 (0.32%) Advertising
18 4 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 838 (66.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 242 (19.18%) Senior
3 191 (15.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 129 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 93 (7.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 89 (7.05%) Azure Engineer
7 64 (5.07%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 56 (4.44%) Network Engineer
9 49 (3.88%) Lead
10 42 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (3.25%) VMware Engineer
12 37 (2.93%) Architect
12 37 (2.93%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
13 33 (2.61%) Infrastructure Support
13 33 (2.61%) IT Engineer
13 33 (2.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 32 (2.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 31 (2.46%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
15 31 (2.46%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.30%) REST
2 18 (1.43%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.11%) SOAP
4 13 (1.03%) JSON
4 13 (1.03%) Middleware
5 12 (0.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 10 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (0.79%) OAuth
6 10 (0.79%) YAML
7 9 (0.71%) LDAP
7 9 (0.71%) Loki
7 9 (0.71%) OpenID
8 8 (0.63%) SAML
9 7 (0.55%) Flash
9 7 (0.55%) Kafka
9 7 (0.55%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.55%) Web Services
10 6 (0.48%) 802.1X
10 6 (0.48%) RESTful
10 6 (0.48%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 133 (10.54%) Data Centre
2 81 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 54 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 52 (4.12%) PKI
6 40 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 36 (2.85%) Replication
8 33 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
9 22 (1.74%) Clustering
9 22 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 21 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 19 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.11%) Mainframe
16 13 (1.03%) Security Posture
17 10 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 335 (26.55%) Windows
2 221 (17.51%) Linux
3 214 (16.96%) Windows Server
4 48 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.27%) Unix
5 16 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (1.19%) Android
6 15 (1.19%) CentOS
6 15 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.03%) AIX
8 13 (1.03%) zOS
9 12 (0.95%) VMS
10 10 (0.79%) Rocky
11 7 (0.55%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.48%) Debian
12 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 246 (19.49%) DevOps
3 236 (18.70%) CI/CD
4 153 (12.12%) Migration
5 137 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (9.83%) Platform Engineering
7 119 (9.43%) Agile
8 104 (8.24%) High Availability
9 99 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (7.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 83 (6.58%) AI
12 82 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 81 (6.42%) Project Delivery
14 79 (6.26%) Containerisation
15 75 (5.94%) Observability
16 74 (5.86%) Validation
17 70 (5.55%) Stakeholder Management
18 69 (5.47%) Zero Trust
19 66 (5.23%) ITIL
20 64 (5.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 213 (16.88%) PowerShell
2 209 (16.56%) Python
3 108 (8.56%) Bash
4 55 (4.36%) SQL
5 53 (4.20%) Bicep
6 25 (1.98%) Java
7 21 (1.66%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.58%) C#
9 9 (0.71%) ActionScript
9 9 (0.71%) Go
10 7 (0.55%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.48%) JCL
11 6 (0.48%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.40%) PHP
13 4 (0.32%) Groovy
14 3 (0.24%) C++
14 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.16%) C
15 2 (0.16%) Perl
15 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 488 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 317 (25.12%) SC Cleared
3 178 (14.10%) DV Cleared
4 53 (4.20%) Degree
5 37 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 27 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.58%) CCNA
10 19 (1.51%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.35%) CISSP
12 16 (1.27%) CCNP
13 14 (1.11%) MCSE
14 11 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.87%) VCAP
15 9 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.63%) CISM
17 7 (0.55%) PMP
17 7 (0.55%) RHCA
18 6 (0.48%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (2.46%) QA
3 26 (2.06%) NIST
4 15 (1.19%) NCSC
4 15 (1.19%) SLA
5 14 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.55%) PMO
8 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.40%) GRC
9 4 (0.32%) GDPR
9 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.079%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.079%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.079%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.079%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 225 (17.83%) Active Directory
2 220 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (7.05%) Hyper-V
4 77 (6.10%) VMware ESXi
5 74 (5.86%) Docker
6 67 (5.31%) vSphere
7 55 (4.36%) Virtual Machines
8 41 (3.25%) VMware NSX
9 29 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.11%) NFS
11 12 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.71%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.63%) KVM
13 8 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.55%) Firmware
15 5 (0.40%) GPFS
15 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.24%) Ceph
17 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 281 (22.27%) Terraform
2 167 (13.23%) Ansible
3 161 (12.76%) Kubernetes
4 67 (5.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (4.04%) vCenter Server
6 36 (2.85%) SCCM
7 29 (2.30%) Grafana
8 25 (1.98%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.82%) Puppet
10 19 (1.51%) WSUS
11 18 (1.43%) Argo
12 15 (1.19%) NetBackup
12 15 (1.19%) Packer
13 14 (1.11%) Nessus
13 14 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.95%) Data Guard
14 12 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
15 11 (0.87%) SCOM
16 9 (0.71%) vRealize
17 8 (0.63%) vMotion
Vendors
1 306 (24.25%) Microsoft
2 287 (22.74%) VMware
3 71 (5.63%) Citrix
4 70 (5.55%) Cisco
5 53 (4.20%) F5
6 51 (4.04%) NetApp
7 45 (3.57%) Google
8 44 (3.49%) Oracle
9 42 (3.33%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.54%) Palo Alto
10 32 (2.54%) Veeam
11 24 (1.90%) Dell
12 23 (1.82%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.74%) Arista
13 22 (1.74%) Aruba
14 19 (1.51%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.51%) Tenable
15 18 (1.43%) Juniper
15 18 (1.43%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.03%) IBM