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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 146 102
Rank change year-on-year +55 -44 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,306 522 776
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.86% 1.89% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.08% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 335 580
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £501
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +5.79% -2.24%
75th Percentile £610 £603 £588
90th Percentile £687 £652 £660
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 7 22
10th Percentile £47.20 £27.80 £48.98
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.50 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £54.88 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.19% -20.18% -5.17%
75th Percentile £78.75 £141.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.15 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £54.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.19% -21.61% -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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +54 402 £550 +2.47% 351
North of England +33 288 £525 - 112
South East +30 282 £545 -0.97% 143
South West +23 132 £550 -2.22% 84
Midlands +10 131 £475 +11.76% 53
Yorkshire +5 125 £462 -7.60% 31
North West +24 120 £562 +2.23% 64
West Midlands -15 90 £525 +27.27% 38
East of England +8 59 £510 +13.33% 56
North East -1 53 £600 -7.69% 19
East Midlands +14 39 £450 - 15
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 57 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.30%) Confluence
4 13 (1.00%) CICS
5 8 (0.61%) Apache
5 8 (0.61%) SAS
5 8 (0.61%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.23%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.077%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.077%) JBoss
9 1 (0.077%) nginx
9 1 (0.077%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.077%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.077%) Houdini
4 1 (0.077%) NUKE
4 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.23%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.077%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 460 (35.22%) Azure
2 238 (18.22%) AWS
3 126 (9.65%) Entra ID
4 106 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (7.89%) GitHub
6 101 (7.73%) GCP
7 72 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (5.36%) IaaS
9 69 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
10 62 (4.75%) OCI
11 44 (3.37%) SaaS
12 41 (3.14%) PaaS
13 39 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
14 36 (2.76%) Azure AKS
15 28 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.14%) Serverless
16 24 (1.84%) Amazon S3
17 23 (1.76%) Azure Sentinel
18 20 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 211 (16.16%) DNS
2 198 (15.16%) Firewall
3 130 (9.95%) DHCP
4 79 (6.05%) VPN
5 69 (5.28%) TCP/IP
6 68 (5.21%) Network Security
7 61 (4.67%) WAN
8 60 (4.59%) SAN
9 58 (4.44%) VLAN
10 42 (3.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 35 (2.68%) SD-WAN
12 33 (2.53%) BIG-IP
12 33 (2.53%) LAN
13 32 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (2.30%) BGP
15 28 (2.14%) OSPF
16 27 (2.07%) SSL
16 27 (2.07%) VXLAN
17 26 (1.99%) Ethernet VPN
18 22 (1.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.52%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.53%) Oracle Exadata
3 16 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.15%) Power BI
5 14 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.00%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.92%) Metadata
7 12 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.61%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.54%) Pentaho
11 6 (0.46%) Db2
12 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.31%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (5.13%) GitLab
2 52 (3.98%) Git
3 51 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 49 (3.75%) JIRA
5 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.23%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.077%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.077%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.077%) CMake
8 1 (0.077%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.077%) Gradle
8 1 (0.077%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.077%) Introscope
8 1 (0.077%) Maven
8 1 (0.077%) MSI
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.077%) Robot Framework
General
1 214 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 112 (8.58%) Finance
3 104 (7.96%) Public Sector
4 71 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (3.68%) Banking
7 20 (1.53%) Military
8 19 (1.45%) Retail
8 19 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.15%) Legal
11 13 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 12 (0.92%) Law
13 11 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.77%) Marketing
15 7 (0.54%) Automotive
16 5 (0.38%) Billing
16 5 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 866 (66.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 258 (19.75%) Senior
3 203 (15.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 133 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 97 (7.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 94 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (5.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 59 (4.52%) Network Engineer
9 53 (4.06%) Lead
10 46 (3.52%) VMware Engineer
11 44 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 41 (3.14%) Architect
13 39 (2.99%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.68%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.68%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (2.60%) Infrastructure Support
17 33 (2.53%) Support Engineer
18 32 (2.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 32 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.22%) REST
2 23 (1.76%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.07%) SOAP
4 13 (1.00%) JSON
4 13 (1.00%) Middleware
4 13 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 11 (0.84%) YAML
6 10 (0.77%) Loki
6 10 (0.77%) OpenID
6 10 (0.77%) SAML
7 9 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (0.69%) OAuth
8 8 (0.61%) LDAP
9 7 (0.54%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.54%) Flash
9 7 (0.54%) Kafka
9 7 (0.54%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.54%) Web Services
10 6 (0.46%) .NET
10 6 (0.46%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 136 (10.41%) Data Centre
2 88 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 51 (3.91%) PKI
5 50 (3.83%) Public Cloud
6 40 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 39 (2.99%) Replication
8 34 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
9 26 (1.99%) Clustering
10 25 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.61%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 19 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (1.07%) Mainframe
15 14 (1.07%) Security Posture
15 14 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 356 (27.26%) Windows
2 234 (17.92%) Linux
3 231 (17.69%) Windows Server
4 51 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.38%) Unix
7 17 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.23%) CentOS
9 15 (1.15%) Android
9 15 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (1.07%) AIX
10 14 (1.07%) VMS
11 13 (1.00%) zOS
12 11 (0.84%) Rocky
13 10 (0.77%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 260 (19.91%) DevOps
3 245 (18.76%) CI/CD
4 169 (12.94%) Migration
5 151 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
7 122 (9.34%) Agile
8 113 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 108 (8.27%) High Availability
10 103 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
11 94 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 89 (6.81%) AI
13 86 (6.58%) Project Delivery
14 84 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 81 (6.20%) Observability
16 76 (5.82%) Containerisation
17 75 (5.74%) ITIL
18 73 (5.59%) Validation
18 73 (5.59%) Zero Trust
19 72 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 234 (17.92%) PowerShell
2 219 (16.77%) Python
3 119 (9.11%) Bash
4 60 (4.59%) SQL
5 54 (4.13%) Bicep
6 27 (2.07%) Java
7 21 (1.61%) C#
8 20 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.69%) Go
10 8 (0.61%) ActionScript
11 7 (0.54%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.46%) JCL
12 6 (0.46%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.31%) C++
13 4 (0.31%) Perl
14 3 (0.23%) C
14 3 (0.23%) Groovy
14 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 507 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 338 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 174 (13.32%) DV Cleared
4 54 (4.13%) Degree
5 43 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (1.45%) CCNA
10 17 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.30%) CCNP
10 17 (1.30%) CISSP
11 13 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.00%) MCSE
11 13 (1.00%) VCAP
12 9 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.61%) CISM
14 7 (0.54%) MCSA
14 7 (0.54%) PMP
14 7 (0.54%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (2.53%) QA
3 23 (1.76%) NIST
4 16 (1.23%) NCSC
4 16 (1.23%) SLA
5 14 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.54%) PMO
8 6 (0.46%) GRC
8 6 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.31%) GDPR
9 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.15%) IASME
10 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.077%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.077%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.077%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 240 (18.38%) Active Directory
2 238 (18.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (7.58%) Hyper-V
4 76 (5.82%) VMware ESXi
5 72 (5.51%) Docker
6 71 (5.44%) vSphere
7 56 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (3.37%) VMware NSX
9 29 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.07%) NFS
11 13 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.69%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.69%) Firmware
12 9 (0.69%) KVM
13 8 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.38%) GPFS
14 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.31%) Ceph
16 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 284 (21.75%) Terraform
2 183 (14.01%) Ansible
3 162 (12.40%) Kubernetes
4 72 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (3.91%) vCenter Server
6 39 (2.99%) SCCM
7 29 (2.22%) Grafana
8 25 (1.91%) Puppet
9 24 (1.84%) Prometheus
10 21 (1.61%) WSUS
11 19 (1.45%) Argo
11 19 (1.45%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (1.15%) Packer
14 14 (1.07%) Nessus
14 14 (1.07%) SCOM
15 13 (1.00%) Data Guard
15 13 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
16 10 (0.77%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 326 (24.96%) Microsoft
2 304 (23.28%) VMware
3 74 (5.67%) Citrix
4 71 (5.44%) Cisco
5 53 (4.06%) Oracle
6 50 (3.83%) F5
7 47 (3.60%) Google
8 46 (3.52%) NetApp
9 37 (2.83%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 33 (2.53%) Veeam
12 28 (2.14%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.76%) Aruba
13 23 (1.76%) Dell
14 22 (1.68%) Arista
15 20 (1.53%) Tenable
16 19 (1.45%) Juniper
17 18 (1.38%) Zscaler
18 15 (1.15%) CyberArk
19 13 (1.00%) IBM