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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 131 91
Rank change year-on-year -19 -40 +39
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 600 547 892
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.93% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.18% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 379 645
10th Percentile £311 £325 £310
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +0.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 34
10th Percentile £26.13 £24.18 £21.78
25th Percentile £29.00 £57.01 £25.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +11.11% +8.17%
75th Percentile £75.70 £70.96 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £112.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £62.50 £57.75
% change year-on-year -45.60% +8.23% +11.05%

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 28,039 25,113 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.57% 88.74% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,871 15,476 21,696
10th Percentile £304 £313 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £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 1,770 825 1,406
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56.99 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -41 197 £550 - 178
South East -6 125 £470 +4.44% 293
North of England -16 96 £466 +6.51% 245
South West +14 84 £558 -0.89% 180
Yorkshire -14 55 £463 +8.82% 123
East of England +3 44 £425 -29.17% 149
North West -15 38 £446 +1.94% 101
Midlands -30 37 £425 -19.81% 231
West Midlands -26 29 £454 -30.76% 126
East Midlands -15 8 £415 -17.00% 94
North East -9 4 £466 - 23
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 48 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.00%) Confluence
4 11 (1.83%) Apache
5 9 (1.50%) IIS
6 8 (1.33%) TPMS
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.33%) iPlanet
8 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Maximo
2 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 221 (36.83%) Azure
2 128 (21.33%) AWS
3 91 (15.17%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (12.17%) Entra ID
5 34 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (5.67%) GitHub
6 33 (5.50%) GCP
7 31 (5.17%) IaaS
8 27 (4.50%) Amazon S3
8 27 (4.50%) PaaS
9 26 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (4.33%) OpenShift
10 23 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (3.83%) Serverless
11 22 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
14 16 (2.67%) SaaS
14 16 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 127 (21.17%) Firewall
2 87 (14.50%) DNS
3 60 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 59 (9.83%) VPN
5 52 (8.67%) DHCP
6 40 (6.67%) WAN
7 35 (5.83%) VLAN
7 35 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
8 32 (5.33%) SAN
9 31 (5.17%) Network Security
10 30 (5.00%) LAN
11 28 (4.67%) SSL
12 13 (2.17%) MPLS
12 13 (2.17%) Wireless
13 10 (1.67%) 4G
13 10 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
13 10 (1.67%) NAS
13 10 (1.67%) SSH
14 9 (1.50%) SD-WAN
15 8 (1.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.17%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.83%) Power BI
5 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.67%) MySQL
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.50%) Big Data
6 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.50%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (5.67%) Git
1 34 (5.67%) Jenkins
2 27 (4.50%) GitLab
3 17 (2.83%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.33%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.17%) CMake
7 1 (0.17%) GoCD
7 1 (0.17%) Gradle
7 1 (0.17%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.17%) MLflow
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 137 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.67%) Finance
3 62 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (4.67%) Banking
7 13 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.00%) Military
9 9 (1.50%) Local Government
10 8 (1.33%) Legal
10 8 (1.33%) Retail
10 8 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.17%) Billing
12 6 (1.00%) Aviation
12 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Spanish Language
13 5 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 383 (63.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 89 (14.83%) Senior
3 68 (11.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 45 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 44 (7.33%) Network Engineer
7 43 (7.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 42 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
8 42 (7.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 34 (5.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 30 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 26 (4.33%) VMware Engineer
12 25 (4.17%) IT Engineer
12 25 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
13 22 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.17%) Security Engineer
16 18 (3.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (3.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.67%) Middleware
2 15 (2.50%) REST
2 15 (2.50%) SAML
3 14 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 13 (2.17%) OpenID
5 8 (1.33%) Kafka
5 8 (1.33%) OAuth
6 7 (1.17%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (1.00%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.00%) YAML
8 5 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.83%) RESTful
9 4 (0.67%) ADO
9 4 (0.67%) gRPC
9 4 (0.67%) NumPy
9 4 (0.67%) Pandas
9 4 (0.67%) SOAP
9 4 (0.67%) Web Services
10 3 (0.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.67%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.17%) Replication
3 28 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (4.33%) PKI
5 22 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.67%) Private Cloud
6 18 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.67%) Clustering
10 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.17%) NHS
13 6 (1.00%) Equities
13 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 225 (37.50%) Windows
2 139 (23.17%) Linux
3 120 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.83%) Unix
6 20 (3.33%) Windows 10
7 15 (2.50%) VMS
8 14 (2.33%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.17%) Android
12 6 (1.00%) CentOS
13 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.33%) Debian
16 2 (0.33%) SUSE
16 2 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (20.67%) DevOps
2 120 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (17.00%) CI/CD
5 78 (13.00%) ITIL
6 67 (11.17%) Migration
7 59 (9.83%) Containerisation
8 58 (9.67%) Agile
9 56 (9.33%) High Availability
10 54 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 51 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 49 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (7.67%) Observability
14 42 (7.00%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (5.33%) Project Delivery
17 29 (4.83%) Change Management
18 28 (4.67%) RBAC
18 28 (4.67%) Service Management
18 28 (4.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (18.83%) Python
2 105 (17.50%) PowerShell
3 55 (9.17%) Bash
4 26 (4.33%) Java
5 24 (4.00%) SQL
6 20 (3.33%) Bicep
7 16 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.33%) Go
8 14 (2.33%) Perl
9 7 (1.17%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.00%) C++
10 6 (1.00%) Ruby
11 5 (0.83%) PHP
12 4 (0.67%) C#
13 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.33%) Groovy
15 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.17%) Scala
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 115 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.33%) DV Cleared
4 41 (6.83%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (5.33%) Degree
7 19 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (2.83%) Network+ Certification
9 16 (2.67%) CISSP
10 15 (2.50%) CISM
10 15 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.00%) CCNP
11 12 (2.00%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.83%) CCNA
13 9 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.33%) FFIEC
15 6 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.33%) GDPR
2 17 (2.83%) NIST
3 13 (2.17%) SLA
4 12 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.33%) GLBA
6 6 (1.00%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.50%) QA
7 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.33%) COBIT
8 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 112 (18.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (11.17%) Docker
4 59 (9.83%) Hyper-V
5 29 (4.83%) vSphere
6 18 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (1.67%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.00%) NFS
11 3 (0.50%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.50%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.50%) Firmware
11 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.33%) QEMU
12 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
13 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 146 (24.33%) Terraform
2 91 (15.17%) Kubernetes
3 84 (14.00%) Ansible
4 63 (10.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 56 (9.33%) SCCM
6 23 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (3.67%) Grafana
8 19 (3.17%) vCenter Server
9 16 (2.67%) Prometheus
10 15 (2.50%) FortiGate
10 15 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
13 7 (1.17%) vRealize
14 6 (1.00%) CASB
14 6 (1.00%) Istio
14 6 (1.00%) Nessus
14 6 (1.00%) SCOrch
15 5 (0.83%) Packer
15 5 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 202 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 155 (25.83%) VMware
3 42 (7.00%) Palo Alto
4 38 (6.33%) Cisco
4 38 (6.33%) Red Hat
5 29 (4.83%) F5
6 27 (4.50%) Dell
6 27 (4.50%) Google
7 22 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 22 (3.67%) Splunk
8 21 (3.50%) Citrix
8 21 (3.50%) Veeam
9 20 (3.33%) IBM
10 16 (2.67%) CheckPoint
11 15 (2.50%) Oracle
12 14 (2.33%) Fortinet
13 13 (2.17%) Aruba
13 13 (2.17%) Zscaler
14 12 (2.00%) NetApp
14 12 (2.00%) SolarWinds