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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 145 98
Rank change year-on-year +55 -47 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,288 532 794
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.83% 1.93% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 2.12% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 340 595
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +3.45% -0.98%
75th Percentile £610 £601 £597
90th Percentile £675 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 6 22
10th Percentile £50.00 £28.00 £48.98
25th Percentile £58.43 £35.27 £51.06
Median hourly rate £72.54 £65.94 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -4.09% -5.17%
75th Percentile £78.75 £170.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £73.27 £65.94 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.12% -5.80% -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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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 £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +46 385 £550 +2.61% 269
North of England +29 292 £525 - 97
South East +31 280 £541 -1.59% 151
South West +21 133 £550 -2.22% 95
Midlands +8 129 £475 +5.56% 56
Yorkshire +11 128 £477 -4.60% 30
North West +10 121 £550 +2.33% 57
West Midlands -16 85 £500 +17.65% 39
East of England +9 56 £515 +14.44% 47
North East +1 53 £600 -7.69% 12
East Midlands +12 42 £450 - 17
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 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.33%) Confluence
4 13 (1.01%) CICS
5 8 (0.62%) Apache
5 8 (0.62%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.47%) SAS
7 4 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.23%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.078%) JBoss
10 1 (0.078%) nginx
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.85%) 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 (0.078%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.078%) Houdini
4 1 (0.078%) NUKE
4 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Primavera
1 3 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.078%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 454 (35.25%) Azure
2 237 (18.40%) AWS
3 123 (9.55%) Entra ID
4 104 (8.07%) GitHub
4 104 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
5 101 (7.84%) GCP
6 72 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (5.20%) IaaS
9 58 (4.50%) OCI
10 44 (3.42%) SaaS
11 41 (3.18%) PaaS
12 38 (2.95%) Azure AKS
13 36 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
14 29 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.17%) Serverless
16 24 (1.86%) Amazon S3
17 23 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
18 21 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
19 19 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 211 (16.38%) DNS
2 197 (15.30%) Firewall
3 128 (9.94%) DHCP
4 76 (5.90%) VPN
5 67 (5.20%) Network Security
6 66 (5.12%) TCP/IP
7 60 (4.66%) SAN
7 60 (4.66%) WAN
8 59 (4.58%) VLAN
9 44 (3.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (2.64%) BIG-IP
10 34 (2.64%) LAN
11 33 (2.56%) SD-WAN
12 30 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (2.25%) BGP
14 28 (2.17%) OSPF
15 27 (2.10%) VXLAN
16 26 (2.02%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (1.94%) SSL
18 22 (1.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (1.09%) Oracle Database
4 13 (1.01%) Power BI
4 13 (1.01%) Relational Database
5 12 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.93%) RDBMS
6 9 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.70%) Metadata
7 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 6 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.47%) Db2
9 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.39%) Pentaho
10 4 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.31%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (5.20%) GitLab
2 51 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 51 (3.96%) JIRA
3 50 (3.88%) Git
4 8 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.23%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.078%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.078%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.078%) CMake
7 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.078%) Gradle
7 1 (0.078%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.078%) Introscope
7 1 (0.078%) Maven
7 1 (0.078%) MSI
7 1 (0.078%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.078%) Terragrunt
General
1 205 (15.92%) Social Skills
2 113 (8.77%) Finance
3 102 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 67 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.96%) Banking
6 46 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.86%) Military
8 20 (1.55%) Legal
9 19 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 17 (1.32%) Retail
11 16 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.85%) Law
13 11 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.78%) Marketing
15 7 (0.54%) Automotive
16 5 (0.39%) Billing
16 5 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 854 (66.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 250 (19.41%) Senior
3 197 (15.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 130 (10.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 93 (7.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 92 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 66 (5.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 59 (4.58%) Network Engineer
9 52 (4.04%) Lead
10 44 (3.42%) VMware Engineer
11 42 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 39 (3.03%) Architect
12 39 (3.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
14 34 (2.64%) Infrastructure Support
15 33 (2.56%) IT Engineer
15 33 (2.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (2.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 32 (2.48%) Support Engineer
17 31 (2.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.33%) REST
2 21 (1.63%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.09%) SOAP
4 13 (1.01%) JSON
4 13 (1.01%) Middleware
5 12 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 11 (0.85%) YAML
7 10 (0.78%) Loki
7 10 (0.78%) OAuth
7 10 (0.78%) OpenID
7 10 (0.78%) SAML
8 9 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.62%) Kafka
9 8 (0.62%) LDAP
10 7 (0.54%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.54%) Flash
10 7 (0.54%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.54%) Web Services
11 6 (0.47%) .NET
11 6 (0.47%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 136 (10.56%) Data Centre
2 83 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 54 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 52 (4.04%) PKI
6 40 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 37 (2.87%) Replication
8 34 (2.64%) Enterprise Storage
9 24 (1.86%) Clustering
10 23 (1.79%) Private Cloud
11 21 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
12 19 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (1.09%) Mainframe
16 14 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 14 (1.09%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 347 (26.94%) Windows
2 225 (17.47%) Linux
3 222 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 16 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.24%) CentOS
7 16 (1.24%) Unix
8 15 (1.16%) Android
8 15 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.01%) AIX
9 13 (1.01%) zOS
10 12 (0.93%) VMS
11 11 (0.85%) Rocky
12 8 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.47%) Debian
14 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 250 (19.41%) DevOps
3 238 (18.48%) CI/CD
4 162 (12.58%) Migration
5 142 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (10.02%) Platform Engineering
7 120 (9.32%) Agile
8 106 (8.23%) High Availability
9 105 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 99 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
11 89 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 85 (6.60%) AI
12 85 (6.60%) Project Delivery
13 78 (6.06%) Observability
14 77 (5.98%) Containerisation
14 77 (5.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 73 (5.67%) Validation
16 72 (5.59%) Zero Trust
17 70 (5.43%) ITIL
18 66 (5.12%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 222 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 212 (16.46%) Python
3 114 (8.85%) Bash
4 57 (4.43%) SQL
5 53 (4.11%) Bicep
6 25 (1.94%) Java
7 21 (1.63%) C#
8 19 (1.48%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.70%) ActionScript
9 9 (0.70%) Go
10 7 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.47%) JCL
11 6 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.31%) Groovy
13 3 (0.23%) C++
13 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.23%) PHP
14 2 (0.16%) C
14 2 (0.16%) Perl
14 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 497 (38.59%) Security Cleared
2 325 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 177 (13.74%) DV Cleared
4 54 (4.19%) Degree
5 41 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.55%) CCNA
10 19 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.40%) CCNP
11 18 (1.40%) CISSP
12 14 (1.09%) MCSE
13 13 (1.01%) VCAP
14 12 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (0.78%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.70%) CISM
17 8 (0.62%) PMP
18 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 7 (0.54%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (2.48%) QA
3 26 (2.02%) NIST
4 17 (1.32%) SLA
5 16 (1.24%) NCSC
6 13 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.54%) PMO
8 6 (0.47%) GRC
9 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.31%) GDPR
9 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.078%) IASME
12 1 (0.078%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.078%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 237 (18.40%) Active Directory
2 230 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (7.30%) Hyper-V
4 77 (5.98%) VMware ESXi
5 73 (5.67%) Docker
6 70 (5.43%) vSphere
7 56 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (3.34%) VMware NSX
9 28 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (1.09%) NFS
11 12 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.70%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.70%) KVM
13 8 (0.62%) Firmware
13 8 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.39%) GPFS
15 5 (0.39%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.31%) Ceph
17 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 283 (21.97%) Terraform
2 177 (13.74%) Ansible
3 163 (12.66%) Kubernetes
4 67 (5.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 51 (3.96%) vCenter Server
6 39 (3.03%) SCCM
7 30 (2.33%) Grafana
8 25 (1.94%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.79%) Puppet
10 20 (1.55%) WSUS
11 19 (1.48%) Argo
12 18 (1.40%) NetBackup
13 15 (1.16%) Packer
14 14 (1.09%) Nessus
14 14 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.93%) Data Guard
15 12 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
16 11 (0.85%) SCOM
17 10 (0.78%) FortiGate
18 9 (0.70%) vMotion
Vendors
1 318 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 298 (23.14%) VMware
3 74 (5.75%) Citrix
4 73 (5.67%) Cisco
5 52 (4.04%) F5
6 51 (3.96%) NetApp
7 48 (3.73%) Oracle
8 45 (3.49%) Google
9 41 (3.18%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.64%) Palo Alto
11 33 (2.56%) Veeam
12 27 (2.10%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.86%) Dell
14 23 (1.79%) Aruba
15 22 (1.71%) Arista
16 20 (1.55%) Tenable
17 19 (1.48%) Juniper
18 18 (1.40%) Fortinet
18 18 (1.40%) Zscaler
19 14 (1.09%) CyberArk