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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 143 89
Rank change year-on-year +51 -54 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,202 545 908
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.67% 2.01% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 2.22% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 355 686
10th Percentile £350 £329 £310
25th Percentile £425 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +5.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £598
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 6 32
10th Percentile £53.37 £40.53 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.14 £46.18
Median hourly rate £72.54 £67.38 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% +22.78% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £170.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.42 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £67.38 £54.88
% change year-on-year +7.67% +22.78% -24.31%

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 38,535 24,596 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.73% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,284 15,811 20,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,270 2,240
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +38 351 £550 +4.76% 120
North of England +17 280 £525 - 97
South East +16 233 £525 -4.55% 122
South West +21 139 £549 -2.40% 63
Midlands -1 133 £475 +15.15% 55
Yorkshire -3 121 £500 -4.76% 36
North West +5 112 £525 +0.05% 47
West Midlands -22 85 £525 +31.25% 32
North East +7 56 £600 -7.69% 17
East of England -3 53 £500 +9.11% 19
East Midlands +11 46 £450 - 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 56 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.25%) Confluence
3 24 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.00%) CICS
5 8 (0.67%) Apache
6 7 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.33%) SAS
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) TPMS
10 1 (0.083%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.083%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.083%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Primavera
2 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.083%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 397 (33.03%) Azure
2 226 (18.80%) AWS
3 96 (7.99%) GCP
4 92 (7.65%) Entra ID
4 92 (7.65%) GitHub
5 86 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
7 60 (4.99%) IaaS
8 56 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (4.24%) OCI
10 42 (3.49%) SaaS
11 41 (3.41%) PaaS
12 34 (2.83%) Azure AKS
13 27 (2.25%) Serverless
14 26 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 20 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 18 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 179 (14.89%) DNS
2 170 (14.14%) Firewall
3 102 (8.49%) DHCP
4 64 (5.32%) Network Security
5 63 (5.24%) VPN
6 60 (4.99%) SAN
7 54 (4.49%) WAN
8 50 (4.16%) VLAN
9 44 (3.66%) TCP/IP
10 43 (3.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 34 (2.83%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.66%) BGP
12 32 (2.66%) SD-WAN
13 29 (2.41%) LAN
14 28 (2.33%) OSPF
15 26 (2.16%) VXLAN
16 25 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (1.91%) SSL
17 23 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
18 22 (1.83%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.16%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (1.25%) Relational Database
4 14 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 13 (1.08%) RDBMS
6 12 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
7 10 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.58%) Metadata
10 7 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.58%) Power BI
11 6 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.50%) Db2
12 5 (0.42%) Big Data
13 4 (0.33%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 69 (5.74%) GitLab
2 51 (4.24%) JIRA
3 48 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.24%) Git
5 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.083%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.083%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.083%) CMake
7 1 (0.083%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.083%) GoCD
7 1 (0.083%) Gradle
7 1 (0.083%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.083%) Introscope
7 1 (0.083%) MLflow
7 1 (0.083%) MSI
7 1 (0.083%) Robot Framework
General
1 186 (15.47%) Social Skills
2 114 (9.48%) Finance
3 92 (7.65%) Public Sector
4 55 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (4.08%) Banking
6 45 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.91%) Military
8 22 (1.83%) Legal
9 16 (1.33%) Retail
10 15 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.08%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.83%) Marketing
14 10 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.67%) Law
16 5 (0.42%) Billing
16 5 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 806 (67.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 220 (18.30%) Senior
3 170 (14.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 106 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 77 (6.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 72 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (4.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 48 (3.99%) Network Engineer
9 39 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 37 (3.08%) Lead
10 37 (3.08%) VMware Engineer
11 36 (3.00%) IT Engineer
11 36 (3.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (2.83%) Infrastructure Support
12 34 (2.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 33 (2.75%) Architect
13 33 (2.75%) Support Engineer
14 32 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
15 31 (2.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 31 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.25%) REST
2 14 (1.16%) SOAP
3 12 (1.00%) JSON
4 11 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (0.92%) LDAP
4 11 (0.92%) Middleware
4 11 (0.92%) OAuth
5 10 (0.83%) Kafka
5 10 (0.83%) OpenID
5 10 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 9 (0.75%) ARM Templates
6 9 (0.75%) SAML
7 8 (0.67%) Loki
7 8 (0.67%) YAML
8 7 (0.58%) Flash
8 7 (0.58%) Web Services
9 6 (0.50%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.50%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.50%) RESTful
9 6 (0.50%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 133 (11.06%) Data Centre
2 72 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 50 (4.16%) Public Cloud
5 47 (3.91%) PKI
6 35 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.66%) Enterprise Storage
8 31 (2.58%) Replication
9 23 (1.91%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.41%) Clustering
10 17 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.08%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.83%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 323 (26.87%) Windows
2 200 (16.64%) Windows Server
3 198 (16.47%) Linux
4 43 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.25%) Android
7 15 (1.25%) Unix
7 15 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.08%) CentOS
10 12 (1.00%) zOS
11 11 (0.92%) AIX
12 9 (0.75%) VMS
12 9 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.58%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.58%) Rocky
13 7 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 226 (18.80%) DevOps
3 217 (18.05%) CI/CD
4 141 (11.73%) Migration
5 132 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
7 111 (9.23%) Agile
8 101 (8.40%) High Availability
9 83 (6.91%) Infrastructure Automation
10 82 (6.82%) Containerisation
11 77 (6.41%) Disaster Recovery
12 76 (6.32%) AI
12 76 (6.32%) Project Delivery
13 75 (6.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 70 (5.82%) Observability
14 70 (5.82%) Zero Trust
15 68 (5.66%) Validation
16 60 (4.99%) Cybersecurity
17 54 (4.49%) ITIL
17 54 (4.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (16.14%) Python
2 183 (15.22%) PowerShell
3 86 (7.15%) Bash
4 56 (4.66%) SQL
5 35 (2.91%) Bicep
6 25 (2.08%) Java
7 20 (1.66%) C#
7 20 (1.66%) Shell Script
8 10 (0.83%) ActionScript
9 8 (0.67%) Go
10 7 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.50%) JCL
11 6 (0.50%) PHP
11 6 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.33%) Groovy
13 3 (0.25%) C++
13 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.17%) C
14 2 (0.17%) Scala
14 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 445 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 278 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 170 (14.14%) DV Cleared
4 43 (3.58%) Degree
5 33 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.58%) CCNA
8 19 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (1.50%) CISSP
10 13 (1.08%) CCNP
11 12 (1.00%) MCSE
12 10 (0.83%) CISM
13 9 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.67%) VCAP
15 7 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.50%) MCSA
16 6 (0.50%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.33%) NIST
3 27 (2.25%) QA
4 15 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.16%) NCSC
6 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.75%) SLA
8 7 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.50%) GDPR
10 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.25%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.25%) PMO
12 2 (0.17%) GLBA
13 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.083%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.083%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.083%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.083%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 209 (17.39%) Active Directory
1 209 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (7.15%) Hyper-V
3 75 (6.24%) VMware ESXi
4 71 (5.91%) Docker
5 67 (5.57%) vSphere
6 44 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (3.08%) VMware NSX
8 26 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.33%) NFS
10 10 (0.83%) BitLocker
10 10 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.75%) Firmware
12 8 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.42%) GPFS
13 5 (0.42%) KVM
13 5 (0.42%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.17%) UAG
15 2 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 243 (20.22%) Terraform
2 152 (12.65%) Kubernetes
3 144 (11.98%) Ansible
4 58 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (3.99%) vCenter Server
6 31 (2.58%) SCCM
7 30 (2.50%) Grafana
8 24 (2.00%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.83%) Puppet
10 19 (1.58%) WSUS
11 18 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (1.41%) Argo
13 13 (1.08%) Nessus
13 13 (1.08%) Packer
13 13 (1.08%) SCOM
14 12 (1.00%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.83%) Data Guard
15 10 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
15 10 (0.83%) VxRail
16 9 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 276 (22.96%) VMware
2 269 (22.38%) Microsoft
3 70 (5.82%) Citrix
4 64 (5.32%) Cisco
5 52 (4.33%) F5
6 45 (3.74%) NetApp
7 44 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 43 (3.58%) Google
9 38 (3.16%) Oracle
10 32 (2.66%) Palo Alto
11 30 (2.50%) Veeam
12 27 (2.25%) Dell
13 23 (1.91%) Arista
13 23 (1.91%) Fortinet
13 23 (1.91%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.83%) Aruba
15 18 (1.50%) Tenable
16 16 (1.33%) Juniper
17 14 (1.16%) Zscaler
18 13 (1.08%) SolarWinds