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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 131 91
Rank change year-on-year +32 -40 +27
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,013 487 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.43% 2.05% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.24% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 694 337 654
10th Percentile £337 £325 £295
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -6.86%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 33
10th Percentile £44.20 £40.31 £24.53
25th Percentile £58.43 £53.22 £45.00
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -15.58%
75th Percentile £77.06 £136.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +16.06% +13.90% -14.04%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +5 276 £550 +4.76% 97
North of England +10 224 £500 -4.76% 72
South East +21 206 £515 -1.90% 95
South West +12 120 £545 -5.22% 62
Yorkshire -4 117 £428 -18.48% 14
Midlands -14 107 £450 +12.50% 51
North West -7 76 £575 +9.52% 51
West Midlands -21 68 £525 +40.00% 30
East of England 0 58 £475 +1.17% 26
East Midlands -5 38 £450 - 21
North East -2 35 £600 -7.69% 7
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 60 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.48%) Confluence
4 10 (0.99%) Apache
5 7 (0.69%) CICS
6 5 (0.49%) TPMS
7 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 4 (0.39%) SAS
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.20%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.099%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.099%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.099%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.099%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Maximo
2 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 327 (32.28%) Azure
2 176 (17.37%) AWS
3 89 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
4 76 (7.50%) GCP
5 69 (6.81%) Entra ID
5 69 (6.81%) GitHub
6 52 (5.13%) IaaS
7 51 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (3.85%) SaaS
10 36 (3.55%) PaaS
11 33 (3.26%) Azure AKS
11 33 (3.26%) OpenShift
12 32 (3.16%) OCI
13 28 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (2.76%) Serverless
14 26 (2.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 20 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.78%) Nutanix
17 14 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 142 (14.02%) Firewall
2 130 (12.83%) DNS
3 80 (7.90%) DHCP
4 59 (5.82%) VPN
5 50 (4.94%) Network Security
6 48 (4.74%) WAN
7 45 (4.44%) SAN
8 36 (3.55%) VLAN
9 33 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 31 (3.06%) BGP
10 31 (3.06%) LAN
11 28 (2.76%) TCP/IP
12 27 (2.67%) OSPF
12 27 (2.67%) SD-WAN
13 26 (2.57%) BIG-IP
14 23 (2.27%) NAS
14 23 (2.27%) VXLAN
15 22 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
16 19 (1.88%) SSL
16 19 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.79%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.79%) Power BI
4 7 (0.69%) Metadata
4 7 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (0.59%) DB2
6 4 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.39%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.30%) Pentaho
7 3 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (5.03%) GitLab
2 40 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.46%) JIRA
4 28 (2.76%) Git
5 8 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.099%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.099%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.099%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.099%) CMake
6 1 (0.099%) GoCD
6 1 (0.099%) Gradle
6 1 (0.099%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.099%) Introscope
6 1 (0.099%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.099%) MSI
6 1 (0.099%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.099%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 153 (15.10%) Social Skills
2 89 (8.79%) Finance
3 81 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 56 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.34%) Banking
6 29 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.17%) Military
8 18 (1.78%) Legal
9 13 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.28%) Retail
10 12 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 10 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.89%) Billing
12 9 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.79%) Marketing
13 8 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.79%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.39%) Local Government
14 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 674 (66.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 174 (17.18%) Senior
3 135 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 58 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
6 50 (4.94%) Network Engineer
7 46 (4.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.34%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (3.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (3.65%) VMware Engineer
10 36 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
11 32 (3.16%) Architect
11 32 (3.16%) Support Engineer
12 31 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (2.96%) IT Engineer
13 30 (2.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support
15 28 (2.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 28 (2.76%) Citrix Engineer
15 28 (2.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.57%) REST
2 18 (1.78%) SOAP
3 13 (1.28%) ARM Templates
4 11 (1.09%) Web Services
5 9 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.89%) LDAP
6 8 (0.79%) JSON
6 8 (0.79%) Kafka
7 7 (0.69%) Flash
7 7 (0.69%) Middleware
7 7 (0.69%) OAuth
8 6 (0.59%) RESTful
8 6 (0.59%) WSDL
9 5 (0.49%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.49%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.49%) OpenID
9 5 (0.49%) YAML
10 4 (0.39%) ADO
10 4 (0.39%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.88%) Data Centre
2 61 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (4.15%) PKI
4 38 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 36 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 30 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
8 27 (2.67%) Private Cloud
8 27 (2.67%) Replication
9 19 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.18%) Clustering
13 11 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 8 (0.79%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.79%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 281 (27.74%) Windows
2 168 (16.58%) Windows Server
3 164 (16.19%) Linux
4 32 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.68%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.58%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.48%) Android
10 14 (1.38%) Windows 10
11 13 (1.28%) Unix
11 13 (1.28%) VMS
12 8 (0.79%) CentOS
12 8 (0.79%) Debian
12 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.69%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.69%) zOS
14 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 201 (19.84%) DevOps
3 180 (17.77%) CI/CD
4 129 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (10.86%) Migration
6 97 (9.58%) Agile
7 87 (8.59%) High Availability
8 86 (8.49%) Platform Engineering
9 82 (8.09%) Infrastructure Automation
10 73 (7.21%) Disaster Recovery
11 72 (7.11%) Containerisation
12 69 (6.81%) Zero Trust
13 67 (6.61%) ITIL
14 61 (6.02%) Project Delivery
15 55 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (5.13%) Observability
17 50 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 47 (4.64%) AI
18 47 (4.64%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (4.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 147 (14.51%) Python
2 143 (14.12%) PowerShell
3 60 (5.92%) Bash
4 43 (4.24%) SQL
5 34 (3.36%) Bicep
6 20 (1.97%) Java
6 20 (1.97%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.88%) C#
8 10 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.99%) PHP
9 8 (0.79%) Go
10 6 (0.59%) JCL
11 5 (0.49%) ActionScript
11 5 (0.49%) C++
12 4 (0.39%) Groovy
12 4 (0.39%) Ruby
13 2 (0.20%) C
13 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.099%) VB
Qualifications
1 371 (36.62%) Security Cleared
2 240 (23.69%) SC Cleared
3 141 (13.92%) DV Cleared
4 38 (3.75%) Degree
5 30 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (1.88%) CISSP
9 18 (1.78%) CCNA
10 15 (1.48%) CISM
10 15 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.38%) CCNP
12 12 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.89%) MCSE
14 7 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.59%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.59%) RHCA
16 5 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.49%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.96%) NIST
2 26 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.58%) QA
4 14 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.38%) SLA
5 13 (1.28%) GDPR
5 13 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.99%) NCSC
7 8 (0.79%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.69%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.49%) GLBA
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.20%) PMO
12 1 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.099%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.099%) RMADS
System Software
1 173 (17.08%) Active Directory
2 170 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (7.21%) Hyper-V
4 61 (6.02%) Docker
5 59 (5.82%) vSphere
6 49 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (2.96%) VMware NSX
9 21 (2.07%) NFS
10 20 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.89%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.79%) Firmware
13 7 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.49%) GPFS
15 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.30%) DFS Replication
17 2 (0.20%) Postfix
17 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
17 2 (0.20%) SRDF
17 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 199 (19.64%) Terraform
2 148 (14.61%) Kubernetes
3 114 (11.25%) Ansible
4 56 (5.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (3.46%) vCenter Server
6 28 (2.76%) SCCM
7 19 (1.88%) Grafana
8 17 (1.68%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.48%) Puppet
9 15 (1.48%) WSUS
10 14 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.18%) Packer
11 12 (1.18%) SCOM
12 10 (0.99%) Nessus
12 10 (0.99%) vRealize
13 9 (0.89%) Argo
13 9 (0.89%) VxRail
14 8 (0.79%) Istio
14 8 (0.79%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.69%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 242 (23.89%) VMware
2 229 (22.61%) Microsoft
3 65 (6.42%) Citrix
4 62 (6.12%) Cisco
5 44 (4.34%) NetApp
6 43 (4.24%) F5
7 42 (4.15%) Palo Alto
8 35 (3.46%) Google
8 35 (3.46%) ServiceNow
9 33 (3.26%) Veeam
10 31 (3.06%) Red Hat
11 27 (2.67%) Dell
12 24 (2.37%) Fortinet
13 22 (2.17%) Arista
13 22 (2.17%) Aruba
14 17 (1.68%) IBM
15 16 (1.58%) Oracle
16 15 (1.48%) SolarWinds
16 15 (1.48%) Splunk
17 12 (1.18%) Tenable