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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 151 100
Rank change year-on-year +63 -51 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,348 510 766
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.94% 1.84% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 2.03% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 324 574
10th Percentile £350 £329 £313
25th Percentile £429 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +4.90% -1.38%
75th Percentile £610 £603 £588
90th Percentile £685 £663 £668
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 23
10th Percentile £48.00 £27.80 £49.21
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £51.06
Median hourly rate £73.27 £30.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.23% -55.56% -6.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £129.80 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £30.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +146.67% -56.36% -5.17%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +58 419 £550 +2.09% 597
North of England +47 302 £525 +2.44% 130
South East +31 288 £545 +1.36% 148
South West +21 138 £550 -1.57% 117
North West +26 133 £550 -8.33% 71
Midlands +22 131 £475 +11.76% 66
Yorkshire +14 126 £500 - 36
West Midlands +5 93 £500 +21.21% 45
East of England +11 59 £510 +13.33% 84
North East -3 53 £600 -7.69% 25
East Midlands +10 36 £450 - 21
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 59 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.37%) Confluence
4 13 (0.96%) CICS
5 10 (0.74%) Apache
6 8 (0.59%) SAS
6 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.22%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.074%) CMS
11 1 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.074%) IIS
11 1 (0.074%) JBoss
11 1 (0.074%) nginx
11 1 (0.074%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.074%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.074%) Houdini
6 1 (0.074%) NUKE
6 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 473 (35.09%) Azure
2 248 (18.40%) AWS
3 132 (9.79%) Entra ID
4 113 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (7.57%) GCP
6 98 (7.27%) GitHub
7 76 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (5.27%) IaaS
9 67 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
10 65 (4.82%) OCI
11 44 (3.26%) SaaS
12 39 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
12 39 (2.89%) PaaS
13 35 (2.60%) Azure AKS
14 26 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (1.93%) Serverless
15 23 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (1.63%) Amazon S3
16 22 (1.63%) Power Platform
17 20 (1.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 219 (16.25%) DNS
2 204 (15.13%) Firewall
3 135 (10.01%) DHCP
4 84 (6.23%) VPN
5 73 (5.42%) TCP/IP
6 71 (5.27%) Network Security
7 65 (4.82%) WAN
8 61 (4.53%) SAN
9 60 (4.45%) VLAN
10 43 (3.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (2.82%) LAN
12 36 (2.67%) SD-WAN
13 34 (2.52%) BIG-IP
13 34 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (2.30%) BGP
15 30 (2.23%) SSL
16 28 (2.08%) OSPF
17 27 (2.00%) VXLAN
18 26 (1.93%) Ethernet VPN
19 22 (1.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.45%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.56%) Oracle Exadata
3 17 (1.26%) Oracle Database
4 15 (1.11%) Power BI
5 14 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 13 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 12 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.89%) Metadata
7 12 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.59%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.52%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.45%) Db2
12 6 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.30%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 67 (4.97%) GitLab
2 56 (4.15%) Git
3 52 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 50 (3.71%) JIRA
5 6 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.30%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.15%) Subversion
9 1 (0.074%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.074%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.074%) CMake
9 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.074%) Gradle
9 1 (0.074%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.074%) Introscope
9 1 (0.074%) Maven
9 1 (0.074%) MSI
9 1 (0.074%) Robot Framework
General
1 228 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 122 (9.05%) Finance
3 104 (7.72%) Public Sector
4 77 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (4.01%) Banking
6 52 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 19 (1.41%) Retail
9 18 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 17 (1.26%) Military
11 15 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.11%) Legal
12 14 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 13 (0.96%) Law
14 10 (0.74%) Marketing
14 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.67%) Automotive
16 5 (0.37%) Billing
16 5 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 884 (65.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 262 (19.44%) Senior
3 206 (15.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 138 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 103 (7.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 94 (6.97%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (5.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 62 (4.60%) Network Engineer
9 58 (4.30%) Lead
10 49 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (3.56%) VMware Engineer
12 46 (3.41%) Architect
13 40 (2.97%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (2.67%) IT Engineer
14 36 (2.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (2.60%) Infrastructure Support
15 35 (2.60%) Support Engineer
16 32 (2.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 32 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.08%) REST
2 25 (1.85%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.04%) SOAP
3 14 (1.04%) YAML
4 13 (0.96%) JSON
4 13 (0.96%) Middleware
4 13 (0.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 12 (0.89%) Kafka
6 11 (0.82%) OpenID
6 11 (0.82%) SAML
7 10 (0.74%) Loki
7 10 (0.74%) OAuth
8 9 (0.67%) 802.1X
9 8 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.59%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.52%) Flash
10 7 (0.52%) LDAP
10 7 (0.52%) Web Services
11 6 (0.45%) .NET
11 6 (0.45%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.24%) Data Centre
2 90 (6.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 61 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 54 (4.01%) PKI
5 48 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 43 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 41 (3.04%) Replication
8 35 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
9 27 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 26 (1.93%) Clustering
11 20 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 20 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 20 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.04%) Mainframe
15 13 (0.96%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 365 (27.08%) Windows
2 243 (18.03%) Linux
3 235 (17.43%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.63%) Unix
6 20 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.26%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.19%) Android
8 16 (1.19%) CentOS
9 15 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.11%) VMS
9 15 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (1.04%) AIX
11 13 (0.96%) zOS
12 11 (0.82%) Rocky
13 10 (0.74%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.45%) Debian
15 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (23.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 267 (19.81%) DevOps
3 255 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 176 (13.06%) Migration
5 161 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
7 120 (8.90%) Agile
8 115 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 114 (8.46%) High Availability
10 111 (8.23%) Infrastructure Automation
11 95 (7.05%) AI
11 95 (7.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 92 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 87 (6.45%) Observability
14 86 (6.38%) Project Delivery
15 82 (6.08%) ITIL
16 80 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
17 78 (5.79%) Cybersecurity
17 78 (5.79%) Validation
18 76 (5.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 240 (17.80%) PowerShell
2 227 (16.84%) Python
3 119 (8.83%) Bash
4 61 (4.53%) SQL
5 55 (4.08%) Bicep
6 27 (2.00%) Java
7 21 (1.56%) C#
8 18 (1.34%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.67%) Go
10 8 (0.59%) ActionScript
11 7 (0.52%) C++
11 7 (0.52%) Perl
11 7 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.45%) JCL
13 5 (0.37%) C
13 5 (0.37%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.22%) PHP
15 2 (0.15%) Korn
15 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 518 (38.43%) Security Cleared
2 341 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 180 (13.35%) DV Cleared
4 55 (4.08%) Degree
5 43 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (1.48%) CCNA
9 20 (1.48%) CISSP
10 19 (1.41%) CCNP
11 17 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.96%) MCSE
12 13 (0.96%) VCAP
13 10 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.67%) CISM
15 8 (0.59%) PMP
16 7 (0.52%) MCSA
16 7 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (2.67%) QA
3 25 (1.85%) NIST
4 19 (1.41%) NCSC
5 17 (1.26%) SLA
6 14 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.52%) GRC
8 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.52%) PMO
9 5 (0.37%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.30%) GDPR
10 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) IASME
11 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.074%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.074%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 246 (18.25%) Active Directory
1 246 (18.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 99 (7.34%) Hyper-V
3 74 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
4 71 (5.27%) vSphere
5 67 (4.97%) Docker
6 60 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (3.34%) VMware NSX
8 31 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.04%) NFS
10 13 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.74%) KVM
12 9 (0.67%) Firmware
13 8 (0.59%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.37%) Ceph
15 5 (0.37%) GPFS
15 5 (0.37%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 288 (21.36%) Terraform
2 192 (14.24%) Ansible
3 168 (12.46%) Kubernetes
4 75 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (3.71%) vCenter Server
6 41 (3.04%) SCCM
7 30 (2.23%) Grafana
8 26 (1.93%) Puppet
9 25 (1.85%) Prometheus
10 22 (1.63%) WSUS
11 19 (1.41%) Argo
11 19 (1.41%) NetBackup
12 17 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (1.11%) SCOM
14 14 (1.04%) Nessus
14 14 (1.04%) Packer
15 13 (0.96%) Data Guard
15 13 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (0.96%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.82%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 340 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 313 (23.22%) VMware
3 74 (5.49%) Cisco
4 73 (5.42%) Citrix
5 55 (4.08%) Oracle
6 52 (3.86%) F5
7 44 (3.26%) Google
8 41 (3.04%) NetApp
9 35 (2.60%) Palo Alto
10 34 (2.52%) Veeam
11 33 (2.45%) ServiceNow
12 31 (2.30%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.71%) Aruba
13 23 (1.71%) Dell
14 22 (1.63%) Arista
15 21 (1.56%) Tenable
16 20 (1.48%) Juniper
17 19 (1.41%) Zscaler
18 16 (1.19%) CyberArk
19 13 (0.96%) SolarWinds