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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 157 121
Rank change year-on-year +72 -36 -29
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,442 501 640
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 1.79% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 1.96% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 333 451
10th Percentile £364 £302 £329
25th Percentile £450 £381 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 10 17
10th Percentile £28.56 £25.70 £53.20
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £71.74 £32.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.20% -54.29% -
75th Percentile £88.40 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £40.16 £86.80
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £32.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +126.69% -54.29% -

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 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +41 437 £550 +3.19% 702
North of England +71 334 £540 +8.00% 253
South East +18 283 £566 +23.32% 232
North West +47 166 £550 +13.17% 143
South West +38 149 £575 +3.60% 117
Midlands +37 142 £488 +4.84% 125
Yorkshire +35 113 £500 - 76
West Midlands +18 104 £500 +6.95% 74
East of England +18 83 £519 +32.59% 83
North East +7 65 £600 -7.69% 36
East Midlands +16 36 £456 -1.88% 51
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 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.50%) Confluence
4 12 (0.83%) Apache
4 12 (0.83%) CICS
5 9 (0.62%) SAS
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.49%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.42%) nginx
8 5 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.21%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.069%) Documentum
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) MicroStation
5 2 (0.14%) Revit
6 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.069%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.069%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.069%) Houdini
6 1 (0.069%) NUKE
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.21%) Primavera
3 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.069%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 492 (34.12%) Azure
2 249 (17.27%) AWS
3 173 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 132 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (7.21%) GCP
6 96 (6.66%) GitHub
7 83 (5.76%) IaaS
8 69 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (4.72%) OCI
10 60 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (2.50%) SaaS
13 34 (2.36%) OpenShift
14 32 (2.22%) PaaS
15 30 (2.08%) Azure AKS
16 29 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
16 29 (2.01%) Power Platform
17 28 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (1.53%) Amazon S3
18 22 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 239 (16.57%) DNS
2 233 (16.16%) Firewall
3 142 (9.85%) DHCP
4 96 (6.66%) VPN
5 93 (6.45%) Network Security
6 89 (6.17%) TCP/IP
7 65 (4.51%) WAN
8 63 (4.37%) SAN
9 59 (4.09%) VLAN
10 48 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 44 (3.05%) BIG-IP
12 41 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
13 39 (2.70%) LAN
14 36 (2.50%) SD-WAN
15 34 (2.36%) BGP
16 31 (2.15%) SSL
17 28 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 28 (1.94%) OSPF
18 27 (1.87%) VXLAN
19 26 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.66%) Oracle Database
3 23 (1.60%) Power BI
4 22 (1.53%) Data Lake
4 22 (1.53%) Oracle Exadata
5 18 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 14 (0.97%) Metadata
7 14 (0.97%) RDBMS
8 13 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.62%) Pentaho
12 8 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.42%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.28%) Big Data
15 4 (0.28%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (5.13%) GitLab
2 62 (4.30%) JIRA
3 60 (4.16%) Git
4 58 (4.02%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.49%) Artifactory
6 5 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.28%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.21%) JUnit
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.14%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.14%) MLflow
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.069%) Snyk
10 1 (0.069%) Terragrunt
General
1 257 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 164 (11.37%) Finance
3 106 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 91 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (4.09%) Banking
6 55 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (2.29%) Telecoms
8 19 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 15 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.04%) Military
9 15 (1.04%) Retail
10 13 (0.90%) Aerospace
10 13 (0.90%) Legal
11 12 (0.83%) Automotive
11 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (0.76%) Law
13 10 (0.69%) Marketing
14 7 (0.49%) Billing
14 7 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 881 (61.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 281 (19.49%) Senior
3 222 (15.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 155 (10.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 116 (8.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 100 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (4.99%) Lead
8 71 (4.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 69 (4.79%) Network Engineer
10 63 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (4.02%) Architect
12 51 (3.54%) Security Engineer
13 46 (3.19%) VMware Engineer
14 44 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
15 37 (2.57%) Test Engineer
16 36 (2.50%) Support Engineer
17 34 (2.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
18 33 (2.29%) Infrastructure Support
19 31 (2.15%) IT Engineer
19 31 (2.15%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (22.33%) Terraform
2 35 (2.43%) ARM Templates
3 31 (2.15%) REST
4 23 (1.60%) Kafka
5 15 (1.04%) YAML
6 14 (0.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 12 (0.83%) 802.1X
7 12 (0.83%) JSON
7 12 (0.83%) LDAP
7 12 (0.83%) Middleware
8 11 (0.76%) .NET
8 11 (0.76%) Loki
8 11 (0.76%) OAuth
8 11 (0.76%) OpenID
8 11 (0.76%) SAML
9 10 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (0.69%) Web Services
10 8 (0.55%) ModSecurity
10 8 (0.55%) SOAP
11 5 (0.35%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 159 (11.03%) Data Centre
2 105 (7.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 76 (5.27%) Cloud Native
4 60 (4.16%) Onboarding
4 60 (4.16%) PKI
5 54 (3.74%) Public Cloud
6 43 (2.98%) Replication
7 33 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 31 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
9 30 (2.08%) Private Cloud
10 29 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
11 27 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
11 27 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
11 27 (1.87%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.46%) Clustering
14 20 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.25%) Product Ownership
16 15 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
17 12 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 373 (25.87%) Windows
2 284 (19.69%) Linux
3 254 (17.61%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.60%) Unix
6 20 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.32%) CentOS
7 19 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.32%) VMS
8 14 (0.97%) AIX
8 14 (0.97%) Rocky
9 13 (0.90%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.83%) zOS
11 11 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.55%) Android
12 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.42%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 306 (21.22%) CI/CD
3 298 (20.67%) DevOps
4 195 (13.52%) Migration
5 183 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (12.14%) Platform Engineering
7 149 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 139 (9.64%) Agile
10 122 (8.46%) Infrastructure Automation
11 120 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
12 116 (8.04%) Observability
13 112 (7.77%) Disaster Recovery
14 110 (7.63%) ITIL
15 102 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (7.00%) AI
17 98 (6.80%) High Availability
18 95 (6.59%) Project Delivery
19 87 (6.03%) Configuration Management
20 85 (5.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 259 (17.96%) PowerShell
2 248 (17.20%) Python
3 126 (8.74%) Bash
4 71 (4.92%) SQL
5 64 (4.44%) Bicep
6 39 (2.70%) Java
7 19 (1.32%) C#
8 16 (1.11%) ActionScript
8 16 (1.11%) Go
9 13 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.69%) C++
11 9 (0.62%) Perl
12 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.42%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.35%) C
14 5 (0.35%) JavaScript
14 5 (0.35%) JCL
15 2 (0.14%) COBOL
15 2 (0.14%) Korn
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 544 (37.73%) Security Cleared
2 328 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 208 (14.42%) DV Cleared
4 64 (4.44%) Degree
5 44 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.60%) CISSP
9 22 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 21 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.25%) CCNP
12 16 (1.11%) CCNA
13 14 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.97%) VCAP
14 12 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.76%) MCSE
15 11 (0.76%) PMP
16 10 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.68%) QA
2 37 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (1.66%) NIST
4 18 (1.25%) NCSC
4 18 (1.25%) SLA
5 16 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.69%) PMO
8 9 (0.62%) GRC
9 8 (0.55%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) GDPR
12 2 (0.14%) IASME
12 2 (0.14%) ISO 19650
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.069%) GLBA
System Software
1 272 (18.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 271 (18.79%) Active Directory
3 105 (7.28%) Hyper-V
4 83 (5.76%) vSphere
5 79 (5.48%) Docker
6 74 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
7 66 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (2.36%) VMware NSX
9 29 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
12 12 (0.83%) Firmware
13 11 (0.76%) KVM
13 11 (0.76%) NFS
14 6 (0.42%) oVirt
15 5 (0.35%) Ceph
15 5 (0.35%) GPFS
15 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.28%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 203 (14.08%) Ansible
2 187 (12.97%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (3.74%) SCCM
5 40 (2.77%) vCenter Server
6 39 (2.70%) Grafana
7 32 (2.22%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.46%) Puppet
9 19 (1.32%) Nessus
10 18 (1.25%) Argo
11 17 (1.18%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (1.11%) Progress Chef
12 16 (1.11%) WSUS
13 15 (1.04%) Data Guard
13 15 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
14 13 (0.90%) VxRail
15 12 (0.83%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.83%) SCOM
16 10 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 374 (25.94%) Microsoft
2 340 (23.58%) VMware
3 83 (5.76%) Cisco
4 63 (4.37%) Oracle
5 62 (4.30%) F5
6 54 (3.74%) Citrix
7 48 (3.33%) NetApp
8 47 (3.26%) Google
9 46 (3.19%) Red Hat
10 43 (2.98%) Palo Alto
11 42 (2.91%) Veeam
12 29 (2.01%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.73%) Dell
14 23 (1.60%) Arista
14 23 (1.60%) Aruba
15 22 (1.53%) Tenable
16 19 (1.32%) Commvault
16 19 (1.32%) CyberArk
17 17 (1.18%) IBM
17 17 (1.18%) Juniper