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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 141 89
Rank change year-on-year +43 -52 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,101 510 898
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.55% 2.05% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.24% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 344 679
10th Percentile £350 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £599
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 5 31
10th Percentile £38.58 £52.79 £37.63
25th Percentile £58.43 £55.38 £45.59
Median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -24.31%
75th Percentile £78.75 £200.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £72.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year +0.06% +32.12% -20.18%

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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +21 318 £550 +4.76% 93
North of England +21 256 £514 -2.14% 90
South East +3 209 £514 -6.55% 57
South West +27 125 £539 -4.22% 75
Yorkshire -5 122 £450 -14.29% 21
Midlands +2 116 £450 +12.50% 51
North West +10 91 £550 +4.79% 56
West Midlands -20 74 £525 +31.25% 27
East of England -1 58 £475 +3.66% 20
North East +2 50 £600 -7.69% 14
East Midlands +8 41 £450 - 24
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 55 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.73%) Confluence
2 19 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.91%) Apache
4 7 (0.64%) CICS
5 5 (0.45%) TPMS
6 4 (0.36%) SAS
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.18%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.091%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.091%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.18%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Maximo
2 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.091%) Primavera
2 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 365 (33.15%) Azure
2 195 (17.71%) AWS
3 96 (8.72%) GCP
4 85 (7.72%) Entra ID
4 85 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
5 82 (7.45%) GitHub
6 58 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (5.18%) IaaS
8 53 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (4.00%) SaaS
10 39 (3.54%) Azure AKS
11 37 (3.36%) PaaS
12 34 (3.09%) OCI
13 29 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (2.36%) Serverless
15 25 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 21 (1.91%) OpenShift
17 18 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
18 16 (1.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 159 (14.44%) Firewall
2 154 (13.99%) DNS
3 94 (8.54%) DHCP
4 64 (5.81%) VPN
5 56 (5.09%) Network Security
6 50 (4.54%) WAN
7 49 (4.45%) SAN
8 46 (4.18%) VLAN
9 40 (3.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 36 (3.27%) TCP/IP
11 33 (3.00%) BIG-IP
12 32 (2.91%) BGP
13 30 (2.72%) SD-WAN
14 28 (2.54%) OSPF
15 27 (2.45%) LAN
16 26 (2.36%) VXLAN
17 25 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (2.27%) SSL
18 21 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
19 20 (1.82%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.73%) DynamoDB
5 8 (0.73%) Power BI
6 7 (0.64%) Metadata
6 7 (0.64%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.54%) Db2
7 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.45%) Big Data
8 5 (0.45%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.36%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 60 (5.45%) GitLab
2 50 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 47 (4.27%) JIRA
4 29 (2.63%) Git
5 8 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.091%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.091%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.091%) CMake
6 1 (0.091%) GoCD
6 1 (0.091%) Gradle
6 1 (0.091%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.091%) Introscope
6 1 (0.091%) MSI
6 1 (0.091%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 160 (14.53%) Social Skills
2 100 (9.08%) Finance
3 80 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 48 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (4.09%) Banking
6 39 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.00%) Military
8 19 (1.73%) Legal
9 16 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.36%) Retail
11 14 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.18%) Aerospace
13 10 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.91%) Marketing
14 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.64%) Billing
16 6 (0.54%) Law
17 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 752 (68.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 197 (17.89%) Senior
3 153 (13.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 85 (7.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 65 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
6 62 (5.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 54 (4.90%) Network Engineer
8 47 (4.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 43 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
10 41 (3.72%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 37 (3.36%) Support Engineer
12 35 (3.18%) Infrastructure Support
12 35 (3.18%) VMware Engineer
13 33 (3.00%) Architect
14 32 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 32 (2.91%) IT Engineer
14 32 (2.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (2.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 30 (2.72%) Security Engineer
16 29 (2.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.27%) REST
2 14 (1.27%) SOAP
3 13 (1.18%) ARM Templates
4 12 (1.09%) LDAP
5 11 (1.00%) OAuth
6 10 (0.91%) JSON
7 9 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (0.82%) Kafka
7 9 (0.82%) OpenID
8 8 (0.73%) SAML
9 7 (0.64%) Flash
9 7 (0.64%) Middleware
9 7 (0.64%) Web Services
9 7 (0.64%) YAML
10 6 (0.54%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.54%) RESTful
10 6 (0.54%) WSDL
11 5 (0.45%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.45%) Keycloak
12 4 (0.36%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 113 (10.26%) Data Centre
2 74 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 43 (3.91%) PKI
4 43 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 39 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.54%) Enterprise Storage
7 24 (2.18%) Replication
8 23 (2.09%) Private Cloud
9 19 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.36%) Clustering
10 15 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.91%) CMDB
13 10 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 298 (27.07%) Windows
2 183 (16.62%) Windows Server
3 171 (15.53%) Linux
4 36 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (1.45%) Unix
6 16 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 15 (1.36%) Android
8 14 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.82%) CentOS
9 9 (0.82%) VMS
9 9 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (0.73%) Debian
10 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.64%) zOS
12 3 (0.27%) AIX
13 2 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (20.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 223 (20.25%) DevOps
3 193 (17.53%) CI/CD
4 124 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (10.81%) Migration
6 106 (9.63%) Agile
7 95 (8.63%) Platform Engineering
8 94 (8.54%) High Availability
9 78 (7.08%) Infrastructure Automation
10 77 (6.99%) Containerisation
11 72 (6.54%) AI
12 71 (6.45%) Zero Trust
13 66 (5.99%) Project Delivery
14 65 (5.90%) Disaster Recovery
15 64 (5.81%) ITIL
16 59 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (5.27%) Observability
18 56 (5.09%) Validation
19 55 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
20 52 (4.72%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 167 (15.17%) Python
2 160 (14.53%) PowerShell
3 67 (6.09%) Bash
4 45 (4.09%) SQL
5 34 (3.09%) Bicep
6 21 (1.91%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.82%) C#
7 20 (1.82%) Java
8 10 (0.91%) ActionScript
9 7 (0.64%) Go
9 7 (0.64%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.54%) JCL
11 5 (0.45%) PHP
11 5 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.36%) Groovy
13 3 (0.27%) C++
14 2 (0.18%) C
14 2 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.18%) Ruby
14 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 398 (36.15%) Security Cleared
2 253 (22.98%) SC Cleared
3 152 (13.81%) DV Cleared
4 42 (3.81%) Degree
5 31 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.91%) CISSP
8 19 (1.73%) CCNA
9 18 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.27%) CISM
12 12 (1.09%) CCNP
13 11 (1.00%) MCSE
14 8 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.64%) VCAP
16 6 (0.54%) RHCA
17 5 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 5 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (3.09%) NIST
2 22 (2.00%) QA
3 17 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.27%) SLA
5 13 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.09%) NCSC
7 9 (0.82%) GDPR
8 8 (0.73%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.64%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.45%) GLBA
12 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.18%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.18%) PMO
14 1 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.091%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.091%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 196 (17.80%) Active Directory
2 187 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (6.99%) Hyper-V
4 68 (6.18%) VMware ESXi
5 62 (5.63%) Docker
6 60 (5.45%) vSphere
7 38 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (3.00%) VMware NSX
9 21 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.36%) NFS
11 12 (1.09%) BitLocker
12 10 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.82%) Firmware
14 5 (0.45%) GPFS
15 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.27%) DFS Replication
17 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
17 2 (0.18%) SRDF
17 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 214 (19.44%) Terraform
2 145 (13.17%) Kubernetes
3 126 (11.44%) Ansible
4 57 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 29 (2.63%) SCCM
7 22 (2.00%) Grafana
7 22 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.91%) Puppet
9 18 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.45%) WSUS
11 12 (1.09%) Nessus
11 12 (1.09%) Packer
11 12 (1.09%) SCOM
12 10 (0.91%) Argo
12 10 (0.91%) vMotion
12 10 (0.91%) vRealize
13 9 (0.82%) VxRail
14 8 (0.73%) Istio
14 8 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 255 (23.16%) VMware
2 246 (22.34%) Microsoft
3 67 (6.09%) Citrix
4 64 (5.81%) Cisco
5 49 (4.45%) F5
6 44 (4.00%) Google
7 43 (3.91%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.63%) NetApp
9 39 (3.54%) Palo Alto
10 28 (2.54%) Veeam
11 26 (2.36%) Red Hat
12 25 (2.27%) Dell
13 24 (2.18%) Aruba
14 23 (2.09%) Arista
15 22 (2.00%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.63%) Oracle
17 16 (1.45%) SolarWinds
18 14 (1.27%) Tenable
19 13 (1.18%) Juniper
19 13 (1.18%) Splunk