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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 122 88
Rank change year-on-year -33 -34 +42
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 543 627 1,018
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 2.01% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.30% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 433 736
10th Percentile £299 £326 £319
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £614 £616
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 40
10th Percentile £27.20 £51.69 £23.00
25th Percentile £29.50 £59.85 £37.02
Median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% +1.99% +24.22%
75th Percentile £77.13 - £76.53
90th Percentile £84.80 £91.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -51.43% - +26.70%

All Process and 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 27,542 27,205 35,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.07% 87.01% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,480 16,613 23,999
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,822 1,002 1,481
10th Percentile £14.86 £15.07 £14.54
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.72 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £44.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% -22.89% +25.71%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -28 204 £532 -3.36% 226
South East -21 107 £450 -7.69% 153
North of England -21 79 £500 +5.26% 74
South West -8 62 £550 - 82
Midlands -45 44 £425 -22.73% 54
Yorkshire -22 38 £500 +5.26% 31
North West -27 38 £500 +5.26% 34
West Midlands -24 35 £438 -23.91% 38
East of England -6 33 £400 -5.88% 43
East Midlands -23 9 £415 -14.87% 16
North East -1 4 £466 - 10
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 38 (7.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.58%) Apache
2 14 (2.58%) Confluence
3 10 (1.84%) IIS
3 10 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.92%) TPMS
5 5 (0.92%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.37%) iPlanet
6 2 (0.37%) JBoss
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.37%) Traefik
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.55%) Maximo
2 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (38.67%) Azure
2 117 (21.55%) AWS
3 76 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (12.71%) Entra ID
5 37 (6.81%) GitHub
6 35 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (5.71%) GCP
8 27 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (4.97%) Amazon S3
9 22 (4.05%) IaaS
9 22 (4.05%) PaaS
10 21 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (3.68%) SaaS
12 19 (3.50%) Serverless
13 16 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (2.95%) Google Workspace
13 16 (2.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (2.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 112 (20.63%) Firewall
2 89 (16.39%) DNS
3 58 (10.68%) TCP/IP
4 51 (9.39%) DHCP
5 48 (8.84%) VPN
6 37 (6.81%) WAN
7 36 (6.63%) VLAN
8 32 (5.89%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (5.71%) Network Security
10 30 (5.52%) SSL
11 25 (4.60%) LAN
11 25 (4.60%) SAN
12 11 (2.03%) Wireless
13 10 (1.84%) 4G
13 10 (1.84%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.29%) BGP
14 7 (1.29%) MPLS
14 7 (1.29%) SSH
15 6 (1.10%) HTTP
15 6 (1.10%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.10%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.92%) Oracle Database
3 5 (0.92%) Power BI
4 4 (0.74%) DynamoDB
4 4 (0.74%) MySQL
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.55%) Big Data
5 3 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.37%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.81%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.16%) GitLab
3 26 (4.79%) Git
4 24 (4.42%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.55%) Log4j
6 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.37%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) CMake
8 1 (0.18%) GoCD
8 1 (0.18%) Gradle
8 1 (0.18%) MLflow
8 1 (0.18%) MSI
8 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 139 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 83 (15.29%) Finance
3 55 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.60%) Banking
6 23 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.58%) Military
9 9 (1.66%) Legal
10 8 (1.47%) Law
10 8 (1.47%) Retail
11 7 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.10%) Aviation
12 6 (1.10%) Local Government
12 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.92%) Spanish Language
14 4 (0.74%) Marketing
14 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 351 (64.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 82 (15.10%) Senior
3 60 (11.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (8.84%) Infrastructure Support
5 45 (8.29%) Support Engineer
6 43 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (7.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 40 (7.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 38 (7.00%) Network Engineer
9 37 (6.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (4.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (3.87%) VMware Engineer
13 20 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.50%) IT Engineer
14 19 (3.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.31%) Security Engineer
16 17 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
17 16 (2.95%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.31%) SAML
2 17 (3.13%) Middleware
3 14 (2.58%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.58%) YAML
4 12 (2.21%) OAuth
4 12 (2.21%) OpenID
5 10 (1.84%) Kafka
6 9 (1.66%) REST
7 7 (1.29%) ADO
7 7 (1.29%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.29%) RESTful
8 6 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.10%) JMS
8 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.92%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.92%) LDAP
10 4 (0.74%) gRPC
11 3 (0.55%) GWT
11 3 (0.55%) JNDI
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (5.89%) Data Centre
3 27 (4.97%) Replication
4 25 (4.60%) PKI
5 21 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.13%) Private Cloud
7 14 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.39%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.66%) Clustering
9 9 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.29%) NHS
11 7 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.10%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 214 (39.41%) Windows
2 128 (23.57%) Linux
3 108 (19.89%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.42%) Unix
6 22 (4.05%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.58%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.84%) VMS
9 9 (1.66%) CentOS
9 9 (1.66%) Mac OS
10 7 (1.29%) Android
10 7 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.10%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.55%) SUSE
14 2 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (20.63%) DevOps
3 105 (19.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (18.05%) CI/CD
5 65 (11.97%) Migration
6 64 (11.79%) ITIL
7 58 (10.68%) Agile
8 51 (9.39%) Containerisation
9 48 (8.84%) High Availability
10 43 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (7.73%) Infrastructure Automation
12 35 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
12 35 (6.45%) Observability
13 34 (6.26%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (4.97%) DevSecOps
15 27 (4.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (4.79%) Analytics
16 26 (4.79%) RBAC
17 25 (4.60%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (22.84%) Python
2 104 (19.15%) PowerShell
3 63 (11.60%) Bash
4 23 (4.24%) SQL
5 22 (4.05%) Java
6 17 (3.13%) Bicep
7 15 (2.76%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.58%) Go
8 14 (2.58%) Perl
9 4 (0.74%) C++
9 4 (0.74%) Ruby
10 3 (0.55%) Groovy
10 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.37%) C#
11 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.18%) VB
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 168 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 105 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 63 (11.60%) DV Cleared
4 37 (6.81%) Azure Certification
5 32 (5.89%) Degree
5 32 (5.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (3.31%) Network+ Certification
7 15 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 12 (2.21%) CCNA
9 12 (2.21%) CCNP
9 12 (2.21%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.66%) CISSP
11 8 (1.47%) CISM
12 5 (0.92%) FFIEC
12 5 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.58%) GDPR
2 11 (2.03%) NIST
2 11 (2.03%) SLA
3 9 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.10%) QA
5 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.92%) GLBA
6 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.37%) COBIT
7 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 139 (25.60%) Active Directory
2 102 (18.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (11.42%) Docker
4 54 (9.94%) Hyper-V
5 34 (6.26%) vSphere
6 25 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.66%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.55%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.37%) Firmware
11 2 (0.37%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 1 (0.18%) etcd
12 1 (0.18%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 134 (24.68%) Terraform
2 81 (14.92%) Ansible
3 65 (11.97%) Kubernetes
4 56 (10.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 55 (10.13%) SCCM
6 23 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (3.68%) Grafana
7 20 (3.68%) vCenter Server
8 17 (3.13%) Prometheus
9 16 (2.95%) FortiGate
10 12 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (2.21%) Red Hat Satellite
11 9 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (1.47%) SCOM
13 7 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
13 7 (1.29%) vRealize
14 6 (1.10%) CASB
14 6 (1.10%) SCOrch
15 5 (0.92%) Argo
15 5 (0.92%) Istio
Vendors
1 175 (32.23%) Microsoft
2 149 (27.44%) VMware
3 38 (7.00%) Palo Alto
4 37 (6.81%) Cisco
5 34 (6.26%) Google
5 34 (6.26%) Red Hat
6 30 (5.52%) F5
7 28 (5.16%) Dell
8 24 (4.42%) ServiceNow
9 20 (3.68%) CheckPoint
10 19 (3.50%) Splunk
10 19 (3.50%) Veeam
11 18 (3.31%) Citrix
11 18 (3.31%) IBM
12 17 (3.13%) SolarWinds
13 14 (2.58%) Oracle
14 13 (2.39%) Aruba
14 13 (2.39%) Fortinet
14 13 (2.39%) Zscaler
15 12 (2.21%) HP