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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 133 91
Rank change year-on-year +21 -42 +30
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 900 518 881
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 2.13% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.33% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 363 655
10th Percentile £350 £310 £286
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -6.31%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 9 35
10th Percentile £44.20 £24.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -27.66%
75th Percentile £78.75 £73.75 £60.59
90th Percentile £78.88 £200.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £62.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.06% +35.34% -25.05%

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 34,314 22,202 32,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.20% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,947 14,537 21,107
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 918 2,248
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.69 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -5 250 £550 +4.76% 83
North of England -9 181 £487 -7.24% 87
South East +2 170 £515 -6.36% 93
South West +11 124 £550 -3.30% 42
Yorkshire -8 109 £439 -16.38% 27
Midlands -17 97 £450 +12.50% 50
East of England +4 59 £475 +0.53% 30
North West -26 59 £575 +9.52% 44
West Midlands -28 57 £500 +55.04% 30
East Midlands -2 39 £450 - 19
North East -15 15 £525 -19.23% 17
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 66 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.33%) Confluence
4 11 (1.22%) Apache
5 8 (0.89%) TPMS
6 6 (0.67%) IIS
7 4 (0.44%) CICS
7 4 (0.44%) SAS
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.67%) Maximo
2 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 289 (32.11%) Azure
2 144 (16.00%) AWS
3 95 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 64 (7.11%) GCP
6 61 (6.78%) GitHub
7 48 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (5.00%) IaaS
9 42 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (4.33%) PaaS
11 33 (3.67%) OpenShift
11 33 (3.67%) SaaS
11 33 (3.67%) Serverless
12 32 (3.56%) Azure AKS
13 29 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 19 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (2.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 130 (14.44%) Firewall
2 114 (12.67%) DNS
3 67 (7.44%) DHCP
4 61 (6.78%) VPN
5 46 (5.11%) Network Security
6 39 (4.33%) SAN
7 37 (4.11%) WAN
8 29 (3.22%) VLAN
9 27 (3.00%) LAN
10 26 (2.89%) TCP/IP
11 21 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 20 (2.22%) BGP
13 18 (2.00%) NAS
14 17 (1.89%) SSL
14 17 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (1.78%) MPLS
15 16 (1.78%) OSPF
16 15 (1.67%) SD-WAN
17 14 (1.56%) BIG-IP
18 13 (1.44%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.00%) DynamoDB
4 8 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (0.78%) Metadata
5 7 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.67%) Power BI
7 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.44%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.44%) DB2
9 3 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.33%) Pentaho
9 3 (0.33%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.22%) Big Data
10 2 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (4.44%) GitLab
2 34 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.22%) JIRA
4 28 (3.11%) Git
5 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.11%) GoCD
7 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.11%) Introscope
7 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.11%) MSI
7 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 85 (9.44%) Finance
3 80 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.33%) Banking
6 31 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.44%) Military
8 17 (1.89%) Legal
9 14 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.44%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.11%) Retail
12 8 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.78%) Billing
13 7 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.44%) Front Office
15 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.33%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 583 (64.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 131 (14.56%) Senior
3 94 (10.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 46 (5.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (4.89%) Network Engineer
8 42 (4.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (4.22%) VMware Engineer
10 36 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (3.56%) Automation Engineer
11 32 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (3.44%) Architect
13 27 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (2.89%) IT Engineer
14 26 (2.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
15 25 (2.78%) Support Engineer
16 24 (2.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 23 (2.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.67%) REST
2 16 (1.78%) SOAP
3 14 (1.56%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.00%) OAuth
4 9 (1.00%) Web Services
5 8 (0.89%) Kafka
5 8 (0.89%) LDAP
5 8 (0.89%) SAML
6 7 (0.78%) OAuth2
6 7 (0.78%) OpenID
7 6 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.56%) Flash
8 5 (0.56%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.56%) Middleware
9 4 (0.44%) ADO
9 4 (0.44%) JSON
9 4 (0.44%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.44%) RESTful
9 4 (0.44%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.56%) Data Centre
2 46 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (4.78%) PKI
4 33 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.44%) Public Cloud
6 27 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 26 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.89%) Private Cloud
7 26 (2.89%) Replication
8 21 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.44%) Clustering
11 12 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.89%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.78%) DataPower
15 6 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 262 (29.11%) Windows
2 161 (17.89%) Windows Server
3 142 (15.78%) Linux
4 24 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 17 (1.89%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.67%) Android
10 14 (1.56%) VMS
11 12 (1.33%) Unix
11 12 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (1.11%) Windows 10
13 7 (0.78%) CentOS
13 7 (0.78%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.44%) Debian
15 4 (0.44%) zOS
16 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
17 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (20.67%) DevOps
2 174 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 160 (17.78%) CI/CD
4 128 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (11.67%) Migration
6 90 (10.00%) Agile
7 78 (8.67%) Containerisation
7 78 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
8 74 (8.22%) High Availability
9 72 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 68 (7.56%) ITIL
11 64 (7.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 54 (6.00%) Project Delivery
13 53 (5.89%) Zero Trust
14 52 (5.78%) Cybersecurity
15 51 (5.67%) Observability
16 47 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (4.89%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (4.67%) Cloud Security
19 41 (4.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (15.67%) PowerShell
2 125 (13.89%) Python
3 55 (6.11%) Bash
4 38 (4.22%) SQL
5 32 (3.56%) Bicep
6 23 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 18 (2.00%) C#
8 14 (1.56%) Java
9 10 (1.11%) PHP
10 9 (1.00%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.78%) Ruby
12 6 (0.67%) C++
13 5 (0.56%) Go
14 4 (0.44%) Groovy
14 4 (0.44%) JCL
15 2 (0.22%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.22%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.11%) C
16 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 335 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 215 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 130 (14.44%) DV Cleared
4 39 (4.33%) Degree
5 27 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.00%) CISSP
9 16 (1.78%) CCNA
9 16 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.67%) CISM
11 14 (1.56%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.11%) CCNP
13 9 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.89%) FFIEC
15 7 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 6 (0.67%) MCSE
16 6 (0.67%) RHCA
17 5 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.67%) NIST
2 27 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.89%) GDPR
4 15 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.44%) QA
6 10 (1.11%) NCSC
6 10 (1.11%) SLA
7 8 (0.89%) GLBA
7 8 (0.89%) NIST 800
8 6 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.22%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.11%) PMO
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 173 (19.22%) Active Directory
2 163 (18.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 70 (7.78%) Docker
5 48 (5.33%) vSphere
6 43 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (2.56%) VMware NSX
9 20 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.78%) NFS
11 10 (1.11%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.89%) Firmware
13 7 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.44%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.33%) GPFS
16 2 (0.22%) Postfix
16 2 (0.22%) QEMU
16 2 (0.22%) UAG
16 2 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 181 (20.11%) Terraform
2 147 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 100 (11.11%) Ansible
4 66 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (4.33%) SCCM
6 35 (3.89%) vCenter Server
7 19 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.89%) Grafana
8 17 (1.89%) Puppet
9 15 (1.67%) Prometheus
10 14 (1.56%) WSUS
11 13 (1.44%) SCOM
12 11 (1.22%) Packer
13 10 (1.11%) Nessus
13 10 (1.11%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.00%) VxRail
15 8 (0.89%) Argo
15 8 (0.89%) Istio
15 8 (0.89%) vRealize
16 7 (0.78%) vMotion
Vendors
1 229 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 219 (24.33%) VMware
3 53 (5.89%) Cisco
4 52 (5.78%) Citrix
5 40 (4.44%) NetApp
6 32 (3.56%) Dell
6 32 (3.56%) Veeam
7 31 (3.44%) F5
8 30 (3.33%) Palo Alto
9 29 (3.22%) Google
9 29 (3.22%) Red Hat
10 28 (3.11%) ServiceNow
11 25 (2.78%) Fortinet
12 18 (2.00%) IBM
13 17 (1.89%) Splunk
14 15 (1.67%) Oracle
14 15 (1.67%) SolarWinds
15 14 (1.56%) Aruba
16 13 (1.44%) Arista
17 12 (1.33%) Thales